# A Solar System Journey

> Learn about our planets

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id444804070](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id444804070)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id444804070`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** John Rouda
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (426 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.5
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-11
- **First published:** 2011-07-08
- **Size:** 15 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-solar-system-journey/id444804070)
- **Website:** [http://www.johnrouda.com](http://www.johnrouda.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://johnrouda.com/privacy-policy/](https://johnrouda.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

A Solar System Journey offers an interactive tour through our Solar System, covering Mercury through Neptune. It features close-up images of each planet and an animated orbit visualization to bring the orbits to life.

For each world, concise facts provide quick learning insights, making this a compact educational tool for curious minds of all ages.

## Rankings

- #78,758 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise the app for viewing and learning about the solar system and find it helpful for astronomy. However, multiple reviews cite critical issues: frequent crashes/unresponsiveness, inaccurate facts (densest planet and backward orbits), limited content, and download/install failures. The app shows promise as an educational tool but currently struggles with reliability, accuracy, and usability.

### Pros

- Helpful for astronomy and provides educational content.
- Offers interesting information about the solar system.
- Allows viewing and exploring the solar system.
- Appeals to users as a cool, space-related learning tool with potential.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and unresponsive UI (poor controls).
- Inaccurate scientific information (e.g., confusion about the densest planet and backward orbits).
- Very little information about the planets.
- Download/install problems (won’t download or run).

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