Blue Days vs WeatherRadar Basic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blue Days
Get highly accurate, hyperlocal weather forecasts with a clean interface. View current conditions, detailed 7-day forecasts with temperature gradients, and hour-by-hour precipitation.
- Hyperlocal weather accuracy
- Current conditions and descriptions
- 7-day forecast with temperature gradients
- Hour-by-hour precipitation slider
- Customizable icon and color themes
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Blue Days gives you highly accurate, hyperlocal weather in a simple, well-designed interface. It uses dozens of high-accuracy weather sources to provide precise weather information at your location or wherever you search. Get current conditions and a 7-day forecast, complete with custom backgrounds. The 7-day forecast includes a color gradient indicating the range of temperatures. Features: • Current Weather Conditions and Descriptions. • Detailed Forecast View, Showing: Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Sunset, and Sunrise. • Precipitation Slider Bar showing Hour-by-Hour Precipitation for a Selected Day of the Week. • Precipitation Chance along a Horizontal Bar for the Selected Day. • Icons and Colors Themes that change for every Weather Condition. I’d love to hear your feedback! Please take a moment to leave a review.
WeatherRadar Basic
Get current weather conditions and forecasts for any location worldwide. Features include temperature, wind speed, precipitation, and sunrise/sunset animations. Offers a weekly prediction table and a global rain radar map.
- Global current weather and predictions
- Animated background visuals
- Detailed conditions (visibility, pressure, humidity)
- Animated wind speed and bearing
- Sunrise/sunset animations
- Weekly forecast table
- Worldwide rain radar map
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WeatherRadar presents the current weather and predictions in an amazing way. Some of the features of WeatherRadar: - Current temperature and conditions for every location in the world - Background image for each location will give an impression of the local weather and time - Visibility, pressure, humidity, rain, dew point - Wind speed is shown using an animated windmill. This gives a clear impression fast. Try comparing the windspeed between locations with quick swipe - The wind bearing is shown with an arrow based on the compass of your iPhone. So it shows exactly where the wind is coming from. Move your iPhone and the wind bearing will correct itself. Of course the actual bearing is also given in compass notation - A description of the current and expected weather conditions, including how the temperature feels in practice, in clear English - Sunrise and sunset are shown as animation, showing the progress of the sun across the sky for the day so far. The actual times are shown as well - The current moon phase is described and shown as an image - A Prediction of the weather for the week is shown in a clear table, with illustrations for the type of weather to be expected in addition to the maximum and minimum temperatures - A rain radar map is shown for the selected location. This rain radar map works for any location worldwide, not just the US Additional features: - Add any location worldwide and have the weather available to you at any time. You can add and remove locations as you like - Use the settings to set your preferred unit for wind speed, pressure, time, temperature and visibility - Set the map type you prefer - All settings and locations will remain stored with WeatherRadar WeatherRadar is fast, precise, and looks great. Use it to monitor the weather at any time, for any location in the world. Accurate, premium weather forecast data from Dark Sky. Please contact us at support@sparklingapps.com for any suggestions. Enjoy the app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blue Days at 4.2 against WeatherRadar Basic's 2.3. Blue Days also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (239 vs 3). WeatherRadar Basic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (67% vs 44%). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Blue Days sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per year. WeatherRadar Basic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blue Days holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blue Days has 239 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Blue Days's written reviews are positive against 67% of WeatherRadar Basic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Blue Days ships an update fortnightly, WeatherRadar Basic every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blue Days | WeatherRadar Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (239 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 239 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Bevins | Sparkling Design and Infotech Private Limited |
Customer experience
Blue Days
WeatherRadar Basic
In-app purchases
Blue Days
- One Year Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Year
WeatherRadar Basic
No in-app purchases
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