Comparison

Andrew's Weather vs SunSpan

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Local weather forecasts
  • Weather.gov and NOAA data integration
  • Personalized forecasts from Andrew the Weather Guy
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets
Features
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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.

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

Andrew's Weather4 screens
SunSpan4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Andrew's Weather versus SunSpan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAndrew's WeatherSunSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developerbret schraderMykhailo Chelnokov

In-app purchases

None

Andrew's Weather

No in-app purchases

None

SunSpan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Andrew's Weather free?
Andrew's Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SunSpan free?
SunSpan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Andrew's Weather or SunSpan?
SunSpan is rated higher. Andrew's Weather averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while SunSpan averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Andrew's Weather or SunSpan have ads?
Neither Andrew's Weather nor SunSpan shows ads.

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