Comparison

Weather Widget Magic vs Air Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Weather Widget Magic

Customize your home screen with dynamic, visually stunning weather widgets. Get accurate, real-time forecasts, hourly and daily predictions, and essential environmental data with a clean, user-friendly interface.

Highlights
  • Customizable widgets with 40+ styles
  • Dynamic backgrounds adapting to weather/time
  • Hourly and daily forecast flexibility
  • Real-time conditions (temp, humidity, wind, AQI)
  • Live radar and accurate forecasts
  • Storm, wind, and heatwave alerts
  • AI Weather notifications
Features
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR LIVE WEATHER WIDGETS Turn your Home Screen into a living weather display. Choose from 50+ widgets in small, medium and large sizes, plus Lock Screen widgets, with dynamic backgrounds that change with the weather and the time of day, from a bright sunny morning to a stormy night. Make every widget yours: colors, gradients, fonts, weather icon packs, grain and light or dark appearance, with a live preview as you edit. Each widget can show its own location. NEW: WALKING WEATHER WIDGET Your steps and the weather in one widget. Walking Weather reads your steps and walking distance from Apple Health and shows today's progress toward your daily goal, a weekly chart and the next hours of forecast. It also tells you the best time to go for a walk today, based on rain, heat, cold, wind, UV and air quality. Link it to the Walking AI Habit for a personal tip every day. Health data is only read, never written, and never leaves your iPhone. SIMPLE, ACCURATE WEATHER APP A clean, organized app with accurate real-time data for any location: hourly and daily forecasts, precipitation amounts, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, UV index, air quality, sunrise and sunset, and moon phase. Tap any value to see its full detail. LIVE RADAR Follow rain as it moves on an interactive map. Add layers for clouds, temperature, wind, lightning, fog, air quality and pollutants, and track tropical storms and hurricanes. AI HABITS AND SMART ALERTS Tell the app about your routines, like a walk, a run or a bike ride, and AI Habits checks the forecast for you and suggests the best time. Get alerts for storms, rain, wind and heat waves, and follow incoming rain live on your Lock Screen. KEY FEATURES - 50+ customizable weather widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen - NEW Walking Weather widget with Apple Health steps and the best time to walk - Clean and simple weather app with accurate data - Real-time conditions: temperature, humidity, wind, UV, air quality - Hourly and daily forecasts - Live radar with rain, clouds, lightning, temperature, wind, fog and air quality - Tropical storm and hurricane tracking - AI Habits: personal weather tips for your daily routines - Storm, rain, wind and heatwave alerts - Rain Live Activity on the Lock Screen - UV index, air quality, sun path and moon phase - Photo widget with your own pictures - Clock, calendar, moon, UV, air quality and temperature widgets - Dynamic backgrounds that adapt to weather and time of day - A different location for every widget A WIDE RANGE OF THEMES FOR YOUR WEATHER WIDGETS Classic, minimalist, aesthetic, anime, beach, landscape and 3D themes, with new ones added regularly. Dynamic backgrounds cover every condition, sunny, cloudy, partly cloudy, rain, fog, snow and more, by day and by night, so your Home Screen always reflects the sky outside. WHY CHOOSE US? A clean, detailed forecast app paired with the most flexible weather widgets for iPhone and iPad. Whether you prefer a minimal display or an immersive scene, you choose the look and the data. Say goodbye to generic weather apps: our live weather widgets turn your screen into a stunning, functional work of art. TERMS AND CONDITIONS https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ DOWNLOAD NOW Elevate your weather experience: precise forecasts, stunning visuals, and widgets that adapt to your life.

About

Air Buddy

Features
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AirBuddy – Discover what you're really breathing, all the time AirBuddy is a simple and fun widget that lets you visualize your actual exposure to air pollution at any time. Whether you're at home, at work, or on the go, AirBuddy tracks the air conditions around you and translates them into a clear, expressive, and immediately understandable representation. At the heart of the app is your Buddy, a little character who "breathes" just like you: when the air is clean, he's fine; when the air becomes laden with fine particles or pollutants, his expression changes to visually alert you. The goal is to make an invisible phenomenon tangible, while offering you a personalized, continuous, and discreet reading of air quality. → An instant reading of your personal exposure AirBuddy displays at a glance the state of the air you are exposed to right now. The app uses external air quality data to estimate concentrations around you and provide a clear index, accompanied by easy-to-interpret color codes. The visualization is designed to be consulted quickly, several times a day, to better understand your immediate environment. Your Buddy: a companion that experiences the same air quality as you Your Buddy reacts directly to the ambient air: Clean air → Buddy breathes calmly Moderate pollution → Buddy begins to show signs of discomfort High pollution → Buddy has difficulty breathing, prompting you to be vigilant This playful representation, inspired by the "Tamagotchi" spirit, makes air quality more intuitive than ever. → Detailed Pollutant Analysis AirBuddy gives you access to the estimated concentration of the main air pollutants: PM2.5, PM10, NO₂, Ozone Each value is accompanied by a standardized color code, allowing you to quickly assess the level of health risk. The app also highlights situations where your exposure exceeds the thresholds recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) or European standards. → Exposure History: 24 Hours and Several Days AirBuddy keeps a simple but essential history: your exposure over the last 24 hours, your trend over the last few days or weeks. This feature helps you identify patterns: times of day with higher pollution levels, places that are usually cleaner or busier, seasonal variations, etc. → Completely Anonymized Data AirBuddy does not collect any personally identifiable information. Your location remains strictly anonymized, and the data used to estimate air quality comes from independent external APIs. Eventually, AirBuddy will integrate high-precision data from Planet’AIR, an air quality model developed by IFP Energies nouvelles, offering an even more accurate estimate of the air you breathe. → A discreet yet essential widget AirBuddy was designed for effortless access. Add it to your home or lock screen: your current exposure is always visible, even without opening the app. This passive and continuous monitoring helps you better understand your environment and, if you wish, adapt some of your daily habits. → Why AirBuddy? Because knowing “the air quality of a city” doesn’t reflect what you’re actually breathing. AirBuddy focuses on personal, continuous, and contextualized exposure. Two people living on the same street can be exposed to different levels of risk depending on their immediate surroundings. Thanks to AirBuddy, this reality is finally becoming visible and accessible.

Screenshots

Weather Widget Magic4 screens
Air Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Air Buddy at none against Weather Widget Magic's 10. Air Buddy also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). 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. Weather Widget Magic sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Air Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weather Widget Magic ships an update weekly, Air Buddy every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Weather Widget Magic versus Air Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeather Widget MagicAir Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size319 MB23 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperED ANFSIFP Energies Nouvelles

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Weather Widget Magic

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time8
  • Calendar PRO$2.99
  • Moon phase$2.99
  • Majestic Clock$2.99
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  • Ocean Waves$2.99
  • Samurai$2.99
  • Temperature PRO$2.99
  • AQI PRO$2.99
  • Maritime Luxe$2.99
None

Air Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Weather Widget Magic free?
Weather Widget Magic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Air Buddy free?
Air Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Weather Widget Magic or Air Buddy have ads?
Neither Weather Widget Magic nor Air Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Weather Widget Magic or Air Buddy?
Weather Widget Magic ships an update weekly, and Air Buddy every 10 days. Most recently, Weather Widget Magic was updated on November 8, 2026 and Air Buddy on October 30, 2026.

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