InstantWeather vs Drying Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InstantWeather
Personalize your weather experience with dynamic backgrounds that change based on current conditions. Customize text and icon colors, and access detailed forecasts with intuitive gestures. Share your personalized weather views easily.
- Customizable backgrounds based on weather
- Use camera or album photos as backgrounds
- Background filters and brightness adjustment
- Customizable text and icon colors
- Daily and hourly forecast access
- Social media sharing
- Today widget for lock/home screen
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Make the forecast feel like yours. InstantWeather combines clear, detailed weather information with photographic backgrounds you choose, creating a weather app that is both useful and personal. See current conditions at a glance, explore the hourly outlook, or plan ahead with a 10-day forecast. Choose your current location or search for a city or region, then quickly return to recently viewed locations. Main features - Current conditions with temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind, and daily high and low - Hourly forecasts with temperature, precipitation chance, wind, and weather conditions - 10-day forecasts with expandable daily details - Daily precipitation amounts, wind gusts, sunrise, sunset, moon phase, and expected high and low times - Current-location weather and city or region search - Recent locations for faster switching - Celsius and Fahrenheit support - Custom backgrounds using a new photo or an image from your photo library - Adjustable background blur and brightness - Customizable text and icon colors - Dedicated layouts for iPhone and iPad - Personalize backgrounds for different weather conditions and keep the forecast readable by adjusting the image, colors, and effects to suit your style. Weather data is provided by Apple WeatherKit.
Drying Day
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Some days the clothesline does a full load in two hours. Some days everything hangs damp until dark, and some days the rain gets to your laundry before you do. Drying Day answers the only laundry question that matters, before you press start on the washer: is it worth hanging outside today? A verdict, not a weather chart No radar to squint at, no humidity graphs to interpret. One clear answer in plain words — great drying day, good day to line-dry, drying will be slow, risky with a chance of rain, or better dry indoors — with the reason in one warm sentence underneath. What you get • An estimated drying window for today, with suggested times to hang out and bring in: "9 am – 3:30 pm." • How fast the line will work — roughly when a full load should be dry. • A suggested bring-in time, and why: forecast rain, or dusk. • The next three days as laundry advice, with the best laundry day tagged — so "do a load today or Saturday?" takes one glance. • Quiet, useful alerts (all optional): a heads-up the evening before a good drying day, a nudge when the window opens, and a reminder to bring the laundry in before forecast rain. • A "play it safe with rain" switch for people who'd rather rewash nothing, ever. • Wind in mph, humidity as a percentage, times that follow your clock setting. • A last-checked note when you're offline, so you always know how fresh the advice is. Honest about forecasts A forecast is a guess, and Drying Day says so. It hedges where hedging is honest, tells you the main risk out loud, and leaves the final call where it belongs — with the sky over your own clothesline. Built for people who line-dry Whether it's a backyard clothesline, a retractable line on the porch, a rack on the balcony, or a drying rack by the window on the days the sky says no — if you hang laundry to dry, this is for you. Made in Australia, where a good drying day is a genuine household event, and it works anywhere in the world there's weather and wet laundry. Quietly respectful No accounts, no tracking, no laundry log. Your location is used to fetch the forecast and show your area’s name, and we run no servers of our own — the privacy policy explains the rest, including the single ad. Free with a single unobtrusive banner; one small one-time purchase removes it forever. No subscriptions, ever. Weather data by WeatherAPI.com. Drying Day is an informational tool — it reads forecasts, it doesn't control clouds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Drying Day at Free against InstantWeather's $0.99. Drying Day also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). InstantWeather's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence and device support 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
Drying Day is free to download; InstantWeather costs $0.99 up front. Drying Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. InstantWeather asks for nothing beyond the download.
InstantWeather ships an update every 3 weeks, Drying Day fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InstantWeather | Drying Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (376 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 35.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 376 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #153 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Besher Al Maleh | I OSTAPENKO & Y OSTAPENKO |
Bugs and requests
InstantWeather
Reported bugs
18 issues- App is inaccurate
- Sunrise and sunset times are wrong
- AD pop ups are a distraction
- Icons on the main screen need to be moved
- Nothing showing
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- Cannot overlay weather onto photos
- Nothing works
- Cannot find seasonal overlays
- Cannot upload photos
- Not in Russian
- Cannot post to Instagram
- Does not work
- Doesn't recognize location
- Cannot share to social media
- Camera view needs to be reversed
- No social media link
- Cut off city location below icon
- Cannot change text color
Requested features
10 requests- Add desktop widget
- Add live weather
- Add seasonal overlays
- Improve photo upload functionality
- Add Russian language support
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- Enable Instagram posting
- Improve GPS accuracy
- Allow reversing camera view
- Enable direct social media sharing
- Allow changing text color
Drying Day
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
InstantWeather
No in-app purchases
Drying Day
- Remove Ads$1.99









