Helios - Golden Hour Forecast App Reviews

As a amateur photographer i highly recommend this app to anyone getting into photography. And the built in light meter is excellent and comes in handy.

I am a professional portrait photographer and this app has helped me plan my photoshoots SO much. Seriously. I use it all the time during my photography season because the sun obviously changes so much during the year. I think I remember paying a cheap amount for this app a few years ago but it was totally worth it. Thankful!

Been using Helios for several years with my photography. I mostly used the map to check sun position. Prior to the update, there were cones that showed the angle of the sun and moon and those cones went to the center of the circle. Those disappeared in the update from a few months back. It may seem like a minor gripe, but I feel the update made the app less user friendly.

Very very very cool app! Best of its kind, thank you for creating this!

Let’s me plan trips with moon phases. I like knowing when golden hour is

The app AR tools doesn’t work after the latest update of IOS 18

I’ve been a fan of this app for 8 years or so. For some reason, I am getting a blank screen when I open it today. Putting up this review, hoping to get the attention of someone who can fix that.

I really like the gorgeous, clean design, and it’s super helpful for pinpointing exactly when the golden and blue hours are going to happen, no matter where I am. It makes planning my outdoor shots simple.

i paid for this and i really like the way it shows the range of time for blue and golden hour. all i want is a small widget that shows the time ranges so i can have it on the top of my home screen above some other apps, and next to another widget

It needs a variable alarm! No, not a notification, but and actual alarm would be so helpful and nice! One that changes automatically with the times the sun rises or sets. THAT would be so awesome!

I love everything about the app and regularly use it to plan ahead or even day of for shoots. My only request would be if it’s possible to select a specific date for the map feature without having to hold the scroll bar. When planning for weddings or other similar shoots it’s helpful to know ahead of time where the sun will be throughout the day ahead of time when working with a set timeline.

This is an awesome app - due to the changing time of blue and golden hours, especially when traveling, I wish so badly there was an automatically adjusted alarm so that you could wake up every morning at the exact adjusted blue or golden hour, rather than having to reset your personal alarm every single night. I think that would give this app a lot of value!! Thanks

Before I start with the negatives, I have to say that this app is really useful. It gives accurate information about sunset, blue and gold hour, as well as a useful light meter for photographers. Despite this, it hasn’t been updated in awhile and it doesn’t work with iOS 13 dark mode and iOS 14 widgets. The AR mode is also broken, which really is a bummer. If you are ok with the fact that this app might never get another update, go for it. If not, spend your money on another app that has been up

Love checking to see when golden hour will start each day!

I used to be notified when Holden hour came and now it won’t let me and I don’t know why, help. :(

App itself is alright, but stutter performance. Apple Watch app is unusable—barely swaps between screens. And no complications?