Moonrise and Moonset: each day now shows its own moonrise and moonset, so on waning-Moon days this morning's moonset is on today's page instead of the day before. A Moon event that falls after midnight shows its next occurrence, dimmed, with its day offset. The moonrise and moonset lines on the map follow the same rows.
Model Import: a 3D model drawn in millimetres, centimetres or inches is scaled to the right size automatically, with Undo. You are asked only when no unit explains the size, in a new Model Size dialog. Small models no longer read 0 m.
Teleconverters: the focal length chooser has a teleconverter menu (1.4x, 1.7x, 2x). Enter the bare lens and the result shows beside it, for example "x 1.4 = 700 mm". In VR and on the camera pin, the focal length sheet can be resized with its handle.
Drawing Tools: in Tracks > Add track > Draw track, a drawing can now be an extended line, concentric circles, a polygon or a curve as well as a polyline. An extended line runs through two points and on in both directions, on the map and in VR. Concentric circles mark a subject's width, and the outer circle the shooting distance at which the Sun or Moon looks as wide as the subject. Drag any point to move it; Edit reopens a saved drawing.
Suggest Model: a selected place has a Suggest Model button that asks us to build a 3D model of that landmark.
VR Settings: fixed many tool buttons that did the wrong thing. Tapping a tool now closes the settings and starts it, and each tool says whether it is pinned to the right button rail. Sharpen Terrain moved to Tools.
Faster Search: typing no longer waits for the whole deep-sky catalog; the Sun, Moon and planets show at once.
Service Providers: the encryption seed is gone, as it confused people. Your API keys are still encrypted safely before they are sent to the server, and signing in on a new device restores them.
Tide Stations: official tide predictions for the Netherlands and Germany.
Shared Places: sharing a place from a maps app works again in the version downloaded from our website.
Fixes: opening a tutorial no longer crashes; on touch screens, scrolling the menu no longer drags a section (long-press its grip to reorder); the Moon's path on the map no longer loops over itself at high latitudes; a live aircraft's predicted path in VR stays with the plane; on wide screens the button rails keep their full height beside the date/time panel; more reliable data recovery on Windows.
iPhone Duo support: the app adapts to iPhone Duo. The map and VR split follows the fold, resizing or opening and closing the window keeps your map, VR view and open dialogs in place, rotation follows the system, and the map and VR control rails fit the pane height, with the less-used tools in a labelled overflow menu.
Sky Composition & Search: VR's sky searches are now one group with a name search and two tools: Sun Moon Finder, for the Sun, Moon and planets, and Milky Way Seeker, which can also search for a chosen star or nebula. A search can cover exact start and end dates or a preset from Today to the next 10 years.
Photorealistic 3D Background in VR: Drag Sky now works on the photorealistic 3D background too; tap the scene to focus there and read the depth-of-field distances; clearer messages when the map quota runs out, loading times out or the Sun image fails to load.
Camera Fan: the camera fan on the map is longer and easier to grab: drag between its lines to turn it, or drag a line to widen or narrow it. Its legend row shows the focal length, orientation and bearing; tap one to change it.
Rotate the Map: the map can now be rotated with Ctrl+drag or a two-finger twist on the touchpad.
Rotate the Map: the map can now be rotated with Option+drag or a two-finger twist on the trackpad.
GeoJSON Import: GeoJSON files import as tracks or regions.
Shared Places: share a place from a maps app to PlanIt Earth; it opens in an editable search, and the result you pick is selected on the map. You can also paste a map link into search.
Map Links: paste a map link into search to go to that place.
Rocket Launches and Passes in VR: a rocket launch or satellite pass loaded on the map also shows in VR, without turning on its VR switch.
Twilight Jellyfish: a launch is checked along its whole sunlit flight path, so it is flagged even when the launch site is already dark. Jellyfish Viewing Conditions by City lists the cities that may see it, grouped by country, sorted by conditions or A–Z and filterable by name. Each city's page shows the best moment to look (rocket elevation, Sun elevation and time after liftoff), the forecast cloud cover along that line of sight, and a viewing window chart of the rocket's elevation. On the map the visible area shades smoothly from purple, with the Sun 6° above the horizon, to green, with the Sun 6° or more below it.
