Comparison

Wunderful vs Backyard Weather

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

Head to head
About

Wunderful

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Monitor your personal Weather Underground stations from your device. Wunderful displays current conditions and a 5-day forecast from your PWS, with support for both imperial and metric units. Features: - Real-time current conditions (temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, dew point, precipitation rate, and today's total) - 5-day forecast with high/low temperatures and precipitation chance - Multi-station support: add multiple PWS stations, give each a nickname, and switch between them with a tap - Drag to reorder stations; swipe (iOS) or click to remove - Clear error banner when an API key is rejected or a station can't be reached - Secure API key storage in the system Keychain - Configurable refresh interval (5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes) - Offline support with intelligent per-station data caching - macOS: Lives in your menu bar, always one click away — the menubar temperature follows whichever station you've selected Requires a Weather Underground personal weather station and API key.

About

Backyard Weather

Monitor personal weather stations, aviation weather, and coastal conditions. View current readings, historical charts for up to 11 metrics, and customize units. Offers widgets and a watch app for convenient access to weather data.

Highlights
  • Personal weather station monitoring
  • Aviation weather (METAR)
  • Coastal conditions (NOAA tides)
  • Current conditions and historical charts
  • Customizable units and display
  • Widgets and watch app support
Features
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**Personal Weather Station & Aviation Weather** Connect a PWS via Weather Underground, monitor aviation weather from any METAR airport, or track tides and coastal conditions from NOAA CO-OPS stations. **Three station types** • PWS — personal weather stations via Weather Underground • METAR — airport observations, updated every few minutes at most US airports • NOAA — tide gauges and coastal stations **Current conditions** Live readings with charts underneath, plus the record high, record low and average for today's date from your station's full archive. Up to 12 metrics depending on station type: temperature, feels like, humidity, wind, dew point, pressure, precipitation, UV, solar radiation, visibility, water temperature, and water level/tide. **Rich history charts** 1-day and 7-day charts you can drag to read exact values, times and wind direction. US airport stations fill in between the hourly reports, so today's line is a curve rather than 24 steps. **Alerts** Get notified when your station crosses a value you choose — a freeze, a gust, an inch of rain — or when it stops reporting altogether. Pressure drops, temperature swings and wind shifts are built in as ready-made rules. **Customisable units & display** 12- or 24-hour time, metric or imperial, and precision options for every number. **Color themes** Nine palettes for your charts and calendars. Preview any of them across every metric before you decide. **Widgets (Supporter)** Graph widgets for any metric over 1 or 7 days, a single-metric widget for one big number, a year-at-a-glance calendar, long-range history charts, a records widget, and Lock Screen complications. **Watch app (Supporter)** Temperature, feels like, humidity, wind, pressure and precipitation as watch complications, with every current metric and its graph in the app itself. **History & Records (Supporter)** Daily detail for any year your station has recorded — airports often reach back decades — plus all-time records, a record high and low for every calendar day, and yearly trends that overlay up to ten years on one chart. Free includes current conditions, 1-day and 7-day charts, one month of history, one alert per station, and three colour themes. Note: a Weather Underground API key is required for PWS stations. METAR and NOAA stations are free and need no API key. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Wunderful2 screens
Backyard Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Backyard Weather at Free against Wunderful's $1.99. Backyard Weather also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Wunderful's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Backyard Weather is free to download; Wunderful costs $1.99 up front. Backyard Weather sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Wunderful asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wunderful ships an update every 2 months, Backyard Weather every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Wunderful versus Backyard Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWunderfulBackyard Weather
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB21 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperJoey GibsonSamuel Albrecht

In-app purchases

None

Wunderful

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Backyard Weather

Subscriptions1
  • Backyard Weather Pro1 Month trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Wunderful free?
Wunderful costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backyard Weather free?
Backyard Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wunderful or Backyard Weather have ads?
Neither Wunderful nor Backyard Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wunderful or Backyard Weather?
Wunderful ships an update every 2 months, and Backyard Weather every 3 weeks. Most recently, Wunderful was updated on October 24, 2026 and Backyard Weather on October 28, 2026.

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