All About Space

SKY GUIDE

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From: Fifth Star Labs

Cost: Free with in-app purchases

Operating system: iOS

Size: 324.1 megabytes

Planetarium apps like Sky Guide have been around for many years, and yet their use of P augmented reality (AR) to show you the stars still has the power to hugely impress. Now ten years old, this latest version of Sky Guide, called Version X, has decided it’s time to go free… almost. Despite being filled with new visualisations and lots of up-to-the-minute content, Sky Guide now comes as a free download, though serious users will want to download one of its two in-app upgrades: Sky Guide Plus or Sky Guide Pro. Either way, what you get is easily one of the

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