Rocket Launches: after liftoff the map shows live 5°, 10°, 15° and 20° elevation rings and a readout of elevation, height and speed; each launch says where it should emerge and how high it climbs; a launch you pick stays selected; Twilight plume is now called Twilight Jellyfish.
Space Station Transits: results can also use OEM alongside TLE and Fitted OEM; when one source fails you see a warning and the rest of the results; downloads are faster.
Weather Range: the start and end can be a custom time on any forecast date.
Settings Sync: settings now merge one by one across your devices, so a device that missed a change no longer overwrites another device's settings with old ones.
Fixes: a photo with zeroed GPS or a pin at 0°, 0° no longer moves you to the middle of the ocean on St Helena time; zooming no longer pans toward an unselected pin; a tilted map restores correctly at startup; fewer map crashes.
Sky Search: the home search also finds the Sun, Moon, planets, bright stars, constellations, deep-sky objects, comets, asteroids and meteor showers; a result aims VR at the object.
Sky Details in VR: tap a star, deep-sky object or meteor shower radiant in VR to see its details in the date and time panel.
Year Visibility: deep-sky targets get a year-round visibility chart and more detail for the night.
Date and Time Panel: new pages for twilight, golden hour and blue hour; pinch the panel to change the time step.
Milky Way Core in Alignment: the Milky Way core can be an alignment target, and Find Dates can search for it alone.
Map Appearance: Mapbox and AMap standard maps can be Auto, Light or Dark.
Scale Bar: every map shows the same scale bar, including Google maps, which could not show one before.
Forum: discussions show unread counts, and Mark All as Read clears them.
Sky Imagery: about 580 deep-sky objects now have photo thumbnails, up from about 120; Barnard's Loop can be shown on its own.
Rocket Launches: the map shows each launch's NOTAM hazard areas, and trajectories use server-corrected data.
Sign in with HUAWEI ID: use your HUAWEI ID to sign in to PlanIt or create an account, or link it to your existing PlanIt account on the account page; purchases and cloud data stay as they are. An account created this way can add a PlanIt username and password at any time for devices that can't use that sign-in.
Sign in with Apple: use your Apple Account to sign in to PlanIt or create an account, or link it to your existing PlanIt account on the account page; purchases and cloud data stay as they are. An account created this way can add a PlanIt username and password at any time for devices that can't use that sign-in.
Sign in with Google: use your Google account to sign in to PlanIt or create an account, or link it to your existing PlanIt account on the account page; purchases and cloud data stay as they are. An account created this way can add a PlanIt username and password at any time for devices that can't use that sign-in.
Sign in with HUAWEI ID, Google or Apple: use an account you already have to sign in to PlanIt or create an account, or link it to your existing PlanIt account on the account page; purchases and cloud data stay as they are. An account created this way can add a PlanIt username and password at any time for devices that can't use that sign-in.
Sign in with Google or Apple: use an account you already have to sign in to PlanIt or create an account, or link it to your existing PlanIt account on the account page; purchases and cloud data stay as they are. An account created this way can add a PlanIt username and password at any time for devices that can't use that sign-in.
Sign-in: you can also sign in with your email or a differently capitalised username.
Notifications: a new Notifications page in Settings. Plan reminders arrive before each plan, as a daily summary of tomorrow's plans and as a weekly summary of next week's. Replies to your feedback and the review result of a model you submitted arrive as notifications, and so does a new version of the app.
Constellation art: with the Constellations layer on, AR, VR and the compass draw an illustration of each of the 88 constellations behind the stars and lines. A figure grows clearer as its constellation nears the center of the view, and one shows at a time.
Deep-Sky Nights: the Nebulae & Galaxies card plans the chosen night for each target: the windows when it can be shot (with the terrain skyline, moonrise and moonset), how many complete frames fit in each, a recommended start and end, and a Moon and target timeline.
Sounding Forecast: the weather card adds a sounding chart, the model's vertical profile for the chosen place and hour, as a height profile or a Skew-T log-P diagram with the lifted parcel, CAPE/CIN, LFC and EL marked, and it opens full screen. The sunrise and sunset sky score adds vibrancy and instability, and PM10 and visibility are scored correctly.
