Take travel photos that will make your friends green with envy with the help of a sun-tracking app, the easy way to make sure you don’t miss those precious golden hours!
What is the Sun Seeker App?
It is sun tracking app – a slice of magic that shows the solar path in all its 3D augmented reality glory. It also has a flat-compass view and comes with a whole heap of data to show what the sun is up to at any point in the world.
What does the Sun Seeker App do?
It provides sunlight data that enables professionals of all types to see when the sun is in an optimal position for their needs. This data is also useful for everyday decision making that involves wanting or needing to know where the sun is, or isn’t, e.g:
- Planoptimal light conditions, sunrise/sunset directions, golden and blue hour times.
- Find where to camp or sit, in or out of the sun.
- Find optimal planting locations and seasonal sunlight hours.
- Visualise the spatial variability of the solar angle throughout the year in a building.
Main Features
- Uses GPS, magnetometer and gyroscope to find solar position and path.
- Flat compass view showing current solar position, diurnal solar angle and elevation, shadow length ratio, atmospheric path thickness.
- 3D augmented reality camera overlay view showing the sun’s current position, its path with hour points marked.
- Map view showing solar direction arrows and elevations for each hour of the day.
- Choose any date and location and view solar path for that day.
- Notifications for sun-related events, such as golden or blue hours.
Why is the Sun Seeker App good as a travel app?
This app is an invaluable tool for the travel photographer, and is also jolly useful if you are on an adventure holiday and want to know when and where you are at risk of strong sun or need to know the best place to camp in terms of shade.
What do the Sun Seeker App reviews say?
Photographers say it helps with framing and time-lapse, and iOS users love the app’s accuracy. The Android users however don’t rate it as highly, highlighting accuracy problems. The developers have responded saying that the compass in the Android device could be to blame, and suggests calibrating before use.
