Comparison

Snowcast uk vs SunSpan

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

Head to head
About

Snowcast uk

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Snowcast UK provides simple and accurate snow forecasts across the United Kingdom. View upcoming snowfall, temperature trends, and weather conditions in a clean, easy-to-use interface designed for quick checks and daily planning. Perfect for commuters, travellers, and weather enthusiasts who want reliable winter forecasts without clutter.

About

SunSpan

Visualize an entire year of daylight, sunrise, sunset, and twilight on a single, intuitive chart. Easily inspect daily solar times and phases by tapping or dragging across the visual representation. Offers detailed insights into seasonal changes and astronomical events.

Highlights
  • Full-year daylight chart
  • Eight-stop twilight gradient
  • Inspect daily solar times
  • DST transitions marked
  • Location picker via map/GPS
  • Automatic time zone resolution
Features
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SunSpan — A Year of Daylight on One Screen SunSpan renders an entire year of sunrise, sunset, and twilight as a single chart. Each day is a vertical band shaded from astronomical night through nautical and civil twilight into full daylight, so the seasonal curve, the solstices, the equinoxes, and effects like white nights and polar day are visible at a glance. Tap or drag across the chart to select any day and see its sunrise, sunset, daylight length, and twilight phase times in a detail bubble. Features - Full-year daylight chart for any location, any year from 1900 to 2100 - Eight-stop twilight gradient: night, astronomical, nautical, civil, day - Tap or drag any day to inspect sunrise, sunset, daylight length, and twilight phase times - DST transitions marked on the chart - Location picker via satellite map, or automatic from device GPS - Time zone resolved automatically from the selected coordinates - Localized in English, Spanish, German, and Ukrainian Privacy No accounts, no analytics, no ads. Location is used only on-device to compute solar geometry and never leaves the device.

Screenshots

Snowcast uk4 screens
SunSpan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SunSpan at Free against Snowcast uk's $0.99. SunSpan also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SunSpan is free to download; Snowcast uk costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snowcast uk ships an update every 9 days, SunSpan every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Snowcast uk versus SunSpan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnowcast ukSunSpan
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRebecca GuntripMykhailo Chelnokov

In-app purchases

None

Snowcast uk

No in-app purchases

None

SunSpan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snowcast uk free?
Snowcast uk costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SunSpan free?
SunSpan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snowcast uk or SunSpan have ads?
Neither Snowcast uk nor SunSpan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snowcast uk or SunSpan?
Snowcast uk ships an update every 9 days, and SunSpan every 2 days. Most recently, Snowcast uk was updated on November 5, 2026 and SunSpan on November 5, 2026.

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