Stellarium Mobile - Star Map Reviews

The idea behind Stellarium great. When put to use though, you need to know where to look for constellations and stars before using Stellarium . Using it to locate Comet Neowise was next to impossible for a beginner. By the description I understood that by pointing the camera skyward the screen would show me where the Comet was in relationship to other well known items. I tried to see The Big Dipper which was just about directly overhead. I started Stellarium and it said Porterville current view or something to those words. Could not locate the big dipper on my phone doing a search or just pointing the camera up. I followed all instructions and could not locate anything. $9.99 and it is nowhere near as easy as described. Very disappointed. Still guessing what I am looking at when I look at the night sky.

I’ve used a lot of different star map apps. This one is without a doubt the best, hands down, no contest. Great intuitive usability, reliability and information architecture is awesome, and the depth of features is astounding. I’m an amateur astronomer, so I use and rely on many of the more technical, numerical features. But my partner enjoys it just as much, and she simply loves stargazing and doesn’t have a need for the mathy stuff. I’m also a software engineer by trade, and if I were a developer of Stellarium, I would be extremely proud of myself and my team. A+.

I really love Stellarium and I think it works really well. There’s so much information and it’s super easy to use. The reason I can’t give it 5 stars is because it’s missing lots of features that exist on the free PC version like being able to track the ephemeris of a planet. I do understand that it’s parred down probably to make it run smoother and because the average person doesn’t use all that stuff. However for the price I was hoping for the same features.

All said, I’m glad to have a smaller app with less features that works well over a clunky bugged up app with all the features from the PC version.

I just paid 9.99 So that me and my five-year-old son may identify planets in the early morning Sky. Wondering why the moon was not where it was supposed to be in the sky after I spent some time looking around, I found it in the completely opposite direction, under the ground
It Took some time to realize I had to manually change the time as it defaults to the night sky.
We’re looking at it during the day however you cannot visualize the labels very clearly by the stellar bodies because the background sky is too bright and the labels are too light.
Please fix this!

Wow. This is by far the best Astronomy tool I have used in a long time! The alternative apps I have used have not matched up compared to this one. It has very smooth graphics, it’s beautiful, and by far the best perk: you can move the phone to uncover what the sky looked like when you were born! I also purchased this Pro because 22 magnitude objects are included and I wanted to see Chiron (at about 16m) the standard only showing 10 magnitude.

I had a problem today with not seeing the alert for the ISS flyover in the observe feature of Stellarium . I sent an email to the “help and feedback” link. Within an hour the developers got back to me. A few hours later they replied and suggested I delete and reinstall. Problem solved! All on a weekend! Really excellent customer service!!!

This is a beautiful app but there is no option to view the stars and constellations through my phone’s camera using AR. I thought this was a feature when I was looking at the pictures but it’s not. The graphics shown come with Stellarium itself rather than being filmed from a phone camera, so the scenery stays the same. There’s no AR used, just beautiful graphics within Stellarium .

This is an amazing app for a serious amateur astronomer. it’s what I have been looking for. Most of the astronomy apps out there are very simple and not for serious observation. It’s filled with great tools to plan or review an observation night, or as a field guide to help you find objects.

It can also be used by casual observers to point up and see what’s there.

Love having as much detail as possible shown. So much it can be overwhelming to start. Ability to use find features to help navigate with telescope is good. Fonts of planets are an issue during the day. Hard to see where they are. Also would be nice to have a summary of upcoming major events or best viewing days of certain objects. Otherwise a good app.

Simple choices have significant usefulness: if you close it in (all red) night mode, it opens in night mode; if you search for a celestial body, it gives you information and gently leads you to it with a big arrow.

I’m very pleased. It’s great how much good you can get (sometimes) in inexpensive apps.

Super easy to use and great app. I splurged for the pro but honestly do see much difference from the normal version.

It would be great to have a toggle for deep sky objects. I know I can search them but a way to toggle them on/off on the display would be awesome.

Also I was hoping Stellarium might have a screen like recommended tonight for your location but it didn’t have one. Like Jupiter right now in June/July is closest to earth.

Overall great app. I look forward to their future improvements and will be using Stellarium for sure.

I have used this app for Windows and Linux for years. While Stellarium for iOS is okay it doesn’t compare with the other platforms. The control and function of Stellarium is lacking and if I could I’d return it. I do not recommend this for anyone who is used to the original program. Missing the multiple choices for telescopes, oculars, and cameras was the deal breaker for me. In my opinion it’s a go back and do it again.

Cannot figure out how to download app in English or switch to English language.

Response to developer: I looked at my languages French was 2nd to English in the preferred list. English is the selected language. After I deleted French, Spanish was the 2nd language after English in the list. Now Stellarium is displaying in Spanish. It’s like it’s missing the English localization and falling back to the next preferred, or skipping the preferred language of English altogether.

Deleting Stellarium and reinstalling to see if that helps.

If you’re looking for a clean and intuitive interface, this app has it. It’s a very simple yet powerful tool and I look forward to getting more use out of it.

I'm a big fan of this app. I just purchased the "plus" version for my iPad.
For my use the changes from the standard mobile version are not so impressive as to warrant the increased price. Unless you have a very good reason to want this "plus" version you should just buy the standard version.

Nice to search and adjust time into future. Doesn’t overlay a live view though, just a few’landscapes’. And downloaded to iPhone but not iPad and support hasn’t responded. Update: they did respond and it did finally download. Plus one more star.

When we zoom in see real photos of stars but I can’t zoom in to comets I need more zoom in and I need 3d Solar system idk how to do that it so hard but the sun is so bad when zoom in and moon no mountains and creators on moon when zoom in and it is a problem

If your a star gazer and just love space and wanna see the millions and I mean MILLIONS of galaxies like ours and learn about constellations, then buy Stellarium. It is WORTH THE MONEY! Been on it for hours now and probably will be on it for many many more. I give it 5 stars TWICE and then 5 more!

You will easily get lost in the beauty of Stellarium and everything it does, one might wish for notifications of certain events (like the ISS being visible, or certain stars and constellations rising, things like that.) but otherwise this is a great app.

You get to know the names the info of the star your looking at the constellations and the galaxy’s it’s worth every penny

This is my favorite sky app. I’m a little sore that I had to repurchase again to update, but the original this app was getting outdated. I hope they don’t do this again.