Moon, myth & sky
Android
Lunarium is a premium Android moon phase tracker built around the rhythms, folklore, and superstitions of the Victorian era — designed for anyone curious about the night sky, but crafted to feel like a leather-bound almanac rather than a weather widget.
The name comes from the Latin luna — moon. A lunarium was the instrument natural philosophers used to chart the moon's movement through the heavens. That is exactly what this app is.
Most moon phase apps show a percentage and a generic icon. Lunarium renders the moon as it actually appears tonight — a mathematically precise shadow terminator curving across a detailed lunar surface, waxing or waning correctly — and pairs it with a rotating almanac of authentic Victorian-voice entries drawn from the agricultural and medical superstitions of the 1880s and 1890s. The full moon triggers a Lunacy Alert. The new moon counsels rest. Every phase has something to say.
The Today screen gives you the moon's current phase, illumination, age, distance, moonrise, and moonset — all calculated on-device with no API calls or network dependency. The Calendar screen maps the full lunar cycle across any month. Legends draws on genuine historical folklore. History surfaces what happened under this same moon phase a century ago. Everything rotates daily so the almanac never repeats.
Deep navy, aged ivory, antique gold. Playfair Display for headings, IM Fell English for the almanac text — a typeface with genuine historical roots in a 1600s Italian punch-cutter. The background shifts from near-black at new moon to a rich midnight blue at full. It feels like something found in a secondhand bookshop, not downloaded from the Play Store.