Comparison

Rockets vs WASM Weather

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

Head to head
About

Rockets

Features
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Rockets is a personal launch-day companion for spaceflight fans who want to know what is worth watching, what changed, and what to do next. Today highlights the next relevant mission and source freshness. Explore keeps the 3D globe, search, Mission Planner, and Launch Pulse. My Missions saves a complete local journey, while Launch Room combines the countdown, status, source details, change history, Calendar, Live Activity, and alert controls. Mission Control is the existing optional EUR 4.99 one-time purchase. It unlocks unlimited watched missions and advanced enthusiast tools forever. There is no subscription, trial, recurring billing, account, or Rockets-operated backend. Existing Mission Control buyers receive the Rockets 2 paid capabilities automatically after StoreKit restoration. Explore launch sites on a 3D globe, search pads and missions, compare recent and upcoming launches, and use Mission Planner to filter missions by provider, orbit, status, timing, and weather or hold concerns. Add selected launch windows to Calendar and start a Live Activity for upcoming missions. Rockets uses Launch Library 2 for launch schedules and launch pad data. If launch-site data is temporarily unavailable, the app may use OpenStreetMap Overpass as a fallback for public launch-site map data.

About

WASM Weather

Features
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WASM Weather gives you the forecast where you actually are — down to the neighbourhood, across all 22 countries of the Arab world. Most weather apps hand you one model's opinion. WASM is built on W.DMM, our own forecasting engine: it blends several of the world's leading global weather models into a single forecast, then checks it against real observations on the ground. When the models disagree, we settle it rather than passing the disagreement on to you. WHAT YOU GET • Hourly detail for the next five days: temperature, how it actually feels, wind, humidity, cloud, chance of rain and visibility. • The SWAS index: a single score from 0 to 100 for how workable each hour is, built from the factor that matters most in that hour rather than an average that hides it. • Severe weather made explicit: dust, fog, thunderstorms and heat stress are scored, not buried inside an icon. • Weather alerts for your location: a notification the evening before and on the morning of a day with rain, dust, wind, heat or cold. Switch them off whenever you like. • Your own settings: °C or °F, km/h or m/s, 12- or 24-hour time, applied everywhere in the app. • Favourites: follow the cities that matter to you and move between them with one tap. • Weather news in both Arabic and English. • A full Arabic and English interface, including right-to-left layout. BUILT FOR THIS REGION Forecasting the Gulf and the Levant is not the same problem as forecasting northern Europe. Dust, extreme heat, coastal humidity and sharp desert temperature swings each get specific treatment here, because they are what actually decides whether a day is workable. LOCATION WASM asks only for your approximate, city-level location, and for one purpose: to find the nearest supported area to you. Your location is not stored on our servers, and the app works without it — you can simply pick your area from the list. FREE WASM Weather is free and supported by ads.

Screenshots

Rockets3 screens
WASM Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WASM Weather at none against Rockets's 1. WASM Weather also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Rockets's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Rockets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WASM Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rockets ships an update every 8 days, WASM Weather every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Rockets versus WASM Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRocketsWASM Weather
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMirco SchoepfWASM INC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Rockets

One-time1
  • Mission Control$3.99
None

WASM Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rockets free?
Rockets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WASM Weather free?
WASM Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rockets or WASM Weather have ads?
WASM Weather shows ads; Rockets does not.
Which is updated more often, Rockets or WASM Weather?
Rockets ships an update every 8 days, and WASM Weather every 4 days. Most recently, Rockets was updated on October 14, 2026 and WASM Weather on October 12, 2026.

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