Viewpoint: Photography Planner

Don't just plan the light — find your viewpoint. Name your subject and Viewpoint's AI reveals where to stand, and when the sun, moon or Milky Way lines up behind it.

SCOUT. PLAN. NEVER MISS THE LIGHT.

Viewpoint is an all-in-one photography planning platform for landscape, night, astro, travel, and outdoor photographers, on the big screen and offline in your pocket. Capture the places you shoot, plan exactly when the light and sky will be right, and get a notification the moment the conditions you care about line up — built to work offline, in the field.

Most planning apps are a calculator for a single moment. Viewpoint also watches the sky and weather at the places you save, so the right conditions come find you.

SCOUT — ON LOCATION OR FROM HOME • One-tap capture stamps every spot with its GPS, compass bearing, sun position, and your photo's EXIF — automatically. • Scout from anywhere: explore a location with a street-level Look Around view before you travel. • Add notes, organise spots into maps and collections, and drag-correct any pin. Your library works fully offline and stays private by default.

PLAN ALIGNMENTS FROM ANYWHERE • Find the exact day and time the sun, moon, or Milky Way core will sit behind your subject — a tree, a peak, a lighthouse — without leaving home. • The planner searches the next 90 days entirely on-device and lists every window with the body's compass direction and height at line-up. Tap one to start a plan.

GET NOTIFIED WHEN CONDITIONS LINE UP • Put a watch on any of your spots and Viewpoint pushes you when the light you want is coming — golden light, blue hour, fog, low cloud, clear dark skies, and more. • Location-aware weather and cloud-cover forecasts, so you plan around the sky, not just the clock. Quiet by default — you decide what's worth a notification.

THE SUN, MOON & MILKY WAY ALMANAC • A full sun timeline: golden hour, blue hour, and civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight, sunrise to sunset. • Moon phases, moonrise and moonset, and the nights the Milky Way's galactic core rides high in a dark sky.

AR CELESTIAL SCOUT • On location, point your phone and see the sun, moon, Milky Way, and star-trail rotation drawn live over the camera. Scrub time and compose the body where you want it in frame.

A SKY-EVENTS CALENDAR • Meteor showers, solar and lunar eclipses, equinoxes and solstices, supermoons, blue and black moons, and planetary oppositions and conjunctions — each flagged for visibility from where you are, and plannable in a tap.

THE FULL FIELD-CALCULATOR TOOLKIT Nearly every calculator a photographer reaches for — on-device, offline, each with a plain-language explainer and a result diagram: • Depth of field and hyperfocal distance • Long exposure (ND filter) timing • The exposure triangle — aperture, shutter, ISO • Time-lapse interval and clip length • Star exposure for pin-sharp stars (500 and NPF rules) • Star trails — exposure and rotation • Panorama frame overlap • Subject distance and focal-length match (find the lens for a framing)

WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME & LOCK SCREEN • Sun & Light — the light phase you're in now and a countdown to the next. • Tonight — moon phase, moonrise and set, and the Milky Way core window. • Conditions — scored light & weather verdicts for the spots you watch, any time of day. • Plan & Spots — your next shoot, ready to tap. Plus lock-screen moon, light-phase, and countdown widgets.

PLAN, SYNC & SHARE • Turn any moment into a shoot plan and add it to your calendar. • Sync across your devices, back up your photos, and share a spot or map privately — or publish one on the public map.

VIEWPOINT ON THE WEB • web.getviewpoint.app brings your library, maps and plans to the big screen — same account, any browser. • Desktop alerts notify you the moment a watched condition lines up, even with no tab open.

Viewpoint requires a subscription with a free trial. Manage or cancel anytime in App Store settings.

• Docs: https://getviewpoint.app • Privacy: https://getviewpoint.app/legal/privacy-policy/ • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/