Star Walk:Find Stars & Planets

Star Walk:Find Stars & Planets

By Vito Technology Inc.

  • Category: Education
  • Release Date: 2008-11-05
  • Current Version: 7.4.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 183.90 MB
  • Developer: Vito Technology Inc.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 11.0
Score: 4.67736
4.67736
From 24,975 Ratings

Description

Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your interactive guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information. ***Over 10 million users! Winner of Apple Design Award 2010*** “Star Walk is a remarkably in-depth and detailed astronomy app. There's so much you can do with this app” - Common sense media “Star Walk is the best stargazing application I have come across for the iPhone. Many of the features found within the application cannot be found in any others! This is one of the best developed and executed applications I have seen to hit the app store.” - iMore “This app brings the old paper star chart into the smartphone age, and makes exploring the night sky easily accessible to everyone.” - Soggy Astronomer Duran Duran's keyboard Nick Rhodes mentions Star Walk as his favourite app: “It’s brilliant, and if you’re ever somewhere with a clear sky and no light pollution, it’s a revelation. It’s beautifully designed and makes clever use of the available technology. I’m fascinated by astronomy, but even if you’re not, give this a go.” Key features: • Night sky map with thousands of stars, constellations and other sky objects. • Real-time tracking of celestial bodies. • Augmented reality sky view. • Deep sky objects to explore in detail. • Night mode. • Extensive information about all sky objects. • The ability to travel in time with “Time machine” • Astronomical calendar with various celestial events. • Stunning space pictures in “Picture of the Day”. • “Sky Live” section with info about the moon phases, the amount of daylight, the visibility of the planets, etc. Astronomical calendar, deep space objects, meteor showers, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and satellites are available through the STAR WALK PLUS subscription. ‣ Launch the app and point your device at the night sky - you'll see the stars, planets, satellites, and constellations in their proper place from your location. As you move your device, the star map updates in real time.* ‣ Every object you tap has an (i) next to its name, tap it to access some information. ‣ A scale on right is the “Time machine”, slide it to explore the map of the night sky of tomorrow or years ago. ‣ A calendar of celestial events will make sure you never miss anything interesting. ‣ Tap Augmented Reality icon in the upper right corner to add the image from your camera to your sky view. ‣ Use Night Mode to go easy on your eyes and preserve night vision when exploring the Universe. ‣ Star Walk is your personal planetarium. Project to a big screen with no picture quality loss. *This feature (Star Spotter) is available for devices with digital compass. If your device does not have the digital compass, you can use your fingers to change the view of the sky map. Links: http://www.facebook.com/StarWalkApp http://twitter.com/starwalk STAR WALK PLUS removes ads from the app and gives you access to the calendar with astronomical events, deep space objects, meteor showers, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and satellites. It offers a one-week free trial followed by an auto-renewing subscription. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of use: http://vitotechnology.com/terms-of-use.html Start your best stargazing experience right now!

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Reviews

  • Too many ads and information doesn’t work

    2
    By Salcapuano
    I just bought the subscription because of the ads popping up EVERY time I touched the screen. Now If I want to get info about an object, being a star or a satellite, somehow I have to close the app and reopen it if I want to go back to regular view because the back button doesn’t work. Seems like a bug. Can you please advise or fix it? Thank you!
  • Love this app but…

    1
    By Huuanito
    Been using this for many years but on latest phone w latest iOS it won’t let me switch apps, had to restart phone to disengage. .#fail love you but what a PITA
  • Used to be good, now ads nonstop seriously

    1
    By flux302
    I used to love this app but now you get ads CONSTANTLY to the point you seriously can’t even use it in passing. Was just outside for not even ten min and thought “oh I’d like to know what star that is.” In that time I took out the app and was created with an ad , ok that’s fine. Waited for it to finish, angled it up at the sky and started to zoom in, boom another ad and it was not short. Ok ok … close out of that ad now aim back at the sky again , boom ANOTHER AAD. Nope you lost me. Even if it were a pay to remove ads thing (which I would normally do) I won’t do for this because of how ridiculous it was. *update* developer feels I am exaggerating. I am not. I even gave it another try after writing the review and the same thing happened. I was also unaware that they have since moved to a subscription model as well. SMH very disappointed. It was a cool idea and app. Now it’s spammy adware or another subscription.
  • Couldn’t use

    1
    By ieee
    Ran app, pointed to Star, got bright disorienting pop up ad. Closed ad, pointed to Star, got another bright disorienting ad. This app was not usable to me.
  • Good but too many ads

    3
    By TigerSkull57
    I tried this app again after over 2 years and it was almost as good as when I last used it. The only problem - too many ads! I know that the app offered me to have a free trial of Star Walk+, which didn’t have any ads at all. I thought these ads were uncommon while using regular Star Walk, but I was dead wrong. Every single time I click off an object that I was reading about, an ads appears and it just ruins the space vibes. I tried a trick that works on other games and apps where I turn off the WiFi and cellular data which causes the ads to cease existing, but it just didn’t work on Star Walk. Can you please just make it that an add appears every 3-4 times I click off an object instead every single time? On the bright side, though, this app and it’s music brought be lots of great nostalgia, but this was challenged by all of the annoying ads. After all, there are more ads than stars in Star Walk.
  • Still working great for me

    5
    By GrimeyRing
    I’ve had this app since my iPhone 3. Sometimes it takes a second or two to get going but once it is going it’s great. Still. Reading through a few of the most recent reviews are not the experience I’m having. My iPhone is running latest iOS and Starwalk is newest version
  • Used to Be Great

    1
    By Justin N Osos
    This used to be the app I would show people as the example of what could be done with an iPhone. Now, when I go to the search button 🔍 and enter a particular object I only get the answer “load more”. All I want to do is find the region of T Coronae Borealis to see what it looks like before it blows, otherwise it won’t stand out when it does go
  • Didn’t work😒

    3
    By TheTeamB
    It worked with my phone the first time, but it did not work the second. It acted like my phone was broken. Not impressed.
  • Great app fallen to the ads.

    1
    By Anatidaeical
    Absolutely fantastic app, had great memories of using this app with my mother when I was young. On its own it is incredible which keeps me from placing it at 0 stars. Upon trying it out again years later, it’s nearly unusable without paying for a subscription service. You get MAYBE 15-20 seconds between advertisements, each lasting longer than that. Turning this app into more of an advertisement watching app than a stargazing one. I despise subscription services, as they are inherently scummy. They prey on forgetfulness. I love this app but I just cannot see myself using an app that takes advantage of its users like this.
  • Too busy, unreadable

    1
    By jnikoley
    Title. This app used to be amazing. Now, it's too busy, and there's no way to discern one star from another, when they are clearly distinguishable by the naked eye as being brighter from one another. You point your phone at a star or planet you're interested in, but there's no way to know you are pointing at the correct one, and the text is so small you can't read it, when you zoom in everything glitches out and you were cursing at your phone.

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