Sun Seeker - Tracker & Compass app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 5792 ratings )
Photo & Video Navigation
Developer: ozPDA
9.99 USD
Current version: 7.0, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 05 Oct 2009
App size: 35.31 Mb

Sunseeker is a comprehensive solar tracking & compass app. It shows the sun’s hourly direction intervals, its equinox, winter & summer solstice paths, sunrise sunset times, twilight times, sun shadow, the golden hour & more. The app allows you to add sun-event notifications & has a widget showing the day’s solar data & position on an arc. The surveyor view shows the solar direction for each sunlight hour. Sunseeker has both a flat compass view & a 3D Augmented Reality (AR) view to show the solar position & path.

The app is useful for -

▶ Photographers- to plan according to the golden hour or blue hour & optimal sunlight conditions, sunrise & sunset times & directions.
▶ Cinematographers- this sun tracker & sun surveyor enables you to find the sun exposure, directions, sun shadow & sunrise sunset times for any location.
▶ Real Estate Buyers- can use the app before buying a property to check the sun path & to find the sun exposure of properties.
▶ Drivers - Sunseeker lets you track the sun path & movement during the days & helps drivers know the sun position to find how long the car will remain in the shade at any given parking spot.
▶ Campers & Picnickers- for anyone planning a day out, Sunseeker app will help in finding where to camp, sit or pitch an umbrella depending on the sunlight & sun direction.
▶ Gardeners- Sun Seeker can also help with finding optimal planting locations & seasonal sunlight hours as a sun rise calendar
▶ Architects & Surveyors- for visualising the spatial variability of the solar angle throughout the year & using the compass app as a sun surveyor & calendar to determine the sunlight directions.

Main Features
* Sunseeker is a sun locator which uses GPS, magnetometer & gyroscope to find the correct solar position & sun path for your current location.
* Flat compass view shows current solar position, diurnal solar angle & elevation (separated into day & night segments), sun shadow length ratio, atmospheric path thickness.
* 3D augmented reality (AR) camera overlay view shows the suns current position, its path with hour points marked. Check golden hour using this feature!
* Camera view has an optional pointer to guide you towards the current location of the sun & help you with sun direction.
* Map view shows solar direction arrows, sun path & elevations for each hour of the day.
* Choose any date to view sun position & path on that day. You can view sunset & sunrise times for each day as well.
* Choose any location on earth (includes 40,000+ cities or custom locations available offline, as well as a comprehensive online map search capability)
* Get additional details including sun rise, sunset & culmination times, maximum elevation, civil, nautical & astronomical twilight times of the sun.
* Optional device notifications for all manner of sun-related periods & events, such as golden hour or blue hour, various twilight & shadow periods, or sun at a given compass heading or above a given elevation.
* This sun rise calendar app allows the user to include equinox, summer & winter solstice paths on both flat compass view & camera view.

Sun Seeker app has been featured in numerous high-profile blogs, websites & publications, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald etc. "Truly amazing", "Incredible", "Brilliant" - the most genuinely useful application of augmented reality - ever!

Check out our YouTube video here: https://bit.ly/2Rf0CkO
Simply search YouTube for "Sun Seeker app" to find many videos, websites & blogs created by our enthusiastic users

FAQs
* See https://bit.ly/2FIPJq2 - also easily accessible from the apps info screen

Note
* The compass accuracy depends on having an undistorted magnetic field around your device. If you use it close to metallic objects or electrical equipment, directional accuracy may be impaired. The device’s compass accuracy can be optimised by calibrating it prior to use. See app’s FAQs for more help.

Pros and cons of Sun Seeker - Tracker & Compass app for iPhone and iPad

Sun Seeker - Tracker & Compass app good for

Excellent app to use when assessing sunlight hours on golf greens.
I do a lot of outdoor event photography and this app has been incredibly useful during location scouting to figure out where the sun will be on shoot day.
Ive used this app to figure out how to place my ornamental plants where the light will be the best, to find the safest places to park my car away from the when Im traveling with my dogs, and which windows need the most insulation in the summer and in the winter. Its also a way cool method just to see how the sun changes in different spots on earth as the seasons change!
I use this app for work. It is great and it gives me all the information I need.
Best app - map view works best. To bad iPhones dont have real compass. So in 3d mode its not very accurate sun bounces around in the big city. But still gives you an idea where it will be. I would not be without this app. One of the Most useful ones I have. Some of the address searches dont work either you need to do it from map view to find anything.
Sunseeker is the best. We use it all the time for scouting. Its almost perfect - the only issue I have ever seen is that some times if we compare multiple peoples sunseeker right next to each other they can be a bit off. Over all its great though. I take screen shots with the sun overlaying the camera for scouting logs.

Some bad moments

I have a small section on the north side of my property that gets enough sun above the southern trees, but it is tricky. Using Sun Seeker, Ive been able to move it a bit and identify a few key limbs to cut. Great app. Ive also shown this to people at the gardening store and theyve lived it. A must have for gardeners in tight places.
You will love it. :-) Most practical and easy to use. Great way to show people the suns transit and how it changes. So well thought out!

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