Weathery vs Sky Warden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weathery
This application provides straightforward weather information for various cities with a focus on speed and simplicity. Its lightweight design ensures fast loading times, making it easy to check current conditions efficiently. Future updates are planned to introduce more features.
- Current weather information
- Support for multiple cities
- Lightweight design
- Fast loading times
- Simplistic interface
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Weathery is weather at its best. Clean, elegantly designed screens provide the necessary weather information you need without the density overload, helping you understand the weather around you as efficiently as possible. Weathery supports the following features: + Weather information powered by WeatherKit, including current conditions and forecasts for the next ten days, anywhere in the world + Live Activities for current conditions and incoming rain, keeping you informed from the Dynamic Island or Lock Screen + A wide range of elegantly designed widgets in different types and sizes, for both Home Screen and Lock Screen, so you don’t have to open Weathery every time + Map layers, including rain radar, clouds, temperature and more, to suit your needs + Notifications for today’s or tomorrow’s weather, warnings, good sunrise, sunset, aurora and UV conditions, and more + Weather warnings to help you stay informed + UV index and air quality statistics for key pollutants to help you care for your health + Clothing and activity suggestions to help you plan your day + Sunrise, sunset and stargazing scores, so you know whether it is worth looking up at the sky + Aurora information, including the chance of seeing an aurora, an interactive aurora map, the Kp index, and useful sun-related metrics + Past daily and hourly weather data from 1 August 2021 + Customisation options, including fonts and theme colours Visit https://weathery.featurebase.app if you have recommendations, feature requests, or bugs to report. Some features may require a Weathery+ subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sky Warden
This app provides a consolidated weather forecast by analyzing multiple leading models, highlighting their agreement and disagreements. It features a dynamic visual display, detailed hourly predictions for various conditions, and unique insights into solar energy and astronomical events. It aims to offer a more trustworthy weather prediction.
- Multi-model forecast analysis
- Confidence readings on forecasts
- Dynamic hand-drawn weather scenes
- Hour-by-hour detailed metrics
- Rain radar with timeline
- Solar and energy insights
- Event-threatening weather alerts
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Most weather apps pick one model and hide the rest. Sky Warden reads many of the world's leading forecast models at once — ECMWF, GFS, ICON, UKMO, GEM, Apple Weather and more — and reconciles them into one honest read: the temperature, the rain, the wind, HOW SURE the models are, and where they disagree. When every model agrees, you get a confident answer. When they split, Sky Warden shows you — the exact number each source gives, and how far apart they are — so a "90% chance of rain" you can trust never looks the same as a coin-toss. A LIVING FORECAST • A hand-drawn scene that redraws with the real conditions — sun, cloud, rain, wind, waves, the moon's phase, day into night — for your exact place. • Three home views: a picture-first Scene, a plain-language Simpler read, and a Details dial that shows every metric and the consensus confidence at a glance. HONEST BY DESIGN • A confidence reading on every forecast, from the models' actual agreement. • Tap it to see where the sources differ — each model's value, side by side. • Your own corrections ("it says rain, it's dry") are respected. HOUR BY HOUR, FOR WHAT YOU ACTUALLY DO • Temperature, rain, wind, UV and humidity — each with its own hour-by-hour view. • Rain has a "hide dry hours" toggle, so you see WHEN it rains, not a wall of 0%. • Tides and a full marine read (waves, period, sea temperature). • Live rain radar with a play-through timeline. MORE THAN A FORECAST • Solar & energy: when the sun's strong enough to run the dishwasher or charge — and, in supported regions, how clean the grid is right now. • Plans: reads your calendar and flags weather that threatens outdoor events. • Sky: meteor showers, eclipses, moon phases and space-weather news. • Rain-approaching notifications before you get caught out. PRIVATE No account, ever. Your location is used only to fetch the weather and is never tied to your identity. Your calendar is read on your device to flag events — it never leaves it. Two small, non-personalised ads keep Sky Warden free. Sky Warden is for anyone who's been burned by a confident forecast that was wrong — and would rather know when the models can't agree.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Weathery at 100% against Sky Warden's 40%. Weathery also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sky Warden's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Weathery sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Sky Warden asks for nothing beyond the download.
Weathery ships an update weekly, Sky Warden every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weathery | Sky Warden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charles Liu | David Defranceski |
Customer experience
Weathery
Sky Warden
In-app purchases
Weathery
- Weathery+ Monthly$1.491 Month
- Weathery+ Yearly7 Days trial$13.491 Year
Sky Warden
No in-app purchases
Questions
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