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What Viewpoint limits and what it doesn't

Updated 2026-11-04

What the Offline plan includes, what the Online plan unlocks, and the limits on each — no surprises.

What Viewpoint limits and what it doesn’t

The short version: your library has no limits. A few specific surfaces have small caps for safety reasons that have nothing to do with quotas. This page is the honest list.

No limits

You can create as many of these as you want:

  • Locations. Every place you scout, every pin you drop. Bring decades of fieldwork — no cap.
  • Lists. Group your Locations however you like — by trip, by genre, by season, by mood. No cap on how many you create.
  • Shoot plans. Plan every visit, every angle, every alignment. No cap.
  • Notification watches. Subscribe to as many conditions as you want to be alerted on.

That’s a deliberate product choice. Viewpoint is your scouting library, not a metered service.

The few things that ARE limited

Photos per Location — 10

Each Location can hold up to 10 photos. Enough for a thorough scout — multiple angles, a result shot, a planning reference, and a couple of variations. The full reasoning lives in How Viewpoint handles your photos.

Registered devices per account — 10

This one applies only once you sign in — push notifications need an account so we know which device to reach. As a guest you don’t register a device and don’t receive alerts, so this cap doesn’t apply to you.

Your account can have up to 10 devices registered for push notifications at once. That’s phone + iPad + Mac + Apple Watch + spare iPhone + a couple more — well above what any one person typically uses.

The reason isn’t a quota. It’s an anti-abuse safeguard: a script could otherwise loop fake device tokens against the registration endpoint, bloating the push-delivery system. If you legitimately hit this limit, tell us — we’ll raise the cap for your account or globally.

Photo file size — 3 MB

Each photo upload is capped at 3 MB. Viewpoint compresses photos on your device before upload (1920px on the longest edge, high-quality JPEG → roughly 300–700 KB per photo), so this cap is ~6× headroom above the typical compressed file. The full reasoning is in How Viewpoint handles your photos.

If your photographic workflow needs print-quality archives, that’s on the roadmap — it’ll lift this cap when it ships.

Why this matters

Viewpoint’s pricing isn’t quota-based — you don’t get more Locations by paying more. The levels unlock capabilities, never quantity:

  • Free is the toolbox that runs on your device: every calculator, the sun, moon and Milky Way almanac, the light meter and the Explore map. Locations, maps and shoot plans already on your phone stay readable.
  • Pro (a one-time purchase, no account needed) adds saving your Explore plans, AR Scout, the details of tonight’s sky events, Studio, widgets, and capture and your library: adding and editing Locations, maps and shoot plans. Your library is uncapped.
  • Max (a subscription, signed in) adds the Alignment Planner (“When does it line up?”), satellite transits, live Conditions for the places you follow, alerts, sync, compressed photo sync, sharing and the web app. It includes Pro while you subscribe.

Signed out, you are never locked out of the app. Signing out takes you to what your store account holds without Max: a quarterly or yearly Max plan keeps Pro on your phone, a monthly plan returns you to Free until you sign in again. On the Conditions tab, Sign in to use your subscription brings Max back, and it never asks you to pay again.

That choice is deliberate and reversible — if your usage pattern suggests we got it wrong, let us know.