Free Weather vs Weather Basic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Free Weather
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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.
Weather Basic
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Free Weather | Weather Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Godson | Nathaniel Murphy |
In-app purchases
Free Weather
No in-app purchases
Weather Basic
No in-app purchases