Forecast Model Comparison: the weather range card adds upper-level humidity and cloud layers and compares forecast models hour by hour; its range settings are remembered.
Rainbows and Moonbows: their rows in the map legend list today's possible windows; tap a time to jump to it.
Community translation: community posts and replies can be translated into your app language automatically, or on the device after downloading offline translation models.
API Keys: your keys are backed up automatically in the background, you are warned as each service nears its free quota, and the Google key guide walks you through step by step.
Library: the plan list gets Upcoming, Past, Recently Modified, Nearby and To Tidy tabs; To Tidy finds plans that may be duplicates.
Import: KMZ files can be imported.
Alignment: Find Spots can search from a raised surface, such as rooftops in a residential area: enter its height above the ground, and each candidate spot adds it to your camera height. When the scene pin has no height, the search first asks for your subject's height; for a mountain or hill, choose Search as Terrain.
Blue location dot: GPS runs only while the map shows the blue location dot, which saves battery; tap the dot and use the button in the bottom panel to hide it.
3D models: USD, USDZ and FBX models can be imported. When moving a model marker you can switch between rotating and scaling it, either horizontally only or uniformly, and its footprint follows the drag. Importing a RAR archive with Chinese file names no longer crashes or loses its textures, a published textured model shows its textures to everyone, and opaque faces no longer vanish at long focal lengths.
VR: the cloud deck overhead is drawn, and Street View is no longer capped at a focal length of just over 100 mm, and the Sun, Moon and frames no longer drift off their true direction over Street View.
Panorama: in a multi-row panorama each row gets its own horizontal turn, with the shot count and angle listed per row; horizontal and vertical can use different click-stop increments; fisheye layers are clipped to their projection circle.
SharpCap Tuning Assistant: for Hα solar imaging, the Tuning Assistant reads the line-center score and brightness and tells you whether to keep going, hold or go back. A new Uniformity check does the same and marks the side of the preview that is off the line center. Both checks appear on their own when an Hα solar disc is detected, and the analysis keeps running after you close the panel. Several phones can connect to the same SharpCap at once. Lunar aircraft transit detection catches planes more reliably, and a small bump of the camera no longer sets it off.
Themes: export a custom theme as a JSON file and import it again; map overlays follow the theme's colors.
Number Entry: number fields work the same everywhere: drag sideways to adjust the value, tap twice to type it, and tap × to clear it.
Map Legend: close the aurora, light pollution and other layers right from the legend with ×.
Panorama Simulation: plan a panorama from VR and see the stitched result over the real terrain and sky before you shoot. Try each panorama projection as a composition, check the photo areas one row at a time, plan with fisheye lenses, drag or type the setup values, and move the time without leaving it. The panorama docks as a tile in the date and time panel.
Visible Clouds: a new Map Layers switch shows the clouds your camera will actually see: each cloud layer around the camera, the rings where it is in view, the edge of Earth's shadow, and where cloud would block the Sun. It replaces PlanIt Pro's Cloud distance. Pick the layers and the forecast model on the map legend. In VR, clouds now draw in front of the Sun, the Moon and other sky objects and follow the same display rules as the map.
Day/Night: a new Map Layers switch shades the night side of the map. Twilight uses the time bar's golden, blue and purple hues and fades into black, and the shading follows the time slider.
Date and time panel: at night a swap button switches the readout between the Sun and the Milky Way core, a tap on the Moon readout swaps its position and phase, and switching to the date bar shows the rise and set times of the Sun and the Moon.
Drones: VR drone mode now knows 56 drones, chosen by maker and by type (consumer, FPV, 360° and enterprise), and new models arrive without an app update. Drones have their own page in Settings, like Camera: keep your drones in My Drones and set the stick mode and stick sensitivity there.
Ephemeris settings: a new page in Settings sets how ephemeris readouts look and what counts as a shootable night: apparent or geometric altitude, angle decimal places, seconds or fractions of a second on the date and time bar, the event list's time precision, a reminder when the ephemeris location is far from you, and the Sun altitude, minimum target altitude and moonlight conditions used to find shootable windows.
Tides: fixed tide models that failed to load.
