Comparison

Yr vs CX Aviation Weather

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

Head to head
About

Yr

This weather app offers a visually engaging way to check forecasts with animated skies and detailed hourly breakdowns. It provides real-time air pollution, pollen, and UV data, along with immediate rainfall alerts. Forecasts are delivered by a reputable meteorological institute.

Highlights
  • Animated weather visualization
  • Hourly and daily forecasts
  • Now-cast rainfall alerts
  • Air pollution, pollen, and UV data
  • Weather observations
  • Long-term forecast graphs
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

CX Aviation Weather

Features
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CX Weather turns raw aviation weather into a briefing you can actually read, on a screen that looks like the sky you're flying into. Search any airport by ICAO code or name, or pick one nearby, and get the current METAR and TAF alongside a plain-English interpretation written for pilots. Ask follow-up questions in chat: what the ceiling is doing over the next three hours, whether the crosswind is inside your limits, which approach fits the conditions. FEATURES • A living sky: the whole app shifts with the weather. Clear days glow, storms flicker, snow falls, nights fill with stars • Destination imagery for the city you're headed to • Current conditions (METAR) and forecasts (TAF) straight from aviationweather.gov • AI briefing of every report, written on device by Apple Intelligence, with the reasoning spelled out • Follow-up chat about the weather at your airport, also on device • TAF periods shown in the airport's local time, with at-a-glance weather icons • Runways with live crosswind and headwind components • Instrument approaches with links to the current FAA terminal procedure plates • Nearby airports from your location, plus recent searches • Pull to refresh, works on iPhone and iPad The AI briefing and chat use Apple Intelligence and need iOS 26 on an iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad with an M1 or A17 Pro chip or later. Everything else works on any supported device, and nothing you ask leaves your device. CX Weather is a planning aid. It does not replace an official preflight briefing, NOTAMs, or your own judgment.

Screenshots

Yr4 screens
CX Aviation Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Yr at #119 against CX Aviation Weather's unranked. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 10 level
Yr versus CX Aviation Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYrCX Aviation Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (202 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings202 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#119 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size130 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNRKCloudX

Bugs and requests

Yr

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

CX Aviation Weather

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Yr

No in-app purchases

None

CX Aviation Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yr free?
Yr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CX Aviation Weather free?
CX Aviation Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Yr or CX Aviation Weather have ads?
Neither Yr nor CX Aviation Weather shows ads.

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