Viewpoint on the web

Viewpoint is an all-in-one photography planning platform — planning, the sun · moon · Milky Way almanac, hyper-local weather and sky forecasts, location scouting, and the full field-calculator toolkit, all in one place. Most of it runs both on your phone and in your web browser, and the two stay in sync — so you can plan and shoot from whichever screen suits the moment.

The web app at web.getviewpoint.app is the big-screen way to use that platform. The phone does everything too (and goes everywhere, fully offline) — but a large display, a pointer and room for multiple panels make the web a comfortable home for the deeper planning: reviewing a whole region, plotting alignments, cross-referencing composition geometry against Street View, and setting up condition watches. Do it on one device, see it everywhere — everything syncs.

It is a full planning surface, not a cut-down companion — but it isn’t a mirror of the phone either, and it’s worth knowing where it stops before you sit down with it.

Some tools stay on the phone because they physically need it: capturing a spot through the camera, the AR Celestial Scout, the live light meter, and home- and lock-screen widgets. Others simply haven’t reached the web yet: spot & map sharing; Look Around opened straight from a spot — the tap-and-move street-level viewer (on the web you reach street level from the map instead, and a photoless spot shows a still view from near its pin); and the Sun · Moon · Milky Way almanac as a screen of its own, though the sun and moon figures you plan against are built into shoot planning. And the web app needs a connection: working with no signal at all is the phone’s job, and always will be.

Why the web is great for planning

You can plan anywhere — on your phone or on the web. The big screen just makes the deeper work more comfortable:

• Room to think. Review a region as a full-size map, scan your whole gallery as a grid, and keep your notes and reference photos open side-by-side — instead of paging through one card at a time.
• A precise pointer. Drop and drag pins, frame the camera/subject geometry, and read alignment math with mouse precision, not a thumb.
• Cross-reference at a glance. Put the map, street-level imagery, and your weather-condition watches next to each other to judge a spot before you ever drive to it.

What you can do on the web

• Locations — your whole gallery of spots as a grid, or on the map with street-level imagery, with search and filters. Open any spot for the full detail: notes, on-device photos, EXIF, directions.
• Maps — your curated spot collections, for a trip or a region.
• A look at places you haven’t shot yet — open a spot you added from the desk and, where street-level imagery exists, you’ll see a view from near the pin instead of an empty frame. It’s a third-party preview, not your photo: it isn’t saved to your library, never syncs, and never becomes the spot’s cover photo — the moment you add a photo of your own, yours takes over. Needs a connection; offline you’ll see the usual empty frame.
• Plans — every shoot you’ve planned, in one place: upcoming and past, filtered by sun, moon or Milky Way, with the date, countdown, lens and alignment at a glance. Open one to edit it, or scout a new one from anywhere.
• Shoot planning & the alignment planner — frame the shot with the camera/subject geometry and find when the sun, moon or Milky Way lines up behind your subject, on a large map. Or work it in reverse with Find your viewpoint: name a subject and let it find where to stand — and when — for the alignment. The sun and moon figures for that date and place are read out alongside, so you plan against the light without leaving the screen.
• Studio — turn the shot you came home with into a post: carousels, vertical pan videos, profile-grid mosaics, spec and plan cards, behind-the-scenes reels, before/after wipes and Compress. All eight tools run in the browser, on your own machine — nothing is uploaded.
• The field calculators — depth of field, hyperfocal, ND and long exposure, spot stars, star trails, timelapse, panorama and the rest — the same on-device maths the app runs, in your browser. The calculators even run free, with no account.
• Watches & alerts — track spots and regions for clear nights, golden light, fog, snow and storm light; create and edit them on the map, and get desktop alerts (opt-in browser notifications) even with no Viewpoint tab open.

iPhone & web — what runs where

The planning core runs on both, over the same synced library. The phone adds the sensor-driven field tools on top — and works anywhere, with no signal.

	Web	iPhone
Library, notes & photos	✓	✓
Maps — curated collections	✓	✓
Explore map + street-level imagery	✓	✓
Add & edit spots on the map	✓	✓
Shoot planning & alignment planner	✓	✓
Plans — upcoming & past, filterable	✓	✓
Sun & moon figures for a plan	✓	✓
Photography calculators	✓	✓
Studio — carousels, pan videos, cards & Compress	✓	✓
Live weather & conditions	✓	✓
Watches & condition alerts	✓	✓
Cross-device sync	✓	✓
Sun · Moon · Milky Way almanac, as its own screen	—	✓
Look Around opened from a spot	—	✓
Spot & map sharing	—	✓
Live light meter	—	✓
Capture a spot with the camera	—	✓
AR Celestial Scout	—	✓
Home- & lock-screen widgets	—	✓
Works fully offline in the field	—	✓

Signing in & access

The web app is part of the Online plan, so it asks you to sign in — with Apple or Google — and checks your subscription. It’s the same account you use on the phone, so everything you’ve captured is already waiting for you.

Tip: Want to try the photography maths without signing in? The field calculators run free in your browser — no account, no install.

Related

• Getting started — what Viewpoint is, the plans, and pricing.
• Alignment planner — when the sun, moon or Milky Way lines up behind your subject.
• The sun, moon & Milky Way almanac.
• Field calculators.