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A well - project app made to optimize your viewing of the total solar occultation on Tuesday has surged to thetop of the App Store . With 140,000 + lifetime downloads across iOS and Android , a simply namedThe Eclipse Appoffers a completing experience for consider the astronomic result , include cloud cover forecasts , guides that nail when totality will go on at your accurate localization , and entropy about local events , parks and look at site in your country .
The app itself was gestate out of a partnership between main space interest arrangement The Planetary Society and The Eclipse Company , a technical school companionship formed around the prison term of the 2017 Great American Eclipse to help more citizenry find entire solar eclipses .
The companies first put out a drug user - friendly occultation single-valued function to serve people find a viewing spot for the yearly eclipse on October 14 , 2023 .
The Eclipse App , released in the U.S. and Canada in February , presently generates revenue through in - app leverage that allow users to ante up $ 3 for a livestream . There are now just about 9,800 paying exploiter as of Monday , according to datum fromapp word house Appfigures . The app start its App Store rise belatedly on Sunday , gaining 35,000 downloads on the App Store and starting to move up the charts . Google estimate are hold up by a couple of day , the firm tell us , so the total downloads are likely well past 140,000 by now .
The app is presently range first in its category ( traveling ) and ninth Overall in the U.S. App Store and 8th in its category via Google Play .
What ’s more , the app does n’t appear to be bring in traction from any Apple Search Ads campaigns , but rather via constituent searches .
follow-up are mostly positivist on the App Store : There are 40 five - virtuoso reviews versus 22 one - adept reviews , Appfigures read . There seems to be more consumer dissatisfaction with the Android version .
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Another app from the same company , Solar Snap , also made it to No . 3 on the Top Charts for its handy picture taking assistant for shooting photograph of the occultation .
How to watch the eclipse, just in case
If you ’re not able to watch the occultation in person , or do n’t have the special glasses , check out the prescribed NASA livestream of the event below .
