MetService vs Melbourne Pollen Count
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/
Melbourne Pollen Count
This app provides Victorians with real-time pollen forecasts and tracks hay fever symptoms. It offers proactive notifications for high grass pollen levels and includes a unique thunderstorm asthma forecast system developed with health authorities. Users can also contribute to vital research on pollen's health impacts.
- Accurate pollen forecasts
- Hay fever symptom tracking
- Proactive pollen notifications
- Thunderstorm asthma forecasts
- Contribute to health research
- Allergy management tools
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The Melbourne Pollen App provides Victorians with pollen forecasts generated using real-world pollen count data collected from our statewide network of monitoring sites. You can use the Melbourne Pollen App to track your hay fever symptoms to figure out which pollen types are triggering your symptoms. Our notification system can alert you when grass pollen levels in your area are high, helping you plan your activities. Since the November 2016 thunderstorm asthma event, Melbourne Pollen has worked closely with the Victorian Department of Health and Bureau of Meteorology to develop and implement a Thunderstorm Asthma forecast system to minimize the impact that any future epidemic thunderstorm asthma events may have on the community and the Victorian health system. Our notification system can alert you to forecasts of thunderstorm asthma in your area. Key Features: Accurate Pollen Forecasts: Get reliable predictions for a variety of pollen types, enabling you to identify and manage your hay fever triggers effectively. Proactive Notifications: Receive timely alerts when grass pollen levels spike in your area, allowing you to plan your activities with confidence. Thunderstorm Asthma Forecasts: Developed in collaboration with health authorities, the Thunderstorm Asthma forecast system helps protect the community and health system from potential future epidemics. Contribute to Research: By participating in our surveys, you play a crucial role in advancing our understanding of pollen's impact on health, ultimately benefiting the wider community. Comprehensive Allergy Management: From pollen counts to Thunderstorm Asthma alerts, we provide a complete suite of tools to help you navigate allergy season. Don't let allergies hold you back! Download the Melbourne Pollen Count and Forecast App today and reclaim control of your well-being. Your comfort is our top priority! Together, let's create a healthier, more informed community. Melbourne Pollen also conducts research aimed at better understanding the health impacts of the different types of pollen in our air. Completing the survey regularly helps us with this important work. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Melbourne Pollen Count at 4.5 against MetService's 3.4. Melbourne Pollen Count also leads on review sentiment (59% vs 20%). MetService's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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. MetService sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Melbourne Pollen Count sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Melbourne Pollen Count holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of MetService's written reviews are positive against 59% of Melbourne Pollen Count's.
MetService ships an update fortnightly, Melbourne Pollen Count every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MetService | Melbourne Pollen Count |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) | 4.5 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.1% of reviews | 58.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MetService | AirHealth Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
MetService
Melbourne Pollen Count
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
Melbourne Pollen Count
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for allergies
- 👍 Useful for asthma
- 👍 Provides peace of mind
- 👍 Great for planning
- 👍 Accurate information
Room to improve
- 👎 Ad-ridden bloatware
- 👎 Ruined by pretty pictures
- 👎 Confusing new interface
- 👎 Too difficult to navigate
- 👎 Obnoxious ads
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
Melbourne Pollen Count
Reported bugs
9 issues- Cannot migrate from airrater
- Old password/ID won't login
- Buttons missing to complete profile setup
- App stuck at newsletter screen
- Profile creation system bugged
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- Fails with older iOS (e.toSorted is not a function)
- Cannot log in after paying subscription
- App crashes more now than it works
- App glitches when opening, closes again
Requested features
21 requests- Include funding for free app
- Monitor data centers in Melbourne
- Alerts stay longer on screen
- Include iOS Shortcuts integration
- Forecast pollen for rest of week
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- Allow users to enter previous day's symptoms
- Daily reminder to complete survey
- Integration with Siri
- Notifications beyond current season
- More pollen types (tree, mold)
- Geolocation checking for pollen highs
- More concise information dump like other websites
- Allow users to opt in for daily survey reminder
- Option to enter previous days' symptoms
- Two-tier offer (standard and donor)
- Allow users to contribute to costs
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Allow users to report bugs within the app
- Make app free
- Revert to older version
In-app purchases
MetService
- Choose Ad Free - Monthly$0.991 Month
- Choose Ad Free - Annual$12.991 Year
Melbourne Pollen Count
- 1 Month Subscription$3.491 Month
- 1 Year Subscription$19.491 Year
Questions
Is MetService free?
Is Melbourne Pollen Count free?
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