Photo · for people who look up at the sky every day
Everysky is a sky diary for people who want to keep one photo of the sky a day and see it next to every other sky happening at the same moment. There is no gallery upload: you look up, shoot the sky in the app, and that is your one photo of the day. It lands on a dusk lit globe right where you took it, with the date and the neighbourhood stamped on it. One tap flies you to wherever the sun is setting right now, and the app tells you thirty minutes before sunset where you are.
The home screen is a dark globe with small sky photos pinned where they were taken. Your own sky sits among them. The bar at the bottom holds a camera button in the middle, your film strip on one side and a shuffle button on the other.
Tap the shuffle button and the map lands somewhere golden hour is passing right now. A card names the place, Capitol District in Honolulu in the example, with the minutes until sunset there and the distance from you. A button below opens the skies posted near that sunset.
Opening a pin shows the photo as a card with the date stamped in the corner and the neighbourhood and city underneath. A heart sits in the corner of the card. There are no comments, names or follower counts anywhere on it.
Everysky has no gallery upload. The only way to post is to shoot the sky inside the app, and anything older than five minutes will not post. You get one sky a day, and you can swap it once before midnight if the first one was not the one you wanted. The limit is the point: a single photo is easy to keep up, and the strip of days it builds is the diary.
Every sky you post stacks up with the date on it, and the empty squares in the month view wait for tomorrow. The place is written at the neighbourhood level, so a card reads as a street and a city rather than just a city.
Your photo lands on the world map right where you took it. Sunset over Tokyo, dawn in Paris, clouds above New York: every sky happening at the same moment as yours is pinned on the same globe, and you can move around it and open any of them.
The shuffle button flies you to wherever golden hour is passing right now, calculated from the time and the longitude. A sunset someone posted minutes ago is usually waiting there. The card that appears names the place, counts down to sunset there and shows how far away it is from you.
The app works out sunset for your location on the phone and sends a notification thirty minutes before it, so today's sky does not slip past you. The alert is scheduled locally for the coming days and recalculated when your location changes.
That reminder is the reason a sky diary keeps going past the first week, so it is the one part of the app that is treated as essential rather than optional.
Skies are sorted into collections without you doing anything. Photos taken near a known landmark, or under a particular kind of light, gather into decks such as the skies over Tokyo. Browsing a deck is a way to see the same place across many days and many people, and the end of a deck points you to the next place to look.
There are no nicknames, no profiles and no follower counts. One heart per photo is the whole interaction, and there are no comments. You can look around the globe as much as you like without an account; signing in with Google or Apple is only needed to post, and the account can be deleted from inside the app.
The public pin for a photo sits 30 to 50 metres away from the real spot, so where you live never shows. GPS data is removed from photos on the server, and the exact coordinates are never returned by the app. Reporting and blocking are built in. The app is currently free, with paid features switched off.
No. Photos are taken inside the app, and anything older than five minutes will not post. That is what keeps every pin on the globe an honest picture of the sky at that moment.
One. You can replace it once on the same day before midnight, and the last one stays.
No. You can browse the globe, fly to sunsets and open cards without signing in. An account is needed only to post.
No. The public pin is placed 30 to 50 metres away from the real spot, GPS data is removed from the photo on the server, and the exact location is never sent out.
Thirty minutes before sunset at your location. It is calculated on the phone and updates when your location changes.
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