Shipping Forecast Mindfulness vs Ghost Runner G2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness
This app provides spoken weather forecasts from the UK Met Office, designed for relaxation and focus. It offers customizable forecast lengths and can sync mindfulness minutes to your Health app.
- Spoken UK Met Office forecasts
- Customizable forecast lengths (short, medium, long)
- Syncs mindfulness minutes to Health app
- Text-to-Speech voice
- Relaxation and focus aid
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The Shipping Forecast from the UK Met office is a tight, compact meteorological forecast for the areas around the UK and Ireland used by boats in the region. Due to its poetic structure, it has a listenership far beyond its intended audience. It lends itself nicely to relaxation and focus. These minutes can be saved to Health app for mindfulness credit. Depending on your available time, you can select between short, medium and long versions and the Text-to-Speech voice will read the dynamic forecast.
Ghost Runner G2
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Ghost Runner tracks your GPS route in real-time and projects a ghost pacer from your last lap onto the glasses display. See exactly where you were and push to beat it — lap after lap. -- Requires the Ghost Runner Even Realites companion app & Smart Glasses running on the same phone -- Features: - Live GPS route map on glasses display - Automatic ghost pacer from your previous lap - Real-time stats: pace, distance, lap time, delta - Automatic lap detection with split times - Works fully offline — no WiFi or external server needed - Healthkit integration
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Verdict
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness and Ghost Runner G2 are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness ships an update every 9 months, Ghost Runner G2 every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shipping Forecast Mindfulness | Ghost Runner G2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | (optional.is) | Atlas Codes LTD |
In-app purchases
Shipping Forecast Mindfulness
No in-app purchases
Ghost Runner G2
No in-app purchases
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