# Star Walk：Find Stars & Planets

> Night Sky Guide - Star Map AR

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id295430577](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id295430577)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id295430577`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Vito Technology Inc.
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (25,022 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-30
- **First published:** 2008-11-05
- **Size:** 126 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-find-stars-planets/id295430577)
- **Website:** [https://vitotechnology.com/](https://vitotechnology.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.vitotechnology.com/privacy-policy.html](http://www.vitotechnology.com/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

Star Walk is a beautiful stargazing app that acts as your interactive guide to the night sky. It follows your movements in real time and lets you explore more than 200,000 celestial bodies with extensive information. The app has seen broad adoption with millions of users and earned the Apple Design Award in 2010.

Key features include a real-time night sky map, augmented reality sky view, deep sky objects, night mode, a Time Machine to travel through time, an astronomical calendar for celestial events, and the Sky Live panel showing moon phases and planetary visibility. It also delivers stunning space imagery and a calendar of events to help you never miss celestial happenings. Star Walk Plus unlocks additional content such as deeper objects and meteor showers via subscription.

## Rankings

- #10,130 — Overall
- #10 — university
- #11 — space

## Review summary

Star Walk combines strong AR and accurate sky data with long-standing reliability, making it a powerful tool for stargazers. However, reviewers repeatedly cite heavy, disruptive ads in the free version, paywall-like premium changes, subscription renewal/cancellation frustrations, occasional performance glitches, and a perceived decline in usability versus earlier versions.

### Pros

- Immersive augmented reality mode helps identify stars and planets quickly.
- Accurate and dependable sky navigation and data.
- Good long-term value; premium features offer meaningful enhancements.
- Trusted, long-standing tool used by astronomy hobbyists for years.

### Cons

- Intrusive, frequent ads in the free version disrupt usage.
- Premium features can feel paywalled or disappear after payment; ongoing costs.
- Subscriptions auto-renew with difficult cancellation.
- Performance issues tied to ads: freezing maps, lag, or unresponsiveness.
- Usability has declined compared with older versions.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id295430577)