WS View vs ProWeatherLive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WS View
Access and download weather data from the internet. This tool facilitates weather receiver set of routing connections.
- Download weather data
- Internet weather receiver
- Routing connections
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The main function of this application is to weather receiver set of routing connections. Download weather data from the internet.
ProWeatherLive
View your personal weather station data and local forecasts in real-time. Monitor your home environment with detailed metrics like wind speed, rainfall, temperature, and humidity. Customize alerts and track weather patterns with interactive graphs.
- Personal weather station data
- Local forecasts
- Home environment monitoring
- Customizable alerts
- Weather graphs
- Real-time data
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ProWeatherLive puts your compatible personal weather station at your fingertips. Track your home environment in detail — wind speed and direction, rainfall, UV, light, temperature, and humidity — all in real time. Customize alerts to stay ahead of changing conditions, and explore your data with intuitive graphs and visualizations. With ProWeatherLive, you don’t just check the weather—you monitor and understand it, right where you live.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WS View at 2.1 against ProWeatherLive's 1.8. WS View also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (9.1 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
WS View holds the better App Store score, 2.1 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of WS View's written reviews are positive against 22% of ProWeatherLive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
WS View ships an update weekly, ProWeatherLive monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WS View | ProWeatherLive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (37 ratings) — better | 1.8 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews | 22.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 玮 彭 | CCL Electronics Ltd |
Customer experience
WS View
ProWeatherLive
User reviews
WS View
From 37 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ Successful firmware updates and configuration when working
- 📊 Clear and simple data presentation
- 🌐 Multiple weather service integrations (Wunderground, Ecowitt, WeatherCloud)
- ⚙️ Customizable upload server settings
- 📱 Works well on local network connections
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently on startup
- 📵 Data not displaying despite successful connection
- 🔌 WiFi connection issues and configuration failures
- ❌ Device list showing empty or missing devices
- 📱 iOS compatibility problems (especially iOS 14-16)
ProWeatherLive
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Nice new design
- ✨ Improved UI/UX
- ✨ Functional app for some users
- ✨ World weather section addition
- ✨ Quick correction for lightning display
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connection issues with station
- 🐛 Login/authentication problems
- 🐛 App frequently unresponsive
- 🐛 Data not updating
- 🐛 Poor translation quality
Bugs and requests
WS View
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes when adding new devices
- App crashes when selecting device from list
- App crashes on startup after updates
- Data displays as zeros or null values
- WiFi configuration screen unresponsive with spinning loader
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- Device successfully configured but doesn't appear in device list
- Firmware update breaks WiFi connectivity
- Sensor assignments randomly shuffle
- App disconnects and removes device after power loss
- App closes immediately upon opening
- Cannot configure device with iOS devices
- Device list becomes blank after firmware updates
- App freezes during setup wizard
- Graphs zoom resets automatically
- First line of settings hidden beneath top bar
- Data upload crashes after one hour
- App unresponsive during device pairing
- Device shows connected but no data displays
Requested features
16 requests- Dark mode support
- Apple Watch app with complications
- Historical data viewing (weeks/months)
- HomeKit integration
- IFTTT support
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- Google Home/Alexa integration
- Landscape mode for graphs
- Min/max temperature readings display
- Data point selection on graphs with timestamps
- Default weather station selection
- Language localization options
- Extended data logging (48+ hours)
- OpenWeatherMap support
- Local server/Cumulus/WeeWx integration
- Sensor name synchronization across platforms
- Customizable text color options
ProWeatherLive
Reported bugs
54 issues- Station not connecting to phone
- Difficulty relaunching updates after new interface
- App forgets settings after closing/restarting
- Graphics inverted compared to sensor order
- Station not found after update
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- Text and language errors in French
- Login not working after update
- Unable to reconnect or reset password
- No mail sent for password reset
- Lightning strike display missing
- Device connection lost
- Slow to respond
- App not showing data on iPhone
- No data transfer, no errors shown
- App broken (logins, password reset, create account)
- No data connection
- Weather station not reachable
- All saved stations disappeared after update
- App not letting user log in
- App not functioning, not worthy of Bresser station
- App not holding selected unit settings
- Dashboard shows no device
- Login page disappears
- Device disappears and reappears later
- App goes days without updating
- App hardly picks up device
- Takes ages to load
- Login screen freezes
- Unable to type username and password
- App locks at username/password screen
- Servers almost always not synchronizing
- App not working with iOS 18
- App won't open
- Inaccurate and incomplete German translation
- Outdoor pressure not displayed in overview
- Incomplete German translation (daily rain, feels like, windchill)
- App often unreachable
- Poor integration of lightning module
- No updates
- App constantly has loading problems
- Login errors and crashes with timeout
- Latitude and longitude cannot be set
- Forecasts are unusable
- Language changes completely to English when rotating display
- App makes a complete reload and refresh
- Cannot create an account
- App does not recognize account
- Does not receive new password
- Data not updated for 6 hours
- Impossible to refresh data
- App not recording data
- No dark mode
- Displaying times overlap, making reading difficult
- HTTP address not reachable
Requested features
15 requests- Revert to old app version
- Open to weather station by default
- Save last view setting
- Ability to name sensors
- Improve French translations
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- Add dark mode
- Allow renaming of channels/sensors
- Add lightning strike count and distance tab
- Allow naming of temperature sensors by location
- Add dew point monitoring
- Allow custom time periods and comparisons
- Improve German translations
- Allow hiding unwanted weather data
- Fix overlapping times on graphs
- Allow moving screens within the app
In-app purchases
WS View
No in-app purchases
ProWeatherLive
No in-app purchases
Questions
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