Plan the perfect shoot, every time
Plan your next shoot in seconds
Plan the shoot without leaving the app you'll edit it in
Check golden hour, weather, and sky conditions for a location right inside Fictura, and set alerts for the conditions you actually care about — no tab-switching between a weather app, a sun-tracker, and your media library.
From forecast to final export, one place
Planning and managing the results live in one timeline
Forecasts sit next to the library that will hold what you shoot, so the tool that helped you plan the conditions is the same one that organizes, edits, and exports what came out of it.
Forecasts
Forecasts helps you plan shoots around the conditions that actually matter — light, weather, and sky conditions — right inside the app you already use to manage the results.
Locations
Save the places you shoot: add a location on a map, or enter coordinates directly, along with its Bortle scale rating (a 1–9 measure of night-sky darkness, relevant for astro/aurora photography — 1 is the darkest possible sky, 9 is inner-city). Saved locations are reusable across any number of forecasts, so you only enter a frequently-used spot once.
Forecast types and presets
Choose from forecast presets suited to different kinds of shoots — for example, aurora visibility or general astrophotography conditions — each evaluating the relevant combination of weather and sky data for a saved location.
Reading results
Forecast results appear as cards summarizing the computed conditions for a location, so you can compare multiple locations or dates at a glance before deciding where and when to shoot.
Alerts
Configure alert conditions so Fictura notifies you (via a toast) when conditions at a saved location match what you're looking for. Alert conditions are written using the same JSON condition editor used for image filter parameters — for example, an aurora alert condition might look like:
{
"all": [
{ "field": "cloudCover", "operator": "<", "value": 20 },
{ "field": "bortleScale", "operator": "<", "value": 4 },
{ "field": "kpIndex", "operator": ">=", "value": 5 }
]
}
This gives you precise control over thresholds and comparisons rather than a fixed set of dropdowns — combine as many conditions as the shoot actually requires.
Importing and exporting presets
Forecast type/condition configurations can be exported as JSON files and imported again later — useful for sharing a well-tuned alert condition with someone else, or moving your setup to another machine without re-entering every threshold by hand.