JIDE Software
For professional and serious hobbyist landscape, nature, and astrophotographers requiring precise environmental data for previsualization.
Planit Pro: Photo Planner
Snapshot
Who is JIDE Software?
Equipping landscape photographers with high-precision previsualization tools to master complex environmental lighting and celestial alignments.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 2Last updated
Planit Pro: Photo Planner
v10.7.21
7mo ago
Publisher DNA
What defines JIDE Software?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Specialized photography planning utilities
Scale
indie
Target audience
Professional and serious hobbyist landscape, nature, and astrophotographers requiring precise environmental data for previsualization.
Signature Patterns
- •Focus on high-precision environmental data for sun, moon, and star positioning
- •Monetization via a one-time paid purchase model
- •Targeting a technical, professional-grade user base
- •Long-term maintenance and iterative updates of a single, feature-dense application
Portfolio momentum
Actively maintaining its flagship title with two updates in the last six months, including a release within the last 15 days.
Portfolio
What does JIDE Software ship?
Apps
3 apps analysed
Desktop sync enables complex planning workflows.
- Desktop application synchronization allows users to perform complex planning tasks on larger screens with ease
- New design and layout changes make core components difficult to locate for long-term users
Analysis in progress
Distributed across 12 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 3 of 3 apps with localized market data · last scanned .
Americas (3)
- United States3 / 3
- Mexico2 / 3
- Brazil1 / 3
Europe (7)
- France2 / 3
- Germany2 / 3
- Italy2 / 3
- Spain2 / 3
- Netherlands1 / 3
›+2 more europe markets
- Portugal1 / 3
- Sweden1 / 3
Asia-Pacific (2)
- Japan2 / 3
- South Korea2 / 3
Core markets (3/3 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
1
Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
0
Negative apps
85/100
Avg sentiment score
Rivals
Who does JIDE Software compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(1)
Both apps target photographers requiring precise solar and lunar positioning for location scouting, creating direct competition for the same professional and hobbyist user base.
Contenders(10)
Both apps target landscape and outdoor photographers by offering solar event tracking and location-based planning tools within a single workflow.
Both apps target astrophotographers, with PlanIt Earth focusing on 3D visualization and Milky Way Tonight prioritizing simplified visibility forecasting and light pollution scouting.
Both apps target photographers and cinematographers requiring celestial alignment for location scouting, sharing core functionality like Live View and Street View.
Both apps target landscape and astrophotographers by providing AR-based light and celestial planning tools for field composition.
Both apps target landscape and architectural photographers by providing specialized tools for field-of-view and celestial positioning, creating direct competition for the same user base.
Both apps target landscape and travel photographers for location scouting, with PlanIt Earth focusing on VR visualization and Vantage focusing on weather confidence.
Both apps target photographers planning location shoots, with PlanIt Earth focusing on technical previsualization and Viewfinder focusing on crowdsourced location discovery.
Both apps target photographers planning natural light shoots, sharing offline functionality and free pricing models to capture the same outdoor photography audience.
Both apps target astrophotographers requiring environmental data for shooting sessions, creating direct competition for the same planning workflow.
Both applications target landscape and astro photographers with 3D terrain and celestial alignment tools, creating direct competition for users seeking previsualization software.
Same space(11)
Viewfinder Preview complements PlanIt Earth by focusing on camera framing and sensor simulation rather than celestial planning.
Moonlitt competes for the same astrophotography user base by focusing on lunar pathing and AR visualization.
Viewfinder - Panorama Camera serves as a creative tool for photographers who prefer analog constraints over the data-heavy planning of PlanIt Earth.
This app acts as a general astronomy visualization tool that offers celestial positioning for any date, similar to PlanIt Earth's planning features.
LExp provides technical exposure calculations that photographers often require alongside the environmental planning provided by PlanIt Earth.
Sun & Moon provides similar celestial tracking data for photographers and architects, though it suffers from reported accuracy issues.
Lumos serves as a general-purpose celestial tracking utility that overlaps with PlanIt Earth's core sun and moon positioning functionality.
SunTrace provides a minimalist visualization of solar and lunar paths, serving as a lightweight alternative for quick environmental checks.
Magic ARRI ViewFinder serves the professional cinematography segment by providing hardware-specific framing tools that PlanIt Earth does not cover.
This app provides overlapping solar and lunar pathing tools for photographers and homeowners planning garden or solar panel placement.
Ephemeris targets the same astrophotography planning audience but lacks the integrated map-based terrain visualization found in PlanIt Earth.
New entrants(1)
Users report: Star Photo focuses on the actual capture of night sky images, acting as a functional successor to the planning phase done in PlanIt Earth.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on JIDE Software
Bottom line
JIDE Software is a disciplined niche publisher that has successfully defended its position in the photography planning space through technical depth. Their high weighted rating signals strong product-market fit among a demanding professional audience.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 1
- With full intel:
- 0
- With overview:
- 1
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- yes
