Comparison

Terra Forecast vs Tiny Skies

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

Head to head
About

Terra Forecast

This app visualizes weather conditions in an animated terrarium, offering practical advice for your day. It provides a 10-day forecast with simple daily verdicts and highlights the best times to be outdoors. Premium widgets are available for home screens.

Highlights
  • Animated weather terrarium
  • Mood-first forecasts
  • Practical daily advice
  • 10-day forecast with verdicts
  • Home Screen widgets
  • UV index
  • Sunrise and sunset times
Features
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Terra Forecast is a weather app for people who want to know how the day feels and what to do about it, with 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. KNOW WHAT TO DO A short line of advice for right now. Choose Everyday, Commuter or Active and it speaks to your day: umbrella or not, short sleeves or a jacket, whether the ride home is dry. FIND BEST TIME OUTSIDE See the hours when it is comfortable, and a T-Shirt Weather indicator for when short sleeves are enough. 10-DAYS AHEAD Each day gets a one-line verdict, a temperature range and a pick for the best day, so you can plan without reading numbers. MADE FOR GLANCING Premium Home Screen widgets show the mood, temperature, daily outlook and changing conditions. 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 • Everyday, Commuter and Active advice styles • Best time outside and a T-Shirt Weather indicator • Hourly forecast timeline • 10-day forecast with a one-line verdict for each day • UV index • Alert banners for official weather alerts • Sunrise and sunset times • Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets with Premium • Saved locations • Multiple terrarium themes • Celsius, Fahrenheit and system units • Accessibility support, including Reduce Motion and Dynamic Type Know how it feels. Know what to do. 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 (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tiny Skies

Features
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Tiny Skies turns the weather forecast into a tiny world. Your city is drawn as an isometric miniature diorama — its real landmarks, streets and rivers on a small block of land — and the scene changes with the weather outside your window: clouds drift over it, rain falls on wet streets, snow settles on the roofs, fog rolls between the towers, lightning flashes over it at night. WEATHER YOU CAN SEE • Current conditions, feels-like temperature, wind and humidity, with an hourly strip and a 7-day forecast • Data from Apple Weather • Morning, day, evening and night versions of every scene, so the diorama follows the light as well as the weather A LIVING SCENE • Tilt your phone and the diorama shifts with depth; drag it to look around • Rain, snow, fog, clouds and lightning are animated live on the scene • Animate turns a scene into a short looping film ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Small, medium and large widgets show the current scene and temperature and update through the day • Lock Screen widgets with the temperature and conditions • Works with tinted and clear Home Screens A CITY EVERYONE DRAWS TOGETHER • Your current location or any city in the world • Every city's scenes are shared: when anyone draws a city's weather, everyone who follows that city gets it, instantly and free • Found a city: be the first to draw it, and it's yours • Share a card of today's scene FREE, WITH TINY SKIES PLUS FOR MORE Tiny Skies is free: the real weather, the built-in artwork, the widgets, every community scene of your cities and one AI scene of your own. Tiny Skies Plus draws new scenes of your cities as the weather and the light change, with 10 scene credits a month — each scene drawn costs 1 credit (a new city's first view also draws its base scene), a private redraw just for you costs 1, and an animated loop costs 3. Credits reset on the 1st. Plus members also put their name on the cities they found and can claim cities founded by free explorers. Tiny Skies Plus is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and the subscription renews automatically for the same price and period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Scenes are generated by AI image services (Google's Gemini models, fal.ai for some styles) after you confirm you are 18 or older; without that, Tiny Skies still shows the real weather over its built-in artwork. Each new scene takes about a minute to draw and needs a network connection. Tiny Skies has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Founder names are public and follow the community rules (tinyskies.app/rules); you can report or block any name. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://tinyskies.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://tinyskies.app/privacy

Screenshots

Terra Forecast4 screens
Tiny Skies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tiny Skies at 3 against Terra Forecast's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Tiny Skies sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Terra Forecast ships an update every 2 days, Tiny Skies every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Terra Forecast versus Tiny Skies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTerra ForecastTiny Skies
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB61 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFrontend Accelerator ApSSnizyx Software LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Terra Forecast

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

Tiny Skies

Subscriptions2
  • Tiny Skies Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tiny Skies Plus Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Terra Forecast free?
Terra Forecast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiny Skies free?
Tiny Skies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Terra Forecast or Tiny Skies have ads?
Neither Terra Forecast nor Tiny Skies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Terra Forecast or Tiny Skies?
Terra Forecast ships an update every 2 days, and Tiny Skies every 3 days. Most recently, Terra Forecast was updated on November 10, 2026 and Tiny Skies on November 8, 2026.

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