Is tonight worth going out?
LightGlance puts everything a landscape photographer checks before heading out on one screen: the sun, golden and blue hour, clouds, aurora, the moon and the tide. One glance, and you know if tonight is worth it.
Everything, in one glance.
No more hopping between a weather app, a sun calculator, an aurora forecast and a tide table. LightGlance gathers them on one quiet screen and answers in plain words: a good evening for sunset, for aurora, or for staying in.
Below the answer sits the why, each part of nature in its own colour. After a few evenings you read the screen without reading the words.
Golden hour, to the minute.
Golden light starts when the sun drops below 6°. Blue hour is the stretch between −4° and −6°. The dial holds the whole day in one ring, with noon at the top.
Try it. Drag the sun around the dial and watch the light on this page follow.
- Golden light–
- Sunset–
- Blue hour–
Drag the sun, or use the arrow keys
Know where the sun goes down.
Hold up the phone and the compass turns with you: “Sunset 18° to your left.” The map draws lines to sunrise and sunset from wherever you stand.
Plan a shot finds the days the sun sets right behind the peak, the church or the sea stack you pick, and reminds you when the evening comes.
Will the sky catch fire?
Low cloud blocks the sun. High cloud catches the colour. LightGlance reads all three layers hour by hour and tells you what they mean for sunset.
Wind gets one line too: calm water for reflections, or gusts that keep the drone at home.
Blue hour. Then the moon.
Phase, moonrise and moonset for wherever you are.
A calendar shows the moon for every night of the month, so you can plan a full-moon rise or a dark sky weeks ahead.
Aurora, without the hype.
Kp, darkness, cloud cover and moonlight, combined into one honest chance. When it is worth going out, you get a notification. When it isn’t, you sleep.
Know when the beach is yours.
High and low tide for every harbour in Iceland’s official tide tables, with a heads-up before spring tides. The clock points up at high water and down at low.
Tides cover Iceland for now. Other coasts come later.
Made for the dark.
Night mode turns the whole app red, so your eyes stay used to the dark while you set up. This page just did the same.
LightGlance is in beta on TestFlight. Leave your email and we’ll send one invite when there’s room.
Coming later: widgets for the lock screen and an Apple Watch app.
