Scope Nights Astronomy Weather App Reviews

Quick, accurate, easy to use. A constant companion.

The app tells you decently accurate cloud coverage and all that. But consistently state that weather information is unavailable.

Bought this app on a friends recommendation. This app hasn't been updated in over a year. Also get error messages for all my saved locations every time the app opens or when I change sites. If your charging $5 for an app support it or take it off the App Store. So other people don't waste their money.

I have found the app to be very easy to use. Intuitive and accurate time after time. It’s a joy to use!

Great app to plan your sessions.

The app provides a VERY quick and easy assessment of astronomy viewing conditions for the entire WEEK ahead. You may wish to pair it with a more detailed astronomy weather app to get a more sophisticated weather predictions on any specific day. But for a quick assessment of the weeks forecast, this app cannot be beat! I highly recommend it!

Scope Nights has a lot of good functionality for helping me determine what viewing conditions will be. Its dark sky map doesn’t seem to be accurate based on what I’ve seen in other dark sky locations map apps. It still seems to be supported by the developer since most of it works.

It’s a five star app!! one less for a bug pop ups every time when you change the sites.

This app is awful. It hasn’t worked since I downloaded it and it keeps prompts that you can’t close. Trying to figure out how to get a refund. The worst!

Apparently global forecasts have been broken for more than a year. This causes multiple error messages on every start or change in location. For $5 I would expect an app that works without constant errors. Seems like the developer has abandoned this application - recommend that you not purchase.

too much bugs, repeated sites added

Great app. One of my go To Astro tools.

Save your money - don’t buy this broken app. Scope Nights received awards years ago. It was once one of the best astronomy forecast apps. However, a global forecasts update broke it over a year and a half ago and it still hasn’t been fixed. You can still use the app for forecasts but if you save any locations as favorites, you’ll receive annoying pop ups that you need to close - for every location, every time you open the app. Even if you don’t save any favorites, this will still happen for your current location. This makes the app very annoying to use - and unusable with many favorites. The fact that the developer is charging $4.99 for this app without even a word on an update in over a year and a half is honestly messed up. I get that it’s just one guy maintaining it in his free time but this app should be free in its current state. Lack of resources doesn’t excuse poor quality.

It works like it should. That’s it.

Much better applications available , Scope nights is not cheap at nearly $5 and it really does not give any more information than the weather app on my iPhone. Adding to this when I open the app i receive a notification NO global data available for you location. This is repeated for any other stored locations. I would like a refund.

This is a great app that lets you know the weather ahead of time and is accurate. I use it to let me know if I need to set up for the public sky watch at our planetarium. The dark sky map lets me know which dark sights I can go to with clear nights.

This is definitely one of my “go to” apps for planning my observing sessions!

Used to work fine, but now it shows error messages when it tries to load my local forecast.

Is not working properly and wherever I go a message shows up saying that the app is not able to get the weather in that area!!! Not good!

Has the developer abandoned this app? The promised fixes for the weather data access errors that were promised years ago have never materialized. Now the app won’t fit into Apple iPad screens without clipping heavily at the edges, so it looks like there haven’t been updates in a very long time.

I have been using this app for about a year and rely heavily on it before making the 1 hour drive to my preferred dark site. The app has certainly saved me wasted time and effort!

I am using this with an iPhone 11, and it is very slow. I also error messages every time I open it. Other Astro weather work great on my phone. Waste of money.

From the first time I tried to use this app, it did not display properly on my iPad. Also, there appears to be a problem that prevents global forecasts from downloading properly. This app is not worth $4.99. I would not even advise downloading it if it were free. Save your money. BTW, I would like a refund, please.

This was my first goto weather app. Unfortunately, no updates in 3 years and the errors on startup “no global forecast available “ still come out. It still works but can’t recommend it to new buyers unless there is more support, updates forthcoming.

