Mercury Weather vs AniMeteo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mercury Weather
Get hyper-local weather forecasts with beautiful charts and detailed daily predictions. Track storms, plan trips with future forecasts, and receive timely notifications. Includes live widgets for your home and lock screens.
- Beautiful weather charts
- Detailed daily forecast
- Trip Forecast
- Accurate rain forecast
- Hurricane and storm tracking
- Live widgets
- Weather notifications
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"It's a weather app. How much is there to say?" – Malin from Triple Glazed Studios' crack product marketing team TOP FEATURES – Beautiful weather charts – Detailed daily forecast – Trip Forecast – Incredibly accurate rain forecast – Hurricane and storm tracking – Tide forecasts – Weather notifications – Radar map – Simple yet powerful Apple Watch app – Easy to glance home screen and lock screen widgets – Weather normals Privacy policy: https://tripleglazedstudios.com/mercury/privacy Terms of use: https://tripleglazedstudios.com/mercury/terms
AniMeteo
This app transforms your watch complication into a dynamic, pixel-art window displaying real-time weather animations. It visualizes current conditions, hourly forecasts, and minute-by-minute precipitation with charming animated scenes and seasonal updates.
- Animated pixel-art weather scenes
- Real-time weather data integration
- Hourly and minute-by-minute forecasts
- Multiple sceneries and animated elements
- Seasonal and holiday themes
- Apple Watch complication support
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AniMeteo turns a rectangular complication into a tiny animated window on the sky. NOW The current weather as a looping pixel-art scene: clouds that turn pink at sunset, rain in two layers with puddles, falling snow, soft fog banks, lightning that strikes the rooftop. Cloud cover, rain intensity, wind and visibility come from Apple Weather, so no two rainy days look the same. Next to it: temperature, conditions and today's high and low, or "Rain in 12 min" when a shower is on its way. NEXT 12 HOURS Your day as a 30-second timelapse. The sun and the moon cross the sky, daylight turns to dusk and night, and the weather blends from hour to hour. A coloured ruler along the bottom shows the whole 12 hours at a glance, and the complication tells you what changes next, such as "Rain at 3:00 PM". NEXT HOUR Rain and snow minute by minute: the next 60 minutes in 30 seconds, with the intensity as bars along the bottom. It uses Apple Weather's minute forecast, which is available in some countries; elsewhere the complication says so. A LIVING SCENE • Five sceneries: countryside, city, seaside, mountains and a sailboat out at sea, where the waves grow as the weather gets worse; Automatic switches to the mountains above 800 m • Walkers, cyclists, cars, dogs, deer, birds, planes and helicopters, chosen for the landscape and the weather, and once in a while a UFO • Trees and fields follow the seasons, the moon its real phase • Holiday scenes for Halloween, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Easter and Valentine's Day AniMeteo keeps growing: free updates bring new animations, visitors, places and holidays. DETAILS • Three complications for rectangular slots, for example on Modular and Modular Duo faces or in the Smart Stack • 1, 2 or 4 frames per second, chosen in the app; higher rates are smoother and use more battery • A dedicated dark frame for the Always-On display • Weather data from Apple Weather • Your approximate location is used only to get the forecast • No account, ads, tracking or subscriptions • Apple Watch app for watchOS 10 or later; no iPhone app needed The complications use the last location found by the app. After travelling, open AniMeteo on your Watch to update it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mercury Weather at Free against AniMeteo's $0.99. Mercury Weather also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 1) and device support (5 vs 3). AniMeteo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ads, chart position and iOS requirement 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
Mercury Weather is free to download; AniMeteo costs $0.99 up front. Mercury Weather sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. AniMeteo asks for nothing beyond the download.
AniMeteo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mercury Weather has 1.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mercury Weather ships an update every 10 days, AniMeteo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mercury Weather | AniMeteo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #93 | #49 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Triple Glazed Studios LLC | Luca Mattiazzi |
Customer experience
Mercury Weather
AniMeteo
Bugs and requests
Mercury Weather
Reported bugs
4 issues- Widgets showing demo mode
- Complications not working
- Scrolling performance issues
- Subscription issues
Requested features
7 requests- Add radar
- Add air quality data
- Add UV forecast
- Add precipitation graph
- Improve widget design and customization
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- Add more data sources
- Improve Apple Watch integration
AniMeteo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mercury Weather
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Monthly (Family)$4.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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- Yearly (Family)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime (Family Upgrade)$39.99
- Lifetime$59.99
- Lifetime (Family)$99.99
AniMeteo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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