Sun Seeker - Sunlight Tracker Customer Service

You would not think this powerful tool inside your pocket/cell phone could be so useful, but it truly is. As a professional photographer/videographer, I use it all the time to find The lighting I want for my shop. Especially on low budget shoots where they do not want to pay for my time to scout the location in advance, I can still know when to show up for the best lighting. As a REALTOR®,Many of my clients are seeking homes that face a particular direction. Sun Seeker absolutely helps with that. From inside a location I can tell clients where to look for the sun from any point in the house at any time of the year. Want to know if your rear deck will be too hot to eat at the height of summer?, I can tell you that. Want to know the best place to plant your garden? No problem. Want to know if a building is going to block the sun from you next December when the sun is lower on the horizon? No problem. Sunseeker is my go to application for this and so much more. I highly recommend it.

I was looking for something which would tel me where the sun rises at any given place on any given day and I almost couldn’t believe that I found it in this app I first though it was a simple time of sunrise and sunset app like so many others but when I dove into it I realized that it would tell me sunrise locations and angle from your location and a lot of other stuff from any place on the globe The technology alone is fascinating but the ability to know where the sun rises on any day from any location is like gold to a photographer Thanks for the answer to my needs I will be putting this app to full use and saving a lot of time searching out locations by trial and error This app puts an end to that

I have been using this app for years. It has save me days worth of work, trying to figure out when and where the sun will be.. the real world of you along with the sun charts allows you to know what time and where to be to put the sun behind a tree a building whatever your environment. Specifically for things like sunrise that you can’t see the trajectory of the sun until it’s already up, knowing the precise place where it will be coming from is an invaluable tool. I have recommended this app to anybody who is an environmental photographer even if it is not your main thing having access to this information, will save you an immense amount of time, just get it, seriously.

I originally rated this app one star because it bombarded me with pop ups to rate it. So I did, one star. Because it was unusable. Thankfully an update fixed the developers over zealous need for ratings and the app is useful again. I recently used the app in Thailand where I’m searching for a piece of land with a view of the sunset over the mountains. It was indispensable as the realtor always told me the land met my requirements. Often times it did not and I showed them the proof. Even better, this app gives you sunset and sunrise paths for not only the current day but for other days and months throughout the year. This allowed me to see where the sunset would be for the time period I will be here, most of the winter. Excellent app well worth the cost.

I’ve always been fascinated by weather, stars and sky phenomena and when I discovered this app I was just delighted. Especially because of the 3-D feature where you can lift the phone and find out where the sun is even on a cloudy day. But I actually found it useful when my daughter was looking for a house to buy and we were able to charge which direction it was facing and where the sun would be in any given season. Providing great insight into how the house would handle the various seasons, as sunlight and where it falls can make your house too hot or too cold.

This evening I was walking across the campus where I work, close to sunset. I am still exploring this app and noticed it has a nice feature where you can see the path of the sun’s rays on top of a map. I noticed that at a certain point where my path would cross between two buildings, I would likely catch sight of the sunset. As I approached the spot, I slowed down and then stopped and watched for a few minutes, taking in the beautiful transition as the sun light through the western clouds painted the sky beautiful colors. Thank you!

I have been using some seeker for years and years. It has helped in countless ways where photo pills was just too complicated. This is an easy to use and understand data filled tool. It’s even fun to explore with it— discovering the effects once location on the planet dramatically affects the appearance of the sun as the seasons change. I’ve used this for determining the feasibility of solar panel placement. Garden planting, even Tent location for an overnight photography trip. This app has been solid throughout all the years.

While this app isn’t full of all sorts of bells and whistles, it does what it says on the box and it does so perfectly. Working in several fields I have found this a particularly useful tool for solar planning. It’d be fun to toss in things like moon paths and phases, but what would really make the app more useful in the field would be taking more offline—preloading maps and other info for sites with no available signal. That’s no complaint, though, just constructive feedback—I give this app 5/5.

My wife and I are designing a solar focused home in NM, USA. Sifting through overly technical websites with mountains of raw data left us starving for usable information specific to our homesite. This app not only translates such data into usable information for today’s date but, gives us projections of where the sun will be throughout the year. Now we are able to site our future home with (solar) precision as well as make better decisions as to the exact nature of our structure’s design to maximize solar gain for the winter and shade for the summer.