Desktop: the app opens on the Imagery map, mouse clicks on map pins are reliable, a long-press drag works after a layer switch, and the shared daily map allowance is explained in plain words.
Sign-in and sync: PlanIt+ stays unlocked offline after the app restarts, and feedback read marks sync across your devices.
Fixes: crashes when leaving the drone view in VR, in the astro calendar, and when closing a full-screen card.
Compass and AR: the date and time sheet is back, and the title is a plain date with a subtitle instead of a glass pill.
Undo and redo in VR: VR-only mode gets undo and redo buttons under the back button, and a look-around drag counts as one step.
Sun & Moon Paths: a new Map Layers switch draws today's path of the Sun and the Moon on the home map. A new Rise & Set Names switch shows or hides the name badges on the rise and set lines.
Every visible satellite in VR: a new Visible Satellites switch draws every satellite you could see with the naked eye at that moment, as dots that are bigger when brighter, and names them when 12 or fewer are in view. It needs Selected Satellites on; the satellite overlay was renamed from Space stations to Selected Satellites.
Share: Share in the menu now offers the camera or scene location, your markers, the plan file, or the plan as a QR code that the QR code scanner in PlanIt Earth's menu opens. Copy the QR code as an image or share it. Card pages get their own share button for a screenshot of their cards.
Without a location: until the first location fix, the map and every time follow your time zone's city, never latitude 0, longitude 0 out at sea on UTC time. A wrong time zone report now also includes the zone the app showed.
Community feedback: Feedback is now a chat-style conversation. On Android and iOS you can post it to the community page or keep it private to the team.
Tutorials in the app: Browse and read PlanIt Earth tutorials inside the app, with title or full-text search, category filters and embedded video.
OpenStreetMap layer: A keyless OpenStreetMap base map is now in the layer sheet, no API key needed.
API usage across devices: The per-service usage sheet totals calls from every signed-in device, breaks out your own device's share, and meters each provider's free monthly or daily allowance.
In-App Translation: a new menu row lets you search any string, rewrite it and see the new wording at once on your device. Review My Changes and send them to us through Feedback.
Upcoming Plans widget: add the Upcoming Plans widget to your Home Screen in small, medium or large. It shows today's plans and the next ones across all your folders, with a countdown to the next plan. Tap a row to open that plan.
Upcoming Plans widget: add the Upcoming Plans widget to your home screen and resize it freely. It shows today's plans and the next ones across all your folders, with a countdown to the next plan. Tap a row to open that plan.
Upcoming Plans service card: add the Upcoming Plans service card to your desktop in 2×2, 2×4 or 4×4. It shows today's plans and the next ones across all your folders, with a countdown to the next plan. Tap a row to open that plan.
Plan markers on map: the plans in the current folder show on the home map as date and time markers, with a layer toggle and a range filter. Choose whether the map shows only the current folder's plans or the plans from all folders, and tapping a plan from another folder opens it correctly. Rate a plan from 0 to 3 stars so ranked plans stand out on the map and on the selection sheet, and add local reminders that are removed when the plan is deleted. Plans also appear as day tiles in the calendar and the date and time panel.
Google fused location: the app uses Google's fused location provider whenever the device supports it, including the directly installed APK, for faster and more accurate fixes. It falls back to the system provider otherwise.
OSM Buildings are back in VR: the toggle returns in Map objects and on the VR rail. Buildings are now cached in tiles, nearby ones load first and distant tall ones follow in the background, so dense cities load in seconds.
Sunlit space stations: the ISS and CSS now look pale and sunlit against the daytime sky and the Moon, and are silhouetted only in front of the Sun or in Earth's shadow.
Sun and Moon Size: the scene sheet tiles that showed the apparent size of the Sun and Moon were labelled Height, which read as altitude. They are now called Size.
Apparent Sun altitude: the date and time panel now shows the Sun's apparent altitude, with atmospheric refraction, in its readout and on the chart. At sunset it used to read +0.0° while VR showed +0.5°. The panel, VR and PlanIt Pro now agree.
SharpCap: improved auto detection and auto exposure performance, including steadier exposure around small bright regions, fewer false detections after slews, and lower load while watching for transits.
Service Providers usage: usage counts are now kept per device and add up across all your devices, with an account-wide total and a per-device split.
