AstroStackerPro · Press Kit
Everything you need to write about AstroStackerPro: facts, ready-to-use assets, pitch templates, suggested headlines, and direct press contact.
Quick facts
- App name
- AstroStackerPro
- Developer
- Indie solo developer, Italy
- Category
- Photo & Video · iOS + Android
- Availability
- Public beta on iOS (TestFlight) · Android closed testing on Google Play
- Requirements
- iOS 26 or later · Android: closed testing, requirements being finalized
- Price
- €3.99 · one-time payment (planned for launch)
- Languages
- Italian, English, German, Spanish, French
- Privacy
- 100% on-device · no account · no tracking · no analytics
- TestFlight (iOS)
- testflight.apple.com/join/aYaV63UV
- Android beta (Google Play)
- join the tester group, then become a tester
- Website
- astrostackerpro.com
What makes AstroStackerPro different
- Multi-frame stacking entirely on-device with sigma-clip, up to 200 frames in the manual control, building a deep image from many short exposures. Always from photos, never from video.
- Automatic star alignment after capture, matching frame to frame to correct for small shifts — key for untracked phone astrophotography.
- Linear DNG & ProRAW capture where phone and lens allow it (automatic fallback to 10-bit HEVC), an intervalometer, focus peaking, a red night mode for the field, and, on the Moon and planets, an automatic split between short and long exposures merged into one file.
- On-board editor with noise reduction, sharpening, saturation, exposure, contrast, shadows and highlights, plus a three-state digital astro filter (Off/Auto/On) for light pollution, and night tonal recovery.
- Six guided presets: Moon, Jupiter and planets, starry sky, deep sky, star trails (on iPhone also illuminated night; on Android also Saturn).
- Sky annotations — stars, constellations, Moon and planets — placed in your viewfinder via GPS and motion sensors. Plate-solving runs separately, once the stack is done, to identify which constellation you shot.
- Built-in astronomical planner: estimated Bortle class for your location, Moon, tonight’s visible planets, “what to shoot tonight,” a meteor-shower calendar and a solar-safety warning shown once on first launch.
- Export: on iPhone every capture session saves both JPEG and 16-bit TIFF; on Android the TIFF is optional. The editor exports one format at a time.
- Privacy by design: on-device, no account, zero network connections, no analytics, no trackers.
Suggested headlines
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Pitch in 3 lengths
Short (about 45 words)
AstroStackerPro is a new astrophotography app — iPhone now, Android in beta — with on-device multi-frame stacking, automatic star alignment, field recognition (plate-solving), and an on-board editor. Developed solo by an Italian indie dev over the past year, it’s in public beta with full privacy guarantees.
Medium (about 160 words)
AstroStackerPro is a new astrophotography app for iPhone and Android, built solo by an Italian indie developer who got tired of dragging a laptop into the field. It stacks many short exposures on-device with sigma-clip, always from photos, until the night sky emerges from the noise. Automatic star alignment after capture handles untracked shots; for deep-sky targets it rides on your own tripod, tracker or telescope — capture, alignment, stacking and export all happen on the phone, so the laptop stays home. Sky annotations (stars, constellations, Moon, planets) appear in the viewfinder via GPS and motion sensors, and plate-solving identifies the constellation once the stack is done. The on-board editor includes noise reduction, sharpening, and a digital astro filter for light pollution, with export to JPEG and 16-bit TIFF. Everything runs on-device: no account, no cloud, no analytics. It’s in public beta now — TestFlight on iOS, closed testing on Google Play for Android; the App Store release is planned at a one-time price of €3.99.
Long (about 380 words)
AstroStackerPro is an astrophotography app, developed solo by an Italian indie engineer over the past year, coming to iPhone and Android, with the two platforms not yet fully aligned. The motivation is direct: existing solutions for mobile astrophotography are thin — NightCap handles long exposure but no multi-frame stacking, AstroShader stacks imported photos rather than your live session, Star Stacker is built around trails and timelapses, and serious workflows still require dragging a Windows laptop into the field with software like SharpCap. AstroStackerPro removes the laptop. The app captures sequences of shots and stacks them on-device with sigma-clip — always from photos, never from video, up to 200 frames in the manual control. Automatic star alignment after capture keeps the stack aligned, frame to frame — this is typically what kills untracked smartphone astrophotography. For Milky Way, nebulae and deep-sky targets the usual mechanics still apply — tripod, star tracker, often a telescope — with the phone riding on top: capture, alignment, stacking and export all happen there, so there’s no dedicated astro camera or stacking laptop needed to get started. It captures in Linear DNG and ProRAW where phone and lens allow it (automatic fallback to 10-bit HEVC), supports an intervalometer and focus peaking, and, on the Moon and planets, automatically splits the session into short and long exposures merged into a single file. Sky annotations — stars, constellations, Moon and planets — appear in the viewfinder via GPS and motion sensors; plate-solving runs separately, once the stack is done, to identify the constellation you shot. The on-board editor handles noise reduction, sharpening, saturation, exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights and a three-state digital astro filter for light pollution, plus night tonal recovery — all on-device. Every capture session saves both JPEG and 16-bit TIFF; the editor exports one format at a time. A built-in planner rounds it out: estimated Bortle class for your location, the Moon, tonight’s visible planets, a “what to shoot tonight” guide, a meteor-shower calendar and a solar-safety warning shown once on first launch. Privacy is by design: on-device, no account, zero network connections, no analytics, no trackers. It’s in public beta at the time of writing — TestFlight on iOS, closed testing on Google Play for Android; the App Store release is planned at a one-time price of €3.99, with the Android version in active development and currently well behind the iOS edition.
Logo & icon
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Screenshots & UI
Captures from the iPhone simulator (iPhone 17 Pro Max), 497×1080 px. Free for editorial use.
About the developer
AstroStackerPro is developed solo by an independent engineer based in Italy. The project started as a personal frustration with the state of iOS astrophotography — specifically the lack of any real native stacking solution — and grew into a full app over the past year. The developer is reachable directly for technical questions, interviews, and press inquiries.
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