Free WorldWide Telescope Alternatives for Mac

WorldWide Telescope is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best free Mac alternative is Google Earth. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Google Earth or Stellarium. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to WorldWide Telescope and seven of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to WorldWide Telescope are KStars, Gaia Sky, Solar System Scope and Aladin.

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  1. Google Earth icon
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    Explore Earth from space to sea with detailed satellite imagery, 3D buildings, and ad-free service. Save toured places, share them, and explore offline all points of interest around the globe.

    58 Google Earth alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
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    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
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  2. Stellarium icon
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    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

    59 Stellarium alternatives

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    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. Celestia icon
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    Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

    31 Celestia alternatives

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    • PortableApps.com
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    • visionOS
     
  4. KStars icon
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    Open-source astronomy software offering accurate night sky simulation with 100 million stars, Ekos astrophotography suite, stellar observation planner, "What's up Tonight" tool, FOV editor, and a variety of celestial catalogs for comprehensive astronomical exploration.

    49 KStars alternatives

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    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Gaia Sky icon
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    3D visualization software for ESA's (European Space Agency) Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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    • Flathub
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  6. 3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory

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    • Freemium
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    • Mac
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    • Online
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  7. Aladin icon
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    Aladin is an interactive sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images or full surveys, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and...

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