Try Picastro for free before you commit or join the astrophotography app for as little as £4 per month
Access the world’s first dedicated astrophotography app for less than the cost of a pack of telescope lens wipes each month. See why our users give us glowing 5-star reviews with a free version of the app, so you only sign up when you’re certain you love Picastro.
Picastro Ganymede
£8.50
6 month plan
per month
Explore how our app is unlike any other astro platform out there. Get insider access to Picastro for 6 months.
Upload max of 25 images
(30mb JPEG max)
Picastro Titan
£4
12 month access
(yearly payment upfront)
per month
Join our PicastroNerds with year-long access to all our amazing features with the Titan package.
Unlimited uploads
(120mb JPEG max)
Picastro Callisto
£6.50
3 month access
(full payment upfront)
per month
Become an active part of the Picastro community but gain access to the full suite of features.
Upload max of 35 images
(50mb JPEG max)
Picastro Curiosity
FREE
Access a limited version of platform for as long as you like. (NO commitment, no CC details)
No time limit
Just want to look around and admire al the amazing space images from the community?
Upload max of 15 images
(15mb JPEG max)
All the incredible Picastro features – available for most subscription levels
The world’s first dedicated astrophotography social media app that's fun and easy to use for space enthusiasts of all levels:
Share your own adventures and journey to the cosmos with other spacenerds who only want to see inspiring space images. With features and benefits that are completely unique to this amazing hobby, you’ll be right at home in this new astronomy social media app.
No matter what stage of your own learning in the hobby, there are features to suit every astronerd!
Hi Res images with NO compression
StarCamps©
StarcCards©
Beautifully simple user interface
ImageProtect©
PinchZoom to see amazing details
Dynamic search field
COMING SOON – Image plate solving
COMING SOON – BEKAH© -
A learning tool for beginners
Ready to join the Picastro community?
Picastro is the worlds first dedicated, beautifully simple, easy-to-use, mobile image-sharing platform for showing and sharing your captured photons; from Lunar to DSO, ISS transit or comets; whether you're a beginner or seasoned expert. The simple user interface makes it super smooth and super easy to share your images. Unlike other social media platforms, Picastro is not a storage repository for space data, it is there to highlight and show off your amazing images, in a beautifully simple and engaging way, a way that is not alienating to those starting out in their journey in to astronomy and astrophotography.
What are the community saying about Picastro?
Here are what some of the astronerds using Picastro are screaming about!
MightyMonoPed — 5 Stars
Vladimir — 5 Stars
Not your classic social network Picastro is amazing new app where I can not only meet and talk to my astronerds, share experience and advices, but most of all - I can share my astrophotos in full quality and depth of details. It’s a gallery with beautiful and intuitive interface, I love I can list my equipment and add it to picture I post, making a full image card where all the parameters of photo are clearly seen. Works wonderful, without bots, ads, fake accounts... where have this app been last four years??
Nici P. — 5 Stars
I've been using Picastro for a couple of days and it's a fantastic app which has such great potential. I'm really excited to follow its journey and to be a part of it as one of the first users. I can already see that the community on the app is growing which is amazing and more and more people join in every day. Seeing my own and their images in high resolution is fantastic g I like that it's a platform which doesn't tolerate any bullying or negativity - it's all about lifting each other up in this hobby which can be so extremely frustrating at times.
A Farnell — 5 Stars
Not one for reviews but this app certainly deserves credit. Its super clean easy to use and view all the awesome images everyone is getting and it's great to see what there equipment they have used and help others learn a thing or two!! So from my experience so far it definitely deserves 5 stars.
Features of Picastro
Picastro StarCards©
We do love to share our amazing space images with everyone in the community, but sometimes all you want to see is a stunning image and some basic astronomy details first. Welcome to StarCard©!
Click further in to StarCard©, and you get all the amazing details you will ever need. Perfect for those starting out and those seasoned at their craft.
The mobile platform will soon enable you to securely upload RAW unprocessed image data in either FITS or TIFF format, to share with other people just starting out: if you want to share it of course!
Oh, don't worry, Phase two, you'll be able to track who downloads it!
Picastro StarCamps©
With Picastro it is all about community and togetherness. We all love this hobby and we want to share it with people we care about and learn from. StarCamp© enables you to to organise your astro-friends into groups, based on experience, skill, equipment or just group friends however you like!
Picastro SetUps©
You know the feeling. We all have different setups for different imaging sessions and existing social media apps it’s a pain to have to type that same setup detail over and over, so we’ve made that a little bit easier. Now we have Setups where you enter it once and repeat in your StarCards. Easy-peesy.
Hi res images with
NO Compression
We spend hours, sometimes days capturing ancient photons, and all we want to do is share those super detailed images with everyone who really cares about seeing them. Compression on existing social media simply kills our images. Picastro will NOT compress the images, so we all get to see your stunningly detailed images, the way you intended!
Find saved objects
more intuitively
With Picastro it is all about community and togetherness. Find your saved objects in a super intuitive way. Saving by object type makes finding saved astronomical objects from your feed easier than typical social media feeds. No more hunting to find your saved work.
