Sol: Sun Clock Screenshots

Description

Now your iOS device can remind you when it's sunrise or sunset, wherever you travel!

The Sun is a ancient timekeeper whose apparent cycles have governed life on earth for eons. Before digital clocks and wrist watches, we depended on the the light and position of the sun to tell time; yet we underestimate how much influence it still has on our lives and health.

Sol: Sun Clock is the Swiss army knife of sunlight tools with a design inspired by the simplicity of the sundial. Use it to plan your day, guide natural sleep cycles, plan the perfect photograph or to map out the best times to go fishing.

* Be in tune: Sol will tell you how much sunlight you have left in the day or what time the next sunrise occurs.

* Find solar midnight and solar noon, and all three twilight (dawn and dusk) periods: astronomical twilight, nautical twilight, and civil twilight. Keep tabs on the next solstice and equinox.

* Reminders and Alarms: Use Sol as a natural alarm clock that you can set to any event (like sunset, golden hour or solar noon), and the alarm or reminder time will adjust gradually as the days change with the seasons.

* Automatic Location: Sol not only calculates the amount of daylight and sunrise and sunset times, but does so for any location in the world (both Northern and Southern hemispheres) by using your device's GPS... no network connection required.

* Other locations: Optionally, use the built-in map to choose any location in the world by moving the pin, or search using the name of any city.

* Optional location-aware alarms. Sol knows when you change with your location; and as you travel it will adjust any alarms you set relative to sunrise and sunset times. Create alarms for multiple locations around the world.

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. However, GPS runs in the background ONLY if you have set location-aware alarms.

What's New in Version 1.2

Now for iPad too! Sol is now a Universal app that works on both iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch platforms.

In the settings, the Golden Hour elevation can now be set from 5 to 20 degrees.

Customer Reviews

Love it! (4 stars)
This is what I wanted, and it's the only app I've found that fit the bill.

Request: would like to see it detect orientation. If I put my iPad in its stand (landscape), the display is sideways. Could also be tweaked in some other ways to better take advantage of the iPad screen size and resolution and to be more readable from a distance.

Very clever and well designed (5 stars)
This is a great app for any photographer or filmmaker as you can tell exactly how many hours of light you have left, and even set alarms for different solar events (warning you a certain amount of time before dusk, for example) - AND the alarms are location sensitive, just like the sunlight is. I can imagine it would also be fun for a kid learning about how the earth moves around the sun and how the seasons change the length of the day. Th

Clock to watch (5 stars)
Impressed, really great clock to watch. Maybe one day, they might throw in the lunar phases but 5 star as it is.
Thanks

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