Solar Aligner

Tilt & aim a solar panel for the best sun, using your phone's GPS, level and compass.

1. Find your spot

No GPS? Enter coordinates

2. Pick your goal

Recommended: ° tilt, facing .

Monthly sunlight

with clouds clear-sky max kWh/m²/day

3. Line it up

  1. Lay the phone flat on the panel, screen up.
  2. Point the phone's top edge the way the panel faces.
  3. Steer the open ring onto the target and adjust until the box reads aligned.
How it works

Your tilt target comes from real measured sunlight, not just theory: 20-year NASA satellite irradiance and ECMWF reanalysis for your exact coordinates are cross-checked, then a clear-sky physics model (sun declination, hour angle, air-mass haze) is weighted by each month's real cloud cover to find the angle that collects the most energy over your chosen period. Cloudy seasons count for less. Offline, it falls back to the physics model. Headings use true north, so "south" already accounts for magnetic declination. The dome maps that same model over every tilt and aim at once; if a wall blocks part of the sky it re-finds the best reachable spot and tells you how much sun that costs.