The award winning Golden Hour website is now available as a Universal app on iPhone and iPad so you can take the sun with you wherever you go.
This high quality application gives you comprehensive data on the sun for any day of the year and helps photographers around the world plan their shoots for the best possible light.
Explore the menu options above to learn more about this great app.
The website version of this app was picked as a cool site of the day by Kim Komando in 2009, thanks Kim!
Recent Reviews for Golden Hour
See the originals in the app store here
| 4th November 2010 – Robertogee in USA says “Great Little App”
Perfect for what it does. Bookmark coordinates for your favorite locales or for travel destinations. Tap to quickly determine Golden Hour for where you are, and plan ahead. Excellent graphics, easy to use.
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| 12th October 2010 – Natasha in Germany says “Great App!!!”
I am a photographer that travels a lot, always looking for great light, and this works great to me…
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| 10th October 2010 – Purple74 in Italy says “Eccellente”
Davvero eccellente! Se lo slider per la selezione dei giorni fosse un po’ più preciso (è vero che comunque puoi passare al giorno precedente/successivo semplicemente toccando il lato sinistro/destro) sarebbe perfetta. Comunque già così è indispensabile.
Ciao Purple74, Grazie Mille! il mio italiano non e molto buono, ma … Note that on the golden hour tab, you can move to the previous and next days simply by tapping the screen below the horizon to the left or right |
| 3rd September 2010 – dcndfw in the USA says “Nice …”
Refreshingly straightforward app — communicates sun position info intuitively — give it a look and a tap or two and you know when to get out into the light. Don’t forget your tripod.
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| 13th August 2010 – MadCrash in the USA says “Planning made easy”
This tool really helps me plan my shoots, especially when I’m shooting in an unfamiliar location. I find I get more quality shots per outing after using this app.
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| 12th June 2010 – Rob Bixby Photography in the USA says;
A great app for any serious photographer. By being able to select any date and location, it’s possible to work out the logistics of a shoot well ahead of the event.
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It’s been a while since I last wrote here so I thought I’d give you all an update as to future plans for Golden Hour. At the moment we have a designer working on a new look and feel for the application and also a new app logo which I hope you will all enjoy.
New Golden Hour Logo
As well as refreshing the look and feel, I’m working on making the sunclock page more informative with information on the current days’ events as well as a countdown to what’s coming up. At the moment you tend to launch the app and then have to switch to the golden hour tab for the extra data and this should just make it all a bit easier to use.
Next up will be work on an Android version. I don’t have an ETA for that yet and it’s likely to be early 2012 rather than 2011, but I’ll keep you all posted.
New year, new version and this time it’s a fix for a crash that some of you have been reporting. It looks like it was a memory issue because the app was crashing in response to a low memory warning instead of handling it more gracefully. I’m pleased to say that this afternoon we traced the fault and have just this minute uploaded the new version to Apple for review so expect notifications about a new version in a week or two.
*** IMPORTANT: Just discovered a bug affecting some iOS3 users. If you are still on iOS3 please upgrade to version 2.9
I’m also delighted to say that I can now count Poland in the list of countries where Golden Hour has made it into the top ten charts. It might only be a brief moment of fame, but it is much appreciated nonetheless.
Apple have just confirmed to me that the latest version of both Golden Hour and Golden Lite are now in store.
This was primarily a bug fix release for iPhone4 not saving your location across application launches but as I never like to do just a bug fix release, you’ll see there is a new feature that displays the length of the day so you can watch the days get longer and shorter more easily as we move through the year.
I note from a review in store that one user has been experiencing a crash with version 2.6. As you may know, we have no way of contacting users who report issues through the itunes store and would ask that you report any issues directly to our development team so that a) we can investigate for you and b) we can advise of any solutions. According to the only Apple statistics we do get access to, there have been no crash reports uploaded to Apple and so this particular issue is puzzling to us.
One hint we can give, is that in the unlikely event that you are experiencing a crash on launch, please visit the settings app on your device and select Golden Hour. Then turn the reset database and reset bookmarks to “on” (warning, this will delete any of your own bookmarks). Now launch the application again (iPhone4 users, please ensure this is a cold start) and this should rectify any issues you were having. As I mentioned though, we are not aware of any crashing issues so if you do have to take this action, please do get in touch so that we can be sure to correct any issues for the next release.
As a small consolation for the clocks going back this weekend across Europe, you can now purchase Golden Hour LESS THAN HALF PRICE right through until bonfire night on November 5th.
Just had the email from Apple confirming that the latest versions of Golden Hour and Golden Lite are now in store. For Golden Hour, this version adds the ability to change which year you are looking at as well as fixing a few memory related bugs for the iPad.
For Golden Lite the change is more significant because this is the first universal version so it too can now run on the iPad.
For both versions, the most important fix is for iPhone 4 users with the text on the golden hour now working correctly – trust me to pick the ONLY typeface that actually changed size between ioS3 and ioS4!
To complement the original Golden Hour website, we now have this extra site for users of the iPhone and iPad application. We’ve also taken the decision to retire the old blog and so you may have noticed that the posts are now available in the archives on this site, rather than the Golden Hour site. I hope you enjoy the more contemporary look and feel for the site …
Version 2 of Golden Hour is now in store and as a special treat for all you iPad owners out there as the application is now completely iPad compatible and has a great new interface to take advantage of all that extra screen space.
Better still, this is a UNIVERSAL application so you only need to purchase it once for either your iPhone or your iPad and you will be able to install it on the other device (if you have it) for FREE.
Some apps come in HD versions that you need to pay again for, but not with Golden Hour …
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To celebrate Easter, I’m pleased to announce that Golden Lite is now available in the app store. This is a free version of our full Golden Hour application that allows you to try out most of the features of the application before purchase.
Feature Restrictions
1) Only data for the current day may be viewed.
2) Although the entire location database is present, you can only look at the data, not choose a town/city from the list.
3) No comprehensive data display – this is only available in the full version.
Get it free here or search the app store for Golden Lite
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It has just been reported to us that the auto-location is sending some people half way around the world, for which huge apologies – a bug fix release is hours away.
For historic reasons some parts of the the astronomy community measure East / West the opposite way around to ground based geographers. The Golden Hour application has to deal with this in several places, but unfortunately a gremlin stole a minus sign that should have appeared in one of the equations and this led to the problem some of you are seeing. It doesn’t affect UK users (and hence we didn’t spot it) so much as many of us are too close to the meridian to see the error, however our American cousins are transplanted around the world!
The new version will be released to Apple within the next few hours (we even work at weekends to fix problems like this) and you should receive an update notification within the next few days when Apple approve the application.
** Update: Fix released by Apple 2010-03-30 @ 22:34 
** Update: Bug fix release uploaded to Apple 2010-03-27 @ 13:03
