Windly vs Jacket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Windly
This app provides detailed current weather conditions and forecasts across the entire Apple ecosystem. It offers photorealistic backgrounds, hourly and 10-day predictions, and customizable widgets. Saved locations sync across devices for easy access.
- Photorealistic weather backgrounds
- 24-hour hourly forecast
- 10-day temperature trend
- Home Screen widgets
- Unlimited favorite locations
- Offline weather caching
- Cross-device syncing
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Windly is a weather app that’s a pleasure to open. A big temperature, a line about your day and a sky that moves on the screen: rain, snow, storms, fog, twilight, stars and the Moon. For iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. No account, no ads, no data collection. HOME SCREEN • A huge temperature and the conditions at a glance • A greeting, a slogan and a description that fit the weather, the time of day and the season • Animated background: rain, snow, hail, lightning, wind, fog, clouds, the Sun by time of day • At night, stars and the Moon with its real phase • A ribbon below: hours, 10 days and the current numbers 10-DAY FORECAST • The next 24 hours with a chart of temperature, precipitation and wind • A list of days: icon, chance of rain, a min–max bar • Tap a day for its hourly forecast, sun arc, daylight, wind, precipitation, pressure, visibility, humidity and UV index • Moon phase, moonrise and moonset, date of the full moon • Weather alerts CITIES • Your current location and any number of favorite cities • City search and quick switching • Favorites sync through iCloud WIDGETS • Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets • Lock Screen widgets: inline, circular, rectangular • Precipitation, hourly entries and the same background as in the app • Choose the city and the refresh rate in Settings MAC AND APPLE TV • Mac: the temperature in the menu bar and a compact window with the weather now, by the hour and your favorite cities; launch at login • Apple TV: weather on the big screen and a detailed forecast OFFLINE AND ACCURACY • Forecasts from Apple WeatherKit • The last weather is available without a network • Celsius and Fahrenheit, wind and pressure units, light and dark theme PRIVACY • Location is used only to get the forecast for your spot • No account, no ads, no trackers The interface is available in English, Russian, German, French and Spanish.
Jacket
This weather app learns your personal comfort levels for heat, cold, rain, and wind. It provides plain-English summaries and a morning brief, adapting its forecasts based on your feedback. Enjoy a personalized weather experience without ads or tracking.
- Personalized weather thresholds
- Event timeline view
- Plain-English summaries
- Daily morning brief
- Home screen widgets
- On-device learning
- No ads or tracking
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Jacket is a weather app that adapts to how you actually feel – not to what the thermometer says. Two people standing in the same cold wind don't need the same advice. Jacket starts by asking a few quick questions about how you experience cold, heat, and rain. Then it keeps learning: once a flagged event has passed, give it a thumbs up or down, and Jacket retunes the thresholds behind what it flags. It tells you exactly what changed, in plain English – "Going forward, we'll be slightly less sensitive about rain." What you get: - Tuned to you: rain, cold, wind and heat get flagged at your personal thresholds, not generic ones. - An event timeline: see the rain, snow, wind and cold coming today and tomorrow at a glance, instead of decoding hourly forecast tables. - Plain-English summaries: one line at the top telling you what to wear or bring today – and what tomorrow needs. - One morning brief: a single notification each morning with what to wear today. No alert spam. - Widgets: your summary and the day's flagged events on your Home Screen, without opening the app. - Learning you can see: every time Jacket retunes itself, it tells you what it changed. - Learning that stays on your phone: the tuning runs entirely on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking. How it works: 1. Set your location, or let Jacket find it. 2. Answer a few quick questions about how you experience weather. 3. Check the forecast each morning to see what's ahead. 4. Rate events once they've passed. Jacket does the rest. Weather data comes from Open-Meteo. Your ratings never leave your device, and they're cleaned up automatically after 90 days.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Windly at 4 against Jacket's 2. On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Windly ships an update weekly, Jacket every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Windly | Jacket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vladislav Sidelnikov | Adrian Czuczka |
Customer experience
Windly
Jacket
In-app purchases
Windly
No in-app purchases
Jacket
No in-app purchases









