Comparison

Zasder Weather vs Dashboard for ECOWITT 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

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

Visualize real-time data from your Ecowitt weather station on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Receive custom alerts for various weather conditions and sensor readings, and track historical data with export options. Includes forecasts and radar maps for supported regions.

Highlights
  • Real-time weather station data
  • Customizable alerts
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Historical data graphs and export
  • 5-day forecasts and radar maps
  • Water leak detection alarm
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Weathervane turns readings from your Ecowitt weather station into a clear, detailed dashboard for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Free, with no ads and no account to create. Connect directly to your gateway on your home Wi-Fi, or use Ecowitt Cloud to check your stations from anywhere. Weathervane shows only the readings your station and sensors provide, with no empty sections for equipment you don't have. See temperature, humidity, dew point, feels like, pressure, wind, rainfall, solar radiation, UV, air quality, CO2, lightning, soil moisture, soil temperature and conductivity, leaf wetness, water leaks, distance and depth, battery levels, signal strength and more. APPLE WATCH Your station on your wrist, with complications for your watch face. Pick any of your stations right on the watch. With Ecowitt Cloud, the watch reads your station itself, so complications stay up to date even when your iPhone isn't nearby. ALERTS Get notified about the weather, your sensors and your devices: high and low temperatures, frost tonight, strong wind and gusts, rain starting and stopping, heavy rain, lightning nearby, falling pressure, humidity, air quality, a daily summary, sensors that stop reporting, low batteries, a station going offline and firmware updates. Set quiet hours so alerts wait until morning. WATER-LEAK ALARM With a WH55 leak sensor, Weathervane sounds a distinct rising alarm the moment water is detected, shows a red warning on your dashboard and watch, and tells you when it's dry again. HISTORY AND RECORDS Graphs from one hour to a month. Tap any graph to see the exact reading and time. The Records screen keeps your highs, lows and totals from today back to all-time. Export your data as a CSV file. FORECAST A 5-day forecast with a one-line summary and each day's chance of rain, plus sunrise, sunset and the moon phase. In the US & Europe, a live radar map and the National Weather Service's written forecast for each day. FEATURES • Apple Watch app and complications • Weather, sensor and device alerts • Water-leak alarm • Live radar and written forecasts (US) • Siri and Shortcuts • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • History graphs and Records • CSV export • "Compared to yesterday" notes • 3-hour pressure trend and outlook • Share a picture of current conditions • Two-column iPad layout with an expanded forecast • Multiple stations, with local and cloud support • Firmware update status for every device • Custom names and order for stations and sensors • Reorder cards on dashboard • Fahrenheit or Celsius, your choice of pressure, wind and rain units • Units that follow your region, with knots, m/s and metric distances • 12-hour or 24-hour time • Light and dark appearance • Demo mode, to try it without a station SUPPORTED HARDWARE Gateways: GW1100, GW1200, GW2000, GW3000, and the WittField WS6210 and WS6006 4G gateways. The original GW1000 through Ecowitt Cloud. Consoles: HP2550, HP2551, HP2560, HP2561, HP2564 Wittboy Pro, HP3500, WS2320, WS2910, WS3800, WS3820, WS3900, WS3910, WN1820, WN1821, WN1920 and WN1980. Stations: any package built on one of these, including GW1101, GW1201, GW1202, GW1210, GW2001, GW3001, GW3002, Wittboy, Essense3, WN1981, HP2552 and HP2553H. Newer and regional models not listed here usually work too, as they share the same interfaces. Available readings depend on your gateway, firmware and connected sensors. Weathervane is independently developed and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ecowitt. Ecowitt and related product names are trademarks of their respective owners. [WEBSITE]: https://leechsoftware.com/dashboard-for-ecowitt/

Screenshots

Zasder Weather4 screens
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather at none against Zasder Weather's 4. Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Dashboard for ECOWITT 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 Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zasder Weather ships an update every 5 days, Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Zasder Weather versus Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZasder WeatherDashboard for ECOWITT Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings114 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZasder LLCLeech Software

Customer experience

Zasder Weather

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

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
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

Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zasder Weather free?
Zasder Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather free?
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zasder Weather or Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather?
Zasder Weather and Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 14 ratings respectively.
Do Zasder Weather or Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather have ads?
Neither Zasder Weather nor Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zasder Weather or Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather?
Zasder Weather ships an update every 5 days, and Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather every 4 days. Most recently, Zasder Weather was updated on November 3, 2026 and Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather on November 6, 2026.

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