● Real footage · shot on Aurora Lens · Faroe Islands
Once-in-a-lifetime auroras in 4K.
The only iPhone app shooting gorgeous aurora timelapses.
Aurora Lens is built around one idea: aurora time-lapses without the guesswork. Rest your iPhone on something steady, tap once, and its intelligence handles the night — you watch the sky, and a fluid 4K time-lapse lands in your Photos with the best still of the session.
Pay once, own it · iPhone + Apple Watch
Straight off the phone.
Every pixel as the app saved it.
Two nights, both unedited: a March storm over the Faroe Islands, and a January night over Lummi Island, Washington — town lights on the far shore and all.
Curtains overhead, between the rooftops
One tap · 4 minutes · unedited
The first green of the night
Faroe Islands · 1:12 a.m., March 14
Aurora burning through the cloud deck
One tap · 2 minutes · unedited
This is what $4.99 buys.
Aurora tours charge a hundred dollars extra for a photographer to tag along. The phone in your pocket can do it every night of the trip.
Green over the bay at 48°N
Lummi Island, Washington · 11:19 p.m., January 20
Why Aurora Lens
Fully optimized for auroras. The guesswork is gone.
Aurora light is unlike anything else a camera meets, and Aurora Lens is optimized for it end to end. Its intelligence adapts to your night on its own (a faint glow and a full storm each get what they need) and delivers a beautiful 4K time-lapse with sharp stars and true colour. You never touch a setting.
The same sky, through four cameras.
- Video mode
Aurora intelligence
It adapts to your night on its own, whatever the sky decides to do — a faint glow and a full storm each get what they need.
- Time-lapse mode
Optimized end to end
Sharp stars and true colour, built for night light from the first frame to the last. Aurora light gets care no general-purpose camera gives it.
- Night mode
One tap to 4K
The whole display as a fluid 4K time-lapse, plus the best still of the session, saved straight to your Photos.
- Aurora Lens
The aurora moving, in 4K
Minutes of it, with a still frame from the same session.
The aurora, in motion
A fluid 4K timelapse of the display, saved straight to your Photos. The thing everyone tries to film handheld, and loses.
A still from the session
One frame from the same capture, kept as a photo. The one you print, frame, and get asked about at dinner.
One tap is the whole skill
If you can lean a phone on a rock, you're qualified. The app sets focus, brightness, and timing the way a night photographer would.
How it works
Your job takes one second
01
Set it down
Any solid surface works: a rock, a windowsill, the roof of the car. The app can tell when the phone is steady, and says so.
02
Tap once
Then leave it alone. It films the sky by itself for a few minutes. You can go warm your hands.
03
Open Photos
A fluid 4K timelapse of the display is waiting there, plus a still frame from the session, saved the right way up and ready for the family chat.
In the box
The rest of the kit
Smart Calibration
The moment you press record, the app reads your local aurora forecast and tunes the camera to conditions, whether the sky is glowing or barely stirring.
Live aurora forecast map
A live map of tonight's aurora for your exact location, with a plain verdict and the cloud outlook. It tracks the lights for you in real time — no second app needed.
Apple Watch companion
Start, stop, and monitor the capture from your wrist while the phone sits untouched on its perch.
$4.99, once
Pay once and it's yours for good. Runs on iPhone with iOS 17.6 or later. Everything you film stays on your phone.
Tonight
Will you see the aurora tonight?
Live probability, the Kp forecast, and the threshold your city needs. Updated every 15 minutes from NOAA.
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Field guide
How to photograph the northern lights on iPhone
The settings that actually work, why the stock camera struggles, and how to come home with more than a green smudge.
You may only get one aurora night.
When you're finally standing in the cold under the night you've waited years for, there are no retakes — the sky does its show once and moves on. So pack the jacket, pack the thermos, and pack the one thing that makes the night eternal: the only iOS astrophotography app built for auroras. Long after the trip, you'll still have the display itself, moving, in 4K.
- ✦ Set it down and it arms itself
- ✦ 4K timelapse + a still from the session
- ✦ Aurora intelligence tunes every capture
- ✦ Tracks the aurora live — no extra app
- ✦ Apple Watch companion
- ✦ Pay once, own it forever