SkyView® Lite

4.4
55.9K reviews
10M+
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Editors' choice
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

You don't need to be an astronomer to find stars or constellations in the sky, just open SkyView® Free and let it guide you to their location and identify them. SkyView Free is a beautiful and intuitive stargazing app that uses your camera to precisely spot and identify celestial objects in sky, day or night. Find popular constellations as they fade in and out while you scan across the sky, locate planets in our solar system, discover distant galaxies, and witness satellite fly-bys.

***Google Editor's Choice 2017***

Features:

• Simple: Point your device at the sky to identify galaxies, stars, constellations, planets, and satellites (including the ISS and Hubble) passing overhead at your location.
• Night Mode: Preserve your night vision with red or green night mode filters.
• Augmented Reality (AR): Use your camera to spot objects in the sky, day or night.
• Sky Paths: Follow the sky track for any object to see it’s exact location in the sky on any date and time.
• Time Travel: Jump to the future or the past and see the sky on different dates and times.
• Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks.
• Mobile: WiFi is NOT required (does not require a data signal or GPS to function). Take it camping, boating, or even flying!
• Supports Space Navigator™ binoculars, spotting scope, and telescopes.

What a fun way to teach yourself, your children, your students, or your friends about our wonderful universe!
Updated on
Dec 9, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
54.6K reviews
Dmitriy Volkov
6 March 2025
Despite the application is promoted as AR de-facto it isn't. It is just video from camera and the sky map with funny pictures. The real sensor doesn't have good enough quality to rely only on it and real stars are minimum 10° at different dirrection. So, the experience is even worse than in application without camera. It is easier to look at the phone and the sky than to have 2 not aligned pictures on the phone. To make it AR the application should recognize stars and planets on camera view
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A Google user
19 April 2020
If you want an app where you can easily identify different constellations without any fuss, this app is for you!! It doesn't show you a stupidly large amount of stars like some of the other apps, but honestly, I like it better this way. It just shows what you would normally see in the sky if you're not away from civilization with no light pollution. Also, it didn't have a pop up ad every 5 seconds telling us to upgrade the membership. Overall, I am really happy with this app!!
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A Google user
29 September 2018
I first used this on a Samsung Galaxy s5. It seemed to work fine for a period of time. Then it went 180 degrees out of sync. I figured it was my phone and deleted it. I just got a new Galaxy s8...and it does the same thing. I tried the "figure 8" location set. Nothing. It seems there must/should be an inverse setting or something. It's useless on all unknown stars/galaxies. I really like the idea. Don't like the workings.
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What's new

Dear Stargazer,
This version fixes minor issues and updates some satellite data.
Best,
Terminal Eleven