Whether you’re shooting video or still photos, scripted or documentary, this app is essential. Even more crucial for time lapse shooters. Any weather app can tell you when the sun will rise and set, but this one shows you exactly where with AR overlays using your phone’s camera, so you’ll know precisely when the sun will be blocked by that building. Or you can look at a location map with the sun’s course clearly marked. Must-have when scouting locations for any type of camera work.

I spend a lot of time outside, I also love solar power, gardening, and I work in the film industry. Knowing when and where The Sun is going to be at any given second is a god-tier power that only humans with Sun Seeker can possess. Seriously, anytime you wanna be in the shade, you can use this app to find out where the sun is coming from, and Sun Seeker can help you find shade to hide from it’s deadly gaze. I use this app almost every single day. 10/10

I’ve wanted an app like this for years. So much that I nearly built it myself. Buying this app was my last effort before starting that process and I’m glad I did. Sun Seeker delivers on its core promise of being the easiest way to track the sun for any location on earth. We just used it to place the planter beds in our new home and I’m sure I’ll use it in the future to plan photo shoots or place buildings. Just a great app executed very well.

I originally bought this to strategize where to place beehives. But I find myself using it all the time. Wish I had this before buying our house, because I would have known how the evening sun hits. You can determine when trees will provide shade, what areas will get baked by the sun, where to plant young plants that can’t get sun after 2 pm, etc etc. the 3D view is where it’s at with this app! I love it.

I’ve been using this app since the beginning,.. i work in the film / TV world and being able to track the sun has been a god send when helping with location lighting and potential problems.. with this app you don’t even need to be there ., you can scout locations from different areas. Definitely my most used app as well as my weather apps

I do photography for a living and this app is an absolute must have! It lets me know where to point when I want to see the sun at a specific spot before the moment comes. It also gives me all the information I need for locating shadows on the map at a location before I get there. It was well worth the money I paid for it!

This app is incredible. Without any setup, you can jump right into the AR view, walk up to any window or living space in an apt or house and see exactly where you’ll have sun at any given time of the day and how it changes throughout the time of year. Top down overlay view onto gmaps is also awesome!! 100% worth the $10!

Really truly helpful. We’re designing our retirement house on a budget, and can’t afford mistakes for overheating due to southern facing, passive solar design, etc. this allowed me to predict where windows need to be for solar gain in winter, overhand e for summer and more. I only wish there was a way to export pdf files for incorporation into CAD as a pdf underlay. Even without that, it ids a GREAT piece of software. Thanks to the team that developed it.

You can use it like a solar compass to get on roofs to see if solar panels are applicable, locate any star, any planetary body all their movements perfect for anything as astrology Awesome for planting probably another hundred things I don’t even use that are amazing- couldn’t be happier and I’ve got the free version, it’s helpful literally every day! Basically perfect don’t need anything else

This is a totally cool app! I had been trying to eye where to place a ground mounted solar array, and without this tool, would have gotten it totally wrong. Using the iPad’s live camera, I was able to pan across the landscape and see where the solstice/equinox solar arcs (superimposed on the view) would be, so that I could see where trees might get in the way seasonally. This allowed me to find the ideal spot to place my solar array. Excellent!

I use this app often for all sorts of things. This is a must have for planning outdoor photography. The map overlay helps me to find the perfect spot for sunsets. Handy for planning where to park my car for best shade when returning from a long hike. I also used it in February to determine the best spot to plant a tree in my yard for optimal shade during the hottest month of the year. Love this app.

I absolutely love this app. I’ve had a few careers in which it’s been incredibly helpful. As a professional photographer knowing where the sun is and it’s going to be is invaluable. As a realtor being able to show my clients the Orcutt the sun throughout the year on a property that they were thinking of purchasing, again invaluable.

Use it all the time for video and photography. Figuring out sunrise, sunset and position of the sun is crucial to getting magic hour just right. You can location scout at anytime of the day, use the 3D view on the app and be able to predict when and where the sun will be for the next day’s (or even next week’s) shoot

App gives a great way to see where the sun is going to be at any particular time and place in a room using AR. Also has a great graphic that shows direction of sun light overlayed on a map that you can manipulate to see the direction of the sun on a location through the day. Glad I bought it!

I’ve had this app for years. It started out very good, and every year it has gotten better with incremental additions and improvements. Other app developers would do well to use it as a model. Intuitive yet feature-rich, user-friendly, updated regularly, etc.

