Comparison

Swifty Forecast vs Cedar Weather

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Swifty Forecast

Get detailed weather information for any location worldwide, with hourly and 5-day forecasts. Features include a home screen widget, sunrise/sunset times, and customizable units. Plan your day with precision and ease.

Highlights
  • Global location weather lookup
  • Hourly and 5-day forecasts
  • Home screen widget
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Humidity and wind speed
  • Imperial/metric unit selection
  • Unlimited location list
Features
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The Swifty Forecast allows you to look up the weather anywhere on the globe without adding your current location. It provides all the information you need before you start your day. It is easy to use and precise to help you to get ready for a new day. Check the weather's detailed condition for a current day alongside a 5-day forecast. Taking advantage of location precision, wherever you are, you can look at the forecast for your location. You can look at the hourly forecast just by one touch of your screen with beautiful animation. Features: - Home screen Widget - Current weather conditions with details - Sunrise and sunset time - Humidity and wind speed - Forecast for the next 24 hours - Forecast for the ​next 5 days - Choose between imperial and metric units system - List of unlimited locations with time zone and current temperature - Minimap preview available in the locations list **** FEEDBACK **** If you like the app, please rate and review it in the App Store. When you have either questions or suggestions on how to improve the app let us know. Please email us at pawel.milek0626@gmail.com

About

Cedar Weather

Features
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Cedar Weather turns the forecast into a decision. Most weather apps hand you a temperature and leave the rest to you. Cedar reads the same conditions and tells you what they are actually good for — a ride, a hike, a day at the beach, a walk through town, or an afternoon indoors with a coffee. WHAT IS TODAY GOOD FOR? The home screen shows live conditions where you are, then rates the day for the things you actually do — cycling, walking, hiking, the beach, a city walk, a cafe day, and skiing where there is snow. The scoring runs on your phone and weighs temperature, wind, the chance of rain and how much of it, UV and visibility together, so cycling weather and beach weather are judged on their own terms. A still, overcast 18 degrees is a fine riding day and a poor beach day, and Cedar says so instead of leaving you to work it out from a row of icons. WATCH THE RAIN MOVE Open the weather map for animated rain radar with a time scrubber, so you can run a shower forward and see whether it clears before you leave. Cloud cover and temperature layers sit on the same map, and every region is coloured by how good conditions are right now. Filter the map to cycling, hiking or the beach and the whole picture recolours for that one activity — useful when the question is not what the weather is, but where the good weather is. HOURLY FORECAST AND THE WEEK AHEAD An hour-by-hour view with rain chance, wind and temperature shows you the window that matters. Tap any day in the 7-day forecast to open its own hourly strip, or tap any region on the map for a full activity breakdown and chart. When a front is moving through, the hourly forecast is the difference between getting caught and getting home dry. PLAN THE WEEKEND Cedar ranks the regions around you by how the weekend weather is shaping up, so choosing where to go is a glance rather than ten browser tabs. Weather for hiking in the hills while the coast sits under cloud, or the other way round — you can see it on one screen. Detailed regional breakdowns run across more than 200 countries, and worldwide city search reaches anywhere else: look up Denver, Seattle, Zurich, London or wherever you are heading and get a 7-day forecast before you commit to the trip. HOME-SCREEN WIDGETS Illustrated weather widgets put current conditions and the day ahead on your home screen, drawn as a scene rather than a wall of digits. Glance at the phone, know the sky. WEATHER ALERTS THAT EARN THEIR PLACE A short morning briefing, a weekly outlook, and severe weather alerts when something is genuinely on the way. You choose which ones arrive and which stay off, and none of them shout for attention. BUILT ON MORE THAN ONE SOURCE Forecast data comes from Open-Meteo, with a second provider standing by as a fallback, so one bad response upstream does not quietly become a bad forecast on your screen. Coverage is near-global, the interface speaks 37 languages, and regions carry the names locals actually use for them. FREE, WITHOUT THE USUAL CATCH No ads. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account needed to see the forecast, and no tracking. Cedar Weather is made by one developer in Switzerland under the name Florignite, and it stays free and ad-free because it is not selling you or your data to anyone. It began with a small Saturday-morning question — is it worth taking the bike out? — and the answer was never in the temperature alone. If you cycle, hike, walk, chase clear skies at the weekend, or simply want an honest hourly forecast and a rain radar that loads quickly, Cedar Weather was built for you.

Screenshots

Swifty Forecast4 screens
Cedar Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cedar Weather at 15.0 against Swifty Forecast's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swifty Forecast ships an update every 5 days, Cedar Weather every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Swifty Forecast versus Cedar Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwifty ForecastCedar Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPawel MilekFlorian Ignat

In-app purchases

None

Swifty Forecast

No in-app purchases

None

Cedar Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swifty Forecast free?
Swifty Forecast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cedar Weather free?
Cedar Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Swifty Forecast or Cedar Weather have ads?
Neither Swifty Forecast nor Cedar Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swifty Forecast or Cedar Weather?
Swifty Forecast ships an update every 5 days, and Cedar Weather every 9 days. Most recently, Swifty Forecast was updated on November 2, 2026 and Cedar Weather on October 31, 2026.

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