Yahoo Weather vs Synodic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yahoo Weather
Get accurate local weather forecasts and alerts, including detailed temperature tracking, snow predictions, and severe weather warnings. Visualize weather patterns with interactive radar and maps, and plan travel with global forecasts for up to 20 cities. Enjoy a beautiful, immersive interface with stunning photography and animated weather modules.
- Winter storm tracking
- Severe weather alerts
- 10-day forecasts
- Interactive radar maps
- Global weather for multiple cities
- Beautiful photography and animations
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Weather for people with places to be. Forecasts, air quality, and pollen. Everything you need before you walk out the door. Favorite Features: Accurate, Actionable Forecasts • Stay Prepared: The numbers that decide your day come first: temperature, wind, and the chance of rain. • Minute-by-Minute Precipitation: MinuteCast® tells you the minute rain starts or stops at your exact location. Plan your day with precision. • Severe Weather Safety: Opt-in alerts for dangerous weather, major storms, and heat waves. You decide what’s worth an alert. • Detailed Daily Planning: Hourly, 5-day, and 10-day forecasts, so you can plan the week and adjust when it changes. • RealFeel®: The thermometer doesn't tell the whole story. RealFeel® factors in wind and humidity. Know what to wear for the weather before you're in it. • Widgets: The forecast before you open the app. • Light & Dark Mode: Choose the look that works for you, or let it match your phone. Interactive Radar & Maps • Live Weather Radar: What's falling right now, on your street or anywhere on the globe. • Track Storms: See where a storm is headed and when it will reach you. Air Quality, Pollen & Health • Air Quality: Real-time AQI, so you can check the air before walking the dog, your commute, or a day outside. • Pollen Count: Daily pollen counts for tree, grass, and weed, so allergy season has fewer surprises. • UV Index: Sunburn risk for the day, even when it's cool or cloudy, so you know when to cover up. • Humidity & Dew Point: A better read on how the air will feel than temperature alone. Travel & Multi-City Tracking • Know Before You Go: Add up to 20 cities to your dashboard. Pack for the weather that's where you’ll actually be. • Multi-City Swipe: One swipe between your hometown, your next trip, and your favorite destinations. • Airport Weather: The forecast at major airports, so you know the weather at both ends of your flight. Photography & Design • Beautiful Photography: Real photos matched to your location, the time of day, and what the sky is doing right now. • Clean Interface: Open the app, get your answer, go. Nothing between you and the forecast. • Moon Phase: Tonight's phase, moonrise and moonset, and days until the next full moon. Accessibility • Works with your device's built-in screen reader. Optimized for color contrast. Follows the text size you set on your device. Helpful Tips • Scroll Down: For detailed weather information, simply scroll down on the main screen. • Manage Locations: Tap the search button and add your favorite cities to see their forecasts. Perfect for following the weather where your people live. Download Yahoo Weather. Accurate forecasts, real photography, and a quick answer to what today looks like.
Synodic
This minimalist app precisely tracks the real-time alignment of the sun, earth, and moon with fluid, responsive graphics. It offers a tiny footprint and absolute privacy, bringing the night sky to your device without clutter or tracking.
- Precise sun, earth, moon alignment tracking
- Fluid, responsive Metal graphics
- Tiny 1.5 MB footprint
- Absolute privacy: no ads, no tracking
- Real-time celestial body alignment
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Software today has gotten heavy. It has gotten lazy. Open the App Store and you will see simple utilities that require hundreds of megabytes of space, filled with tracking pixels, unnecessary libraries, and visual clutter. We believe your iPhone deserves better. We believe you deserve better. We did something radical. We went back to the absolute roots of great software engineering. We stripped away the noise, optimized every single byte, and wrote our code by hand. The result is Synodic. Synodic tracks the precise, real-time alignment of the sun, earth, and moon. It does one thing, and it does it with absolute perfection. At just 1.5 megabytes, it occupies virtually zero space on your device, yet it places the entire night sky in the palm of your hand. By utilizing Apple's advanced Metal graphics framework, the interface doesn't just sit there—it feels alive. As you tilt and turn your phone, the lunar lighting shifts smoothly, responding instantly to the movement of your hands. It is fluid, responsive, and incredibly natural. Features: • Pure Engineering: A tiny 1.5 MB footprint that downloads instantly and respects your storage. • Metal Architecture: High-fidelity graphics rendering that mimics the physical behavior of light. • Absolute Privacy: No ads, no user tracking, and no third-party data analytics. Just clean software. Synodic represents what happens when technology meets poetry. It isn't just an app. It is a testament to how elegant software can be when you care about the details. Experience the cosmos, completely weightless.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Synodic at none against Yahoo Weather's shown. Synodic also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). Yahoo Weather's advantage is ratings volume (191K vs 1) and chart position (#116 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Synodic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yahoo Weather has 191K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Yahoo Weather's written reviews are positive against 100% of Synodic's.
Yahoo Weather ships an update every 3 weeks, Synodic daily. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Yahoo Weather | Synodic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (191K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 191K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #116 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yahoo | Siddhartha Varma |
Customer experience
Yahoo Weather
Synodic
Bugs and requests
Yahoo Weather
Reported bugs
4 issues- Temperature display stuck in Fahrenheit despite Celsius setting
- Weather data not updating correctly or in a timely manner
- Incorrect or missing location data for some areas
- Notification issues, such as not receiving alerts or incorrect information
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to customize the app's appearance and layout
- Option to remove ads or pay for an ad-free version
- More detailed weather radar and storm tracking features
- Improved widget functionality and customization
- Integration with other weather data sources for better accuracy
Synodic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yahoo Weather
No in-app purchases
Synodic
No in-app purchases







