Comparison

Backyard Weather vs weatherfeels

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

Head to head
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/

About

weatherfeels

Experience a continuous, rotating weather broadcast with live US National Weather Service data. Enjoy retro visuals, customizable music playback, and essential weather details for your screen.

Highlights
  • Continuous rotating weather broadcast
  • Live US National Weather Service data
  • Retro CRT mode with visual effects
  • Customizable music playback
  • Burn-in protection for screens
  • Supports Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Features
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A local forecast channel for your television, rebuilt for Apple platforms. weatherfeels puts a continuous, rotating weather broadcast on your screen — the kind that used to run between programmes on cable, with a slow crawl of conditions along the bottom and music playing over the top. Every forecast is live from the US National Weather Service. Leave it running on a TV, a monitor, or in a window while you work. WHAT IT SHOWS • Current Conditions — temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, ceiling and visibility • Local Forecast and Extended Forecast — the next several days at a glance • Hourly Forecast and Hourly Graph — temperature, dew point, cloud cover and precipitation chance • Local Radar — animated regional radar composites • Regional Observations and Regional Forecast — nearby cities on a state map • Travel Forecast — conditions for cities down the road • Almanac — sunrise, sunset, moon phases and records • Hazards and SPC Outlook — active alerts and convective risk when there is any Displays rotate on their own, or step through them yourself. Turn off any you do not care about. YOUR OWN MUSIC Play music behind the weather, the way the original did: • Files on the device • A folder on a server you host • A playlist from your Apple Music library (requires an Apple Music subscription) DRAWN, NOT SCALED Nothing here is a screenshot of a 640×480 web page stretched to fit. The backgrounds are redrawn as vector gradients and shapes, the type is real outline fonts rasterised at your display's resolution, and the weather icons are pixel art kept crisp with nearest-neighbour scaling. On an Apple TV 4K it renders at native 2160p. If you want the era rather than just the layout, there is a CRT mode: barrel-curved glass, phosphor bloom, colour fringing and scanlines that drift, all on the GPU. Or keep plain scanlines. Or none at all. BUILT FOR A SCREEN THAT STAYS ON • Burn-in protection nudges the picture a few pixels every 90 seconds, so a static header cannot etch itself into an OLED panel • The screen saver is held off while the rotation is running • Adjustable pace, from brisk to very slow ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac, all included. FREE, AND OPEN SOURCE No price, no in-app purchases, no subscription, and no advertising. Built by fans of the era, and the whole thing is on GitHub under the MIT licence — read it, fork it, or send a fix. NO ACCOUNTS, NO TRACKING There is no sign-in, no analytics and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your location is sent to the National Weather Service to fetch your forecast and is used for nothing else. Your music library is read on the device and never leaves it. FORECASTS ARE US ONLY Data comes from the US National Weather Service, so forecasts are available for United States locations. You can follow your device's location or pick a city by name or ZIP code. Weather data from NOAA / the National Weather Service. Radar composites from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Convective outlooks from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. An independent, unofficial tribute to the local forecast units of the 1990s, made by fans and given away. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any broadcast network, weather service trademark or media company.

Screenshots

Backyard Weather4 screens
weatherfeels4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: weatherfeels at none against Backyard Weather's 1. weatherfeels also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Backyard Weather sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. weatherfeels 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 Backyard Weather against 5.0 for weatherfeels. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backyard Weather ships an update every 3 weeks, weatherfeels daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Backyard Weather versus weatherfeels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackyard Weatherweatherfeels
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB34 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperSamuel AlbrechtKevin Holland

Customer experience

Backyard Weather

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

weatherfeels

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Backyard Weather

Subscriptions1
  • Backyard Weather Pro1 Month trial$14.991 Year
None

weatherfeels

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backyard Weather free?
Backyard Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is weatherfeels free?
weatherfeels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backyard Weather or weatherfeels?
Backyard Weather and weatherfeels are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Backyard Weather or weatherfeels have ads?
Neither Backyard Weather nor weatherfeels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backyard Weather or weatherfeels?
Backyard Weather ships an update every 3 weeks, and weatherfeels daily. Most recently, Backyard Weather was updated on October 31, 2026 and weatherfeels on November 10, 2026.

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