WeatherEarth vs iDrizzle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeatherEarth
Explore Earth's geography and weather with this interactive globe application. Spin, zoom, and navigate to any region to view terrain, satellite imagery, maps, and detailed atmospheric visualizations. Access real-time weather forecasts and understand atmospheric conditions.
- Interactive 3D and 2D globe navigation
- Terrain and satellite imagery
- Real-time weather forecasts
- Atmospheric visualizations (clouds, wind, rain)
- Map overlays
- Zoom and pan functionality
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WeatherEarth is an awesome geographic information and weather application from EastModelSoft Laboratory. The developers of WeatherEarth have tried to fulfill the goal of virtual globe concept proposed since the beginning of this centuary. It brings our planet's geographic and weather information right to your fingertips using advanced graphics rendering technology. With WeatherEarth, you can literally spin, zoom, and move the globe to navigate to your region of interest in both 3D and 2D. WeatherEarth combines terrain, satellite imagary, maps, weather forecasts, atmospheric visualizations (cloud, rains, wind, temperature, and pressure) so that users may easily check them together.
iDrizzle
This app provides animated weather radar GIFs for the US. Users can view national, regional, or state-specific radar mosaics. It focuses solely on radar imagery without forecasts or temperature data.
- Animated radar GIF mosaics
- State-specific radar views
- Regional composite radar
- National radar mosaic
- Click-zone detection for large states
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Drizzle displays animated radar GIF mosaics. Click any state → loads that state's dedicated radar GIF Click a region button → loads a multi-state regional composite Click USA → returns to the national radar mosaic Large states (California, Texas) are split into sub-regions with click-zone detection There is no forecast, no temperature, no hourly breakdown. Just radar. That's it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: iDrizzle at Free against WeatherEarth's $0.99. iDrizzle also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). WeatherEarth's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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
iDrizzle is free to download; WeatherEarth costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WeatherEarth against 5.0 for iDrizzle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
WeatherEarth ships an update every 3 months, iDrizzle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeatherEarth | iDrizzle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 975 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 连庆 于 | DINO HOPIC |
Customer experience
WeatherEarth
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In-app purchases
WeatherEarth
No in-app purchases
iDrizzle
No in-app purchases
Questions
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