Bathing Water vs Aare Schwumm
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.
Aare Schwumm
Get real-time water temperature, weather, and flow information for the Aare river. View a temperature forecast for the next two hours and display key data directly on your home screen. Customize your preferred temperature alerts.
- Real-time water temperature
- Weather and flow data
- 2-hour temperature forecast
- Home screen widget
- Preferred temperature alerts
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• The Aare at a glance • Water temperature, weather and flow • Temperature forecast for the next 2 hours • Right on your Home Screen • Set your preferred temperature
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bathing Water at 100% against Aare Schwumm's 0%. Bathing Water also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). Aare Schwumm's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Aare Schwumm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Bathing Water's written reviews are positive against 0% of Aare Schwumm'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, Aare Schwumm every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Bathing Water | Aare Schwumm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dhi Group | Stefan Reinhard |
Customer experience
Bathing Water
Aare Schwumm
In-app purchases
Bathing Water
No in-app purchases
Aare Schwumm
No in-app purchases
