Comparison

WAWA 30A vs Elseweather

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

Head to head
About

WAWA 30A

Get a daily beach briefing with a score from 0-10 based on real-time conditions like wind, waves, and temperature. Plan your perfect beach day with hour-by-hour forecasts and activity-specific scoring. Includes sunrise/sunset times, moon phases, and local recommendations.

Highlights
  • Daily beach score (0-10)
  • Hour-by-hour forecast scrubber
  • Activity-aware scoring
  • Sunrise/sunset and golden hour times
  • 7-day outlook
  • Live beach flag status (30A)
  • Audio briefing (Cap's Recap)
Features
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KNOW YOUR BEACH SCORE. BEFORE. WAWA 30A is a daily beach briefing that scores every beach day 0–10 so you never waste a trip. One number, grounded in real conditions, before you leave the house. Born on Florida's Scenic Highway 30A and built for beach lovers everywhere, WAWA 30A turns 12+ data points — wind, waves, water temperature, UV, tides, weather, visibility, and more — into one simple score you can trust. YOUR DAILY BRIEFING - Beach score 0–10 at a glance - Plain-language summary of what today actually looks like - Hour-by-hour scrubber so you can plan your window - Auto-refresh as conditions change ACTIVITY-AWARE SCORING Switch the score to match your plan. Beach day, surfing, sunrise photography, sunset viewing, and more — the score recalculates for what matters to you. SUN + MOON - Sunrise and sunset times with golden hour windows - Sunset quality score (0–10), driven by cloud cover, humidity, and visibility - Moon phase, illumination, and days to the next full or new moon - Tide correlation with lunar phase THIS WEEK - 7-day outlook with peak-score day flagged - Daily highs, lows, wind, and rain probability - Best and worst hours at a glance LOCAL PICKS (30A) Hand-picked local spots — restaurants, shops, experiences — from people who actually live here, each one served up with a short film of the place. CAP'S RECAP (NEW IN 2.0) Tap Cap and get a 30-second audio briefing of your beach day — score, conditions, sun, tides — narrated aloud while you pack the car. LIVE BEACH FLAGS (30A) Real-time beach flag status for every 30A beach, sourced directly from the South Walton Fire District. Green, yellow, red, double-red, and purple (marine pests) updates as they happen. For beaches outside 30A, flag status is predicted algorithmically from current conditions. NATIONWIDE COVERAGE Search any beach in the United States. Handpicked curation for 30A: - Rosemary Beach - Alys Beach - Seacrest Beach - Seaside - WaterColor - Grayton Beach - Blue Mountain Beach - Santa Rosa Beach Plus one-tap access across Florida's Gulf Coast, the East Coast, the West Coast, and everywhere in between. PRIVACY FIRST - No accounts, no sign-ups, no personal data collected - Location services are optional, and only used to find nearby beaches - Your preferences stay on your device SUBSCRIPTION WAWA 30A Premium is an auto-renewing subscription with a 3-day free trial, then $1.99/month or $14.99/year. Full access to every card, every beach, every feature. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wawa30a.com/privacy-policy.html DATA SOURCES Weather and marine data from the National Weather Service, NOAA, and Open-Meteo. Beach flag data for 30A from the South Walton Fire District. Score calculations and sunset quality scoring are original to WAWA 30A. Built by beach lovers. Grounded in real data. Designed to make every beach day count.

About

Elseweather

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Most weather apps answer what. You name a place, they draw you the sky. Elseweather answers where. Pan the map, set the conditions you’re after, and the cities that match are the ones left on the screen. The map is the search Pan to a region and the largest cities in view pick up a temperature, a condition icon and a fortnight of trend. Set a filter and the ones that don’t match drop away, so what’s left is an answer rather than a picture. Conditions, not just places Pick the conditions you’ll accept, sunny, cloudy, fog, rain, snow, storm, then drag a temperature band, cap the rain chance, the wind or the air quality index. They combine, and they’re read over whichever days you point them at: all of them, or any one. Now, then fourteen days A slider steps from the live reading out to a fortnight ahead. The map redraws for the day you’re on, and a filter can sit on a window of days that isn’t the one you’re looking at. Tap a city for the rest A scrubbable chart, a day-by-day table that unfolds into hours, rainfall in millimetres, wind, humidity and air quality, as far ahead as the forecast actually reaches, and no further. Layers over the top Temperature, precipitation, wind and pressure as raster layers under the annotations. Widgets Add the Here widget to your home or lock screen and it shows the conditions where you are — the temperature, the sky, and the hours coming up with the chance of rain under them. It takes its own reading in the background, so it's current when you glance at it, and a tap opens the full forecast for wherever you're standing. No account, no tracking There’s no sign-in, no profile and no analytics or advertising code. Nothing is watching which buttons you press. Elseweather Plus The first three days stay free for everyone. Plus opens all 14, on the map, in the search filter and in every city you tap. Terms of use Elseweather supplies no licence of its own, so it’s covered by Apple’s standard end user licence agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

WAWA 30A3 screens
Elseweather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elseweather at none against WAWA 30A's 2. Elseweather also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). WAWA 30A's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. WAWA 30A sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Elseweather asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WAWA 30A ships an update every 3 months, Elseweather every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
WAWA 30A versus Elseweather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWAWA 30AElseweather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJake MarcumJasper Bel

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WAWA 30A

Subscriptions2
  • WAWA 30A Premium$1.991 Month
  • WAWA 30A Premium Annual$14.991 Year
None

Elseweather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WAWA 30A free?
WAWA 30A is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elseweather free?
Elseweather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WAWA 30A or Elseweather have ads?
WAWA 30A shows ads; Elseweather does not.
Which is updated more often, WAWA 30A or Elseweather?
WAWA 30A ships an update every 3 months, and Elseweather every 2 days. Most recently, WAWA 30A was updated on October 16, 2026 and Elseweather on October 9, 2026.

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