Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker8.2 - App Store

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 sun's 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 app's 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.

Version History v8.2
* Optimized for iPhone Duo, including support for all device poses.
* Several minor bug fixes 8.2 4d ago v8.1.2
* FIXED - Date/time label at top of map view was not always visible. 8.1.2 Jul 10 v8.1.1
* FIXED - Some rare edge case crashes when using 3D View with camera not ready and/or invalid location data. 8.1.1 Jun 13 v8.1
* NEW - You can now optionally save screenshots into a "Sun Seeker" Album instead of just to your photoroll (enable via app Settings).
* IMPROVED - Exporting photos and tabulations is now via share sheets giving more destination options.
* IMPROVED - For power users - Exported screenshots (and tabulations) now use a file naming scheme to make it easier to organise them into location, type and order of generation. 8.1 Apr 30 v8.0.2
* FIXED - When getting notification of solar events for a remote location, the notifications were occurring relative to the local timezone instead of the remote timezone.
* FIXED - Solar clock widget twilight segments were slightly incorrectly offset when displayed in clear or tinted mode. 8.0.2 12/07/2025 v8.0.1
* Widgets can now also be used in tinted mode 8.0.1 09/29/2025 v8.0
NEW - Details / Data Tables now includes Solar and Lunar Eclipses, listing recent and forthcoming eclipses and for each one providing exact timing details, including whether or not visible from the current (or selected) location. 8.0 09/14/2025 v7.2.1
* Improved map search
* Minor enhancements

We continue to refine and enhance Sun Seeker. Thanks for your support and enthusiasm! 7.2.1 06/23/2025 v7.2
* Minor fixes and enhancements 7.2 04/04/2025 v7.1.4
* Several minor fixes 7.1.4 03/13/2025 v7.1.3
* Minor fixes and enhancements 7.1.3 02/04/2025 v7.1.2
* Metadata changes 7.1.2 01/09/2025 v7.1.1
* Metadata changes 7.1.1 11/29/2024 v7.1
* NEW - Clear Sky UV and Solar Irradiance now shown on main screen (can be toggled with path length and shadow length by tapping on them)
* NEW - Tabulation “Max UV and Insolation” - gives Climatological Max Clear Sky UV Index and Daily Incidental Insolation (kWh/m2) by day, for the year.
* NEW - Added a new lock screen widget with solar progress on outer clock ring with UV index in center (similar to existing clock showing solar elevation)
* NEW - Added current UV and Irradiance to large clock widget
* NEW - Added current UV and Irradiance to watch app’s clock view
* IMPROVED - In-app list of cities (available offline) has been refreshed and expanded to include 66,000+ locations, and now includes city altitude.
* IMPROVED - Location altitudes are looked up online whenever user adds a new location from the Map. This is especially useful for improving UV index calculations where the location has a significant altitude above sea level.
* IMPROVED - Now allow tap on “Rose/Sets” titles to toggle display in same way as tapping on the values fields on their right.
* IMPROVED - App icon now has a light, dark and tinted version for iOS 18+. 7.1 10/26/2024 v7.0
* NEW - The flat compass view can now be locked/unlocked with North to top by tapping on heading label at top of compass.
* IMPROVED - Watch app has been optimised for recent watch models and iOS versions
* FIXED - Solar clock widget could sometimes fail to display day/night and twilight phases when local solar noon was far from clock noon.
* Several other minor fixes and enhancements 7.0 08/01/2024 v6.8.2
* Minor fixes and translation updates 6.8.2 07/12/2024 v6.8
* Optimisations and minor fixes for iOS17 6.8 12/17/2023 v6.7
* NEW - Now includes a watch app with choice of several views, including a compass dial view which transitions to 3D view when holding the wrist up. Also includes text and circular complications showing solar elevation and data, as well as for iOS lock screen. 6.7 09/12/2023 v6.6
* NEW - Added a new Data Table to Details view - Azimuths at Rise/Set, giving the direction of the sun at time of rise and set for each day of the year. 6.6 07/24/2023 v6.5
* Minor fixes and updates 6.5 06/06/2023 v6.4.9
* Minor fixes 6.4.9 03/16/2023 v6.4.8
* IMPROVED - Tapping on share button Maps now shows a menu with option to share either a screenshot of the map or else the map location.
* FIXED - Solstice path data may sometimes have kept showing data for the device's previous location after a major change of location.
* FIXED - Possible crash when trying to share location on iPadOS 6.4.8 01/12/2023 v6.4.7
* IMPROVED - Tapping on share button Maps now shows a menu with option to share either a screenshot of the map or else the map location.
* FIXED - Solstice path data may sometimes have kept showing data for the device's previous location after a major change of location. 6.4.7 01/11/2023 v6.4.6
* Updated and optimised for latest iOS release
* Added Spanish user interface translation 6.4.6 11/01/2022 v6.4.5
* Minor enhancements 6.4.5 06/27/2022