Photo: Marcos Barbero
Viewpoint: Outdoor & Astro
Then let Viewpoint find when the sun, moon or Milky Way lines up, watch the weather for you, and tell you when the sky will deliver.
On iPhone & Android · in any browser
New
Pick your subject, then stand where you’ll stand in a photoreal 3D world, with the sun, moon and Milky Way core in place. Viewpoint finds the day it lines up.
Save the plan and Viewpoint watches the weather for you, with smart notifications when the sky will deliver.
3D world and smart finder with Ultra · beta
Conditions
Every plan and every place you follow is watched against the weather and the sky.
Smart alerts for every place you follow: aurora, golden light, fog and clear nights.
Each shows your next window, with a heads-up hours ahead.
With Max
What’s inside
Light pollution with the darker places nearby, the aurora with the Kp your spot needs, the Milky Way core and satellite transits. Line it all up with the Alignment Planner, then see it in AR Scout.
Almanac free · sky events and AR Scout with Pro · light pollution, aurora, the Alignment Planner and transits with Max
The hour-by-hour forecast behind every window, with the sun and moon alongside.
With Max
Capture spots with GPS, compass bearing and EXIF, file them in maps, and plan the shot in Explore — camera, subject and where the sun, moon and Milky Way will be, hour by hour. Run every field calculator too.
Explore and calculators free · the rest with Pro
Slice panoramas into carousel tiles, build pan videos, make EXIF spec cards, and share the plan or a before-and-after — ready for your feed.
Studio with Pro · sharing with Max
What you pay for
One-time purchase
AR Scout and tonight’s sky events; capture, your library, maps and shoot plans; widgets; and Studio for panoramas, pan videos and spec cards. If you bought Pro before this change, you keep the Alignment Planner and satellite transits.
Subscription · includes Pro
The Alignment Planner and Satellite transits; live Conditions forecasts, aurora and alerts for the places you follow; sync across your devices; photo backup; sharing a spot or a map; and Find Your Viewpoint.
Subscription · includes Max
The photorealistic 3D world: stand at your camera pin and look around, with the sun, moon and Milky Way where they really are, on top of everything in Max.
Find out whether the lights can reach your spot at all, see tonight's facts and get an alert while there is still time to go.
How it works
Drop a pin where you want to shoot. Captures are stamped automatically with GPS, compass bearing and EXIF, then filed in your library.
In Explore, place your camera and your subject, then drag the timeline to see exactly where the sun, moon and Milky Way will sit — any hour, any place.
Viewpoint watches the forecast and pushes you a notification when conditions line up for clear skies, fog or golden light.
Now on the web
Open web.getviewpoint.app in any browser and pick up exactly where your phone left off. Reviewing a region, dropping pins, reading notes and reference photos, planning compositions — all far easier with a real pointer and a large map.
Aurora season is here
In seasonCan it reach your spot, and an alert while there is time to go.
When the light turns, in the place's own clock.
Whether the air will hold it, hour by hour.
Stand at your camera spot and look around.
Cloud, moon and the dark window for tonight.
Find the day the sun or moon lines up.
Your library
Every spot you find becomes a card in your library — the photo you made, the gear you used and exactly where you stood, captured the moment you press the shutter.
Sun, moon & Milky Way
Check the phase, the dark-sky window and exactly when the Milky Way core rises — for any night and any place, computed right on your device.
Everything in your field kit
An almanac, a planner, a rack of field calculators, a live light meter, an AR scout, a share studio, live conditions and a scouting notebook — every one of them in a single app. Here's the whole kit.
New tools ship almost every week — open the app and keep finding them.
A full field kit
Widgets
Seven home- and lock-screen widgets keep the day’s light, tonight’s sky, your next shoot and live conditions a glance away — open to everyone, with the live-conditions widget part of Viewpoint Max.
What you can count on
Every decision is made in the field, not a boardroom.
Viewpoint doesn’t sell data or run ad networks. Analytics is opt-in, and nothing personally identifying is collected.
Your library is yours — export it or delete your account yourself, any time. It lives on your device and, on the Max plan, syncs to our servers so it’s on your other devices too.
Only in Viewpoint
Two things you won't get anywhere else: a live meter for the light in front of you, and a studio to turn the shot into something you can post. Both on-device, both fully offline.
Field tools · live
Photographers reach for a separate app to meter a scene. Viewpoint's is built into your field tools and live — point it at the light for real-time exposure, zone metering and colour-temperature feedback, right where you're standing. Not a theoretical calculator: the actual reading, in the field.
Works offline — no signal needed · Included from Pro up
Studio · post & share
Other photography apps stop at the plan. Viewpoint keeps going — a growing studio that turns a finished photo into a swipeable carousel, a smooth pan video, a profile-grid mosaic or an EXIF spec card, sized for Instagram, TikTok and the feed. No other app in this space has it.
