Bathing Water vs Yr.no
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bathing Water
Provides real-time bathing water quality and weather forecasts for subscribed Danish beaches. View beach locations on a map with color-coded flags indicating safety for swimming. Get up to three days of forecast information and mark your favorite locations.
- Bathing water quality information
- Weather forecasts
- Interactive beach map
- Color-coded safety flags
- 3-day forecast
- Favorite beach marking
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All the beaches shown is only from municipalities we have a collaboration with. Bathing Water is a service that shows the bathing water quality and weather of subscribed Danish beaches. Click “map” to see the location of the beaches. The flags tell you about today’s bathing water quality – green means it is safe to swim and red means it is not recommended to go swimming. Click the flag to get the bathing water and weather forecast for up to 3 days forecast. Click "list" to choose a beach from the list. You can also mark your favourite beaches. The app shows beaches in municipalities subscribing the Bathing Water Forecast*. For more information, visit www.badevand.dk. *not all municipalities are subscribing to the bathing water forecast service.
Yr.no
Experience weather forecasting like never before with animated skies and detailed hourly breakdowns. Get immediate rainfall alerts and explore air pollution, pollen, and UV forecasts. This app provides comprehensive weather information for your daily planning.
- Animated hourly weather visualization
- Now-cast rainfall alerts (90 minutes)
- Detailed day-by-day and hour-by-hour forecasts
- Graph view for forecast details
- Air pollution, pollen, and UV forecasts
- Latest weather observations
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New Yr on iPhone and iPad is different from anything else you’ve seen in weather forecasting: Scroll through a beautiful and animated sky to see how the weather changes hourly, and get all the need-to-know details at the same time. And if there will be rainfall within the next 90 minutes we'll let you know through our now-cast. The weather visualization makes it a fun experience to check the weather – even when it’s raining! Check details day by day and hour by hour in the long-term forecast, or study the details in the graph. Under "Around you" you get an overview of air pollution, pollen spread and UV forecast, as well as the latest weather observations in your area. Forecasts are delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. ABOUT US: Yr is a weather service jointly produced by NRK and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Our primary goals are to secure life and property, while delivering useful and accurate weather forecasts to our users, preparing them for all kinds of weather. This year we are celebrating our ten-year anniversary, and with millions of users every day we are proud of being one of the most popular weather services in the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bathing Water at 100% against Yr.no's 61%. Bathing Water also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). Yr.no's advantage is ratings volume (204 vs 1) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Yr.no holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yr.no has 204 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Bathing Water's written reviews are positive against 61% of Yr.no's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bathing Water ships an update every 2 months, Yr.no fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bathing Water | Yr.no |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (204 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 204 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #95 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dhi Group | NRK |
Customer experience
Bathing Water
Yr.no
Bugs and requests
Bathing Water
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Yr.no
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on iOS 11 and newer
- Location tracking issues
- Widget not working as expected
- Inability to delete or reorder saved locations
Requested features
5 requests- Add humidity data
- Provide offline caching of weather data
- Implement Apple Watch support
- Allow changing between Celsius and Fahrenheit
- Bring back previous graph/chart layouts
In-app purchases
Bathing Water
No in-app purchases
Yr.no
No in-app purchases









