Sunlight − Rise & Set Times1.5.2 - App Store

Let your home screen tell you when’s the next sunrise, with Sunlight.
Whether you simply want to watch the magnificent view of the sunrise, or to capture the best landscape shots during the beautiful period of the Golden Hour, Sunlight is the perfect app for you.

Sunlight app combines beautifully crafted widgets and app design to enable you to monitor the sunrise and sunset timings of different places anywhere on Earth, along with the moon phases, illumination percentages, and more.

Sunlight also includes the following features:

◆ NO INTERNET CONNECTION NEEDED ◆
- This app uses algorithms on device to calculate everything that it has to provide. Once configured of locations for which you would like to monitor the timings of, no internet connection is needed!

◆ LIVE WIDGETS THAT UPDATE THROUGHOUT THE DAY ◆
- Widgets that shows the approximate time left of the day through a sun that moves up and down throughout the day, based on the remaining daylight hours.
- There is a total of 3 kinds of widgets for you to choose from, all of which, are customisable.

◆ LIVE CALCULATIONS ◆
- Need to know the current azimuth and altitude angle of the Sun or the Moon? Choose a location in the app, and you will be greeted with the information you need along with a beautifully crafted live planetary movements based approximately on the time of day.

◆ SUN TIME CALCULATIONS ◆
- Sunlight supports viewing of timings of different geographical regions with support of viewing with either the device's timezone, or the region's timezone, through toggling in app. Below are some examples of what you can expect:
- Sunrise, solar noon, sunset times
- Twilights times such as civil, nautical and astronomical dawn and dusk times
- Golden Hour, Blue Hour

◆ MOON TIME CALCULATIONS ◆
- Moon related statistics and time is also calculated in Sunlight! Here are some things you may expect:
- Moonrise, Moonset, meridian passing times
- Current moon phase and illumination
- Next full moon or new moon dates

◆ PRIVACY FOCUSED LOCATION USE ◆
- You can select the locations you want manually, or use location services, in an opt-in basis. Location is only used to compute accurate timings, and refreshed only when you are using the app, or seeing the widget.

- Alternatively, you may also add your locations in manually.

◆ WIDGET CUSTOMIZABILITY ◆
- Enter the edit menu of Sunlight’s widgets and you may choose to show the moon in the widget, use 12 or 24 hour formats, to show the region or not!

◆ MULTI PLATFORM ◆
- Sunlight works on both iPhones and iPads as a universal app.

◆ NO TRACKING PRIVACY POLICY ◆
- Sunlight does not, and will not track you. It’s that simple.

Proudly Made in Singapore.

Sunlight is a personal project by me, an individual, named Vincent. I wish to present sun and moon timing information, to you in an aesthetically pleasing way and I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Thank you!

Get Sunlight Today!

Version History In this release, a bug that may cause time deviations in widgets has been resolved. 1.5.2 12/22/2024 This update of Sunlight fixes a bug where Mainland China users were unable to add locations outside Mainland China.

Thanks for using Sunlight! 1.5.1 01/30/2024 This update of Sunlight is aimed to bring an even better user experience, especially when paired with the latest iOS update!

- Widgets are rebuilt from the ground up, and is now able to refresh much quicker than ever*.
- Supports latest iOS's new StandBy widget feature.
- Fix an issue where widgets fail to update and get stuck.
- Fix an issue where widgets are presented with a square border on latest iOS.
- Fix an issue where iCloud syncing fails in certain cases.

*requires at least iOS 15 for the new, faster widget loading experience.

Note: It is recommended that you restart your device after updating Sunlight. This ensures widgets load properly.

Thanks for using Sunlight and happy sunrise spotting! 1.5.0 09/18/2023 iOS 16 Compatibility Update

In this release of Sunlight, issues specific to users running iOS 16 is now resolved.
This includes the inability to select a location when configuring a widget (of any size), as well as fixes for some alignment differences observed for devices on iOS 16.

Thanks for your support! 1.4.0 01/25/2023 IMPORTANT iOS 15 UPDATE!

Devices running iOS 15 above would see a weird off-white-ish coloured box on the top left corner of the widget, and that’s just horrible. I’ve seen it too, and it perplexed my as to why it occurs. I hated it as well, and understood that it would ruin the Sunlight experience…

After lengthy sessions of debugging, somehow it’s due to the moon. When the moon is outside of the viewable area during specific periods of time, it is technically still rendered, just off the widget. In iOS 15, the moon comes at us as a weird box on the top, when that happens.

