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NearLight is #112 in Education Paid in United States and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 12 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperMarc Bachmann
CategoryEducation
Price399.00 INR
Released
Rating★ 0.0 (0)
Version1.7.4
Age rating4+
First seen by us
7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
📈Charting in a new country📦Updated to version 1.7.4🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 1.7.2🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 5 events
- 📈NearLight charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📦NearLight updated to version 1.7.4What's new in 1.7.4
Ready for iPhone Duo
Unfolded, NearLight gives the big inner display to the sky: the controls and panels stay compact and leave the stars in view beside them. Folding and unfolding is seamless, your mission and your view carry right on.
Compass mode: hold your iPhone or iPad up to the sky
A new compass button in the Earth panel lines the sky up with your device's compass and motion sensors. Point anywhere above you and NearLight shows exactly that patch of sky, with every star, planet and Messier object. Tilt the device and the horizon tilts with it, like looking through a window. Move the sky with your finger and compass mode switches off; zooming keeps it on.
Also new:
• Zoom with a mouse wheel or trackpad on iPhone and iPad, in every section
• A sharper star backdrop in the Solar System on iPhone
• The live sky jumps back to the current time after unlocking
• The location prompt and about 60 more texts are now fully translated into German and French
• Dates and numbers follow the app language
• Minor fixes and improvements… more - 🆕NearLight first spotted by AppInsider#72 in Top Paid · All Apps · Canada
- 📦NearLight version 1.7.2What's new in 1.7.2
• Start App in: Settings now lets you choose where NearLight opens – Earth, Solar System, Interstellar, Milky Way or the Black Hole Sim. Solar System stays the default.
• Twice the zoom in the free sky view: pinch or scroll now goes down to a 0.375° field (160×).
• Touch stops the spin: on iPhone and iPad, a finger landing on a scene that is still coasting after a swipe now freezes it at once, the way a scroll view does. The stopping tap no longer selects anything.
• Fixed: on iPhone the "i" info panels in every tab, as well as the date and destination popovers, were cut off at the left edge in portrait and landscape. They now open where there is room.… more - 🆕NearLight released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#112
Education PaidMeasured
NearLight on the App Store
App details
App ID
6766338717
Publisher
Marc Bachmann
On the store since
May 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
3
EN FR DE
Size
253 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
NearLight downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where NearLight's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | EducationPaid | #112 |
Apps near NearLight on the chart
Education Paid, around #112.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Ratings
0
Measured
About NearLight
NearLight is a 3D space simulator for exploring nearby star systems, visualising interstellar distances in our galaxy and calculating travel times using both classical and relativistic physics. Explore massive black holes, fly through a living star map, inspect real stars and see how space travel changes when the Lorentz factor and relativity come into play.
Calculate time dilation and see its effects visually.
Is your favourite sci-fi film physically accurate?
Built for astronomy fans, sci-fi lovers and physics enthusiasts, NearLight turns nearby space into an interactive experience. Search star systems, inspect stellar data and exoplanets, compare travel times across different speed and acceleration models, and see the relativistic effects of black holes with your own eyes.
From our Solar System, represented with accurate orbital data, to realistic star maps and journeys through the Milky Way with relativistic calculations, NearLight makes space travel feel tangible.
Calculate acceleration and deceleration with different g values, including coast phases, and see where your spacecraft has to turn. Get relativistic onboard travel times quickly with just a slider. Find out how much time has passed on Earth.
Features:
- Tour our Solar System in a Kepler-accurate 3D scene: the Sun, all 8 planets and 8 major moons, with a day/night Earth, Saturn's rings and a textured sky.
- Full observatory in Telescope Mode with 8 eyepieces and realistic atmospheric seeing.
- Explore 1,000 light-years of nearby star systems in a cinematic 3D space view.
- Search and inspect 8,000+ real stars, including known names, distances and stellar data.
- Discover red-highlighted neighbouring stars within 10 light-years of your selected destination.
- Plan trips through the Milky Way and see the real travel time and distance.
- Switch between three onboard cameras during a trip: free view, side chase cam and locked first-person cockpit view.
- Experience relativistic optics from the cockpit near light speed: stellar aberration, the forward "headlight" cone, Doppler colour shift and relativistic beaming.
- Explore over 70 detailed known black holes, including the massive TON 618 and Gargantua from Interstellar.
- Compare Earth travel time with onboard travel time using relativistic calculations.
