MetService vs Seabreeze.com.au
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MetService
Get detailed weather forecasts and real-time updates for your location. Plan your day with hourly icons, severe weather alerts, and interactive maps. Customize your dashboard and access useful indexes like UV and fire ratings.
- Hourly weather icons
- Severe weather warnings
- Customizable dashboard
- Real-time rain radar
- 48-hour forecast graphs
- Interactive temperature map
- Specialized weather indexes
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MetService NZ Weather Features include: - Morning, afternoon, evening and overnight icons, set by our meteorologists, to help you plan your day - Severe Weather Warnings and Watches for your location - Automatically see the forecast and observations that are most relevant to you, by enabling location services or choosing your suburb, town or city - Customise your weather dashboard, your shortcuts bar, and the order of forecast modules - Real-time, zoomable Rain Radar for your area, with quick link - 48 hour forecast graphs - Interactive national temperature map - Handy ratings and indexes, such as the laundry drying forecast, UV index, fire rating and pet walking forecasts - MetService TV updates - 3 day, zoomable Rain Forecast maps - Live Traffic Cameras for urban locations - Home screen, lock screen and notification centre widgets available Please see the EULA here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Seabreeze.com.au
Access detailed coastal weather forecasts and live reports for over 20,000 Australian locations. Find the ideal conditions for watersports and browse a vast selection of water sports gear in the classifieds section.
- 7-day wind speed & direction forecasts
- 7-day tide predictions
- 7-day wave height, direction & period predictions
- Live wind reports
- Water sports classifieds
- Private messaging for classifieds
- Watch list for favorite listings
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Australia's #1 Watersports website - seabreeze.com.au Do you dream of the ideal conditions on the ocean? Get the info you need to get out on the water doing what you like doing best, more often. For over 25 years, Seabreeze has been the go-to site for reliable coastal weather forecasts, live weather reports. Add the most popular water sports classifieds and community, and you've set for good times on the water. ###### WEATHER ###### FORECASTS and LIVE WEATHER for over 20,000 locations around Australia, including * 7 Day Wind Speed & Wind Direction forecasts * 7 Day Tide predictions * 7 Day Wave Height, Wave Direction and Wave Period predictions * 7 Day Temperature Forecasts * 7 Day Rainfall Forecasts * Live Rain Radar * LIVE wind reports from Australian beach weather stations * Moon phases & Sunrise / Sunset for the coming week. ..all presented using the Unique and Innovative weather graphs that make knowing when to go a simple glance of the screen. ###### CLASSIFIEDS ####### Australia's most popular water sports classifieds! Features: - Largest listings of water sports gear in Australia - Browse adverts, zoom in on photos - Private messaging to discuss with buyers & sellers - Post your own adverts to an enourmous audience - Post photos of your item using iPhone camera/gallery - Create a 'watch list' of your favourite listings More 2nd hand/used Kitesurfing gear, SUP (Stand Up Paddle Boards), Windsurfing, Surfing and Foilboard & Wind Wing listings than any other source in Australia! Seabreeze.com.au - serving weather junkies since 1997!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Seabreeze.com.au at 93% against MetService's 21%. Seabreeze.com.au also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). MetService's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#191 vs unranked). On price, ratings volume, 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. MetService sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Seabreeze.com.au sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Seabreeze.com.au holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of MetService's written reviews are positive against 93% of Seabreeze.com.au's.
MetService ships an update every 3 weeks, Seabreeze.com.au every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MetService | Seabreeze.com.au |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) | 4.7 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.5% of reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #191 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MetService | WeatherWise Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
MetService
Seabreeze.com.au
User reviews
MetService
From 13 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Accurate weather information
- 🚀 Comprehensive and easy to use
- 💡 Helpful features like rain radar and tide forecasts
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent inaccuracies in weather forecasts
- 🔍 Limited data for some locations
- 💸 Ads and paid subscriptions
- 🤔 Contradictory information between different parts of the app
Seabreeze.com.au
From 19 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and understand
- 🎯 Accurate weather and wind forecasts
- 🌊 Great for water sports (boating, fishing, surfing, sailing, etc.)
- 💨 Reliable wind predictions
- 📈 Informative graphs and data
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes or bugs
- 📉 Forecasts can be inaccurate at times
- 🚫 Missing features (e.g., swell forecast in some versions)
- ↔️ UI changes that are not well-received
- 🎛️ Difficulty reading or zooming in certain views
Bugs and requests
MetService
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets not working correctly
- Crashes and freezes
- Location services not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Option to remove ads for paid users
- More detailed and localized weather data
- Improved widget functionality
- Apple Watch support
Seabreeze.com.au
Reported bugs
7 issues- Contact button doesn't work
- App crashes consistently on ordering and filtering in buy and sell
- Buy n sell not working
- Pictures aren't showing up on ads
- Error codes when trying to post an item for sale
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- App quits itself after coming back on it
- Scrolling when touching is a bit clunky on the latest version
Requested features
12 requests- Fix contact/feedback button
- Ability to remove or reorder photos on paid adverts
- Restore combined top graph (swell, wind, weather temp)
- Ability to zoom in on maps/charts
- Include moonrise and moonset times
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- Longer time period of weather forecasts
- More detailed tide data for specific locations
- Live ocean swell data from offshore buoys
- Winds in kilometers
- More detail for offshore wind conditions at least 5 kms out
- Customise which weather stations appear on the screen
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
MetService
- Choose Ad Free - Monthly$0.991 Month
- Choose Ad Free - Annual$12.991 Year
Seabreeze.com.au
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Advert Listing$3.99
- Advert Listing$8.99
- Advert Free$9.99
Questions
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