Wind App vs Wetter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wind App
This app displays current local wind speed and direction from nearby weather stations. It offers customizable units, a live compass, and background color changes based on wind strength. Share wind data or check it quickly on your Apple Watch.
- Current local wind speed and direction
- Live compass for wind direction
- Customizable wind speed units
- Background color changes with wind speed
- Hourly wind updates
- Apple Watch app for quick lookup
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Do you want to go sailing, windsurfing, biking or just out of the door? This application shows the current local outdoor wind speed (in beaufort, mph, km/h and knots) and direction, measured by a nearby weather station for which it uses your current location. Features: - The background color changes with the wind speed - The direction of the wind is shown on a live compass - Change between different wind speed units (beaufort, mph, km/h, m/s, knots) - Change arrow poining direction to either from wind or to wind (weather vane) - The wind is automatically updated every hour - The location is automatically updated when you move more than 5 miles/10km - The current wind date can be shared - Support for iPhone X - Support for the iPad multitasking (split view..) Runs on the Apple Watch: - wind speed and direction - the background color changes with the wind speed - wind mill speed indicates wind speed - watch app and glance interface for a quick lookup
Wetter
This application visualizes weather data through detailed meteograms, showing past conditions and future forecasts for any location worldwide. It offers extensive historical and predictive data, including temperature, precipitation, and wind, sourced from multiple forecast models.
- Beautiful meteogram visualizations
- Data from ECMWF and DWD ICON models
- Global location data
- 14-day forecast and history
- Temperature, rain, cloud cover, and more
- Location selection via database, map, or current GPS
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Wetter is an app which draws beautiful meteograms. A meteogram is a time plot that uses data for a specific location on the ground. It can display past weather conditions up to the current time forecast and predict weather out into the future. - data from 6 weather forecast models (ECMWF, ICON, GFS, UKMO, JMA, and GEM), 3 of them can displayed together - data for every place on the world - Wetter is free of charge, no subscription, no in app purchases - 14 day forecast data - 14 day history data - zoom and slide - display temperature, rain prediction, cloud cover, humidity, CAPE, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, dew point - the location can be selected from a database with ~200000 entries - or the location can be selected from the map - or your current location can be used - you can maintain a favorite list
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wetter at 100% against Wind App's 29%. Wetter also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.8 vs 2.3). Wind App's advantage is chart position (#111 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 1). On ratings volume, 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
Wetter is free to download; Wind App costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wetter holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Wind App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wetter's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wind App | Wetter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (6 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #111 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Mike Wesemann |
Customer experience
Wind App
Wetter
In-app purchases
Wind App
No in-app purchases
Wetter
No in-app purchases
