SkySafari 7 Plus

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Crashes upon navigating to “Tonight”. Don’t bother supporting newer versions if they are going to leave older PAID versions behind in a non usable state.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Skysafari 7 plus. You have to pay more to see more

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Crashes when ‘Tonight’ is selected. Tonight’s bug

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App crashes using ‘Tonight’ feature every time. Used to be great for seeing what was in the sky during a particular night, but now the app crashes without fail every single time I try to use that feature… that’s the only thing I used in this app…

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Once worked now crashes.. The “Tonight” button in the bottom menu bar used to work but now it crashes the app. You have to go to the search button now to get to items for viewing. How could the developers miss this function?

6. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   CRASH!!!. This app is unusable it crashes soon as it opens. Have reinstalled and uninstalled twice and nothing is working. Very frustrating to do observations and this app won’t even stay on. How about an update sometime to fix this. Did a Google search and this is a known problem. Don’t recommend this app until it starts working again. Glad I had Stellarium that app worked perfectly.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Won’t connector to the telescope. This app won’t find the telescope in the network

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   No sync, no support.. I paid a lot of money for this app and for the macOS version. But I can't get the Settings to sync or to import an export across devices. Support staff range from nonexistent to rude. What am I paying for here?

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Crashes. On 7.5.0 the app crashes when using the Tonight button.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can’t figure it out. Really hoping to enjoy this completely different than the six version not overly happy

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Went back to Starsense. Targets but doesn't show arrows. Waste of money. Went back to Starsense.

12. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Won’t connect. Sky Safari 7 Plus won’t connect to my Scope and iPad ios16. Error message says to join the Wi-Fi network (the iPad is set to the scope Wi-Fi), enter it’s iPhone address correctly ( this is automatically set and present), and to give SK7 access to the local network( iPad settings say the permission is granted, no similar setting in SK7). Same issue with my iPhone 13 Pro on ios17. Waste of money if I can’t control the scope!

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Bait and Switch. I paid $10 for the premium app now they’ve made the app free, and hidden the premium content behind a subscription paywall. I wouldn’t trust this developer.

14. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    SkySafari 7. Plus. After trying it for 10 minutes it is not working on my IPAD Pro. I cannot find any way to get a refund I would not recommend this app. There are better apps that are free and works better.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Cumbersome. Not worth the money

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Lost key functionality to try to get subscription $. Don’t buy this version if you are interested in a simple, effective interface to visualize the night sky. In an apparent effort to emphasize social interaction between users and to push subscription revenue, this version ended up making the simple things much more difficult.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Plus 7 is not an upgrade. I have and enjoy SkySafari PRO 5. After a couple of notifications to “upgrade” for $9.99, I trustingly clicked through and purchased the so-called upgrade and discovered I accidentally paid for a downgrade— PLUS 7. Plus is less featured than Pro 5. I feel duped. Now I have both Pro 5 and Plus 7 on my iPhone and no actual upgrade path to Pro 7. I can only get to Pro 7 now by buying a full price copy despite owning two other releases. Or I can pay $29.99/year for Premium. I’m not ready to subscribe to yet another anything, I just want an upgrade path to Pro 7, especially since I just downgraded for $9.99. I was an idiot. Don’t get duped by the good people at SkySafari like I was.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    SkySafari 7 The Tool Bar always present in Sky View!. A SkySafari (SS) developer asked me, “ “Name a feature missing in SS 7? Ok, easy! I miss the feature removing the Tool Bar from bottom of the screen! The computer controls are always on the screen occupying valuable space. At star-parties, The tool bar produces a lot of white light, especially when displayed on 43 inch tv screen. SkySafari Seven is all messe-up. There are many important features in SS-6 that did not get transferred to SS-7 SkySafari 7 for iOS came out in December 2021, Just in time for Christmas Shoppers, unfortunately SkySafari 7 got the COVID Virus, Im putting SkySafari 7 in quarantine until SS 8 comes out. I do not know how to return SS 7 to get my money back? SkySafari Six Plus is a much better stargazing app, in my opinion, the best stargazing app in the market! in SS 7 you can not rearrange Menu Items, or hide unwanted menu items. Just go with SkySafari Six which is a great App. and save your money for SkySafari eight which Im sure will be a big improvement! Maybe SS7 will have gotten its COVID booster vaccine in time for Christmas release of SmySafari Eight! Note to developer, who asked me “what’s wrong with SS7?” I think you know more than I, what is wrong with SkySafari Seven!

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Sky safari 7.0. The menu bar didn’t show up. There is no instructions on how to set up the basic navigation steps like accessing the “object info”. It’s practically useless

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Tricked into buying this!. There was a notification on SkyPortal ( which runs my Celestron Evolution 8) to upgrade. I thought I was buying a pro version of that. Why else would there be a notification on that app to go pro? Paid for this app it won’t even run my scope it’s complete garbage. And a ripoff!!!

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    3 years and still waiting for fixes. Been over 3 years and still waiting for UI fixes; 1. hide menu to conserve space. 2 Tiny fonts on Large font setting. 3 Audio icon hard to activate. So uninstalling Ver 7 and going back to Version 6. Version 7 a TOTAL FAILURE and a waste of money to upgrade!

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Location issues. Paid $15 again and still can’t locate

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No Mac update and no 8 Plus. Version 8 is now Pro only for iOS for $50 (not Mac of course), so I guess they aren't interested in casual users by not offering a Plus version. I won't be upgrading. I own many previous versions, including the abandoned Mac version 6. Too bad they don't care about these other markets.

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Seriously. You can’t include a-once-in-80,000-year comet in the Tonight or Events section without paying more money? What a disappointment.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great Concept. I’ve had version 5 for years. Always seemed disorganized. Finally decided to upgrade because no matter how I tried to look for the comet tsuchinshan-atlas in the database, it wouldn’t show up. Still doesn’t show up in the new version. It’s not listed anywhere and you can’t search for it with any version of its name. Needs some work for sure.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    SkySafari plus. Would not recommend this app. After years of having the SkySafari Pro, and it’s constant prompts for me to upgrade, I finally decided to upgrade to the sky safari plus. I spent two hours trying to enter my preferences in my information into the settings, I prompted into settings to show planets and it did. Now they’re gone even though the setting still indicates that they’re showing. It took the better part of an hour to try to figure out how to get the time to be correct to my current time. I finally found the setting that it thought I was for some reason in England. Once I got that changed, it finally set it up to my local time. But the sky did not adjust. I was sitting there, looking at Orion about 30° above the horizon, but the app was showing me it was about 10° below the horizon. All of the planets have disappeared from the view. And I turned off the marketing settings and yet every time I open the app it’s trying to get me to upgrade to the premium version. Do not recommend this app and if things don’t get better, I’m possibly going to delete it.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bait and switch. Can’t even see comets unless you upgrade! What a bunch of crap. Can get the same setup from any other cheaper app

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Formatting issues. New app does not format correctly the heading in my SE2 SF6 plus much better

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not happy. Watched a review on youtube and thought this looked great. Bought this app for £9 and after installing the first thing I get is "only available to premium" and asked for more money. Now while I accept I there is a mention of premium features I would have thought they would add something more than you can get in other free apps.

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Nice app, but too much spam. The app itself is great and I prefer it over Stellarium. I think it’s cleaner, more intuitive to use and I like the menu bar at the bottom, especially the ‘Tonight’ tab. I deducted two stars due to all the annoying upgrade spam the developers throw at you. In-app notifications, banners, random notifications and emails. Even with the paid Plus version it’s constant bombardment of upgrade spam. For this reason I will probably not renew my subscription.