Works offline — encoded on-device · ~weekly new Studio tools
Plans
Every install starts free — Explore, the field calculators and today's sun and moon times. Unlock Viewpoint Pro once for the whole toolkit on your device, or add Viewpoint Max for live conditions, sync and the web app. Viewpoint Ultra adds the 3D world.
Free
Explore on one live map, the field calculators and today's sun & moon times for where you are. No purchase, no account.
Every install, forever
Pro
Everything that runs on your device: capture & library, Maps, saved Explore plans, AR Scout, tonight's sky events, the full almanac, Studio and every calculator.
Launch price. Will rise when the launch period ends.
Max includes Pro
Everything in Pro, plus the Alignment Planner, satellite transits and the connected layer — live conditions, sync, sharing and the web app.
Launch price. Renews at the regular price when the launch period ends.
Ultra includes Max
Everything in Max, plus the 3D world: a photorealistic view of the place, with the sun, moon and Milky Way where they really are, with more on the way.
Launch price. Renews at the regular price when the launch period ends.
7-day free trial
| Compare every feature | Free | Pro | Max | Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scout & capture | ||||
| Spot capture in a tap | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Locations library | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Maps — spot collections | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Map & Look Around | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Directions to any spot | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plan the light | ||||
| Sun & twilight almanac | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shoot planner & light dial | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Explore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| When does it line up? | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Satellite transits | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find Your Viewpoint | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AR celestial scout | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Field tools & create | ||||
| Live light meter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Home-screen widgets | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Every calculator — depth of field, hyperfocal, exposure, star trails, timelapse, panorama and more | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Studio — carousels, pan videos & sharing | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live conditions | ||||
| Live hyper-local weather | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Condition alerts — push | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Aurora alerts — reach & live Kp | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tonight's sky events — meteor showers & Milky Way | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sync & share | ||||
| Spot & map sharing | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viewpoint on the web | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-device sync | — | via iCloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photo sync | — | via iCloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| Account | — | Not needed | Required | Required |
| 3D world | — | — | — | ✓ |
The iPhone app, the Android app and the web app are all available today. Android is the newest, and most of the rows below are only partly there — the same feature with fewer options — with a couple not built yet. The column is exactly what is in it right now.
| Feature | iPhone | Android | Web |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan the light | |||
| Sun & twilight almanac | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Not yet |
| Shoot planner & light dial | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Sun & moon path on the map | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Explore | Yes | Yes | |
| When does it line up? | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Satellite transits | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Find Your Viewpoint | Yes | PartlyA simpler version for now | Yes |
| AR celestial scout | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Not planned |
| Scout & capture | |||
| Spot capture in a tap | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| See a place before you shoot it | Yes | PartlyA simpler version for now | Yes |
| Locations library | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reference photos & notes | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Maps — spot collections | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Map & Look Around | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | |
| Look Around — street level | Yes | Yes | Not planned |
| Directions to any spot | Yes | Not yet | Yes |
| Place search | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Composition overlays | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Field tools | |||
| Live light meter | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Not yet |
| Depth of field | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Studio | |||
| Pano Slicer — carousels | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Panorama Pan — video | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Grid Slicer — profile grid | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Spec Card — EXIF card | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Share the Plan | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Setup vs. The Shot — reel | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Before / After Wipe | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Compress — fit a target size | Yes | Not yet | Yes |
| Conditions | |||
| Live hyper-local weather | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tide & waves — tides, swell & sneaker-wave risk | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Condition alerts — push | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Aurora alerts — reach & live Kp | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Yes |
| Tonight's sky events — meteor showers & Milky Way | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Travel mode — watch on arrival | Yes | PartlyOffered when you open the app, not on arrival | Not planned |
| Share & widgets | |||
| Home-screen widgets | Yes | Not yet | Not planned |
| Calendar export | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spot & map sharing | Yes | PartlyFewer options than on iPhone | Not yet |
| Anywhere | |||
| Calculators, almanac and saved spots work offline | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Honest by design | |||
| No tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes |
US prices shown · your local price is in the App Store or Google Play & the in-app paywall · billed through Apple or Google · cancel any time.
Why Viewpoint
An almanac, a planner, a rack of field calculators, a live light meter, an AR scout, a share studio, live conditions and a scouting notebook — buy them separately and it's a shelf full of apps. Viewpoint is free to start. New tools ship almost every week. Honest by design: no ads, no tracking, your data stays yours.
Field tools
Depth of field, hyperfocal, exposure, star trails and more, on every plan, with no purchase and no account needed.
Scout it, plan the light, and be there when it’s right — on your phone or the big screen.
On iPhone & Android · in any browser
