Reviews for Sky Map

Update: It works perfectly again! When it works, 5 stars. I'm not sure what happened, except perhaps that I upgraded my Samsung operating system (which seemed to destroy a lot of apps), but this app no longer works well enough to be useful. I used to use it all the time and LOVED it. Now it can never tell what part of the sky it's viewing. I hope someday this will be fixed and I can use it again. Maybe it would still work on older systems.

Worked amazingly well until it didn't. I loved everything about it until I could no longer calibrate the app. I'm an avid star gazer (amateur), so this was so fun! I even bought the extensions so I could see satellites. But suddenly I couldn't calibrate the program. Even wiping my entire phone and reinstalling didn't help. (north was west). After years of service, I finally uninstalled

As always with Google, they had a decent app- then continued to update it until its totally useless. I enjoyed it for a long time, now it doesn't track smoothly and it's inaccurate. I was looking at sunrise and the app showed it more than 40° off. Then trying to track to see what planet was with the moon, it was so wobbly and never got centered with the moon at all. Maybe a few more updates.

The first app I downloaded when I got my first Droid. Even though I seldom use it, it's like having a superpower. Despite living in a city, I have been able to share so many awesome experiences with my kids with this app. Meteor showers, conjunctions, apogees, satelites: many great memories over the years with this Skymap. It's the best that mobile application of available hardware can offer.

It seems as if the alignment of objects (stars and planets) with the display is not as good as it was before. For example, the relative position of Jupiter and Saturn is much closer on the display than in the sky. If there were more bright objects observable (say, camping away from the city lights), I would have a hard time matching stars in the sky with the display.

I love this app I've been using it for years and it has not disappointed me at all, you can view the planets the constellations and everything else expected in a sky view map. This is the one map you got to have. Because the other apps if you read the critical remarks about them all of them do not work except this one and I have an LG G7 Slim. Great app and i would recomend it to anyone. The adds dont even disrupt your viewing pleasure, they are very small and at the very bottom of the page.

I love this app. It does better on phones with a good magnetometer. You need to let it use your GPS coordinates in the settings and use magnetic correction. Tap the upper right corner of the phone to bring up settings and tap on location settings to tap on gps and magnetic correction. Also have your location on to use gps. Under settings learn to calibrate your phone. Tap the left side of the screen to add planets, stars, etc. Once set up, tap center of phone to begin. Use the app outdoors.

Just simply the easiest to use and most accurate map of the sky. Easily determine how long before the moon comes over the hoizon, the position of Jupiter, or what constellations are visible in your local sky. Easy enough for kids to use, detailed enough for causal to moderate astronomy. Very clean interface that doesn't feel claustrophobic, even with hundreds of object on the screen at once.

Had this app for years. The interface works well, but it is now wildly inaccurate, showing the position of the moon this morning, for example, some 135 degrees away from where it actually is in the sky, or the sun overhead when it is still below the horizon, despite manually correcting the date/time settings that were off by 7 hours somehow. Timing must be broken, and then some...

One of the first Android apps I ever downloaded, probably around 2009. I've had it installed on many devices, and sometimes I've forgotten to download it at all. I've never used it for any practical purposes, mostly just for fun to pass a few minutes at night in the spring and summer to help locate constellations. Never had any problems with it; every time I've ever tried to use it, it's worked great. No crashes, doesn't chew up a bunch of data or resources. Does what it's supposed to do.