Comparison

Cedar Weather vs Terra Forecast

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

Head to head
About

Cedar Weather

Features
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Cedar Weather turns the forecast into a decision. Most weather apps hand you a temperature and leave the rest to you. Cedar reads the same conditions and tells you what they are actually good for — a ride, a hike, a day at the beach, a walk through town, or an afternoon indoors with a coffee. WHAT IS TODAY GOOD FOR? The home screen shows live conditions where you are, then rates the day for the things you actually do — cycling, walking, hiking, the beach, a city walk, a cafe day, and skiing where there is snow. The scoring runs on your phone and weighs temperature, wind, the chance of rain and how much of it, UV and visibility together, so cycling weather and beach weather are judged on their own terms. A still, overcast 18 degrees is a fine riding day and a poor beach day, and Cedar says so instead of leaving you to work it out from a row of icons. WATCH THE RAIN MOVE Open the weather map for animated rain radar with a time scrubber, so you can run a shower forward and see whether it clears before you leave. Cloud cover and temperature layers sit on the same map, and every region is coloured by how good conditions are right now. Filter the map to cycling, hiking or the beach and the whole picture recolours for that one activity — useful when the question is not what the weather is, but where the good weather is. HOURLY FORECAST AND THE WEEK AHEAD An hour-by-hour view with rain chance, wind and temperature shows you the window that matters. Tap any day in the 7-day forecast to open its own hourly strip, or tap any region on the map for a full activity breakdown and chart. When a front is moving through, the hourly forecast is the difference between getting caught and getting home dry. PLAN THE WEEKEND Cedar ranks the regions around you by how the weekend weather is shaping up, so choosing where to go is a glance rather than ten browser tabs. Weather for hiking in the hills while the coast sits under cloud, or the other way round — you can see it on one screen. Detailed regional breakdowns run across more than 200 countries, and worldwide city search reaches anywhere else: look up Denver, Seattle, Zurich, London or wherever you are heading and get a 7-day forecast before you commit to the trip. HOME-SCREEN WIDGETS Illustrated weather widgets put current conditions and the day ahead on your home screen, drawn as a scene rather than a wall of digits. Glance at the phone, know the sky. WEATHER ALERTS THAT EARN THEIR PLACE A short morning briefing, a weekly outlook, and severe weather alerts when something is genuinely on the way. You choose which ones arrive and which stay off, and none of them shout for attention. BUILT ON MORE THAN ONE SOURCE Forecast data comes from Open-Meteo, with a second provider standing by as a fallback, so one bad response upstream does not quietly become a bad forecast on your screen. Coverage is near-global, the interface speaks 37 languages, and regions carry the names locals actually use for them. FREE, WITHOUT THE USUAL CATCH No ads. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account needed to see the forecast, and no tracking. Cedar Weather is made by one developer in Switzerland under the name Florignite, and it stays free and ad-free because it is not selling you or your data to anyone. It began with a small Saturday-morning question — is it worth taking the bike out? — and the answer was never in the temperature alone. If you cycle, hike, walk, chase clear skies at the weekend, or simply want an honest hourly forecast and a rain radar that loads quickly, Cedar Weather was built for you.

About

Terra Forecast

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Know how it feels. Know what to do. Terra Forecast turns the forecast into plain advice. Open it and you see how the day feels, what to do about it, and when the best hours outside are. No charts to decode. FEEL THE FORECAST A small clay terrarium shows the weather as it is: sun, cloud, rain, snow, fog, wind and storms, day and night. Scrub the hourly timeline and the scene follows. WHAT TO DO A short line of advice for right now, written for how you live. Choose General, Commuter or Active and the advice speaks to your day: umbrella or not, short sleeves or a jacket, whether the ride home is dry. BEST TIME OUTSIDE See the hours when it is comfortable, and a T-Shirt Weather indicator for when short sleeves are enough. MADE FOR GLANCING Premium Home Screen widgets bring the mood, temperature, daily outlook, and changing conditions to your Home Screen. THE WEEK IN A GLANCE Each day gets a one-line verdict and a temperature range, plus the best day of the week, so you can plan without reading numbers. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no tracking. Your location is used only to fetch the forecast. Terra Forecast includes: • Live local weather powered by Apple Weather • Animated weather terrarium • Mood-first forecasts and practical guidance • Hourly forecast timeline • 10-day forecast • Small and medium Home Screen widgets with Premium • Saved locations with Premium • Multiple terrarium themes • Celsius, Fahrenheit, and system units • Accessibility support, including Reduce Motion and Dynamic Type Premium features require an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Cedar Weather4 screens
Terra Forecast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cedar Weather at none against Terra Forecast's 2. Cedar Weather also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Terra Forecast's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads and device support 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. Terra Forecast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Cedar Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cedar Weather ships an update every 9 days, Terra Forecast every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Cedar Weather versus Terra Forecast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCedar WeatherTerra Forecast
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian IgnatFrontend Accelerator ApS

In-app purchases

None

Cedar Weather

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Terra Forecast

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Premium$0.997 Days
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Year

Questions

Is Cedar Weather free?
Cedar Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Terra Forecast free?
Terra Forecast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cedar Weather or Terra Forecast have ads?
Neither Cedar Weather nor Terra Forecast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cedar Weather or Terra Forecast?
Cedar Weather ships an update every 9 days, and Terra Forecast every 3 days. Most recently, Cedar Weather was updated on October 25, 2026 and Terra Forecast on October 29, 2026.

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