Comparison

WSView Plus vs Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

WSView Plus

Access real-time weather instrument data directly on your mobile device. Monitor uploads and view information from various weather instruments remotely.

Highlights
  • Real-time data monitoring
  • Access weather instrument uploads
  • Remote data viewing
  • Supports various weather instruments
Features
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Monitoring your various weather instrument data through mobile phones, real-time access to weather instrument uploading data on the network.

About

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

Visualize real-time data from your Ecowitt weather station on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Receive custom alerts for various weather conditions and sensor readings, and track historical data with export options. Includes forecasts and radar maps for supported regions.

Highlights
  • Real-time weather station data
  • Customizable alerts
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Historical data graphs and export
  • 5-day forecasts and radar maps
  • Water leak detection alarm
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Weathervane turns readings from your Ecowitt weather station into a clear, detailed dashboard for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Free, with no ads and no account to create. Connect directly to your gateway on your home Wi-Fi, or use Ecowitt Cloud to check your stations from anywhere. Weathervane shows only the readings your station and sensors provide, with no empty sections for equipment you don't have. See temperature, humidity, dew point, feels like, pressure, wind, rainfall, solar radiation, UV, air quality, CO2, lightning, soil moisture, soil temperature and conductivity, leaf wetness, water leaks, distance and depth, battery levels, signal strength and more. APPLE WATCH Your station on your wrist, with complications for your watch face. Pick any of your stations right on the watch. With Ecowitt Cloud, the watch reads your station itself, so complications stay up to date even when your iPhone isn't nearby. ALERTS Get notified about the weather, your sensors and your devices: high and low temperatures, frost tonight, strong wind and gusts, rain starting and stopping, heavy rain, lightning nearby, falling pressure, humidity, air quality, a daily summary, sensors that stop reporting, low batteries, a station going offline and firmware updates. Set quiet hours so alerts wait until morning. WATER-LEAK ALARM With a WH55 leak sensor, Weathervane sounds a distinct rising alarm the moment water is detected, shows a red warning on your dashboard and watch, and tells you when it's dry again. HISTORY AND RECORDS Graphs from one hour to a month. Tap any graph to see the exact reading and time. The Records screen keeps your highs, lows and totals from today back to all-time. Export your data as a CSV file. FORECAST A 5-day forecast with a one-line summary and each day's chance of rain, plus sunrise, sunset and the moon phase. In the US & Europe, a live radar map and the National Weather Service's written forecast for each day. FEATURES • Apple Watch app and complications • Weather, sensor and device alerts • Water-leak alarm • Live radar and written forecasts (US) • Siri and Shortcuts • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • History graphs and Records • CSV export • "Compared to yesterday" notes • 3-hour pressure trend and outlook • Share a picture of current conditions • Two-column iPad layout with an expanded forecast • Multiple stations, with local and cloud support • Firmware update status for every device • Custom names and order for stations and sensors • Reorder cards on dashboard • Fahrenheit or Celsius, your choice of pressure, wind and rain units • Units that follow your region, with knots, m/s and metric distances • 12-hour or 24-hour time • Light and dark appearance • Demo mode, to try it without a station SUPPORTED HARDWARE Gateways: GW1100, GW1200, GW2000, GW3000, and the WittField WS6210 and WS6006 4G gateways. The original GW1000 through Ecowitt Cloud. Consoles: HP2550, HP2551, HP2560, HP2561, HP2564 Wittboy Pro, HP3500, WS2320, WS2910, WS3800, WS3820, WS3900, WS3910, WN1820, WN1821, WN1920 and WN1980. Stations: any package built on one of these, including GW1101, GW1201, GW1202, GW1210, GW2001, GW3001, GW3002, Wittboy, Essense3, WN1981, HP2552 and HP2553H. Newer and regional models not listed here usually work too, as they share the same interfaces. Available readings depend on your gateway, firmware and connected sensors. Weathervane is independently developed and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ecowitt. Ecowitt and related product names are trademarks of their respective owners. [WEBSITE]: https://leechsoftware.com/dashboard-for-ecowitt/

Screenshots

WSView Plus3 screens
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather at 100% against WSView Plus's 33%. Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). WSView Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of WSView Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WSView Plus ships an update monthly, Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WSView Plus versus Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWSView PlusDashboard for ECOWITT Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (7 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings714 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer玮 彭Leech Software

Customer experience

WSView Plus

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral20.5%
Negative46.2%

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WSView Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WSView Plus free?
WSView Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather free?
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WSView Plus or Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather?
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather is rated higher. WSView Plus averages 2.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather averages 5.0 from 14 ratings.
Do WSView Plus or Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather have ads?
Neither WSView Plus nor Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WSView Plus or Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather?
WSView Plus ships an update monthly, and Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather every 4 days. Most recently, WSView Plus was updated on November 7, 2026 and Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather on November 6, 2026.

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