- View the full relativistic picture: Earth distance, length-contracted distance, peak speed as a fraction of c and the estimated energy required. Switch units between joules, TWh, PWh and "Sun-output time".
- Navigate with 6 degrees of freedom: rotate the map, pinch to zoom, and move the axis in all directions with two fingers.
- Reset your view back to your target, turn labels on or off, or enable Auto Rotation around your selected object.
- Switch between constant-speed and constant-acceleration space travel models.
- In Constant c mode, define an instant and constant travel speed as a fraction of light speed.
- In Constant g mode, set g values for acceleration and deceleratio
Calculate time dilation and see its effects visually.
Is your favourite sci-fi film physically accurate?
Built for astronomy fans, sci-fi lovers and physics enthusiasts, NearLight turns nearby space into an interactive experience. Search star systems, inspect stellar data and exoplanets, compare travel times across different speed and acceleration models, and see the relativistic effects of black holes with your own eyes.
From our Solar System, represented with accurate orbital data, to realistic star maps and journeys through the Milky Way with relativistic calculations, NearLight makes space travel feel tangible.
Calculate acceleration and deceleration with different g values, including coast phases, and see where your spacecraft has to turn. Get relativistic onboard travel times quickly with just a slider. Find out how much time has passed on Earth.
Features:
- Tour our Solar System in a Kepler-accurate 3D scene: the Sun, all 8 planets and 8 major moons, with a day/night Earth, Saturn's rings and a textured sky.
- Full observatory in Telescope Mode with 8 eyepieces and realistic atmospheric seeing.
- Explore 1,000 light-years of nearby star systems in a cinematic 3D space view.
- Search and inspect 8,000+ real stars, including known names, distances and stellar data.
- Discover red-highlighted neighbouring stars within 10 light-years of your selected destination.
- Plan trips through the Milky Way and see the real travel time and distance.
- Switch between three onboard cameras during a trip: free view, side chase cam and locked first-person cockpit view.
- Experience relativistic optics from the cockpit near light speed: stellar aberration, the forward "headlight" cone, Doppler colour shift and relativistic beaming.
- Explore over 70 detailed known black holes, including the massive TON 618 and Gargantua from Interstellar.
- Compare Earth travel time with onboard travel time using relativistic calculations.
- View the full relativistic picture: Earth distance, length-contracted distance, peak speed as a fraction of c and the estimated energy required. Switch units between joules, TWh, PWh and "Sun-output time".
- Navigate with 6 degrees of freedom: rotate the map, pinch to zoom, and move the axis in all directions with two fingers.
- Reset your view back to your target, turn labels on or off, or enable Auto Rotation around your selected object.
- Switch between constant-speed and constant-acceleration space travel models.
- In Constant c mode, define an instant and constant travel speed as a fraction of light speed.
- In Constant g mode, set g values for acceleration and deceleratio
Latest updates
1.7.4
What's new in 1.7.4
Ready for iPhone Duo
Unfolded, NearLight gives the big inner display to the sky: the controls and panels stay compact and leave the stars in view beside them. Folding and unfolding is seamless, your mission and your view carry right on.
Compass mode: hold your iPhone or iPad up to the sky
A new compass button in the Earth panel lines the sky up with your device's compass and motion sensors. Point anywhere above you and NearLight shows exactly that patch of sky, with every star, planet and Messier object. Tilt the device and the horizon tilts with it, like looking through a window. Move the sky with your finger and compass mode switches off; zooming keeps it on.
Also new:
• Zoom with a mouse wheel or trackpad on iPhone and iPad, in every section
• A sharper star backdrop in the Solar System on iPhone
• The live sky jumps back to the current time after unlocking
• The location prompt and about 60 more texts are now fully translated into German and French
• Dates and numbers follow the app language
• Minor fixes and improvements
1.7.2
What's new in 1.7.2
• Start App in: Settings now lets you choose where NearLight opens – Earth, Solar System, Interstellar, Milky Way or the Black Hole Sim. Solar System stays the default.
• Twice the zoom in the free sky view: pinch or scroll now goes down to a 0.375° field (160×).
• Touch stops the spin: on iPhone and iPad, a finger landing on a scene that is still coasting after a swipe now freezes it at once, the way a scroll view does. The stopping tap no longer selects anything.
• Fixed: on iPhone the "i" info panels in every tab, as well as the date and destination popovers, were cut off at the left edge in portrait and landscape. They now open where there is room.