Andrew's Weather vs SunSpan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Andrew's Weather
This local weather application provides accurate forecasts for Northern Michigan, drawing data from Weather.gov and NOAA. Get personalized forecasts from Andrew the Weather Guy, accessible via widgets on your home or lock screen.
- Local weather forecasts
- Weather.gov and NOAA data integration
- Personalized forecasts from Andrew the Weather Guy
- Home screen widgets
- Lock screen widgets
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Andrew's weather app is a local-based weather app meant for northern Michigan, but soon to be all-in with the most accurate weather from Weather.gov and NOAA. Along with forecasts from Andrew the Weather Guy, which are available in the app and through widgets on your home screen or lock screen.
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.
- Full-year daylight chart
- Eight-stop twilight gradient
- Inspect daily solar times
- DST transitions marked
- Location picker via map/GPS
- Automatic time zone resolution
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SunSpan at 5.0 against Andrew's Weather's 3.0. On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
SunSpan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Andrew's Weather | SunSpan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | bret schrader | Mykhailo Chelnokov |
In-app purchases
Andrew's Weather
No in-app purchases
SunSpan
No in-app purchases









