Himmelsscheibe is an Android app developed by Goethe-Institut e.V. (Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 18 80333 München). Others apps created by Goethe-Institut e.V. are: Lernabenteuer, Lern Deutsch.

Himmelsscheibe first became available on 13 Mar 2012. It is estimated that Himmelsscheibe has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

Himmelsscheibe 1.5 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.