Planet Weather vs Ask Cloudman
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planet Weather
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Use 'Planet Weather' to show local weather using your devices's current location, with details for 7 days. Add up to 10 searchable locations, with precision right down to the smallest village. All weather locations are easily displayed with just a swipe of the screen, and local time is available too. Weather details are available for hourly intervals. Shows sunrise and sunset times, as well as phases of the moon. Good support for Landscape Orientation as well. Feedback, requests, questions or problems? E-mail the developer from within the app. Get Premium Weather features, available from Settings, for the price of a cup of coffee! No ads are included even in the free version.
Ask Cloudman
This app provides weather forecasts in a conversational format, answering your questions directly instead of presenting raw data. It visually represents the forecast by showing a character dressed appropriately for the day's conditions and offers a home screen widget for quick access.
- Conversational weather queries
- Visual outfit representation of forecast
- Home screen widget
- Daily trip briefs
- Hourly and weekly forecast details
- Nearby weather map
- Personalized weather alerts
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Meet Cloudman. Ask him the questions a forecast can't answer. Most weather apps hand you a grid of numbers and leave the thinking to you. Cloudman does the thinking. He reads the forecast for where you are and dresses for it — one glance at what he's wearing and you know: tee, hoodie, puffy, parka, raincoat. Then you ask him the rest. ASK, DON'T SCROLL "What should I wear?" "Need a coat tonight?" "Best beach day this week?" He answers in a sentence, in plain words. When you ask, the day folds into his pocket and the conversation has the screen; tap him to come home. HE DRESSES FOR IT Cloudman changes outfits when you should. His verdict for the day is one line, and he'll say when it flips — tee till four, hoodie for the ride home. Tap him and he texts you the day in three lines, the third one about what you told him matters. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The widget wears the weather. The temperature, where the day goes, and Cloudman dressed for it — no app to open. Add it from Settings; he'll walk you through it. THE BEST DAY FOR IT Beach, hike, the weekend — ask which day and he scores the week and names the one, with the hour. ANYWHERE "Check weather in Monterey" hands you a card for there. "Heading to Tahoe Friday" gets a trip brief with the clock at both ends. THE DAY, HONESTLY Tap the Today card: the day as columns you can scrub, feels-like, wind and gusts, rain by the hour, UV, sunrise and sunset. The week in one row a day, with what stands out. WHERE THE SUN IS The Nearby map shows the readings around you, hour by hour, so on a foggy morning you can see which neighbourhood is warm — tap a place to look closer. HE LEARNS YOUR MORNINGS Tell him what matters — the run, the school gate, Friday's bike — and he brings it up when the weather does. FRIDAYS, A POEM Once a week he writes your neighbourhood three lines — about the fog on the hill, the bus that sighs, the sun by one — never a temperature. Tap the card, watch him write, share the page. °F OR °C Every degree in the unit you read. BUILT TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT YOU No account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking. Location is used only to fetch your forecast and is never stored. Everything the app remembers sits under a random identifier you can erase in one tap from Settings. Weather data by Apple Weather. Replies in chat are generated by AI and can be wrong — check the sky before you trust the coat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ask Cloudman at none against Planet Weather's 1. Ask Cloudman also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Planet Weather sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ask Cloudman asks for nothing beyond the download.
Planet Weather ships an update every 2 weeks, Ask Cloudman every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planet Weather | Ask Cloudman |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 708 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dean Zeuthen McCrae | James Schulte |
In-app purchases
Planet Weather
- Premium Weather$4.99
Ask Cloudman
No in-app purchases
Questions
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