I use this app everyday at work as a filmmaker but I have also used it when looking at apartments to rent, to see what time a sunset or sunrise will be... So many uses and precise enough to get me in the ballpark for lighting. I especially love the 3D View feature for seeing when a window will get direct light or not, when the sun will pop over that mountain or tree, etc.

I teach astronomy at a university informal class and use this app constantly. Also use this for outdoor daytime activities– especially cycling in that it’s advisable to get out of the sun once your shadow is shorter than you are tall— 45° or higher. With this app we see that ‘sunburn window’ for any day, any trek, anywhere. Thanks!

Trying to plan my garden at a new location after we moved and this app is invaluable for determining where the best sun will be during the growing season. I can see clearly in the 3d view where the sun will be throughout the day, whether trees will be blocking it, where i can get afternoon shade, etc. Fantastic app!!

I’m in the film industry and when I go location‘s guarding I always like to know where the sun is at at the moment in any day. This app is automatic well thought out. Even when I’m planting vegetables I want to know the best place that gets the most sun, once again bingo this app does it :-).

I just downloaded it and have been impressed with it so far. The map view with the sun grid/path is great. I’m using in to plan for a solar panel and battery upgrades for our off grid home. I will update again later if things change, but for now it seems like a great tool!

As well as determining lighting for photography at a later date, this app was indispensable on my solar panel install. I didn’t have enough roof space to place all panels on the southern exposure, but I was able to discover with the AR function that for most of the year, my western exposure would have longer light and placed the remaining panels more efficiently.

As a photographer this app is AMAZING!! I don't have to scout out locations at sunrise or sunset anymore! I can just check the location of the sunset and sunrise location on the app, and it tells you about what is will be like at during different months of the year and everything. 100% worth the money for any natural light photographers!

I don’t usually leave reviews for stuff, but I have used this tool as a working commercial cinematographer for many years, and it’s hard to imagine life without it. It just works. Bonus points when it helps me determine daylight hours in my garden.

This app is a must. You can plan your lighting like the sun is your gaffer. The 3D view will give you a remarkably accurate view of the sun’s path so you can plan your shot. Those trendy product shots with hard lights are a breeze with this app.

I’ve relied on Sun Seeker for years, first as a director of photography in the film industry and now as as amateur photographer to give me accurate real time and predictive information to plan for and deal with shoots. As an amateur photographer it helps me be in the right place at the right time to get the shot I want.

This app has helped with my real estate videos and planning the timing to get the best natural lighting. Although the default 3D mode is easier to set up, but gyroscope mode is more accurate as you can adjust the actually position you’re in. Wish it was default as normal mode is about 1/2 hour off for me usually. The map mode is my favorite though.

I have been using this app for years and it has served me well. As a photographer and field scientist, while setting up camp and working with solar arrays. I would carry around a smart phone or tablet just to have access to this single application.

As a realtor, I find this app to be one of the most useful tools I have. To be able to show a perspective, buyer exactly where the sun will be at any time of the year at any time of the day. Is invaluable especially as in Marin we have a lot of hills and many houses are dark or winter.

I’ve been using this app for years, I use it to determine what apartment to rent (where the sun will shine in which windows at what time of the year), to choosing seats at a restaurant (oh the sun will pass by that tree in about 10 minutes and we’ll be in full sun let’s sit elsewhere). Worth the cost at full price.

For a gardener like me, figuring out the amount of sun exposure at different locations was tedious before I got this Sunseeker app. This really prevents my making mistakes in plant selection and plant location. I am in the process of making solar exposure maps of my yard for my landscape planning.

I saw this App on a photography website and it looked interesting. I like it for both planning when to shoot for best lighting conditions and just for the scientific curiosity. It’s also fun just to show people. You’ve gotten some sales from that.

Video recording of the screen allows a user to see the entire sun path without having to wonder where a single photo might have been taken from. By panning the camera in real time, it is easy to orient oneself and video recording offers this.

This app has done so much for understanding of the design and layout of our new construction retirement home. To understand what you can experience before you start laying out your walls is a game changer! Thank you for this tool 😎

I use this app regularly for sunrise information (most often for blue hours and golden hours so I can plan my long walks in daylight). I also use it for planning my gardens as I can see where the sun is at different times of the year and different times of day.

This app does just what I need, easily… The map feature shows my location, or future location, and shows where the sun will be, at any given time, throughout the day.

