The real sky, live above you.

Hold up your phone — that's the whole tutorial. Point it anywhere and the real stars, planets, satellites and deep-sky objects genuinely up there right now, from exactly where you're standing, line up on your screen. Tap anything to lock on.

Download on the App Storefree · no subscription, ever

FREE · NO SUBSCRIPTION · NO ADS · NO TRACKING · NO ACCOUNT

Stargazer is free— and that's the whole business model. So many apps for the sky bury it under silly subscriptions, ads and data-harvesting; this one doesn't. There's no analytics SDK, no ad network and no login. Your location is used on your device to work out what's overhead, and never leaves it — there's no server, so there's no profile of you. Every feature is yours, forever, including whatever we add later. See exactly what we collect →

The pitch, in six bullets:

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Point and find

Hold your phone up and the sky moves with you. A live sky computed from real astronomy — not a stock picture of space — showing exactly what's above you, right now, wherever you are.

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What's up tonight

Tonight's highlights: what's visible and when, ISS fly-overs, meteor showers, planets close together, and rise, set and best-viewing times at your latitude — with live stargazing conditions and darker skies near you.

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The whole solar system, in 3D & AR

Spin, pinch and fling any planet. Watch Jupiter's and Saturn's moons orbit, each one named, and admire the rings — then drop a walkable AR orrery on your carpet and step through the solar system.

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The Moon, properly

Tonight's Moon shaded to the real terminator, a Sun–Earth–Moon diagram that finally explains WHY phases happen, and every Apollo and robotic landing site labelled on the face.

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Nova, your on-device astronomer

Powered by Apple Intelligence and running entirely on your iPhone — ask what's worth seeing or what you're looking at, and nothing you ask ever leaves the device. Flip on Kids Mode and Nova explains the same sky to an eight-year-old.

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5,000+ fact-checked space facts

One new fact a day, plus a shuffle button — every one independently verified before it shipped. Tap share and any fact becomes a genuinely beautiful card to send to someone.

Also in the box:

✓88 constellations with classical artwork you can fade in over the real stars

✓Thousands of deep-sky objects, with real Hubble, JWST and ESO imagery

✓Live satellite tracking with true SGP4 orbits — see the ISS coming before it arrives

✓Comets and asteroids straight from JPL's small-body database

✓Time travel: scrub the sky forward and back, by hours or by ten thousand years

✓A home-screen widget with the Moon phase, what's up, and today's fact

Inside the app:

BUILT FOR CURIOUS MINDS

Rated 4+, and made for children, students and star-studying grown-ups alike. Kids Mode, the Moon-phase explainer and the orrery were built with a science lesson in mind — brilliant in the back seat, brilliant in a classroom.

FOR SCHOOLS

Available through Apple School Manager and Volume Purchase, so classrooms can roll it out in one go — no cost, no accounts, and no data collected from a single student.

FREE — AND IT STAYS FREE

Free on the App Store — no subscription, no ads, no tracking, no account, and no personal information collected. Every feature is yours forever, including whatever we add later. Stargazing is the oldest hobby there is; this is just a better torch. Read Stargazer's privacy policy →

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