# The Sky by Redshift

> Enjoy Astronomy

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481867620](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481867620)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1481867620`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** USM
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (813 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-19
- **First published:** 2021-06-03
- **Size:** 472 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-sky-by-redshift/id1481867620)
- **Website:** [http://www.redshiftsky.com](http://www.redshiftsky.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://redshiftsky.com/privacy-policy-the-sky/](https://redshiftsky.com/privacy-policy-the-sky/)

## Description

The Sky by Redshift, developed in collaboration with THAMES & KOSMOS, is a beginner-friendly planetarium that helps you identify stars, planets, and constellations with a few taps. It offers real-time position data, immersive flythroughs through space, and close-up views of moons and spacecraft, making complex astronomy accessible for kids and adults alike.

Version 2.0 adds an Eclipse Timetable, orbits of celestial objects, and an expanded database (6500 cities worldwide). The app also provides premium content for extended space journeys and the Discover astronomy section with more space imagery and eclipse insights, plus a direct sky map for viewing events.

## Rankings

- #59,549 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviews overall praise The Sky by Redshift as a free, well-executed app with beautiful visuals and accurate data. Users report reliable performance across conditions and express strong positive sentiment, calling it the best or great. Some scattered complaints touch on wanting more features, a milder screen pointer, red-night vision option, and not being forced into premium, but these do not appear consistently across reviews. Overall, the app is viewed positively, with multiple reviewers calling it excellent and worth switching to.

### Pros

- Free and well-executed
- Beautiful visuals
- Accurate data
- Reliable performance across conditions
- Generally highly positive; considered the best/great app by users

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