Phases
Bjango

November 6th, 2009

Price: $0.99

Category: Weather

Updated: Nov 06, 2009

Version: 3.10

Size: 1.4 MB

Seller: Marc Edwards

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later

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(158 Ratings)

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Phases by Bjango

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Description

Phases is a beautifully crafted little app that shows you all kinds of useful information about the moonand a little bit about the sun. View the moon phase, age, illumination, moonrise, moonset and much more for any date or time. Choose a city from our massive database of over 20,000 cities or use your iPhones GPS to show even more accurate information.

Features
Dates & times for the next 8 phases
View any day in the past or future
Moon age and illumination
Moon distance from the earth
Position in the sky (azimuth & altitude)
Uses GPS for location aware info

Everything Phases needs is stored in the app itself, so no internet connection is required.

What's New in Version 3.10

Remembers selected page across launches.
Bug fixes with settings display.

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous lil' App (5 stars)
Very polished and designed well. Does what it advertises.

I'm a sucker for good clean, well thought out design. Make a weather app in the same vein and I'll ditch The Weather Channel in a heart beat.

Doesn (2 stars)
I bought this app because I'm tracking the new moons. I also went on-line to confirm this app but found that quiet a number of 'new moon' dates don't match up. I have the setting correct according to hemisphere and time zone. I checked it against several on-line sites and although they all agree, this app is a day off every few months. Also some new moons are missing, ie. June 1, 2011 then then next one is July 30, July 1 is missing (I'm ref

It's ok (3 stars)
I feel bad giving it a three star review seeing as I just won this app in their little Twitter promo event tonight…

Phases certainly does what it says, but I would expect Retina support from a great company like Bjango. I get that they're trying to mimic the iPhone's built in weather app, but it seems awkward and limiting. In the weather app, each "card" you slide to is a different city, but it shows the same type of d