OHIO WX vs UseDryTrails
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OHIO WX
This app provides detailed weather information for your current location or saved places. It features high-resolution radar, future radar, and satellite imagery, along with hourly and daily forecasts. Receive severe weather alerts and push notifications to stay informed.
- 250-meter high-resolution radar
- Future radar for severe weather tracking
- High-resolution satellite imagery
- Hourly and daily forecasts
- Saved locations
- GPS for current location
- Severe weather alerts
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OHIO WX is proud to announce a full featured weather app for the iPhone and iPad platforms. Features • Access to station content specifically for our mobile users • 250 meter radar, the highest resolution available • Future radar to see where severe weather is headed • High resolution satellite cloud imagery • Current weather updated multiple times per hour • Daily and Hourly forecasts updated hourly from our computer models • Ability to add and save your favorite locations • A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness • Severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service • Opt-in push alerts to keep you safe in severe weather
UseDryTrails
This app offers essential weather data for outdoor enthusiasts, including current conditions, temperature, sunrise/sunset times, and precipitation forecasts. It also provides soil moisture and temperature, with options for metric or standard units and saved locations.
- Current weather conditions
- Temperature highs and lows
- Sunrise and sunset times
- Precipitation forecasts
- Soil moisture and temperature
- Metric/Standard unit options
- Saved location functionality
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UseDryTrails is a simple weather application providing the most important weather information for trail users in one place. Current conditions, current temperature, today's low and high temperatures, today's sunrise and sunset times, precipitation totals for previous three days, today, and next two days, current soil moisture, and current soil temperature. Users can choose Metric or Standard units. Users can get conditions at their location as well as search for locations. Users can save locations with the search name or customize the name of the saved location. Defer to local trail conditions reported by trail stewards, organizations, and/or land managers. Weather data provided by Open-Meteo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: UseDryTrails at 100% against OHIO WX's 31%. UseDryTrails also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). OHIO WX's advantage is ratings volume (6.5K vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 15 months). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UseDryTrails holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OHIO WX has 6.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of OHIO WX's written reviews are positive against 100% of UseDryTrails's.
OHIO WX ships an update every 3 months, UseDryTrails every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OHIO WX | UseDryTrails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6.5K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc | Mike Whaley |
Customer experience
OHIO WX
UseDryTrails
Bugs and requests
OHIO WX
Reported bugs
5 issues- Radar only showing current/future, not past
- App not opening or freezing on launch
- Location settings not working properly
- Weather data not updating in real-time
- Incompatibility issues with newer devices
Requested features
5 requests- Widgets for quick weather access
- Pollen and air quality information
- Live weather broadcast videos
- Customizable location settings
- Improved radar/map functionality
UseDryTrails
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
OHIO WX
No in-app purchases
UseDryTrails
No in-app purchases
