Sun Surveyor Lite v2.7.1

Adam Ratana

About this app

Developer Description

Sun, Sunrise & Sunset information for your location for any Date & Time!

Sun Surveyor Lite takes the mystery out of the sunrise, sunset and magic hours, helping photographers and filmmakers scout the best locations, plan effectively, and get the perfect shot. Solar Industry (PV) Professionals, architects, real estate agents, and gardeners will also find a wealth of empowering, interactive features.

The 3D Compass and detailed Ephemeris provide a wealth of information about the largest natural light source in the galaxy:

- Predict and plan for the golden hour, blue hour and every sunrise & sunset
- Visualize the sun's path throughout the day or through the year

Additional features:

- Visual time machine - take a quick glance at the light for a day, or dial in desired compositions easily
- Twilight times - civil, nautical, astronomical
- Solstice and Equinox visualization
- Sun shadow information - calculate the length of shadows cast by objects
- Magnetic declination compensation

Check out the Full Version of Sun Surveyor for more:

- Live Camera View - augmented reality projections of the sun and moon paths; pinpoint the time the sun or moon will be at a particular location in the sky
- Interactive Map View - plan a remote shot or PV array placement, interact with a top-down perspective of sun and moon paths and events
- Street View Panoramas - 360 degree spherical panoramas with selected sun, moon and milky way events overlaid, where available
- Moon Information: moon position, moonrise, moonset, moon phases, apogee, perigee, distance and a Super Moon finder
- Show clients the quality and quantity of seasonal sunlight at a remote location
- Understand potential shade of surroundings and discover any obstructions
- Create images of the summer and winter Solstice & Equinox paths for a site
- Prepare night photography shots with the Milky Way & star trail features
- Offline usage (excludes Map View, Street View) - enter coordinates, save & load locations with no data connection or GPS available
- Measure distance, and difference between elevations, and vertical angle differentials with the Map view
- Import and export Google Earth .kmz/.kml locations

What's New

2.7.1
- Targeting the latest Android version (SDK: 36)
- Visual updates, bug fixes, and tweaks.

2.6, 2.6.1
Major visualization update!
- New 3D Renderer: a new renderer with massive improvements to performance and visual quality brought over from the full version.
- 3D Compass allows for toggling different grid visualizations.
- The demos of full version features (Street View, etc) now use the updated visualization.
- Other bugfixes, tweaks, and improvements.

Version Information

Version: 2.7.1
Downloads: 1M+
Updated on: Oct 25, 2025
Released: May 6, 2011
Requires: Android 8.0

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Sun Surveyor Lite users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Dinah Beaton

I have both Lite and the Paid version and I cannot see why anyone thinks $8.00 is a lot to pay - gracious me, that is so reasonable for what you get on this app. I use it all the time for my photography and it pinpoints me to exactly where I need to be with my camera to capture both sun and moon rising and setting. This evening is full moon so thanks to this App, Brighton Pier is being shown as one of the best locations to capture the full 'Worm' moon rising at the same time the beautiful sun setting.

★★★★

A Google user

This app is fabulous. i'm not really a photographer but i spend loads of time outdoors. It shows you where the sun will be in rrelation to your position. also has compass so it moves with you in real time. i like it

★★★

Anthony C

It does show both, Blue and Golden hours [and elevation +1★]. However most of it's features are locked, which requires the purchase of the very "OUTDATED" Jan 2020 paid version. Until there's an update I will stay with the Lite version and highly recommend others do the same... $8 is a lot, on a possible unsupported app.

★★

A Google user

Already paid, now I evidently have to upgrade again? Nope.

★

A Google user

worthless, this app wants you to purchase the full version, the free app is nearly useless. I had this app all of 5 minutes. for the price you may as well get photo pill, I was hoping this would have worked. if you go to the map view... I hope you live in Italy, it doesn't work anywhere else...