Comparison

Free Weather vs Weather Basic

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

Head to head
About

Free Weather

Features
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Soon to be your favourite weather app that utilizes your phone GPS and openweathermaps API to download and display your current local weather with a really cool visualization of the progress between sunrise/sunset and sunset/sunrise! An awesome chart page is available to see temperature trends and precipitation for your choice of one, three or five days. You can also view a 5 day listing of temperatures and conditions in 3 hour increments. Swipe left/right to chance between pages. Background automatically changes for day/night mode. If there are features that you would like, or bugs that you find, please let me know and I will do my best to implement them. PLEASE NOTE: App will not work without GPS access or an internet connection.

About

Weather Basic

Features
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Hello everyone! My goal was a quick, intuitive & easy to read interface for glancing at the forecast. Weather Basic exposes the basic components of the forecast to you in a presentable manner. Having no ads & being accessible were key to making it work for me. A few people were interested and tested for a while, so I decided to publish on the app store for more people to hopefully enjoy. Depending on download count and feedback, I can devote more of my time to app improvements, mostly to the quality of the forecast data. If you'd like to request a feature, you can reach out using the 'Report an Issue' button in the settings menu.

Screenshots

Free Weather4 screens
Weather Basic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Free Weather at 3 against Weather Basic's 1. Free Weather also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 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

Free Weather ships an update fortnightly, Weather Basic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Free Weather versus Weather Basic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFree WeatherWeather Basic
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason GodsonNathaniel Murphy

In-app purchases

None

Free Weather

No in-app purchases

None

Weather Basic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Free Weather free?
Free Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Weather Basic free?
Weather Basic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Free Weather or Weather Basic have ads?
Neither Free Weather nor Weather Basic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Free Weather or Weather Basic?
Free Weather ships an update fortnightly, and Weather Basic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Free Weather was updated on November 2, 2026 and Weather Basic on October 30, 2026.

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