Comparison

Mistral Weather vs Probably Rain

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

Head to head
About

Mistral Weather

Get detailed current weather, hour-by-hour, and 7-day forecasts with animated radar maps. Explore historical weather data for any date and save multiple locations. An optional AI feature provides natural language summaries of the forecast.

Highlights
  • Current conditions and 7-day forecast
  • Animated precipitation radar map
  • Sun and moon times
  • Historical weather data ('On This Day')
  • Save multiple locations
  • Home Screen widgets
  • AI-powered forecast summaries
Features
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Mistral Weather is a modern weather app for iPhone and iPad. Open it and see current conditions, hour-by-hour and 7-day forecast, sun and moon times, humidity, UV, wind, and pressure at a glance. A layered weather map shows animated precipitation radar, temperature, and wind. "On This Day" surfaces historical weather for today's date from the last 40+ years — a fun way to see how today stacks up. All forecast data comes from Open-Meteo, and no account or sign-in is required. Launch the app and grant location access to get a localized forecast, or skip it and use the search to add any place on Earth. Save multiple locations and switch between them with a tap. Pick your favorite layer on the map — temperature, radar, or wind — and watch weather systems move in real time. Home Screen widgets show the current forecast in small, medium, and large sizes, plus an "On This Day" widget in small and medium. Background refresh keeps widget data current without draining battery. Customize units (°F / °C, mph / km/h), adjust map defaults, and manage Remove Ads and Mistral Weather AI from Settings. Upgrade to Mistral Weather AI for a natural-language summary of today's forecast on the main Weather tab. One quick read covers what's happening right now, what's coming in the next few hours, and what to wear or plan for — refreshed each hour, powered by OpenAI behind our server. Subscribers also have banner ads removed automatically. The subscription is $6.99/month or $59.99/year, which renews until canceled in Settings. All forecasts, locations, and preferences are stored on your device. Coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo only when fetching weather; nothing else is transmitted. The app is free with a single banner ad at the bottom of the main surfaces — purchase Remove Ads for a one-time fee to remove it permanently, or let a Mistral Weather AI subscription remove ads automatically while it's active. Mistral Weather uses Google AdMob and asks for App Tracking Transparency so ads can be personalized; declining is fully supported. Mistral Weather is an independent project and is not affiliated with Open-Meteo, Apple, or Google. Privacy Policy: https://mistralweather.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Probably Rain

Features
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It's probably rain. Here's how sure we are. Most weather apps hand you a number and walk away. This one hands you the number and then tells you how much of it to believe — because a forecast without its error bar is just a confident guess. HOW SURE IS THIS Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 2 doesn't run once. It runs 64 times, from slightly different starting conditions. Where those 64 runs land on top of each other, the atmosphere is behaving predictably. Where they fan apart, it isn't. Probably Rain draws that fan. You see at a glance whether tomorrow is settled or whether the models are quietly arguing, and every temperature carries an honest tolerance instead of false precision. When Google's model and ours genuinely disagree, the app says so — and explains why, instead of picking one and hoping. THE FORECAST, PROPERLY DRAWN - The next 48 hours as one readable band: temperature on a blue-to-red spectrum, rain where height is probability, night shaded, sunrise and sunset marked. - How today compares to the historical normal for this date, from ten years of records for your exact spot. - The whole week as a grid — 168 hours, one cell each — so "when's the good weather?" takes one glance instead of seven taps. - Sparklines for temperature, feels-like, rain, wind, UV, humidity and pressure. - Rain radar, an air quality map and active wildfires, on one map you can pinch and pan. - Heads-up alerts roughly twenty minutes before rain arrives or the wind gets up. WORTH DOING Eighteen activities scored against the actual conditions — the run, the ride, the beach, the barbecue, the stargazing. It tells you when to go, and when not to bother. THE PLANET SHOWING OFF The hottest and coldest inhabited places on Earth, live, right now. Tonight's moon drawn with its real terminator. And weather records that sound invented and aren't: 26 metres of rain in a single year, a temperature that fell 56 degrees in a day, hailstones the weight of a melon. Every one is sourced to the WMO, NOAA or Guinness World Records. If we couldn't source it, we didn't include it. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF No account. No sign-up. No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. The app runs no server of its own, and your saved places never leave your phone. Weather data by Open-Meteo, including forecast confidence from Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 2. Radar by LibreWXR. Wildfire data from the US National Interagency Fire Center. Probably Rain is not a substitute for official warnings from your national weather service.

Screenshots

Mistral Weather4 screens
Probably Rain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Probably Rain at none against Mistral Weather's 3. Probably Rain also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Mistral Weather sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Probably Rain asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mistral Weather versus Probably Rain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMistral WeatherProbably Rain
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClarved Inc.Sean O'Connor

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mistral Weather

Subscriptions2
  • Mistral Weather AI (Monthly)$6.991 Month
  • Mistral Weather AI (Yearly)$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
None

Probably Rain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mistral Weather free?
Mistral Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Probably Rain free?
Probably Rain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mistral Weather or Probably Rain have ads?
Mistral Weather shows ads; Probably Rain does not.

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