Star Walk：Find Stars & Planets
- 32 of 100 · reviews
- 4.7of 5 · store
- 25,019ratings on the App Store
- 530reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
Star Walk has a good base: lots of object info, beautiful star colors, loved and used for years. But right now it's being eaten alive by ads: zoom a star, catch a 15-30 second clip, zoom again, another clip, the map freezes, and even longtime paying users say bought features moved behind a subscription. In practice the app has become almost unusable.
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What people use it for
Almost no one as it stands, except people who'll buy the ad-free version up front
What reviews praise
Lots of object info, realistic star colors, loved for years for how easy it made finding things
What reviews complain about
15-30 second ads on every zoom make the app unusable, map freezes after ads, bought features moved behind a subscription, lost response to phone movement, hard to cancel auto-renew
What users experience
1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
If I can get the app to run it seems very good, but I click something and I get a 15 second ad. I return to the main screen zoom in on a star and get a 15 second ad. I want to give this app a try but when I can’t even fully test drive it why would I want to pay for it.
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