Comparison

Roam 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

Roam Weather

Plan outdoor adventures with detailed weather forecasts for multiple locations and specific activity profiles. Get point forecasts with elevation adjustments and access cached data offline. Organize locations into custom collections for easy planning.

Highlights
  • Multi-destination forecasts
  • Point forecasts with elevation adjustment
  • Offline access to cached forecasts
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Multiple location collections
Features
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Plan your outdoor adventures with confidence. Roam Weather lets you effortlessly view multiple forecast locations at once, including idealess calculations for different activity profiles like hiking or rock climbing, so that you can decide where to go on your next adventure. Only supports US-location forecasts. KEY FEATURES: • Multi-destination forecasts — Add multiple locations and see the daily weather for each one at a glance • Point forecasts — Forecasts for a specific GPS coordinate (powered by NOAA), including elevation adjustment • Offline access — View your cached forecasts while you're offline • Works across devices — Access your trips from any device with your Roam account • Multiple collections — Create multiple collections for different sets of locations, like your "Home" collection, your "Climbing" collection, etc! PERFECT FOR: • Rock climbers deciding which crags to go to • Backpackers planning a trip • Hikers deciding what time they should start their hike • And more! Stop checking the weather separately for every location. Roam Weather brings it all together in one place.

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

Roam Weather4 screens
SunSpan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SunSpan at none against Roam Weather's 3. SunSpan also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). 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. Roam Weather sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. SunSpan 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 Roam Weather against 5.0 for SunSpan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roam Weather ships an update monthly, SunSpan every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Roam Weather versus SunSpan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoam WeatherSunSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBareBones Dev, LLCMykhailo Chelnokov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Roam Weather

One-time3
  • Roam Weather Premium - 1 Month$1.99
  • Roam Weather Premium - 1 Year$7.99
  • Roam Weather Premium - Lifetime$14.99
None

SunSpan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roam Weather free?
Roam Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SunSpan free?
SunSpan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Roam Weather or SunSpan?
Roam Weather and SunSpan are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Roam Weather or SunSpan have ads?
Neither Roam Weather nor SunSpan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roam Weather or SunSpan?
Roam Weather ships an update monthly, and SunSpan every 2 days. Most recently, Roam Weather was updated on October 8, 2026 and SunSpan on October 11, 2026.

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