Lumy
Ratings & Reviews
Editors’ Choice
The start of golden hour is no longer a guessing game thanks to Lumy. This simple but elegant tool helps maximize your time under the sun with tracking information for sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and so much more. It’s robust in the information it shares and has helped us prepare for photoshoots, plan outdoor adventures, and kept us in the loop across all our devices.
Simple and intuitive app, love the Apple Watch app and widgets. Perfect for hiking in the evenings. The design across the iPhone, Apple Watch and widgets is outstanding, looks like a first party designed Apple app. Love that’s it’s also a one time purchase, tired of the “free” apps with in app purchases. Definitely worth the money!
I’ve used this app more than I thought I would and it’s a great tool that is well designed. I encourage you to utilize its functionality and features… think outside the box and more uses present themselves
It’s no joke when I’ve used an app longer than Angry Birds, any of the planet apps, photography apps, geography apps, either before or after Lumy came around! I’m a photographer and I’m always looking for Golden hour. I need to know when it is, nearly every day of my life. I live across the street from the beach, which you’d think would afford me a perfect capture every day. That’s not quite how photography works or light works. Originally, I got Lumy to find the perfect time to capture Golden Hour & The glow of dispersed light. Now I use it for the tides sunrise, sunset, reflected light, and the perfect infrared. Lumy is like an album I’ve bought over and over. It is indispensable perfect software for its task!
Other have described what an amazing app this is and how useful it is to photographers. That’s true. I use it when I travel and am taking photos to help me keep track of the different types of light in the day. I find this especially useful with landscapes, when I find a really pretty spot and want to know when to come back for that great golden hour light.But that’s not why I’m writing this review. I run or walk every day and use the Lumy complication on my Apple Watch so I always know when sunrise or sunset is. That lets me get up at the right time or get home from work in time. When I updated to WatchOS 10, everything changed, and I emailed the developer to ask what had happened. He was incredibly responsive, released a minor update to address my problem, then talked me through the settings to get it just right. How often to you get that kind of support these days? I am so impressed.
Everyday I work a late shift for work and happen to miss the sunset and golden hours because of my schedule. Now that I have this app I am able to know when it’s sundown and golden hours and take breaks accordingly so I can see the last light each day with the notifications feature in this app. Thank you for making this app. I like that there is an Apple Watch app version too which gives me notifications on my wrist. I also use the watch face on my Apple Watch and I have this app as a widgets on my phone next to my weather widgets. I love this app truly. I would like to know more about moon phases in this app or even have notifications about the moon phases each day. That would be a feature I would like to see. Glad this app is only a one time fee. Also I really like the app logo and design please do not change it. I like how this app looks like Apples native weather app.
I’ve been using Lumy for nearly 5 years and it is by far the best sun tracking app available. It has come a long way since its inception, now offering various tools like the sun arc, showing its position in the sky relative to time, the sun compass showing its position relative to the phone holder, new time details like daytime and nighttime durations as well as widgets for your Home Screen. This of course on top of all the old features that have been polished to fit the new UI and general design. This app is super simple and ultra customizable. Once you set your location, you can then select which light periods you want to see and even what your app icon looks like!There is also integration for Apple Watch 4 and newer. I have an Apple Watch 3 so I don’t get to take advantage of this yet but hopefully soon. There are various Watch Faces/Complications you can add to your Watch via the Lumy App!I look forward to the future of Lumy. It is an invaluable tool for photographers, whether I’m shooting a portrait session or going out for another attempt at the Milky Way, Lumy has been there for me! Try it out for yourself and you’ll see! No app is perfect but this one definitely deserves 5 stars for ease of use, design, and features. One wish:I wish there was a sun compass widget for iPhone. That would look sick on the Home Screen and would be super useful!
This app is exactly what I needed. I travel frequently and need a quick way to check the sunrise, golden hour, and sunset times. This app lists everything out in a simple way without any clutter. It lets you customize the information you want to see too! Now with iOS16, the lock screen widget is an absolutely incredible addition. Now I can see a countdown at a glance straight from the lock screen! It is beautifully (not lazily) done too and actually looks nice. I have one suggestion/request! I wish the countdown widget had the option of counting down to multiple events. For example, have it count down to golden hour, then once that time has passed, have it count down to the sunset, then last light, etc. If this were a customizable feature it would be amazing. Overall very happy with this app!
This app is lovely when it works. It truly is. But the experience on Apple watch is hit or miss as far as the complications go. The large complication you can have in the ‘Middle’, doesn’t always show information. Sometimes it will show cloud cover and rain chance percent, and it’s great when it does. Then sometimes, those date points (cloud cover and rain chance) will randomly disappear. For the Siri watch face, you can select Lumy as a data source, but it never appears. However as Apple hasn’t touched the Siri watch face in some time, I don’t use it anymore so that’s not a big deal. But; even so, I’ll never not have Lumy as my main Middle watch complication. It’s just so lovely to look at, honestly. The developer is also very responsive and proactive about fixing issues and I don’t doubt eventually the complication bugs will be worked out.
Randomly, I was thinking to myself several weeks ago about having a nice app that looked pretty to check sunset (and nautical and astronomical sunset) for my observational astronomy. Literally not one full day later, I watched Apple’s keynote for the new iPad Air and Apple Watch. This app was featured as an app that was rebuilt for iOS 14, and I thought it was exactly what I was looking for! To be fair, the price is a tad higher than I think necessary for the functionality of the app. It would be cool to see more information rich widgets as well as better weather data and more visuals in the app. Just as an FYI, I bought the calculator app you made as well, I love your design language and I’ll buy any app you release, even if I don’t have a function for it. I’ll find a way to use it. Thanks for the great work, keep it up.
I don’t ever write App Store reviews but felt inclined to for this one. I bought into the hype for this app. It is an expensive app for what it is and super buggy.First off the temperature and wind speed are significantly off in comparison to the stock weather app on iPhone. For example looking at my watch as I’m writing this review it’s 77 outside on stock weather app on my iPhone and my watch from Lumy says it’s 83 outside. 6 degrees is pretty significant and definitely falls under being inaccurate. And yes I have it set to my exact location and no it’s not set to “feels like” temperature. Also I have other third party weather apps that are way more in line with the stock weather app.The sunrise/sunset complication is super buggy, the already frustrating inaccurate small info about wind and temperature sometimes just decide to disappear completely for a while and just decide to pop back on then disappear again. Yes I have rebooted my watch and my phone and the issue still happens.Just earlier this morning since I get up before sunrise the complication gave me the info of “sunrise in x amount of time” then the sunrise took place and instead of switching to “sunset in x amount of time” it decided to start counting up on the time saying sunrise in a timer that was counting up instead of down even though the sunrise already took place. This app is super buggy and overpriced for what it is and how it performs in my opinion. It is a nice looking complication on the watch but simply looks isn’t enough for me to use this inaccurate buggy app. I’m super disappointed.
Developer ResponseThanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review. I’m really sorry to hear that Lumy didn’t meet your expectations.Just to clarify, Lumy shows forecasted weather for the upcoming sun event (like sunrise or sunset), not the current temperature. That could explain the difference compared to the Apple Weather app.Regarding the complication not switching after sunrise and showing incorrect countdowns, that shouldn’t be the case, it should work. I’ll look into it. If possible, please reach out via Lumy App Settings → Email or at hello@waplestuff.com with a screenshot, so I can check and fix it specific to your device. Sorry for the frustration this caused.Appreciate your support and honest feedback, it helps me make the app better.

