Comparison

Dank Weather vs Undercast Weather Aether

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.

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Undercast Weather Aether

Features
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UndercastWeather Aether delivers National Weather Service forecasts alongside on-device, model-enhanced predictions you can compare side by side. The idea is simple: you should be able to see the official forecast AND a smarter interpretation of it — without giving up your privacy. WHAT MAKES UNDERCAST DIFFERENT • Dual-mode forecasts — switch between raw NWS data and Aether-enhanced predictions with a tap • On-device learning — Aether refines its forecasts using local signals; nothing leaves your device • Severe weather Live Activities — Tornado, Thunderstorm, Flood, and other warnings appear on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island the moment they're issued, with hazard-specific icons • Astronomical data — sunrise, sunset, moon phase, and twilight times sourced from the U.S. Naval Observatory • Searchable — find any U.S. location by ZIP code, city, or state, no location sharing required BUILT FOR APPLE PLATFORMS Native experiences on Mac, iPhone, and iPad — with a Home Screen widget for at-a-glance conditions. ONGOING UPDATES UndercastWeather regularly updates Aether to improve accuracy, performance, and features. PRIVACY FIRST Aether's learning happens on device. Your trained data never leaves your devices — with optional iCloud sync, it moves only between your Apple devices through your private iCloud account. You don't need to share your location to use the app, and we don't collect telemetry on your forecast usage. Our apps do not use third-party analytics, advertising SDKs, tracking SDKs, data brokers, or third-party service connections. We encourage every user to turn on Apple’s App Privacy Report to see this for themselves. To enable App Privacy Report on iPhone or iPad, open Settings > Privacy & Security > App Privacy Report > Turn On App Privacy Report. After you use the app for a while, iOS will show the network domains contacted by the app. For our apps, expected network activity should be limited to Apple-operated services needed for normal App Store, iCloud, device, or system functionality. In our weather app, you may also see direct connections to official weather or environmental data sources, such as NOAA, EPA, or similar public data originators used to provide the requested forecast, alert, air-quality, or environmental information. We believe privacy claims should be inspectable, not merely promised. NOTE Only locations within the United States are supported, as Aether is trained (on device) on data sourced by you from the National Weather Service.

Screenshots

Dank Weather4 screens
Undercast Weather Aether4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dank Weather at Free against Undercast Weather Aether's $9.99. Undercast Weather Aether's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Dank Weather is free to download; Undercast Weather Aether costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dank Weather ships an update every 5 weeks, Undercast Weather Aether weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Dank Weather versus Undercast Weather Aether: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDank WeatherUndercast Weather Aether
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDrake AppsNope Dragon LC

In-app purchases

None

Dank Weather

No in-app purchases

None

Undercast Weather Aether

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dank Weather free?
Dank Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Undercast Weather Aether free?
Undercast Weather Aether costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dank Weather or Undercast Weather Aether have ads?
Neither Dank Weather nor Undercast Weather Aether shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dank Weather or Undercast Weather Aether?
Dank Weather ships an update every 5 weeks, and Undercast Weather Aether weekly. Most recently, Dank Weather was updated on October 21, 2026 and Undercast Weather Aether on October 24, 2026.

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