Comparison

Riding Weather vs TemperatureWidgetNow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Riding Weather

This app provides U.S. National Weather Service forecasts with a special focus on equestrians. It calculates the Equine Heat Index (EHI) to help determine safe riding conditions and offers detailed hourly and daily weather views.

Highlights
  • Equine Heat Index (EHI) calculation
  • Hourly and daily forecast graphs
  • Customizable weather condition display
  • Calendar view for hourly weather
  • Save multiple locations
  • Weather alerts
Features
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Riding Weather provides weather forecasts from the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) for anywhere in the United States. For equestrians, the app calculates the Equine Heat Index (EHI), which is also known as the Horse heat Index. The EHI is equal to the sum of the temperature (in °F) and the relative humidity (in %). The EHI can help you to decide when the weather conditions are appropriate for horseback riding and when conditions might produce heat stress in your horse. Be aware that temperature and humidity are important factors, but hardly the only factors, that can contribute to heat stress in horses and it is incumbent on the rider to take all factors into account. You can use the app as a regular weather by toggling off the display of the EHI. Riding weather uses two different ways of displaying weather data: When the iPhone or iPad are held vertically (i.e., portrait orientations), you will see a graph view. Slide your finger along the graph to see the conditions -- temperature, feels like temperature, relative humidity, precipitation probability, cloud cover, wind speed, gusts, and direction -- at any particular time. The use can control what appears on the graph by checking or unchecking any condition in the conditions table displayed below the graph. The user can also control the number of days that are plotted on the graph in the Settings screen. A narrative forecast is displayed by tapping the day name at the bottom of the graph. Weather alerts are also displayed and can be read in their entirety but there are no alert notifications when the app is in the background. When the device is held horizontally (landscape orientation), you will see an innovative "Calendar View" of the weather. Hourly weather is displayed by cells colored according to the selected condition: temperature, EHI, precipitation probability, wind speed, or cloud cover and be selected. When you drag your finger across the table, the conditions for the hour and day beneath your finger are displayed as button captions in the button selector at the top of the calendar. A narrative forecast for the day selected will be show when you lift your finger. The user can see a rudimentary, unanimated weather radar plot from the NWS for the selected location. However, if radar is your thing, you would be better off using one of the many fine weather apps available for iOS and iPad OS. The user can select their current location and can also save as many additional different locations as they want by entering a street address, latitude and longitude, or by simply tapping a location on a map. Locations can be renamed, their listing order changed, or erased at the discretion of the user. Riding weather is as privacy oriented as possible for a weather app that needs to know your location. The app is NOT ad-supported and your location data is never harvested by the app author. The locations you enter are sent to Apple for geocoding and to the NWS to retrieve the forecast data.

About

TemperatureWidgetNow

Features
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this app uses your current location to get the current temperature. the temperature is displayed, side by side, in both Fahrenheit and centigrade

Screenshots

Riding Weather4 screens
TemperatureWidgetNow1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Riding Weather at fortnightly against TemperatureWidgetNow's monthly. Riding Weather also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Riding Weather ships an update fortnightly, TemperatureWidgetNow monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Riding Weather versus TemperatureWidgetNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiding WeatherTemperatureWidgetNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard Allmendingerleeway software design

In-app purchases

None

Riding Weather

No in-app purchases

None

TemperatureWidgetNow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Riding Weather free?
Riding Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TemperatureWidgetNow free?
TemperatureWidgetNow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Riding Weather or TemperatureWidgetNow have ads?
Neither Riding Weather nor TemperatureWidgetNow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Riding Weather or TemperatureWidgetNow?
Riding Weather ships an update fortnightly, and TemperatureWidgetNow monthly. Most recently, Riding Weather was updated on October 20, 2026 and TemperatureWidgetNow on October 13, 2026.

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