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Sky Guide pricing
Sky Guide publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Sky Guide pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free download with Plus and Pro subscription upgrades
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Sky Guide plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Guide | Free | 1 | Entry tier |
| Sky Guide Plus | $19.99/year | 3 | +$19.99/year, 3 more features |
| Sky Guide Pro | $39.99/year | 3 | +$20.000000000000004/year, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Sky Guide
FreeThe entry tier. It covers base sky map and object labelling.
Sky Guide Plus
$19.99/yearOver Sky Guide, this tier adds:
- Larger star and satellite catalogue
- Light pollution forecasting
- Meteor shower prediction
Sky Guide Pro
$39.99/yearOver Sky Guide Plus, this tier adds:
- Very large deep-sky object catalogue
- Exoplanet data
- Extreme zoom
Where Sky Guide stops being free
Sky Guide, Free
- Base sky map and object labelling
Sky Guide Plus, $19.99/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Larger star and satellite catalogue
- Light pollution forecasting
- Meteor shower prediction
What the product covers
The full Sky Guide feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Light pollution forecasting
- Meteor shower prediction
- Camera and gyroscope sky view
- Deep-sky object catalogue
- Extreme zoom
- Satellite tracking
People bring Sky Guide in for an ios stargazer who wants light pollution forecasting to plan a dark-sky observing trip, someone tracking meteor showers and wanting a forecast of viewing conditions, a user who wants extreme zoom into deep-sky objects without owning a telescope, a buyer comparing subscription astronomy apps on ios specifically, rather than cross-platform tools. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Sky Guide are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Education
Too few education tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Guide (this page) | Free | Free download with Plus and Pro subscription upgrades | - | |
| Anki | Free | Open source, no licence fee except a paid iOS app | - | vs Sky Guide |
| Busuu | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | - | vs Sky Guide |
| PictureThis | On request | Per year, sold via a short free trial that auto-renews | - | vs Sky Guide |
| Stellarium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Sky Guide |
| Lumosity | Free | Free with a subscription | - | vs Sky Guide |
| Star Walk 2 | Free | Freemium, low-cost ad-free subscription upgrade | - | vs Sky Guide |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Sky Guide badges page.
Before you pay for Sky Guide
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $39.99/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Sky Guide runs on ios, and is published by Fifth Star Labs of United States. The full record is on the Sky Guide review, and the rest of the category is under best education tools.
Sky Guide pricing questions
- How much does Sky Guide cost?
- Sky Guide publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Sky Guide up to $39.99/year for Sky Guide Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Sky Guide have a free plan?
- Yes. The Sky Guide tier costs nothing and covers base sky map and object labelling. Paying starts at $19.99/year for Sky Guide Plus.
- What is the difference between Sky Guide and Sky Guide Plus on Sky Guide?
- Sky Guide Plus costs $19.99/year against Free, and adds larger star and satellite catalogue, light pollution forecasting, meteor shower prediction.
- Is the Sky Guide Pro plan on Sky Guide worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is very large deep-sky object catalogue, exoplanet data, extreme zoom. It costs $39.99/year against $19.99/year for Sky Guide Plus. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which education tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 education tools listed alongside Sky Guide have a free tier: Anki, Busuu, Stellarium, Lumosity, Star Walk 2.
- What am I actually paying for with Sky Guide?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an ios stargazer who wants light pollution forecasting to plan a dark-sky observing trip, someone tracking meteor showers and wanting a forecast of viewing conditions, a user who wants extreme zoom into deep-sky objects without owning a telescope.
- Does Sky Guide charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Sky Guide prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Sky Guide against before paying?
- The closest education tools in this directory are Anki, Busuu, PictureThis, Stellarium. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Sky Guide covering price, platforms and features.