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Solar Spotter

Weather • Richard de Belin
4+ v1.8.8 Recorded price: Free App Store →
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(1 App Store ratings)
🏆 Best: #33 Free (NGA)
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Technical Specs
Bundle ID com.solarspotter.app
Version 1.8.8
App Store Size 37.92 MB
Minimum iOS 16.0
Devices iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Catalog release date 2026-03-10
Latest recorded version date 2026-11-02
Features & Support
Advisory 4+
Languages (1)
EN
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No In App Purchases Listed

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Description

Solar Spotter gives you the whole off-grid power picture, for 4WDs, caravans, motorhomes, vanlifers, overlanders and boondockers — anyone who relies on portable solar. Live local conditions, precision panel alignment, and a direct read on your battery — we tell you when to charge, how to align, and what your battery's actually doing, so you get the most charge out of every hour of sun. Your setup works hard so you can relax and enjoy the outdoors. FREE — NO ACCOUNT NEEDED: - Read today's solar day at a glance — current irradiance, efficiency against the physical max for your spot, cloud cover, and temperature. - Set up for the hours you want to charge — intuitive solar compass with azimuth, altitude, and optimal tilt, plus highlighted bands for charging now, +3hr, and +6hr. - Plan around peak solar — full-day sun path chart from sunrise to sunset with peak hours marked. - Catch what's coming — 3-hour weather snapshot. - WattsUp morning briefing — the day's solar outlook before sunrise. - Bush Bash offline mode — works anywhere. No signal? No worries. - Calculator — pick a place and a time of year, tick what you'll run, and see about what size solar and battery you'd want. UNLOCK PRO One price. No subscription. No monthly fees. Buy once. Yours to use forever. CHARGE SMARTER. NOT LONGER. — KNOW WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING — • Battery Bluetooth (BETA) reads your battery's built-in monitor (BMS) directly — seven families and growing. See the charge coming in, what your fridge or other gear is drawing out, and how long until full. • Energy History — what your rig actually did, day by day. • Alternate Charging — tell the app about your DC-DC or generator, and charge beyond what your panels could possibly make is counted as theirs. Optional Drive Detection knows when charge comes in from a drive — and never reads your location. • Panels Packed or Out — one tap, and every number follows reality. • Daily Battery Tracker projects your sundown % and runs a sunrise check from your current charge and system draw. • Estimated Output runs your real panel + battery specs against live conditions: wattage now, recharge rate, and projected daily harvest. — CHARGE IN THE RIGHT HOURS — • Best Charging Window (BCW) rolls through the day on live weather. Set a duration, pick a custom window, or let the app find the optimal one. • 3-day solar outlook — the next few days' charging at your current spot. • Hyperlocal 15-minute weather — YOUR exact spot, not a regional average. — SET UP TO THE DEGREE — • A real game changer for portable blanket and panel users. AR Alignment shows the exact direction and tilt with audio + haptic feedback to help lock it in. Use the overlay for a quick visual guide, or the on-panel mode for precise alignment. Or set up once for the BCW and enjoy the day. — PLAN THE WHOLE TRIP INCLUDING SOLAR — • Trip Planner: solar outlooks for every stop ahead — and at camp, tonight's battery figure and a HERE / ON THE ROAD / AWAY pill. Your trip records what really happened: camps, rest stops and real nights. • Your own trip archives and campsite notes — future you will thank you. • Calculator — test panel and battery setups against a planned trip. Go bigger for winter, or see what can stay home in summer. • Your Gear — save your panels, batteries, camp gear and named rigs. Switch rigs in one tap. • Back Up Your Setup — one tap, everything you built, yours to keep. Designed for the real world. Works in the outback, at the beach, in the mountains — anywhere you set up camp. The sun, panel and battery maths all run on your phone. Live weather needs a signal — out of range, Bush Bash keeps your last reading on screen, with the time it was taken. Our Honesty — live-weather, physics-based, real-conditions-aware outputs for your exact spot. Your Privacy — No ads. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics. Nothing is ever linked to you. Guides: solarspotter.app/guides.

What's New

Version 1.8.8 2026-11-02
Plan your power before you leave, know it'll last while you're out, and take what you learned on the next trip. CALCULATOR (Free + Pro) — Work out what you nee...Plan your power before you leave, know it'll last while you're out, and take what you learned on the next trip. CALCULATOR (Free + Pro) — Work out what you need before you spend money or pack the car. Free: pick a place and a time of year, tick what you'll run, and see about what size solar and battery you'd want. Pro: test up to three panel and battery setups against a trip you've planned, using your own recorded draw once Energy History has enough days. Go bigger for a winter trip, or see what you can leave at home in summer. It also shows how it went last time you camped at or near there. Find it in the menu, just under Trip Planner. YOUR FRIDGE SETTING COUNTS (Pro) — Your fridge is usually the biggest draw at camp, and a colder setting in hot weather costs more. Each fridge now has its own setting, and the app learns what it really costs in the heat. Once it has enough days of your own readings, the Calculator plans each day's draw from it and shows which day will use the most power, and why. YOUR TRIP RECORDS WHAT HAPPENED (Pro) — Plans change. Stopped somewhere you didn't plan? A quiet question asks "Camping here tonight? Add it to the trip?", then fades. Say no and it asks if it was a rest stop on the way. Camp further along your route and it asks if you skipped the stops in between. Dates follow when you really arrived. Rename a camp, or edit the nights the app didn't see. Then plan the trip again off how it actually happened last time. YOUR NOTES COME BACK WITH YOU (Pro) — Write notes on a finished trip and they're saved to that place. Add it to a trip again and the app reminds you you've been here before. ONE APP, THE WHOLE POWER PICTURE — Weather, sun, panels and battery together, including Battery Bluetooth (Pro, BETA) reading seven battery types, and Energy History showing what your setup really did, day by day. Less time checking your gear, more time enjoying the trip. As always — no accounts, no tracking, no analytics. Nothing is ever linked to you.

Technical Analysis

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Bundle ID com.solarspotter.app
Current Version 1.8.8
Minimum iOS 16.0
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