Star Walk vs Pocket Universe vs Other?

[kwjohns]

With the meteor shower tonight, I was looking for a good astronomy app. These two seem to have the best ratings from what I can tell and have the nice built in compass feature for the iPhone 3GS. Anyone tried them both? What do you prefer?

Star Walk
Pocket Universe

 

[TonyL08]

Star Walk has been great for me. I love it.

 

[Pika]

[app]StarMap Pro[/app] is 10x better then Star Walk & Pocket Universe.

Find 2.5 million stars and 13,200 deep-sky object !

 

[kwjohns]

That does look really good but I dunno that I'm down to pay $12/$19 for an app I won't use that often.

 

[Pika]

Here's there website: http://www.star-map.fr/

And here's the comparison table: http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/iPhoneStarApps/

 

[Truth Seeker]

Star Walk the best

+1 Star Walk

I have several astro apps and can say that all others (including Pocket Universe and Star Map) look ugly and not user-friendly in comparison with Star Walk.

 

[jackkorner]

Add me also in the list who are in favor of Star Walk.

 

[LostLogik]

Sky Voyager for me, but then it only cost me 1c, thanks to a special offer run by Carina Software last month. Awesome piece of software (also on my MacBook)

 

[SamLee]

Star Walk works and looks amazing. Using it now and very happy ))
Pocket Universe and Star Map - both have tons of not necessary astro info but the inreface... Well, I must say, my little daughter can paint much better The interface from Pocket Universe seems to be a bad joke, got a pain in my eyes while using Pocket Universe. Voted for Star Walk!!!

 

[aluren]

Had Star Walk and recently got Starmap Pro. Starmap is definitely worth the price. It has infinitely more features and makes Star Walk seem like a software for 3rd graders... I don't use the app that often either, but when I do, I can find out way more with Starmap.

 

[Pika]

Starmap Pro is the most complete universe information of all apps out there. I don't care much about the user interface much because it is not a toy... It's a proffesional tool for astronomers. I mean cummon guys.... 60MB of information ! An Atlas !

 

[kwjohns]

I decided to go with Star Walk. I downloaded Sky Voyager a few weeks ago when it was free and downloaded the Voyager software for $0.01 so I plan on using that with my telescope if I ever get around to buying the accessory to attach it to my laptop.

 

[Pika]

Starmap Pro have more tools and 100x more stars then Star Walk !