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Solarigraph

Solarigraph draws every path the sun takes through the year, from where you stand, over the live view from your iPhone’s camera. Scrub along the band to see where the sun will be on any date and at any time.

Common questions

• What am I looking at? The pale band is every position the sun reaches over a year from this spot. The orange arc is roughly today’s path; yellow marks the date and time you have selected. When the sun is up but out of shot, an arrow at the edge of the screen points towards it.
• How do I pick a date or time? Tap or drag across a path, or drag the date and time bars at the bottom. The calendar button takes an exact time, and Now comes back to the present.
• The paths don’t line up with the real sun. The alignment comes from the phone’s compass, which metal, magnets, cars and some cases can pull off by several degrees. Move away from them and wave the phone in a figure eight to recalibrate. For a saved photo, open it, choose Align, and drag, pinch or twist the paths into place.
• It says it needs my location. The sun takes a different path from every place on earth, so there is nothing to draw without it. Turn on Location for Solarigraph in Settings; the app’s card has a button that goes straight there.
• Can I use it without the camera? Yes. Turn the camera and motion off with the buttons on screen and drag with two fingers to look around.
• Where are my photos? In the Saved tab, inside the app. Open one to plan another time from the same spot, give it a name, or share it with or without its sun paths drawn on.
• How do I delete a saved view? Swipe it to the left in Saved. Deleting the app removes everything it stored; there is no account and no copy anywhere else — see the privacy policy.
• Why is there no place name? Place names come from Apple’s geocoding service. Without a network connection, or when the service is busy, the app shows no name rather than a wrong one.

Contact

Found a bug, or something above did not cover it? Email solarigraph@kamatiam.store with what you were doing, your iPhone model and iOS version, and what happened. A screenshot helps most.

Privacy

See the privacy policy. In short: the sky is worked out on your iPhone, your photos stay on it, and there is no account, no advertising and no analytics.