Comparison

Dank Weather vs WhatTheHail?

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

Head to head
About

Dank Weather

Get real-time, up-to-the-millisecond weather updates from a global network of weather stations. This app offers hyper-local insights with a user-friendly interface, perfect for planning your day or tracking weather trends.

Highlights
  • Blazing fast data delivery
  • Global weather station network
  • Hyper-local insights
  • User-friendly interface
  • Real-time updates
Features
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Dank Weather shows the weather where it is actually being measured: personal weather stations, airport METAR reports and flood gauges on the DankWeather network, updating live as each reading arrives. Nothing on screen is a forecast. Every number is a real reading from a real sensor, stamped with how long ago it landed. Pick a station and it is on your home screen in seconds: the temperature right now, what it feels like, today's high and low, and a chart of the last 24 hours. Swipe between your favourites. THREE WAYS TO LOOK AT IT • Cards: hero temperature, a labelled 24-hour chart, and a card for each thing the station measures. • Ledger: an instrument panel with one row per reading, a 24-hour trace and a monospaced caption. • Dial: one big instrument with a compass ring, wind pointer, arcs for rain and air quality, and the temperature in the middle. GO DEEPER ON ANY READING Tap a card for its page: Temperature, Humidity, Wind, Rain, Air Quality, Barometer, UV Index and Solar. Each has a chart with a labelled scale for the last day, week, month or year. Drag across it to read any bar. Then the numbers that matter: the peak gust and when it blew, the prevailing wind, rain this event, today and this year, the pressure trend over the last three hours, dew point comfort, UV protection advice, the day's solar energy. Share any page as a text summary with a link to the station. STAYS WITH YOU • Live Activity: follow a station on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. It updates with every reading, not on a schedule. • Widgets: small, medium and large home screen widgets plus Lock Screen widgets for temperature, feels like, humidity, wind, air quality and UV, with a data-age label that keeps counting between refreshes. • Apple Watch: the station on your wrist, with complications for temperature, humidity, wind, rain and air quality. • Stale alerts: a notification when a station you care about stops reporting. FIND STATIONS Search by name, browse airports and flood gauges, or use Near me. The map shows every station in view with its current temperature, rain, air quality or wind, and updates in place. AIR QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST The AQI is computed from the sensor's own PM2.5 concentration using the EPA's 2024 breakpoints, the same table the DankWeather website uses, so the number here is the number there. YOUR UNITS Fahrenheit or Celsius. mph, km/h or knots. Inches or millimetres. inHg, hPa or mbar. Whole degrees or tenths. BUILT FOR IPAD TOO The same app on iPad, with the cards kept phone-sized and centred instead of stretched across the screen. Sign in with your DankWeather account to sync favourites with the website and to see the stations you own, including the provisioning key for adding a new one. No account is needed to use the app. Dank Weather is the companion app for dankweather.com.

About

WhatTheHail?

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Hail can total your car in minutes. WhatTheHail watches the skies so you don't have to and helps you get your vehicle out of harm's way. Built on live National Weather Service and NOAA radar data, WhatTheHail shows you exactly where hail is falling, warns you when a storm is heading for your location, and plans driving routes that steer around the worst of it. FREE • Live hail and storm radar map • Hail-zone overlays so you can see the threat at a glance • Severe-weather alerts for your current location • Instant "is there hail near me right now?" check WhatTheHail+ (subscription) • Storm Watch - round-the-clock monitoring that alerts you to move your car before hail hits, even when the app is closed • Route hazard scoring - check any trip for hail risk before you leave • Storm-aware navigation - turn-by-turn routing that reroutes you around hail in real time • Trip planning with multiple stops and side-by-side route comparison • Multiple saved locations - home, work, school, etc. WHO IT'S FOR Drivers in hail country who'd rather not explain another shattered windshield to their insurer. SUBSCRIPTION WhatTheHail+ is $4.99/month or $29.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Less than a comprehensive deductible — one avoided hailstorm pays for years. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. IMPORTANT WhatTheHail! is an informational aid, not a substitute for official National Weather Service warnings or for safe driving judgment. Weather data may be delayed or inaccurate. Always follow official alerts and never interact with the app while driving. Privacy Policy: https://hailno.adaptiveintelsolutions.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dank Weather4 screens
WhatTheHail?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dank Weather at none against WhatTheHail?'s 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. WhatTheHail? sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Dank Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dank Weather ships an update every 5 weeks, WhatTheHail? every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Dank Weather versus WhatTheHail?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDank WeatherWhatTheHail?
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDrake AppsBenjamin Fulton

In-app purchases

None

Dank Weather

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

WhatTheHail?

Subscriptions2
  • WhatTheHail+ Monthly$4.991 Month
  • WhatTheHail+ Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Dank Weather free?
Dank Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhatTheHail? free?
WhatTheHail? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dank Weather or WhatTheHail? have ads?
Neither Dank Weather nor WhatTheHail? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dank Weather or WhatTheHail??
Dank Weather ships an update every 5 weeks, and WhatTheHail? every 6 weeks. Most recently, Dank Weather was updated on October 21, 2026 and WhatTheHail? on October 24, 2026.

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