Very sorry that I only found the fix now. Felt rather bad for that, actually. I hope this update makes up for it… I’ve checked if the moon should be rendered at all, based on viewable widget boundaries, fixing the issue.

Also, would like to update a little on the future of Sunlight. A few months back, I’ve started rewriting parts of the code that shows the in-depth information - like when you click a location in app. That should improve scrolling performance, as version 1’s code isn’t the most refined. Some features like filtering only certain periods of time, like only sunrise/set on the widget, is also planned. That update might take a while though, as I juggle between life and Sunlight’s development.

As always, hope you enjoyed using Sunlight, and please do have an awesome day ahead!
If you have any feedback, or issues that you’ve found, do email me at vincent-neo(at)outlook.sg! 1.3.7 12/15/2021 Thanks for supporting Sunlight - Rise & Set Times!

In this update,
- the moon stats menus gained new features!
- there is a new live moon to earth distance calculation.
- in addition to the new and full moon dates, you may now see the upcoming first and last quarter phase dates.
- fix an issue that can result in the settings button displaying incorrectly as a blank circle.

As always, I hope you enjoyed using Sunlight! Have an awesome day ahead! 1.3.6 05/05/2021 In this update, a new Hi Res mode was added to the settings.

So… What does the mode do?
The mode will allow you to see timings of the various events (like sunrise), up to seconds precision.
Moreover, the azimuth and angle altitude values are updated per second.

This is a user contributed feature! Keep these ideas coming! Feel free to drop me a tweet or email from the contactable options listed in the settings of the app if you have any ideas for the app, and it could well be included in the next update!

As always, I hope you enjoy using Sunlight. Thank you for your support, and have a great sunny day ahead! 1.3.5 02/24/2021 This update serves to fix an issue introduced by version 1.3.3, which prevents the Informational Cell widget from retrieving current location data properly, when the "Current Location" option is chosen.

With that, I would like to offer my sincere apologies for the inconveniences that it might have cost, and thank you all for your support. 1.3.4 02/09/2021 Thank you for using Sunlight!

In this update,
- Live View widgets are now improved, and should prevent the moon from going off course
- Fixed a bug with the Informational Cell widget where it might not refresh
- Added an optional last widget update timestamp option in Informational Cell widget

I hope you enjoy the new fixes and changes!

Also, Happy Lunar New Year, to those who celebrates it! 1.3.3 02/07/2021 Happy New Year everybody!

Turns out a tiny little bug slipped through into the previous update, causing inconveniences to our friends experiencing Polar Nights right now.
Got rid of it before it gets to 2021. :)

As always, thank you all so much for supporting Sunlight throughout it's time in 2020, and see you all in 2021! 1.3.2 12/31/2020 Thank you very much for supporting Sunlight!

In this update, the following are now available:
- Fixed a bug where the new Informational Cell Widget fails to switch from day to night / refresh in certain regions
- Icon of the moon indicator in the app now changes based on the moon illumination, instead of moon phase
- Fixed the app’s saved location list’s individual location movability. (Like in v1.2 and below)

Hope you enjoy this minor update and I wish you a Happy New Year! 1.3.1 12/29/2020 Dear Friends,

How have you been? It's almost Christmas time again!

I don't know what would be the perfect gift for you, but I thought, an app update would make your day.
I made a new widget for you, squashed a couple of bugs, ensured the moon shows when it should, made iCloud sync in real-time, and made sure things work well in places experiencing Polar Nights right now.

Hope you like the gift! 
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everybody!

Sincerely,
Vincent (the guy that created the app) 1.3 12/13/2020 Thanks for supporting Sunlight!

With this update, I am bringing to you the following:
- Sunlight now supports the iPad! You can now use it on your iPad, beautifully scaled.
- Improved moon rise/set timing algorithms
- Fix delay bug of launching app from widget

Hope this update would make your day! 1.2 10/31/2020 Thanks for supporting Sunlight!

With this update, I am bringing to you the following:
- Bug fixes for widget's speed, regards to update on different event
- The moon on the front and inner view of the app now changes according to actual moon phase!
- Current location for the widget is HERE!! Many of you wrote in about this, and I am happy to tell you that it's finally here
- Added the moon to the widget
- You may choose to show the moon at night only, always, or not show the moon like in the first version

* NOTE: you may have to re add your widget in, as this update may cause some of your preexisting widgets on the home screen to disappear. Sorry about that!

Have a great day! 1.1 10/13/2020 1.0 10/01/2020