The detail this app provides about the sun's motions is absolutely incredible, and it keeps getting even better. One of my very favorite apps, and it has always been perfectly stable on my devices.

I gave the app to my real estate buddy, he points it at the window and it tells him what time they will see sun coming through - or the sunset and he brings his client then! I need to know between what times I’ll get direct sun for photography. I’ve been using it for a decade, and I am always impressed 😎🇺🇸✅

I love this app and use it for all sorts of things on our property such as placing our solar panel array, setting seasonal angles on the adjustable solar panel racks, and placing garden beds and a four season passive solar greens house. Truly unique and easy to use.

Love this app!!!!

Bought for gardening and planting. really opened eyes to the reality of what areas get sun or not. been using for a few years. finding even use for outdoor activities like cottage ,camping and boating to know where you are where the sun will drop behind trees etc.

Great app for outdoor planning

Sunseeker is critical to use it when buying a home or property. I have discounted properties more than once based on the info this app supplies. You don’t realize how much a sun path changes over the course of a year until you see the pattern Sunseeker shows. It’s a great resource. I’ve recommended it to many friends.

Still learning all the options available.

A decent app, does wha you’d expect from a sun seeker, engaging without being overstated. Ive been using it for years, a good reference tool.

Always locates the sun for me. Map option useful for real estate evaluation. Fun.

I used Sun Seeker when I was choosing a house. Was the perfect app to discover how the sun would affect heating and lighting on certain areas of the house. Highly recommend when researching your next home.

For the solar data obsessed, this app is excellent. Rise, set, elevations, azimuths, twilight etc. are all readily available for photographers, travelers, solar observers, or just the curious.

You would think for a niche app the quality and design would be lacking. But not so with this, if you have need of tracking the sun then look no further.

The compass can not be set properly. How can it be fixed to show the correct direction of North?

Working as a cinematographer I use this app all the time. It’s “3D” feature that allows you to see the sun path over your cameras view is invaluable.

Superb app. I use it daily setting up a farm, orchard, and solar panels.

Gotta love sunseeker. I’ve used it while making docs at music festivals in order to check the future sun angel. In an unfamiliar city or town the map really helps you find your way around. Takes the mystery out of getting lost. 2 thumbs up sunseeker.😎

Yes it for work and it’s great

Un indispensable et le meilleur que j’ai utilisé.

So good best app ger!!!!!!

I use this app all the time. I live on the west Coast of BC it’s great for my Business. I sell real estate. Thanks Guy&Tina

Utilisé souvent pour déterminer ou orienter les équipements patios

Of all the useful and useless apps out there this is my favourite app of all. Powerful information and superbly designed.

Trop souvent le nord n’est pas au nord.

I use this app as my back of the napkin solar assessment tool. It gives you a great idea of what amount of sun to expect at a site. I really like the 3D mode

Excellent app, well designed and very presentable.

... but this app turned out to be great. Well designed, easy to use, pertinent informations. I even bought the Androïd version for my travel mobile phone. Very nice.

As some one who has a bit of solar PV training, this app is the bee’s knee’s!

I’m a realtor and I love this app. My client think it’s amazing when I show them how the sun and comes up and gies down it’s awesome.

Really easy to use. Great information. We are moving and it's great to see where the sun will be at different times of the year.

Bought this with some trepidation. However, this app is worth every penny. One of our companies installs solar systems and this app allows us to see exactly where the sun will be at anytime of year. Solar site assessments can be aided with this app as shading can quickly be determined. The 3D option is fantastic, allowing the camera to scan the horizon with the sun’s ecliptic shown on top of the viewed image while moving in-sync with that image. The sun’s ecliptic can be view from anyplace at anytime.

Useful with a rugged shoreline as it will help see if the area (beaches) you want to photograph will be out of a shadow.

I am a Real Estate Broker and knowing sun orientation at various times of the year is very important to many of my clients.

As someone who just loves the sun (yes I know tanning is not good for you - but it's an Awful lot safer than some of the other things I do to amuse myself) this App is a must have, especially for early Spring and late Fall when Sun exposure and knowing the exact time of solar noon is so important. I use it often, and it works flawlessly.

Very accurate

This used to be my go-to app as a cinematographer and real estate owner. But unfortunately it seems this app no longer works. It has no clue where in the sky the sun is.

Very useful - especially for photography. Love it!

Very useful, I have used it numerous times for selecting best placement for my garden flowers.

