Comparison

Zasder Weather vs Scribble Weather

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

Head to head
About

Zasder Weather

This app provides a private and customizable weather experience for personal weather stations. Connect your own backend to manage your data securely, with no ads or subscriptions. Supports multiple weather sources and offers detailed insights, charts, and custom alerts.

Highlights
  • Multi-station dashboard
  • Historical data and insights
  • Detailed charts
  • Custom alerts
  • Apple Watch app
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Flexible units
Features
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Zasder Weather is a clean, fast app for personal weather stations on iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac. One purchase, every platform. It is bring-your-own backend: point it at your own server, and your station's data is yours, end to end. No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions. WORKS WITH YOUR STATION • AmbientWeather, Davis WeatherLink, WeatherFlow Tempest and Ecowitt from their clouds, an Ecowitt gateway posting straight to your server, or a WeatherLink Live read on your network for two-second freshness. • Direct radio capture: a $20 LilyGO board decodes AcuRite Atlas or Fine Offset, Ecowitt and Ambient sensors off the air. • AirGradient and Govee air monitors with CO2 and PM2.5, and soil probes on up to eight channels. • No server yet? The Mac app builds one on your Fly.io account in a minute, or run the backend in Docker. THE DASHBOARD • Live conditions, a 24-hour curve, today's highlights ranked against your own record, the moments the weather changed, and a strip that says hour by hour whether each source was healthy. • Arrange every screen: drag the cards into your order, hide what you do not need, and do the same for Charts. • A 7-day forecast with a written narrative, tap a day for its full text, and a scorecard of how right the forecast has been at your station. • Charts with a wind rose, station comparison, and drag to inspect. Explore any past day. Records in under a second. Insights, a year heatmap and a Science page of derived numbers. ALERTS THAT ARRIVE • Thresholds on any field, evaluated on your server, by push and email even when the app is closed. • Weather watches with no setup: lightning nearby with an all clear, frost, heat, a fast pressure drop, a gust front, the first frost, low batteries and a sensor gone quiet. • Severe weather from the National Weather Service, one family at a time: mute floods and keep tornadoes, with a warning that sounds different from a watch. • Storm summaries after the rain ends: total, peak rate, temperature drop and top gust, as a push, an email card or both. • Live Activities on your Lock Screen for the rain countdown, a storm in progress, lightning nearby, a wind ramp, a freeze night and a heat day, and they reach the Apple Watch Smart Stack. • Quiet hours, a morning report and an evening outlook at the minute you choose, sky notes before sunset, and report emails in the look you pick. SHARE IT • Read only links for family with one tap setup, and Sites to keep every server you are given beside your own. • Your station on the shared map at maps.zasder.com with the location rounded as much as you like. • Send your readings to Weather Underground, PWSweather, Windy, Weathercloud, CWOP, Met Office WOW, AWEKAS and OpenWeatherMap. • Story cards from your own record, a public dashboard page to embed on your site, NOAA-style reports, and an AI assistant connected to your server. ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Apple Watch app with configurable complications and a Big complication per reading. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, editable per widget, a dashboard widget the size of a page, and a widget that follows the station you choose. • Siri: ask for any reading, the forecast, rain totals or records, in your units. Your stations appear in Spotlight. YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES • Bring years of history from Weather Underground, a WeeWX database, or any CSV, and export every reading to CSV. • Calibrate any sensor with an offset or a scale, typed in your units. • Units: °F or °C, mph, km/h, knots, m/s or Beaufort, in or mm, inHg or hPa. Light, dark, or automatic. Dynamic Type throughout. • Settings backed up to iCloud, the server's database backed up from the app, one-tap server updates. The backend is open source (MIT): https://github.com/volneydouglas/zasder-weather-backend Data goes only to your server and what you opt into. Optional tip jar via In-App Purchase, purely cosmetic; nothing is paywalled. Requires iOS 18.

About

Scribble Weather

This app provides accurate weather forecasts with a charming, cozy atmosphere. It features an AI cat companion for daily planning, a sticker collection, journaling capabilities, and the ability to send weather postcards to friends.

Highlights
  • AI weather forecasts
  • Interactive AI cat companion
  • Collectible stickers
  • Daily journaling
  • Weather postcards
  • Local activity suggestions
Features
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Scribble Weather- with Pip AI NO ADS. NO IN APP PURCHASES. TOTALLY FREE! Accurate forecasts with a cozy atmosphere. View current conditions, hourly, daily, radar, and more. In addition to your standard weather app, Scribble Weather offers these other exciting features: Pip AI- Pip is a cat who can help plan out your day! Chat with him anytime you'd like Pocket Note- Pip also offers a nice note about the current weather, so you can quickly glance at the app without having to understand everything Stickers- Collect HUNDREDS of stickers as you visit different locations and different conditions! Buy clothes to dress up Pip! Notebook- Each time you log into the app, your notebook will document that day. Feel free to write and journal whatever you'd like Postcard- Send a weather postcard to your friends! Plans- Discover things to do nearby, like coffee, parks, etc Window- Come say hello to Pip and see what he is up to Scribble Weather... yes, it is your standard weather app. But with so much more!

Screenshots

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Scribble Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scribble Weather at none against Zasder Weather's 4. Zasder Weather's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). 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. Zasder Weather sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Scribble Weather 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 Zasder Weather against 5.0 for Scribble Weather. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Zasder Weather versus Scribble Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZasder WeatherScribble Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZasder LLCNathan Anthony

Customer experience

Zasder Weather

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

Scribble Weather

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

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Zasder Weather

One-time4
  • Buy me a coffee$0.99
  • Buy me a latte$4.99
  • Buy me lunch$19.99
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  • Buy me dinner$29.99
None

Scribble Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zasder Weather free?
Zasder Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scribble Weather free?
Scribble Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zasder Weather or Scribble Weather?
Zasder Weather and Scribble Weather are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Zasder Weather or Scribble Weather have ads?
Neither Zasder Weather nor Scribble Weather shows ads.

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