Now on the high of the App Retailer, The Eclipse App is a superb companion for Monday’s photo voltaic eclipse

A well-designed app designed to optimize your viewing of the entire photo voltaic eclipse on Tuesday has surged to the top of the App Store. With 140,000+ lifetime downloads throughout iOS and Android, a merely named “The Eclipse App” gives a complementary expertise for viewing the astronomical occasion, together with cloud cowl forecasts, guides that pinpoint when totality will happen at your actual location, and details about native occasions, parks and viewing websites in your space.

The app itself was born out of a partnership between unbiased area curiosity group The Planetary Society and The Eclipse Firm, a tech firm shaped across the time of the 2017 Nice American Eclipse to assist extra folks witness complete photo voltaic eclipses.

Picture Credit: The Eclipse App

The businesses first put out a user-friendly eclipse map to assist folks discover a viewing spot for the annual eclipse on October 14, 2023.

The Eclipse App, launched within the U.S. and Canada in February, presently generates income by means of in-app purchases that permit customers to pay $3 for a livestream. There are actually roughly 9.8K paying customers as of Monday, in keeping with information from app intelligence firm Appfigures. The app started its App Retailer climb late on Sunday, gaining 35,000 downloads on the App Retailer and beginning to transfer up the charts. Google estimates are delayed by a few days, the agency inform us, so the entire downloads are doubtless properly previous 140,000 by now.

The app is presently ranked first in its class (Journey) and ninth Total within the U.S. App Retailer and eighth in its class by way of Google Play.

What’s extra, the app doesn’t seem like gaining traction from any Apple Search Adverts campaigns, however fairly by way of natural searches.

Critiques are principally optimistic on the App Retailer: There are 40 5-star critiques vs. 22 1-star critiques, Appfigures says. There appears to be extra client dissatisfaction with the Android model.

The corporate guarantees that the app will provide the flexibility to discover U.S. states and Canadian provinces throughout the trail of totality in addition to group occasions in search states. Plus, you need to use the timer to know when the second of totality is on your actual location, so you possibly can put in your eclipse glasses and watch. It’s also possible to verify your native forecast and subscribe to native occasions and take a look at different native factors of curiosity. Parking data for a lot of occasions can also be included.

watch the eclipse, simply in case

For those who’re not in a position to watch the eclipse in individual, or don’t have the particular glasses, try the official NASA livestream of the occasion under.