WEAR WX vs Explore Fall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WEAR WX
Get hyper-local weather information with high-resolution radar and satellite imagery. Receive severe weather alerts and plan your day with detailed hourly and daily forecasts. Save favorite locations and utilize GPS for real-time awareness.
- 250 meter high-resolution radar
- Future radar tracking
- High-resolution satellite imagery
- Hourly and daily forecasts
- Severe weather alerts
- Save favorite locations
- GPS current location awareness
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WEAR 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
Explore Fall
Discover the best fall foliage across the United States with interactive maps and community-driven reports. Get local forecasts for peak timing, current color status, and weather information. Follow seasonal highlights with real photos and videos.
- Interactive foliage map
- Local fall color forecasts
- Community foliage reports
- Seasonal highlights
- Date slider for color progression
- Real photos and videos
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Explore Fall helps you find the best fall color across the United States. Start on the Home tab for recent community reports, foliage photos, regional highlights, and a quick way to report what you are seeing. Search for a city, park, or scenic area to view a local fall foliage forecast with expected peak timing, current color status, local weather, and nearby community observations. Use the interactive foliage map to follow color progression through the season. Move the date slider to look ahead, compare timing across regions, and explore how fall color changes from early color to peak and past peak. Follow seasonal Highlights with real photos, videos, and updates from across the country. Community foliage reports are reviewed before submitted notes and photos are publicly visible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: WEAR WX at 3.3K against Explore Fall's 8. WEAR WX also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Explore Fall's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 64%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 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.
WEAR WX holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WEAR WX has 3.3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of WEAR WX's written reviews are positive against 86% of Explore Fall's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
WEAR WX ships an update every 3 months, Explore Fall every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WEAR WX | Explore Fall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.3K ratings) — better | 4.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.9% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 241 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc | Explore Fall LLC |
Customer experience
WEAR WX
Explore Fall
Bugs and requests
WEAR WX
Reported bugs
4 issues- Daily forecast links to wrong day
- Radar not displaying properly
- Slider freezing
- Alerts for light rain/no rain
Requested features
4 requests- Landscape mode for map display
- Extend 24-hour radar to 24 hours
- Improve timestamp visibility on radar
- Make app available on TV
Explore Fall
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WEAR WX
No in-app purchases
Explore Fall
No in-app purchases
