Star Stacker
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Description
Star Stacker allows you to import a sequence of star photos taken throughout the night and turn them into star trail images or a time lapse video. After importing you can create the images and/or a time-lapse video with a few different effects. - Full trails - every star at full brightness - Faded trails - Stars get brighter as the process runs - Shooting star - Like faded trails but the last image is brighter than any previous giving a shooting star effect - Javelin - Both ends of the trail are faded - Warp mode - zooms into the image stack slowly creating a warped effect. This will also affect the foreground so post processing may be required if the images have the foreground included. You can also choose to save a video of the time-lapse based on the options used for the image stacking. Can import images from your photos app. RAW files that have been recently imported from an SD card reader, may take a few minutes before the full resolution files are available. There are resolution limits depending on the device being used and the memory it has: - 6gb - 62mp - 5gb - 62mp - 4gb - 62mp - 3gb - 42mp - 2gb - 30mp
What's New
* You can now import time lapse videos of stars moving through the night sky into the app to create a new star trail image or star trail video. * New design. I would be very grateful if you could leave a review/rating and if you have any feedback, please contact me via email which can be found on the Info page within the app.
Details
- Developer
- michael webb
- Main Category
- Photo & Video
- Version
- 3.0
- Version Release
- 2025-07-28
- Initial Release
- 2021-03-01
- Size
- 4 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 3.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.excelpanda.StarStacker
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.34 (94)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-30
Metadata updated 2026-06-14
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User Reviews
Attempting to use the stacker on an iPhone 13 Pro Max. App continues to shutdown when you begin to stack. Not many options out there for an iPhone to stack.
I teach Milky Way and Landscape photography on my western workshops, and find this to be the best app for producing star trails images. It’s all the most versatile app! Hoping it remains available to my students!
The program seems to have little to no documentation on use and or file formats it can work with. It stacked almost 300 jpegs, but gave me no options as to what I could do to improve the blend mode or appearance of the star trails. The program did stack the images, but Adobe Lightroom did most of the heavy lifting in prepping the images. I guessed that jpegs would work as it would not allow me to select raw files. I give it a 3 Star rating which is a C as it is about as basic as it gets in stacking and does not assist the user in getting more out of the program to achieve a archival finished image. I would only recommend this program for the hobbits who has low expectations and just wants to stack frames.
I’m a astrophotography hobbyist since 2009 with my Canon T1i, 2014 Canon 70D, and since 2023 with my Canon R5. Widefield astrophotography allows creativity, capturing foreground with sky objects. Stat Stacker is a great tool for the any astrophotographer. Mike Rosinski, located SE Michigan, USA
Makes stacking of Astrophotography very easy
Used this app on others iPhones and worked well. I buy it and it will not upload any of my photos no matter what I do ( well it will upload and work if I limit to only a few photos but what good is that when I have 1000 overnight photos? I have done more than 1000 photos before on another iPhone no problem)…wasted my money. And yes I have full access given to Star Stacker for my photos. So frustrating. I also can’t find support to help.
This program is $3.99 and very un-user-friendly.
Good for all ages
The Idea of the app is good but For it to be worth the money and not have things that meet the astrophotographers needs? The app needs manual stacking and editing software for it to be suitable to be used for astrophotography. For both planetary and deep sky objects. If you have read this thank you for listening to my thoughts and comments! I would appreciate it if you could implement this. Thank you!
keeps crashing! not usable!
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