“literally all ads”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 596 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★51,178 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
427 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Hold your phone up to the Sky and Star Gazer tells you what you're looking at. That bright dot next to the Moon? Point at it and you'll have its name.
Star Gazer, by LeoStudio Global, is a stargazing app and live sky map for iPhone and iPad that identifies stars, planets and constellations. You don't need a telescope or any background in astronomy to use it. If you do have binoculars or a small scope, there's plenty here to point them at.
AR GUIDE
Turn on AR and your camera view fills with labels: planets, bright stars and constellation lines, lined up with the real sky. It's an easy way to tell Jupiter from a bright star, or to find Orion's Belt for the first time.
CONSTELLATION FINDER…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.0.3, updated 2026-10-02.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.0.0, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 3.0.3 · 2026-10-02
What's new in this version: - Sky calendar now covers the big nights through 2027: meteor shower peaks, full Moons, and eclipses, including the total solar eclipse. - Hands-free mode - 3D sky map: swing around a full 3D view of the stars, planets and constellations, and see the sky from any angle - Sky colors: change the color of the sky to suit your eyes, your mood or a dark backyard - Ready for iOS 27: smoother, faster, and built for the newest iPhones and iPads Enjoying Star Gazer? A quick rating helps other stargazers find us.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 3.0.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.0.1, updated 2026-09-25.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 40 distinct reviewers — 7.3% of the 546 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (6 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“ads are constant and aggressive. Otherwise a really great app. The ads absolutely ruin the experience.”
“Too many advertisements.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.0.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.