Stellarium Mobile Downloads & RevenueStellarium Mobile - Star Map · App Store
Stellarium Mobile - Star Map is #41 in Education Free in United States and charting in 14 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Stellarium Mobile - Star Map update history & changes
Last change · 24 events since 7 Apr 2019Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 24 events
- 🚀Stellarium Mobile - Star Map: now shown next to SkyView®, Star Walk 2 Pro: Sky Map Live, View Star: Astronomy & Planets +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 100Top Free · All Apps · IN
- 🔎Stellarium Mobile - Star Map reached Top 10 for “moon”#10 in China search · popularity 36
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 100Top Grossing · Education · SA
- ✏️Stellarium Mobile - Star Map added hidden keywords: moonwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Stellarium Mobile - Star Map updated to version 1.16.9Minor release to fix a crash when connected to telescope.
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 100Top Free · Education · JP
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 10Top Free · Education · KR
- ✏️Stellarium Mobile - Star Map added hidden keywords: satellitewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 10Top Free · Education · IN
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map charting in a new country in 2 chartsChina · Japan
- 🔎Stellarium Mobile - Star Map reached #1 for “star”#1 in India search · popularity 48
- 🔎Stellarium Mobile - Star Map reached #1 for “star”#1 in Indonesia search · popularity 20
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Free · Education · AE · Top Grossing · Education · DE · Top Grossing · Education · RU
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Free · Education · RU · Top Free · Education · US
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Stellarium Mobile - Star Map entered the top 100Top Free · Education · ID
- 🆕Stellarium Mobile - Star Map first spotted by AppInsider#64 in Top Free · Education · France
- 📦Stellarium Mobile - Star Map version 1.16.8No release notes
- 🆕Stellarium Mobile - Star Map released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Stellarium Mobile - Star Map at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-31. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A free, augmented-reality planetarium app for adults and children that identifies stars, planets, and satellites in real time by pointing a device at the sky. The app ranks #3 in Education Free in India and holds top-40 positions across multiple major markets including Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the UK, indicating strong global adoption of its freemium model.
Similar apps: SkyView, Star Walk 2, Night Sky
Stellarium Mobile - Star Map on the App Store
App details
Stellarium Mobile - Star Map downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Stellarium Mobile - Star Map'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Stellarium Mobile - Star Map before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Stellarium Mobile - Star Map makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Stellarium PLUS subscription | |
| 2 | Stellarium PLUS subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| EducationFree | #41 | |
| EducationFree | #52 | |
| EducationFree | #20 | |
| EducationFree | #35 | |
| EducationFree | #72 | |
| EducationFree | #62 | |
| EducationFree | #97 | |
| EducationFree | #55 | |
| EducationFree | #33 | |
| EducationFree | #67 | |
| EducationFree | #77 | |
| EducationFree | #79 | |
| EducationFree | #48 | |
| EducationFree | #144 |
Apps near Stellarium Mobile - Star Map on the chart
Education Free, around #41.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in
Japan ▲ ×4.3 ·
India ▲ +56%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 327 | 36% | ▼ -16% | |
| 80 | 9% | ▲ +56% | |
| 74 | 8% | steady | |
| 73 | 8% | ▼ -10% | |
| 70 | 8% | ▼ -14% | |
| 66 | 7% | ▲ +9% | |
| 44 | 5% | ▼ -5% | |
| 43 | 5% | steady | |
| 43 | 5% | ▲ +15% | |
| 31 | 3% | ▲ ×4.3 | |
| 28 | 3% | steady | |
| 19 | 2% | ▼ -10% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Stellarium Mobile - Star Map
From the 79 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the app's accuracy, educational value, and free accessibility for stargazing. However, a significant minority report critical issues with in-app purchases failing to restore or process, alongside occasional performance freezes.
Mostly positive (81% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “I would love to see weather forecast feature”
- Useful: “Very good recommendation!”
- Ease of use: “Illuminating and easy to rely upon”
- Design: “Good App - Iffy Interface”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “I won’t pay for basic functionality like Stellarium is devolving into”
- Crashes & bugs: “App constantly freezing up”
- Speed & performance: “Great concept, poor performance”
- Features & content: “I bought two times the pro version of Stellarium and on the app still show the free version, I can’t access to pro features”
About Stellarium Mobile - Star Map
Identify stars, constellations, planets, comets, satellites (such as the ISS), and other deep sky objects in real time in the sky above you in just a few seconds, just by pointing the phone at the sky!
This astronomy application has an easy to use and minimalist user interface, that makes it one of the best astronomical applications for adults and children who want to explore the night sky.
Stellarium Mobile features:
• View an accurate night sky simulation of stars and planets for any date, time and location.
• Dive in a collection of many stars, nebulas, galaxies, star clusters and other deep sky objects.
• Zoom on realistic Milky Way and Deep Sky Objects images.
• Discover how people living in other regions of the planet see the stars by selecting the shapes and illustrations of the constellations for many sky cultures.
• Track artificial satellites, including the International Space Station.
• Simulate landscape and atmosphere with realistic sunrise, sunset and atmosphere refraction.
• Discover 3D rendering of the major solar system planets and their satellites.
• Observe the sky in night mode (red) to preserve your eyes adaptation to darkness.
Stellarium Mobile contains in-app purchases allowing to upgrade to Stellarium Plus. With this upgrade, the app will display objects as faint as magnitude 22 (versus magnitude 8 in the base version) and enable advanced observing features.
Stellarium Plus features (unlocked with in-app purchase):
• Reach the limit of knowledge by diving in a massive collection of stars, nebulas, galaxies, star clusters and other deep sky objects:
- All known stars: Gaia DR2 catalog of over 1.69 billion stars
- All known planets, natural satellites and comets, and many other minor solar system objects (10k asteroids)
- Most known deep sky objects: a combined catalog of over 2 million nebulas and galaxies
• Zoom almost without limits on high resolution images of deep sky objects or planetary surfaces.
• Observe in the field, even without internet connection, with a "reduced" set of data: 2 million stars, 2 million Deep Sky Objects, 10k asteroids.
• Control your telescope through WIFI: drive any GOTO telescope compatible with NexStar, SynScan or LX200 protocols.
• Prepare your observing sessions using the advanced observation tools, to predict a celestial object observability and transit times.
Stellarium Mobile is made by the original creator of Stellarium, the well known open source planetarium and one of the best astronomy applications on Desktop PC.
Your can unlock the full features using either a one time payment or a subscription. See In-App Purchase section for the subscription price available in your country. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto renewal may be tur
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