Best space apps for Apple Vision Pro: Everdust vs Space Vision vs Sky Guide vs Night Sky
The best space app for Apple Vision Pro depends on what you want from it. To learn how the solar system moves and fly alongside real spacecraft, use Space Vision. For a calm sky show, with an auroral storm and a meteor shower, use Sky Guide. To be guided around a 360° planetarium, with tours and an AI astronomer, use Night Sky. To fly from the real night sky into nebulae and galaxies, and put your hands in galaxy collisions and black holes, use Everdust. All four are free to download.
- Pick Space Vision to learn the solar system: a real-time model on NASA JPL data, a century forward or back, and Voyager 1 free.
- Pick Sky Guide for a beautiful sky show from one of three earthly scenes, and binoculars on billions of stars.
- Pick Night Sky to be guided: voice tours of your own sky, and Aura, an AI astronomer, with its Aura subscription.
- Pick Everdust to go inside: the real sky around you, flights into nebulae, Solar System to Scale, and simulations you reach into.
Side by side
| Feature | Space Vision | Sky Guide | Night Sky | Everdust |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Made by | Visionly[1] | Fifth Star Labs[2] | iCandi Apps[3] | Decosa, Inc. (we make it)[4][5] |
| Best at | The solar system in real time on NASA JPL data, and real spacecraft missions[1][6] | A calm sky show: an auroral storm, a historic meteor shower, the sky in wavelengths your eyes can't see[2] | A 360° planetarium you pull objects from, with voice tours and an AI astronomer[3] | The real night sky around you, flights into nebulae and galaxies, and live simulations you reach into[4][7] |
| Your hands | Teleport between bodies; scale spacecraft up to life size[1] | Pull constellations from the sky; binoculars with a two-hand pinch[2] | Look at an object, tap to pull it from the sky, and turn it in your hands[3] | Pinch a planet or a nebula to fly there; hold a nebula and turn it; move galaxies and black holes with your hands[4][5] |
| Price | Free (16 planets and moons, Voyager 1); SV+ $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year[1] | Free; Plus ($4.99 or $39.99), Pro ($8.99 or $59.99), Pro Lifetime $249.99[2] | Free; Night Sky + ($5.99 to $49.99) and Night Sky + Aura ($9.99 to $69.99)[3] | Free. Everdust Plus is optional: $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $79.99 once (US).[4][5] |
| Also on | Vision Pro only (visionOS 26 or later)[1] | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple silicon Macs[2] | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch and iMessage[3] | Out now: Apple Vision Pro, Apple TV, Android phones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and Meta Quest 3 and 3S. Mac: a free download from everdust.ai/mac (Mac App Store version in review).[4][5] |
| Languages | English[1] | English and 10 more[2] | English and 68 more[3] | English, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish[4][5] |
Each app as its own store listing or website describes it, checked November 9, 2026; US prices. Numbers in brackets are the sources below.
Where Space Vision is the better pick
- Real orbits on NASA JPL data, a century either way, and real missions on NASA SPICE data: Voyager 1 free, Voyager 2 and New Horizons with SV+.
- Learning as a game, with Soluna as your guide, Knowledge Points, ranks and a leaderboard.
Where Sky Guide is the better pick
- A sky show: an auroral storm, a historic meteor shower, the sky in other wavelengths, and binoculars on billions of stars.
- One app across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Vision Pro.
Where Night Sky is the better pick
- Guided: tours generated for your sky, editor tours, and Aura to answer questions (with its subscriptions).
- With Night Sky +: a Grand Orrery, landing on other planets and a museum of astronomy's history.
Where Everdust fits
We make Everdust, so weigh that. Everdust isn't a full star atlas: it won't name every star overhead the way Sky Guide and Night Sky do, and it has no spacecraft missions like Space Vision's.
What it does instead: Night Sky puts the real sky for your place and time around you, from home or from the darkest places on Earth; look at a planet or a nebula and pinch to fly there. The nebulae, galaxies and star clusters come from real Webb, Hubble and ESO photographs. Solar System to Scale walks you from the Sun to Neptune with every size and distance true, and galaxy collisions of up to about a million stars and black holes that bend light are live simulations you reach into.
The free version covers every world and toy, The Story of Everything in full, and each game's first 3 levels or more and its daily level; Everdust Plus unlocks the rest.
Everdust is free on Apple Vision Pro, Apple TV, Android phones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and Meta Quest. On Mac, it’s a free download; the Mac App Store version is in review.
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Questions people ask
What are the best space apps for Apple Vision Pro? Space Vision for the solar system and real spacecraft, Sky Guide for a sky show, Night Sky for a guided planetarium with an AI astronomer, and Everdust (made by us) for flying into nebulae and reaching into galaxy collisions and black holes. Caelum, Astronoma, Exploring Mars and Orbis Caeli XR are also worth a look.
Are the Vision Pro space apps free? All four are free to download. Space Vision sells SV+ ($9.99 a month or $99.99 a year), Sky Guide sells Plus and Pro, Night Sky sells Night Sky + and Night Sky + Aura, and Everdust Plus is optional.
Which Vision Pro space app is best for learning? Space Vision is built around learning the solar system, with a guide and a leaderboard. Night Sky has voice tours and Aura, an AI astronomer, on a subscription. Everdust has narrated science Stories and a Learn card for each wonder.
Can you fly into a nebula on Apple Vision Pro? Yes, in Everdust's Night Sky: look at a nebula, a galaxy or a star cluster in the real sky and pinch to fly inside it.
Is Space Vision only on Vision Pro? Yes. Space Vision is built only for Apple Vision Pro and needs visionOS 26 or later. Sky Guide, Night Sky and Everdust also run on iPhone and iPad.
Sources
- Space Vision: Learn Astronomy on the App Store
- Sky Guide for Apple Vision Pro on the App Store
- Night Sky for Apple Vision Pro on the App Store
- Everdust on the App Store
- Everdust on Google Play
- Space Vision's site (thespacevision.com)
- Everdust 1.1 for Apple Vision Pro: Night Sky (what's in it, and what's a model)
Checked November 9, 2026. Prices and features change; the store listing is always the final word. We make Everdust, and we’ve tried to describe the other apps as fairly as their makers do. Everdust is also listed on AlternativeTo as an alternative to Sky Guide.