Sunset app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
6288 ratings )
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Developer: Piet Jonas
0.99 USD
Current version: 2.4.3, last update: 1 year agoFirst release : 26 Jan 2009
App size: 2.82 Mb
This applications helps to calculate the sunrise and sunset times of your current location or each location in the world on each day of the year. Enjoy planning your next holiday, trip or photo session where ever and when ever you want to go.
It keeps several locations which can be chosen from a list of cities from around the world or searched on GeoNames.org
Latest reviews of Sunset app for iPhone and iPad
no way to set location
Im very disappointed. Even for 0.99 you should be able to receive a working app. It is impossible to set the right location. All you can choose from is a world map and you have to try to touch your location?? Impossible - I do not recommend this app.
Im very disappointed. Even for 0.99 you should be able to receive a working app. It is impossible to set the right location. All you can choose from is a world map and you have to try to touch your location?? Impossible - I do not recommend this app.
Not ready for release
The only location I could set was the current one from my 3Gs GPS. Also when it did display todays sunrise and Sunset for current location for aug 25 (the current date) and I changed the date to Jan 25, sunrise and Sunset did not change. This is the beginning of an app but not ready for release.
The only location I could set was the current one from my 3Gs GPS. Also when it did display todays sunrise and Sunset for current location for aug 25 (the current date) and I changed the date to Jan 25, sunrise and Sunset did not change. This is the beginning of an app but not ready for release.
Not accurate
The sunset time is off by 10 min in my location
The sunset time is off by 10 min in my location
Good idea, flaw in the first version that the developer could & should fix
Sunset offers to tell you the time of sunrise and Sunset for your location, or for any other location, for any date during the year. This is very useful for photographers and videographers and perhaps for others as well. Alas, the first version (Jan 20 ’09 release date) has a long way to go. To set a location other than the current one, you tap on a map of the world, and then tap again on the map to set the new location. (There’s no documentation to tell you that…you have to figure it out.) This is very imprecise because the map is small, although the coordinates of where you’ve tapped are displayed. Still, unless you know the coordinates of the location you want, you’re limited to setting the desired location with a very large margin of error. The program doesn’t offer a list of locations (e.g. major cities) and it doesn’t offer an opportunity to enter the longitude & latitude, although as noted above it shows that data for the spot you select. Compare it to VelaClock, another iPhone app that costs a few of dollars more. VelaClock gives you a list of cities and has a much more elegant and useful display, showing the onset and end of civil, nautical and astronomical twilight, as well at the azimuth of sunrise & Sunset and moonrise/set. The one hitch with VelaClock is that to go to a date other than today you have to tap on a tiny calendar icon in the middle of the bottom strip of the screen. It took a while for me to discover that – the documentation for both of these apps is weak.
Sunset offers to tell you the time of sunrise and Sunset for your location, or for any other location, for any date during the year. This is very useful for photographers and videographers and perhaps for others as well. Alas, the first version (Jan 20 ’09 release date) has a long way to go. To set a location other than the current one, you tap on a map of the world, and then tap again on the map to set the new location. (There’s no documentation to tell you that…you have to figure it out.) This is very imprecise because the map is small, although the coordinates of where you’ve tapped are displayed. Still, unless you know the coordinates of the location you want, you’re limited to setting the desired location with a very large margin of error. The program doesn’t offer a list of locations (e.g. major cities) and it doesn’t offer an opportunity to enter the longitude & latitude, although as noted above it shows that data for the spot you select. Compare it to VelaClock, another iPhone app that costs a few of dollars more. VelaClock gives you a list of cities and has a much more elegant and useful display, showing the onset and end of civil, nautical and astronomical twilight, as well at the azimuth of sunrise & Sunset and moonrise/set. The one hitch with VelaClock is that to go to a date other than today you have to tap on a tiny calendar icon in the middle of the bottom strip of the screen. It took a while for me to discover that – the documentation for both of these apps is weak.
Could have been so much better
I was really excited about this program until I learned it was totally useless in finding the information while traveling. There is no help. Any icon you click guides you to the sales page for other apps by this company. I believe an upgrade would really make this better if other locations could be entered. I cant believe I had to pay for this poor utility.
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I was really excited about this program until I learned it was totally useless in finding the information while traveling. There is no help. Any icon you click guides you to the sales page for other apps by this company. I believe an upgrade would really make this better if other locations could be entered. I cant believe I had to pay for this poor utility.