I work at a dark sky park and love to recommend apps. We do sky tours weekly and I use about 6 locations for weather data. Sky and telescope recommended the app so I bought it. None of the towns within a 40 mile radius are locations that will give me data. I was able to find my park listed on the location finder but our data is “unable to access”

I just bought this app and received a message that it is currently not working! Who can provide me help. Days will be fixed later this year????

Used this app for years, I thought it was fantastic. However, over the last few iOS updates it has stopped working. Always gives me the ai “local forecast unavailable”. Too bad, really.

I loved this app when I first downloaded it but, since the app developer has not updated the app to download all global weather forecasts, I can’t recommend this app for everyone. In Japan, all of my locations give an error that the information can’t be downloaded. If in the future this issue is resolved, I might reconsider using the app again, but as of now I can’t. In all honesty, I would like a refund for the app, but I doubt that will happen.

I love this app, but every time I go into it, it gives me an error that the forecast for my site is unavailable. Lately I am getting the same error 2 or 3 times and each error must be clicked to make it go away. Regardless of the errors it actually does still provide an updated forecast. If this could be fixed then the app would be perfect.

I constantly receive dozens of pop up notifications stating “Scope Nights Global Forecast Unavailable For….” basics every location that I have searched. Literally every time I open the app, I have to clear a dozen or so notifications.

Not happy with the app. Very buggy and crashes periodically.

The app keeps telling me there are no forecasts for any location i add

Doesn’t work for where I live in Hawaii. I just get codes that say information for my area is unavailable.

Used to work great, now it just errors every time I open the app and doesn’t load weather data. Completely deleted and reloaded the app and the same thing happens. Save your money.

Great app. Sometimes the external forecast services it relies on fail, but the app itself is solid. 😊

Exactly. What. I. Needed.

Very accurate, better than any other astronomy weather apps!

I used to love this app. Unfortunately, it stopped working on all my devices after upgrading them to IOS 14.2. 14.3 didn’t fix it so it must be something in the app. Can’t get past the splash screen. After about 20 seconds, it crashes out completely.

Sadly, this app no longer works in iOS 14.2

Hello Id like to give the technical, and the development team of Scope Nights app, a small advice on improving the overall function of the app. So, when I for exampe, hit the "Scope Sites" tab, then after you choose your dark site in the tab, I would then like the app to go straight to that specific dark site, on the "Dark Sky Map" tab as well (on the map). If you can please implement that feature, I would greatly appreciate it from you. It would greatly improve the app, and make things a lot easier, for the users of the already wonderful, Scope Nights app. Thank you and God bless!

Seems with iOS 14 this app no longer works. It was my go to astronomy weather app. It was so useful. Please update the app to make it useful again.

I use it all the time

Getting to know how to use this app. Very useful

Well done Martin! A very unique app indeed. I use it regularly.

Much better apps and websites available, most at no charge. This app doesn’t display much data and appears to not be very accurate and charges for the privilege.

I live down near the Texas border with Mexico and most of the apps do not predict weather accurately for this area. However, this app does a great job. I plan my nightly astronomy sessions with this app and it rarely lets me down.

Handy and informative. I use it frequently.

I use an app called “Good To Stargaze”, which is free, and for a nominal fee allows one to save 5 sites. That app is very succinct and intuitive in its forecasts and presentation. Scope Nights offers much of the same information, and has a more colorful interface, and it has some basic stability issues. When connecting to the Internet to get weather information, the app can hang. When the connection times out, it sometimes crashes out to the “Finder”. I like that you can look up known dark sky sites and observatories, and add - evidently - dozens of custom sites. However, when the app is new, it seems to store every map position you navigate to, and your current location is stored dozens of times, and you cannot add new sites because the max number has been reached. I manually deleted all of these sites, which took several minutes (needs a delete all interface), and afterward it worked as expected. Not recommended over Good To Stargaze, and it does mostly work, but has the drawbacks mentioned above.

It’s accurate 85% of time.