Roam Weather vs SunSpan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Multi-destination forecasts
- Point forecasts with elevation adjustment
- Offline access to cached forecasts
- Cross-device synchronization
- Multiple location collections
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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.
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 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
Both are free to download. Roam Weather sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. SunSpan asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
Roam Weather ships an update monthly, SunSpan every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roam Weather | SunSpan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BareBones Dev, LLC | Mykhailo Chelnokov |
In-app purchases
Roam Weather
- Roam Weather Premium - 1 Month$1.99
- Roam Weather Premium - 1 Year$7.99
- Roam Weather Premium - Lifetime$14.99
SunSpan
No in-app purchases









