● Real footage · shot on Aurora Lens · Faroe Islands
Once-in-a-lifetime auroras in 4K.
The 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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Kp 3.3peaking Kp 3.7 in the next 24h
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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.
Point an iPhone at the aurora and the video records a near-black frame. Night mode gives you one still, and the aurora is moving. Real northern lights footage is a timelapse of long exposures, and we built this app exactly for that!
- ✦ Rest it on something steady and tap once. It sets the camera for aurora light and films the timelapse by itself for a few minutes.
- ✦ You get a 4K timelapse and a beautiful still photo from the session, both optimized for your location, saved straight to Photos.
- ✦ Aurora intelligence reads tonight's forecast where you are, so a faint glow and a full storm each get the exposure they need. Faint aurora that looks gray to your eyes comes out green.
- ✦ Live aurora tracking, and an alert when the lights are likely where you are and the sky is dark and clear. At most two a night. No second app to buy.
- ✦ Start and stop a capture from your Apple Watch, so your hands stay in your pockets on a freezing night.
- ✦ $4.99, paid once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Updates come with it.
On a clear night you set the phone down once, and long after the trip you still have the night, moving, in 4K.
Download on the App Store — $4.99