Plans and Folders: the two terms are now used consistently in every language: a saved shot is a Plan and a group of plans is a Folder.
New languages: Greek, Arabic, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian and Thai, for 22 languages in total.
Drag Sky: in the VR view, drag the Sun, Moon or stars to where you want them and the camera location moves to match, because the app finds the spot that puts them there. Place a scene pin first, because the sky moves relative to the subject.
Accurate camera height from 3D buildings: with 3D buildings on, the app probes the surface under the camera pin (open ground, roof, bridge deck or gap) and applies open ground automatically. Roofs and bridge decks are only suggested, and anything more than 15 m off the elevation model is never applied on its own.
Satellite passes: transits can now target the planets as well as the Sun and Moon, with a target filter and an unlimited-distance option. The map also draws the region where several satellites cross the Sun or Moon at the same moment, with a legend row; tap the map to aim it.
Glass Effect: the drawer, date and time panel, selection sheets and bottom sheets use frosted glass. It is on by default; turn it off or adjust the transparency in settings.
VR improvements: smoother time scrubbing, finer depth of field, a celestial pole guide at telephoto, one shot orientation shared by the map and VR, and alignment searches that aim at the refracted tip of the subject.
Service Providers: the Credentials page is now called Service Providers, and each provider has a "How to get a key" guide with numbered steps, links straight into the provider's console, and a Verify Key field that checks the key works before you rely on it.
VR below the terrain model: when your camera is confirmed below the elevation model, the whole scene is lowered to meet you. Before, only the 30 m around the camera was flattened, so the raw terrain beyond stood over your eye, filled the sky and hid a low Sun.
Aerial HUD: the frame sits inside the view, the readout runs along the side, and the simulator remembers your choices: preset, focal length, portrait, overlap and projection.
Astronomical calendar: pages step by calendar date, so a daylight-saving day no longer repeats a cell.
Cameras: further work on connecting astronomy cameras, SharpCap and ordinary cameras. Once Auto Detection is armed from PlanIt Earth you can disconnect: SharpCap watches for the aircraft transit on its own and fires the capture itself.
Exif Tool: a new card on the Photo Tools page reads a photo's camera, lens, exposure, date, location and image details; show its GPS point on the map, or load its shutter, aperture and ISO into the exposure dials.
Wide screens and foldables: the passes, transits and meteors lists, detail pages and editors open in a pane beside the home map instead of covering it, and the map stays live. The divider drags and its position is remembered; on a foldable the fold is the default split line.
Elevation circles: a new map overlay draws elevation and azimuth rings around your pin while you drag the time.
Night Lights: the annual VIIRS composite has its own year picker, independent of the light-pollution layer's.
Model outlines: models with an unusually large footprint, long bridges especially (their outer silhouette hides the useful spans), now draw structural lines, and draw far faster.
Google 3D buildings: better detail, streaming and performance in the viewfinder.
VR terrain elevation: in satellite and relief terrain modes the terrain no longer fills the sky until the camera elevation is touched. The scene is now built for the same eye height it is viewed from.
VR towers: towers mapped with separate part heights now draw at their real height instead of their podium's.
Camera connection: more bodies are recognized on the USB bus, and one that cannot be driven is named in the unsupported list instead of appearing blank.
Updates: the app asks the App Store what version it is serving, so an update is offered exactly when it goes live.
App icon: the macOS icon now carries the rounded tile Apple's icon grid expects.
Sign-in and device seats: improved sign-in across phones, computers and the web, with clearer handling of which devices occupy a PlanIt+ seat.
Telephoto VR terrain: distant terrain now retains more elevation and imagery detail for a sharper view of far peaks.
Astronomical calendars: dedicated legends now explain Moon phases and crescent visibility, moonless and Milky Way darkness, aurora Kp levels, and weather symbols.
Astronomical events: event rows now show clearer Sun, Moon, Milky Way Center and Milky Way arch elevation and direction information.
Imported 3D models: map outlines preserve more bridge arches, curves and structural detail while remaining responsive with complex models.
Camera and scene pins: each pin sheet now has a Move control for repositioning the camera or subject independently with precise directional adjustments.
