Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SOLUS Sky · Your Starlink and sky above
Live Starlink dish and sky monitor for Mac
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Dishylink▲92Open-source Starlink monitoring app for Mac, Windows and Web
Aug 2026 · dishylink.com · its alternatives →
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I really like Stellarium and SkySafari but I felt like these are primarily geared towards exploring the sky but not so much "here are the long list of things I want to see, when can I see them tonight and where". There's also not really a great option I've found that combines sky object planning + location weather details while still being free so I built this. The UI's heavily inspired by NINAs sky atlas + Robinhood. Right now you can: View the altitude chart of objects and 3D view Create lists of objects of interest View the annual max/min daily altitude of an object to find the best…
2024 · astro.sshh.io · its alternatives →
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Satellites 🛰️ are visible in the night sky, no telescope required, if you know where to look. Find out here.
2019 · james.darpinian.com · its alternatives →
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AstroAlert▲113Know exactly when satellites pass above you.
Nov 2025 · astroalert.app · its alternatives →
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Live satellite imagery of the world, including weather
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Weather Screen▲113Bring Real-time Weather Effects to your Mac Screen
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Solace▲171macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…
Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →
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Skylink▲71Web embeddable audio/video/data real-time communication
2015 · temasys.io · its alternatives →
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Sky Guide▲88Incredibly beautiful AR augmented map of the stars
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Live NASA solar imagery in 12 wavelengths, the moon phase tonight for 200+ cities, and real space weather. Free on iOS and Android. No ads, no signup.
Apr 2026 · lumara-space.app · its alternatives →
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Satellite Eyes▲131Changes your Mac wallpaper to a satellite map of your local
2014 · satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Cosmic-Watch▲73The World’s first 3D astronomical clock & stunning skyguide
2020 · cosmic-watch.com · its alternatives →
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Skylive▲120Never miss a celestial event, anywhere on Earth
Jun 2026 · skylive.world · its alternatives →
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An astronomy calendar right in your pocket
2016 · solarisapp.com · its alternatives →
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