Comparison

Drying Buddy vs Drying Day

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

Head to head
About

Drying Buddy

This app estimates how long your laundry will take to dry, both indoors and outdoors. It uses local weather data for outdoor drying and adjusts estimates for indoor conditions. Get rain alerts and drying reminders.

Highlights
  • Drying Timer with estimated completion
  • Indoor and Outdoor drying modes
  • Hourly and Daily weather forecasts
  • Rain alerts for outdoor drying
  • Customizable laundry load types
  • Local weather condition integration
  • Drying completion notifications
Features
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Dry laundry with better timing. Drying Buddy helps you decide when conditions are right to dry clothes, whether you are hanging them outside or drying them indoors. SEE DRYING CONDITIONS AT A GLANCE Get a simple drying score based on the weather, with temperature, humidity, wind and rain risk brought together in one clear view. PLAN AHEAD Check the next 12 hours or the 7-day forecast to find a better window for laundry day. DRY INDOORS WITH MORE CONFIDENCE Choose your laundry type, get an estimated drying duration and start a timer so you do not have to keep checking the clock. RAIN ALERTS Turn on rain notifications to help avoid leaving laundry outside when the weather changes. SIMPLE BY DESIGN No complicated setup. Just useful weather information, a calm interface and Soga keeping an eye on the laundry. Drying Buddy uses Apple Weather to provide weather data. Forecast availability and accuracy may vary by location and conditions.

About

Drying Day

Features
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Some days the clothesline does a full load in two hours. Some days everything hangs damp until dark, and some days the rain gets to your laundry before you do. Drying Day answers the only laundry question that matters, before you press start on the washer: is it worth hanging outside today? A verdict, not a weather chart No radar to squint at, no humidity graphs to interpret. One clear answer in plain words — great drying day, good day to line-dry, drying will be slow, risky with a chance of rain, or better dry indoors — with the reason in one warm sentence underneath. What you get • An estimated drying window for today, with suggested times to hang out and bring in: "9 am – 3:30 pm." • How fast the line will work — roughly when a full load should be dry. • A suggested bring-in time, and why: forecast rain, or dusk. • The next three days as laundry advice, with the best laundry day tagged — so "do a load today or Saturday?" takes one glance. • Quiet, useful alerts (all optional): a heads-up the evening before a good drying day, a nudge when the window opens, and a reminder to bring the laundry in before forecast rain. • A "play it safe with rain" switch for people who'd rather rewash nothing, ever. • Wind in mph, humidity as a percentage, times that follow your clock setting. • A last-checked note when you're offline, so you always know how fresh the advice is. Honest about forecasts A forecast is a guess, and Drying Day says so. It hedges where hedging is honest, tells you the main risk out loud, and leaves the final call where it belongs — with the sky over your own clothesline. Built for people who line-dry Whether it's a backyard clothesline, a retractable line on the porch, a rack on the balcony, or a drying rack by the window on the days the sky says no — if you hang laundry to dry, this is for you. Made in Australia, where a good drying day is a genuine household event, and it works anywhere in the world there's weather and wet laundry. Quietly respectful No accounts, no tracking, no laundry log. Your location is used to fetch the forecast and show your area’s name, and we run no servers of our own — the privacy policy explains the rest, including the single ad. Free with a single unobtrusive banner; one small one-time purchase removes it forever. No subscriptions, ever. Weather data by WeatherAPI.com. Drying Day is an informational tool — it reads forecasts, it doesn't control clouds.

Screenshots

Drying Buddy4 screens
Drying Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Drying Day at 15.0 against Drying Buddy's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Drying Buddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drying Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drying Buddy ships an update every 2 weeks, Drying Day fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Drying Buddy versus Drying Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrying BuddyDrying Day
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChloe AgostiniI OSTAPENKO & Y OSTAPENKO

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Drying Buddy

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
1 purchases

Drying Day

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Drying Buddy free?
Drying Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drying Day free?
Drying Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drying Buddy or Drying Day have ads?
Both Drying Buddy and Drying Day show ads.
Which is updated more often, Drying Buddy or Drying Day?
Drying Buddy ships an update every 2 weeks, and Drying Day fortnightly. Most recently, Drying Buddy was updated on October 26, 2026 and Drying Day on October 25, 2026.

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