All the information I need in a very cool interface, have had this one for snow time now and it keeps getting better, thank you for this.

A few moons ago, I use to use a Palm Pilot as a Real Estate tool to show clients where the sun rose and set in their living room in order to see if they could have " breakfast on the porch" in different seasons. It was an enormous success. With the advent of the iPhone, I had been looking for a similar program to replace the Palm version and this is it, ON STERIODS!. I felt so strongly about this that I bought it for a friend for Christmas (I normally never do stuff like that) and now, he's building his deck at the appropriate angle for tea in the afternoon with his wife. Yet again, I'm famous (😃). Buy this, it's all you'll need!

Great for info and great for photographers chasing the sun

This is an excellent compass that has been enhanced with the track of the sun. It has many other excellent features and details that can be useful. I work on solar systems so this app comes in handy often.

I use this app for camping, work, and especially for photography to plan for the best lighting conditions.

Great for many things!

Please fix this and I will give this five stars. This app helped me get a better understanding of how the sun moves and helped me build the sundial in my front yard and now I’m VERY disappointed that there’s now a visual glitch on the Solar Dial widget where it’s all black and does not show the twilight times at all, especially now it’s almost the June solstice. I have tried resetting iOS to factory settings and keeping it up to date and have deleted and reinstalled the app multiple times to no avail. Please fix this!

I payed for this app because it looked amazing and it was going to be perfect to help me plan the garden at our new house. Sadly, the compass isn’t accurate. And when I say it isn’t accurate, I don’t mean by a few degrees - It is saying west is south… I checked to make sure it wasn’t my device that was off, but the compass app works perfectly well. I ended up downloading a free app that is similar to this one and the compass also works perfectly on that. Sad that this app isn’t working because it has better features and a better layout than the free apps. I hope they fix it!

I’ve attempted to contact this business and have got no reply’s I am a photographer and need to know when the the sun rises over the mountains. This app does not offer a preview of the land. I have the sun survayer app and that will show you a picture of the location you enter so I can actually see where the sun rises or dips over the mountain. This app only gives you a birds grid and a street view using a street map, which is not helpful in my case. If I’m missing something here I would love to know. Because getting a hold of these guys is proving to be impossible

I originally purchased this app to help me with gardening around my home. Aside from seeing more or less where the sun is hitting my home at a particular time, I was hoping the app would have been a bit more detailed. The aerial view of my home is quite far and I would really love it if the app could zoom in more around actual structures and show the position of the sun throughout different times of the year.

I’m in Baja California, Sur Mexico and this app is a junk, not even close to where the sun is and then yes, I have location service on garbage. Don’t get it find another.

I was charged $14.99 for this app without realizing it. The price was not displayed until after pressing Get, and Face ID instantly confirmed the purchase. This was made by a minor on my device without my consent. I requested a refund from Apple twice, and both times it was denied. Apple Support then told me to contact the developer directly. I’ve already emailed them, and I am waiting for a proper resolution. Until this is fixed, I cannot recommend this app. Developers should ensure transparent pricing and support customers fairly when unauthorized or accidental purchases occur.

I do photography, need to know the position of sun for pictures, it never gave me the exact location.

Hard to understand

UPDATE: The app randomly started working again (This is non a non-3G iPad with location services enabled) for several months. It was a joy to get to use what I had paid for. I contacted the developer about the problem originally, and they told me that it was not their fault and that it was not Apples fault, and they would not give me credit to try the app on another device or refund me. RANDOMLY AGAIN, FEB 16 2021 the app broke again. Same problem. No changes have been made on the app or the iPad in question, no new applications installed or anything of that nature. This is a major error, without True North/compass calibration functioning the app is basically useless. Thanks for nothing! After the latest update to this app most of the features wont work because it instantly throws an error message saying it can’t calibrate to true north because the iPad compass settings are wrong. I checked all the settings, everything is fine - the update ruined this expensive app right when I was going to use it to plant a garden. I should get a refund.

I requested a refund through iTunes because this app did not have the feature I was looking for. I did not get a response. I tried again and was told this purchase was not eligible for a refund. 1 star.

I based a shoot this morning off of the information provided by this app in the 3D mode and it was off by hours. I checked my settings several times and it’s not able to show where the sun is right now accurately at all.

Can't find instructions on how to operate this $15.00 app, this rendering it USELESS to me.