Comparison

Nikko Weather vs CloudySky2

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

Head to head
About

Nikko Weather

This weather app provides practical advice for daily decisions. It offers outfit suggestions based on upcoming conditions and helps plan trips by showing typical weather patterns for different times and locations.

Highlights
  • Outfit suggestions
  • Trip weather planning
  • Real-life weather context
  • Forecast interpretation
  • Packing advice
Features
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Most weather apps tell you it will be 22° and cloudy. Nikko tells you whether Saturday's dive is worth getting up for. Connect your calendar and Nikko quietly scores every outdoor plan you've made against the forecast, then warns you when one is in trouble — days before it matters. Will my plans hold? Nikko reads your calendar, works out which events are outdoors, and scores each one against the hour-by-hour forecast. Every plan gets a straight verdict — Perfect, Fine, Tricky or Rough — and anything that needs attention is flagged before you've left the house. Watch a score move as the forecast firms up, and see exactly which condition is causing the problem: the wind, the rain, the temperature. When should I do it? Describe what you're planning — a dive, a long ride, a photo walk — and Nikko finds the hours that suit it. Not the warmest hours; the right ones. A kite session and a picnic want completely different weather, and Nikko knows the difference. What will my trip be like? Planning months ahead? Nikko compares forty years of weather for your destination and tells you what a week there in October actually looks like. As your dates come into forecast range it switches to the real thing automatically. Save the activities you're hoping to do and Nikko finds the best window for each across your trip — then keeps watching, and tells you if the best day moves. What does today need? Set the conditions you care about — rain before your commute, wind over 30, anything below freezing — and get one short briefing each morning telling you what today is going to ask of you. Which forecast? Nikko doesn't run one global model and hope. Where a better local model exists it uses it, and tells you so: HRRR across the United States, NAM for Hawaii, MeteoSwiss ICON-CH1 in the Alps — where a valley floor and the ridge above it have completely different weather that a global model averages away. Tap any forecast to see which model produced it. Your calendar stays yours Nikko reads only what it needs to score your plans, keeps event details for 14 days, then permanently scrubs them. There's a plain-language explainer in the app, and helping improve activity matching is opt-in and anonymous. Nothing is sold or used for advertising. Planning together Trips can be shared. Invite whoever's coming, split a packing list into shared and personal items, track what everyone spent with receipts attached, and email the whole thing round at the end — expenses, who owes what, and how the weather actually turned out. Terms of Use: https://climalinks.com/legal/mobile/terms Privacy Policy: https://climalinks.com/legal/mobile/privacy

About

CloudySky2

Identify and learn about different cloud types with this pocket field guide. Explore detailed information, photos, and weather map symbols to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the sky.

Highlights
  • Cloud identification guide
  • Detailed cloud characteristics
  • Photo index of cloud types
  • Weather map symbol chart
  • Cloud formation explanations
  • In-app photo logging
  • Share photos via iMessage/email
Features
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More than just a picture gallery of clouds, CloudySky2 is an easy to use and complete pocket field guide for your iPhone and iPad that will help you to enjoy and better understand clouds by quickly identifying their names and characteristics. Just look up in the sky and get your head in the clouds. Take your time. This is not learning as a test, but learning for your enjoyment. When you are out for a walk the clouds are there for you to enjoy, and with CloudySky in your hands you will appreciate them even more. Look at the clouds around you and then take CloudySky2 out of your pocket, purse or bag and easily learn the names and characteristics of the clouds at your own pace. You will be surprised and pleased how over time your appreciation of clouds will grow and your enjoyment of them, with the knowledge you get with CloudySky2, will increase. CloudySky2 includes: A beautiful cloud chart/photo collage that gives you an overview of the ten main types of clouds A photo index of all the major cloud types grouped by the major elevation categories (étages) A detailed view of each cloud type that gives you quick access to everything you would like to know about that cloud A photo index of all the species, varieties, supplemental features and accessory clouds for each cloud type A chart with all of the symbols used in weather maps for every cloud 90+ stunning photos to help you identify the cloud you are looking at All image are fully licensed and attributed from the Wikimedia Commons source Useful, authoritative and detailed explanations of how clouds form, what their distinguishing features are, how they are categorized and a history of how the clouds came to be named as they are Take photos from within the app, save them to the Cloud Log and share them with others via email and iMessage Annotate the photos you take with your own Observation Notes So, get CloudySky and get your head in the clouds!

Screenshots

Nikko Weather4 screens
CloudySky24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CloudySky2 at none against Nikko Weather's 2. CloudySky2 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Nikko Weather's advantage is iOS requirement (16.2 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Nikko Weather sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. CloudySky2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Nikko Weather against 5.0 for CloudySky2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nikko Weather ships an update fortnightly, CloudySky2 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Nikko Weather versus CloudySky2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNikko WeatherCloudySky2
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.2 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClimaLinksWonder Valley Software

Customer experience

Nikko Weather

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CloudySky2

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Nikko Weather

Subscriptions2
  • Nikko Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Nikko Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

CloudySky2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nikko Weather free?
Nikko Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CloudySky2 free?
CloudySky2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nikko Weather or CloudySky2?
Nikko Weather and CloudySky2 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Nikko Weather or CloudySky2 have ads?
Nikko Weather shows ads; CloudySky2 does not.
Which is updated more often, Nikko Weather or CloudySky2?
Nikko Weather ships an update fortnightly, and CloudySky2 every 2 days. Most recently, Nikko Weather was updated on September 23, 2026 and CloudySky2 on September 10, 2026.

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