Solstix is a beautifully designed astronomy app that tracks the sun and moon with original illustrated visuals and live NASA satellite imagery.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
United States
Planetarium Alternatives
Sites and apps similar to Planetarium include Google Earth, which is free for personal use. Other options are Stellarium, Celestia, Sky Map and KStars. You're spoiled for choice with Star Maps like Planetarium: we list more than 50 alternatives for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac.
Alternatives list
Indispensable for amateurs and professionals, as well as for kids who are eager to learn, Star Walk will guide you through the night sky in style.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
Russia
41 SkyView alternativesSkyView is powerful, easy-to-use app that answers questions about stars, constellations, and more. Simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and discover neat things about these sky objects.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Kindle Fire
- United States
The Starry Night apps are the most comprehensive educational astronomy apps. Use it with your introductory astronomy textbook or on its own. It's a powerful, portable planetarium that fits in your backpack. It puts thousands of stars and planets at your fingertips.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- United States
+2
Welcome to the Atlas of Space — an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Online
Can’t see the moon? Want to know where it is? Look through the eyes of your device to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
- Steam
- Oculus Rift
United Kingdom
StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC is available). It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth.
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Mobile
- Russia
40 SkyMap alternativesSkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and moon.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Windows Phone
+9
WinStars uses the latest 3D technology to show the objects of our solar system in a realistic manner. Thus, it is possible to move from one planet to another, to follow a space probe on its long voyage or to observe a celestial event from a place to which you could never go.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
France
EU
SkyORB is more than a simple star map, it's a collection of 7 tools including a 3D star map, 3D planetarium, ephemeris, search engine, sun clock, point to sky, weather, and more.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- France
- EU
+2
Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
One-click to capture the stars/Milky Way + automatic recognition of celestial bodies + marking celestial bodies on photos, providing a complete solution for astronomy enthusiasts.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
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