Focalware

Great app that gives me sun/moon rise/set info I need wherever I am, even in locations without cell or wifi connectivity. I've relied on this app for many years to plan virtually all of my photography shoots.

Sorry, but can't find ANY location on my iPhone 6 with latest system upgrade. Really disappointed. Hopefully they can get this corrected.

I was excited to see this app, but it cannot find my location. I don't want to constantly have to type in my gps coordinates manually to get this to work. Very disappointing.

You can tell an artistic person designed the GUi for this app because it's just absolutely beautiful. Reminds me of some of the cutting edge App design during the renaissance of the Macintosh desktop publishing era prior to OSX. It Seems like Most current day GUI design in iOS looks like something out of a Fisher-Price design studio, But not this app! At only 4.5 MB,the coding for this app also is incredible; heck, you'll even be able to fit this baby on a 16 MB iPhone!! Great job! Keep up the good work! Your creativity glorifies the designer/coder,The Branch of Jesse, of your DNA, big time!🏁🌌🎆🌅

- nice interface, but the compass does not point north (just up)

I have used this app for many years and it works very well for the information about where the sun and moon will be for photography just about anywhere in the world. You don't need to be on line so that's great for remote locations. Has just about all the major cities preloaded and is easy to add new cities or locations by using you phone service to locate you. Or by you adding the Lat and Lon and creating a custom name and location.

:-/ It is just letterboxed differently now. It looks VERY MUCH like an iOS 6 or previous app. Plus it has me as in New York, and it’s not easy to find how to have it choose where I am. I’m unsure why this was JUST updated to something that runs on iOS 5 and later. 6 could easily be the minimum bar in this day and age.

The built-in compass in Focalware is not working on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1, and it is annoying. I'm not alone. I was told it's a known bug, and that it may be fixed in the next update. In the mean time it make this application, in my opinion and experience, a second grade application. If you intend to use it on the same setup than mine (iPhone 4 & 5.0.1) you may want to consider waiting for the upgrade, and check if it fixes this problem.

I had no idea how to use this when i first got it so i emailed customer service. And i got the person who designed it to explain it to me. I thought that was pretty cool. As to how it works. I find it is decently accurate. Not perfect 100% of the time but pretty much dead on most of the time. At least so far. Yesterday i went out to a few of my favorite locations and saved them in my favorites. This is very cool cause i will be able to predict when i can go to anyone of these places when the sun or moon is in the perfect position for a shot i may be visualizing. Granted, you do not have to physically go to these places to add to your favorites - you can simply use the map to hone in on a spot and save it that way too. But i like knowing that if i go to a spot to save it, it is in the exact area i want to shoot and i can visualize the shot better. Either way is fine. I am giving this 4 stars instead of 5 because of the few instances i have seen it be off. Otherwise, I am more than happy to have this app in my arsenal of goodies for photography.

When paired with the Theodolite app, this is a location scouting dream come. Augmented reality to show with the camera the path of the sun/moon would make this a five-star app, easily.