7 Stripes vs Cobalt Weather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
7 Stripes
This app presents a 168-hour visual weather forecast on a single screen, allowing for quick scanning of temperature, cloud cover, and precipitation details. Users can tap to inspect specific hours for in-depth information, aiding in planning outdoor activities or tracking weather patterns.
- 168-hour visual forecast on one screen
- Quick scanning of temperature, clouds, precipitation
- Tap to inspect specific hours
- Detailed hourly weather cards
- Clean, week-focused interface
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7 Stripes shows 168 hours of detailed weather on one screen. Designed for fast planning, 7 Stripes turns the next week of weather into a single visual forecast you can scan at a glance. See temperature, cloud cover, precipitation chance, precipitation type, and precipitation intensity together—without digging through a long hourly list. Touch anywhere on the 7-day forecast to inspect a specific hour. The header instantly updates with the exact temperature, wind direction, wind speed, and time for the point you selected. Need more detail? While viewing any hour, tap the day/time button to open an in-depth weather card with conditions, feels-like temperature, precipitation amount, precipitation intensity, astronomy details, and more. Features: • 168 hours of weather data on one screen • A visual 7-day forecast built for quick scanning • Temperature, clouds, precipitation chance, type, and intensity in one view • Tap or drag across the forecast to inspect any hour • Instant header updates with exact temperature and wind details • Detailed hourly cards for deeper weather information • Current conditions plus future forecast exploration • A clean, unique interface designed around the full week—not just the current hour Whether you’re planning a trip, deciding when to go outside, or watching the next storm move through, 7 Stripes helps you understand the whole forecast faster.
Cobalt Weather
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Cobalt is a fast, uncluttered weather app that takes its color from the conditions and puts your own backyard readings right next to the forecast. Open it on a clear afternoon and it is warm and bright. Open it in a thunderstorm and the whole interface shifts. Every screen, chart, and detail sheet is colored by the weather it is describing, in both light and dark mode. FORECASTS • Hour-by-hour and 10-day forecasts, with separate daytime and overnight conditions for every day • Minute-by-minute rain for the next hour where available, so you know when it starts and when it stops • Interactive charts for precipitation, temperature, wind, and atmosphere • Feels like, humidity, dew point, UV index, visibility, cloud cover, pressure, and air quality • Sunrise, sunset, daylight remaining, moonrise, moonset, and moon phase • Tap any day or any hour for a full detail sheet, colored by that day's own forecast SEVERE WEATHER • Official watches, warnings, and advisories, pinned above the forecast • Color-coded by severity, with the exact window each one covers YOUR OWN STATION • Connect an Ambient Weather, Ecowitt, Davis, or Tempest station in a couple of minutes • Live temperature, humidity, wind speed, gusts, direction, rain, and pressure • Rain totals by rate, day, week, month, year, and current event • Station screens take their color from your own sensors, not the regional forecast MADE TO BE YOURS • Save your places and your station, and switch between them with a tap • Jump to your current location instantly • Hide any reading or card you don't need on the forecast page • A forecast widget on your home screen that stays current without opening the app • Pick your own units • Follow your system theme or lock it to light or dark • Made for iPhone Duo and iPad: fills every screen, open or closed COBALT PLUS Cobalt is free, with no account and no sign-in. Cobalt Plus is an optional subscription that adds: • Alerts on your phone: severe weather at up to three saved places, rain about to start, a daily briefing, and limits you set on your own station's readings • History: chart any reading from one saved place and up to two stations over the last day, week, month, or year • Your station compared with the forecast, reading by reading, and how the forecast has changed since yesterday • Up to 10 saved places and as many stations as you like (Free includes 2 places and 1 station) • Every extra sensor your station has, from extra temperature and humidity channels to soil, leaf, air quality, lightning, and leak sensors, each one renamable, like Kitchen or Garden • Station widgets and a full forecast widget, refreshed every 30 minutes PRIVACY Cobalt has no accounts and no sign-in. Your station credentials are stored in your device's Keychain and are sent only to fetch your own readings. Location is used only to show you the weather where you are. SOMETHING WRONG? Cobalt is made by one person, and I would genuinely rather hear about a problem than have you put up with it. Tell me what happened and what phone you're on: Nick@NickSaulino.com. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 7 Stripes at none against Cobalt Weather's 2. 7 Stripes also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Cobalt Weather's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Cobalt Weather sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. 7 Stripes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 7 Stripes against 5.0 for Cobalt Weather. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
7 Stripes ships an update daily, Cobalt Weather weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 7 Stripes | Cobalt Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sasan Sadat-Sharifi | Nicholas Saulino |
Customer experience
7 Stripes
Cobalt Weather
In-app purchases
7 Stripes
No in-app purchases
Cobalt Weather
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual$19.991 Year
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