Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows

SbigControl is the most popular Windows alternative to Nebulosity.
SbigControl is the most popular commercial alternative to Nebulosity.
- SbigControl is Paid and Proprietary
Nebulosity is described as 'Is designed to be a powerful, but simple to use capture and processing application for Windows (7/8/10 32/64 bit) and OS X (10.7-14). A huge array of cameras are supported for capture (see below) and images from just about anything can be processed (support for many' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Nebulosity for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone and Raspberry Pi. The best Nebulosity alternative is SbigControl. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Qastrocam or N.I.N.A.. Other great apps like Nebulosity are Sequence Generator Pro, Voyager Astrophotography, BackyardEOS and SharpCap.

SbigControl is the most popular Windows alternative to Nebulosity.
SbigControl is the most popular commercial alternative to Nebulosity.
Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from a V4L device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
Qastrocam is the most popular Linux alternative to Nebulosity.
Qastrocam is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Nebulosity.

Voyager is a multi core optimized software, resilient, with advanced built-in algorithms and advanced A.I. driven automatation for astro photography.

BackyardEOS is software tailor made to control your Canon DSLR camera. It is purposely built with astro-photography in mind.


SharpCap is an easy-to-use and powerful astronomy camera capture tool. It can be used with dedicated astronomy cameras, webcams and USB frame grabbers.

APT stands for "AstroPhotography Tool" and it is like Swiss army knife for your astro imaging sessions. No matter what you are imaging with - Canon EOS, Nikon, CCD or CMOS astro camera, APT has the right tool for planning, collimating, aligning, focusing, framing...


FireCapture is the most popular Mac alternative to Nebulosity.
AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography.

AstroImager is the most popular iPhone alternative to Nebulosity.