Custom satellites: add, edit and search your own satellites by pasting standard three-line TLE data.
Astronomical calendar: recognizable event symbols replace generic dots, and Galaxy Eye results now require true astronomical darkness with the Moon beneath the Milky Way arch.
Light pollution preview: calibrated local sky brightness now controls the skyglow dome, VR sky colour, visible stars and Milky Way, building illumination and exposure guidance.
Panorama calculator: overlap choices now extend from 15% through 65%, including 45%, 55%, 60% and 65%.
Astronomy camera controls: exposure and gain adjustments remain responsive while the camera catches up, and shutter swipes reliably start interval shooting or recording.
USB astronomy cameras: supported ZWO and Player One cameras now provide live preview, exposure controls, replay buffering and SER recording.
Astronomy camera recordings: choose and remember the recording folder, including an external drive where the platform supports it.
Replay buffer: the buffer now recovers after a preview restart, camera reconnect or ROI change, so pre-trigger frames remain available.
SharpCap bridge: replay-buffer and detector settings stay synchronized, with a clearer start flow and more reliable authorized sessions.
Google 3D Tiles: configure a free Cesium ion account as an alternative source; this option is no longer limited to administrators.
Camera direction: when the angle-of-view fan is hidden, an arrow on the map still shows where the camera points.
Sky Search: the selected year range is remembered and restored before the first search, and the active range is shown directly in the controls.
Sun, Moon and sky lines: extended map rays now follow the exact local bearing at the shooting position, including on a rotated map.
Markers with 3D models: while moving a marker, choose whether its model moves with it or stays fixed, so the marker and model can be positioned separately.
Sony Camera Remote: interval shooting in Camera + Computer mode waits until each photograph has actually transferred before advancing, reducing missed captures when the camera is busy.
Depth of field: decimal focus distances can now be entered without the in-progress decimal point being removed.
Initial release: PlanIt Earth, the next generation of the PlanIt planning app, built on the PlanIt Pro and PlanIt Live foundation with support for multiple platforms.
Photorealistic VR viewfinder.
Pro modules: night, timelapse, celestial alignment, aerospace & weather.
Smart auto shooting for perfectly timed moments.
VR viewfinder: real terrain and horizon built from elevation data and satellite imagery, photoreal city backgrounds with Google 3D Tiles, Street View and your own photos, live depth-of-field preview, aerial view and immersive full screen.
AR viewfinder: overlay the Sun, Moon, Milky Way, stars and your markers on the live camera to frame the shot on site.
Sun, Moon and sky: sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, golden hour, blue hour, twilight and astronomical darkness, Sun and Moon direction, altitude and paths, plus stars, planets, constellations, meteor showers, comets, eclipses, rainbows and moonbows.
Milky Way: Galactic Center direction, visibility and realistic placement in the sky, with Milky Way Seeker to find the best dates and locations.
Alignment planning: find where and when the Sun or Moon lines up with your subject, and search the sky across years for the conditions you want.
Shoot planning: sequences, multi-day shoots and time-lapses on a key-frame timeline, exposure guides for eclipses, star trails and the Milky Way, and calculators for depth of field, panorama, ND filters, star trails and height, distance and elevation measurement.
Telescope rig control: drive a supported equatorial mount, an electronic focuser and an astronomy camera straight from the phone over Wi-Fi or USB, or through the SharpCap bridge on a PC. Many models are still untested against real hardware, so check the behaviour with your own gear before leaving a session unattended.
Planning map: camera and scene pins with direction lines, multiple map providers, terrain, light-pollution and aurora overlays, location search, saved markers and 3D models, and recorded or imported tracks.
Offline regions: map, elevation and markers downloaded ahead of time, so scouting, previewing and planning keep working with no signal.
Weather and field conditions: photographer-focused forecasts for cloud, visibility, fog, wind, humidity, frost and dust, plus tides, waves, aurora forecasts and space-weather alerts.
Aerospace: ISS and satellite passes, aircraft transits across the Sun or Moon, rocket launches, and an alarm for an upcoming transit.
Plans and account: save a complete plan with map position, pins, time and shooting setup, save shots inside it, and sign in to sync plans, markers, tracks and settings across your devices.
Available in 12 languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese.