## **Sunset by PhotoTime: Golden Hour, Sun Position & Photography Ephemeris**…
Sunrise & Sunset TimesSome warnings 4 things we found but could not confirm. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 8.2.3 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 8.2.3, updated 2026-10-11.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
## **Sunset by PhotoTime: Golden Hour, Sun Position & Photography Ephemeris**
PhotoTime helps you plan your day around the most beautiful light: **Golden Hour** (also known as **Magic Hour**), **Blue Hour**, **Sunrise**, **Sunset**, **Full Moon** and every twilight in between.
Track Moon phases, the next full moon and new moon, and local moonrise and moonset times. Check the Moon’s position for your location and date to plan a moonlit walk or your next Moon photo.
Ad-free, award-winning and trusted by photographers worldwide.
## **Everything you need to plan the perfect shot**
🗺️ Interactive map showing Sun Path & Moon Path
🧭 Visualize the Sun and Moon in Augmented Reality
📍 Scout photo locations and save your favourite places
🌅 Golden Hour, Blue Hour, Sunrise & Sunset
🌤️ Sunset Forecast to help you plan for beautiful skies…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "Lifetime Access"
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6No advertising or mediation SDK among the 4 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Available for Premium Users only!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6The app's own text says: "Chase golden hour with Premium"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best Value"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Lifetime Access 80% off. Offer ends when golden hour ends."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6The app's own text says: "Feels like home…"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6The app's own text says: "Coordinates are sent to MapTiler only to retrieve the place name. All astronomical calculations stay on your device."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:1b52f8262862513c66c1214ad5064962ac3c48b59f477220f7946229e75c0ac6Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 8.2.3, scanned 29 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 8.2.3 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 8.2.3, updated 2026-10-11.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
sunset-and-sunrise-google-pl-guteklabs-phototimeAssessed 2026-10-30 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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