MetService vs Holfuy
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/
Holfuy
Access live weather data from Holfuy automatic stations, including wind speed, temperature, and humidity. View historical data, graphs, and customize units for a personalized experience. Optimized for minimal data usage.
- Live weather measurements
- Historical data archives
- Wind and temperature graphs
- User-selectable units
- Favorite stations list
- Automatic data refresh
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The official iOS mobile application for Holfuy automatic weather stations. With this application you can check the following live measurements form Holfuy weather stations: - Wind speed, gust - Wind direction - Air temperature - Wind chill - Humidity - Pressure - Daily rain amount Features: - Favourite stations list with Holfuy account handling - Wind speed, gust, direction and temperature graphs. - Averaged archive data tables - User selectable units (kph, mps, mph and knots, °C and °F for temperature) - Automatic data refresh - User friendly layouts - Minimal mobile data usage - Local time for every single station Learn more about Holfuy stations: https://holfuy.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Holfuy at 76% against MetService's 22%. Holfuy also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). MetService's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. MetService sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Holfuy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Holfuy holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MetService has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of MetService's written reviews are positive against 76% of Holfuy's.
MetService ships an update every 3 weeks, Holfuy every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MetService | Holfuy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.0% of reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MetService | Gipfeliot Mrnki Fejleszt Korltolt Felelssg Trsasg |
Customer experience
MetService
Holfuy
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
Holfuy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MetService
- Choose Ad Free - Monthly$0.991 Month
- Choose Ad Free - Annual$12.991 Year
Holfuy
No in-app purchases
