Golden hour and blue hour at your exact spot. A sky outlook that says whether tonight’s sunset, or the night after it, is worth going out for. And the time the sun really drops behind the hills, not the textbook one.
Sunset times are easy to find. Knowing whether this one will be any good, and when the sun actually leaves your spot, is the hard part.
Feature 01
Open LightTrax and the headline tells you what’s happening now: Golden hour starts in 1 h 53 min.
Below it, when golden hour and blue hour begin, the next good light, and a map with the sun and moon lines drawn from where you stand. Drag through the day to watch the light move, or search any place and plan a trip in its own time zone.
Feature 02
Every sunset and sunrise gets a rating, Good, Fair or Poor, with the reason in plain words. LightTrax reads the forecast cloud over your spot and 100 km toward the sun, where the clouds that catch color live. Each day lays out its whole timeline, from morning blue hour to the last direct sun.
Feature 03 · Terrain
Textbook sunset assumes flat ground. LightTrax reads the elevation around your spot and tells you when the light really goes: You lose direct sun at 6:22 PM behind higher ground to the west, 10 min before the 6:32 PM sunset.
The Horizon view draws your skyline with the sun’s path across it, so you know when to be set up.
Choose Stars & deep sky or Milky Way. The night outlook weighs darkness, cloud through the night and the moon, and gives you the best clear window.
Feature 04 · Astro
LightTrax tells you when it gets truly dark, when the sky is clear, and whether the moon will wash it out: Clear and moonless 7 PM–5 AM. Good night for stars.
For the Milky Way, it checks whether the core clears your skyline, and the 360° Horizon view shows it rising over the real terrain.
When the forecast is settled, the rating says so: Good · likely.
Confidence firms up as the day gets closer.
When the cloud sits right on the edge, LightTrax tells you it could go either way
instead of pretending to know.
The night outlook doesn’t account for light pollution, and terrain doesn’t include trees or buildings. The app says that right where you read it.
Weather comes from Apple Weather. Terrain comes from bare-earth elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey and others. Ratings are LightTrax’s reading of that forecast, an outlook rather than a promise, and every one shows its reason.
Feature 05 · Your Spots
Save the places you shoot and log a visit in seconds: how the light was, a note, a photo. LightTrax records the actual weather and what it predicted, so each spot shows how the outlook did there over time. Tell it when you really lost the sun and it corrects that spot’s skyline for the trees and buildings around you.
Feature 06
Tonight’s Light for the home screen and lock screen, and Sun & Moon Times with the outlook and the next good light. A glance tells you whether to grab the camera; a tap opens LightTrax right there.
Set a reminder for golden hour, sunset, blue hour or nightfall. Or let LightTrax watch the sky and tell you when it’s worth going out.
Tap the bell on golden hour, sunset, sunrise, blue hour, dark, the best window, moonrise or the Milky Way core. Get it at the time or up to an hour before.
Make a reminder read the sky: it fires only when the outlook is Fair or better, so a socked-in evening stays quiet. Or set it to repeat, like every clear night.
Turn on alerts for your favorite spots, or wherever you are. LightTrax checks the forecast in the background and gives you a heads-up days ahead when the light looks worth going out for, then a go-time nudge. Add the window to your calendar right from the notification.
Everything for today and tomorrow.
The whole week, the night sky and your terrain.
Yearly with a free trial, monthly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Family Sharing supported. If Pro ends, nothing you’ve saved is taken away.
No account. Two quick screens and you’re looking at tonight’s light.
Daylight, the night sky or both. LightTrax shapes the Today screen around it, and you can change it any time.
Use your location, search anywhere, paste coordinates or drop a pin. Save the spots you go back to.
Read the outlook, set a reminder, and be set up before the light arrives.
Sun, moon and Milky Way times at your exact spot, a sky outlook for golden hour and the night, and sunset that follows your real horizon.
Download on the App StoreFree · iOS 18+ · iPhone · LightTrax Pro optional