SkyForge vs Storm Window
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyForge
Experience a dynamic, full-screen weather map with animated radar, 3D storms, and live wind streams. Get detailed 10-day forecasts with interactive charts and severe weather alerts. This app prioritizes privacy with no sign-up or tracking.
- Full-screen animated weather radar
- 3D storm visualization
- Live wind streams
- 10-day forecast with interactive charts
- Severe weather alerts
- Privacy-focused, no tracking
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SkyForge makes the weather radar the whole app — a full-screen, buttery-smooth animated map is your home screen, and everything else floats cleanly on top. RADAR THAT MOVES • Smooth, motion-interpolated radar: the past two hours, then up to an hour of forecast radar where it's available • 3D storms — heavy rain rises off the map as shaded clouds that cast shadows • Live wind streams — thousands of moving particles showing direction and speed • Temperature overlay with a color-graded legend • Show precipitation, temperature and wind together • Fronts & pressure from NOAA's surface analysis • Zoom out far enough and the map becomes a spinning 3D globe, colored with NASA satellite land cover A FORECAST WITH DEPTH • 10-day forecast — tap any day to expand a plain-English brief • Interactive charts for every day: temperature, precipitation, UV, wind, humidity, visibility, and pressure — drag to pinpoint any minute • Hourly forecast, current conditions, "feels like", and high/low • Air quality (US AQI), UV index, sunrise & sunset, dew point, and more BUILT FOR WHERE YOU ARE • Automatic radar and forecast for your current location • Save cities and reorder your list with a long-press • Dark and light map themes that remember your choice SEVERE WEATHER • Live watches, warnings, and advisories from the US National Weather Service, right at the top of your screen when they matter HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% free and ad-free • No account, no sign-up, no tracking • Your location is used only to fetch weather — never stored or sold Weather data from Open-Meteo, LibreWXR, RainViewer, NOAA / National Weather Service, NASA GIBS, Iowa State Mesonet, and OpenWeatherMap.
Storm Window
This app transforms raw weather data into clear outdoor risk timelines, highlighting safe periods for outdoor activities. It considers factors like lightning, heat, wind, air quality, and rain to provide actionable guidance.
- Clear outdoor risk guidance
- 48-hour hourly risk timeline
- Lightning-aware storm risk
- Heat, air quality, wind, UV, rain, snow context
- National Weather Service alert awareness
- Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch support
- Activity-specific risk profiles (Pro)
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Storm Window helps you find safer outdoor windows when weather risk is changing. Instead of giving you another raw forecast, Storm Window turns hourly weather data into a clear outdoor risk timeline, highlighting when conditions look clear, marginal, stormy, or severe. Built for runners, cyclists, walkers, golfers, beach days, trail time, work crews, and anyone who plans around lightning, heat, wind, air quality, and rain. Core features: • Clear "go / wait" style outdoor risk guidance • 48-hour hourly risk strip, shown as bars or dots • Lightning-aware storm risk • Heat, air quality, wind, UV, rain, and snow context • National Weather Service alert awareness • Current-location planning, plus one saved place • Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch support • Built-in explanations of what's driving each hour's risk Storm Window Pro adds: • Multiple saved locations • Activity-specific risk profiles (runner, cyclist, golfer, and more) • Custom activity profiles • Personal heat and AQI sensitivity tuning • Full hourly detail on tap • Driest-stretch highlight within your safe window • Per-location widgets and complications Storm Window Pro+ adds: • Trips: pin an upcoming event and get its own safe-window forecast and alerts • "Should I Go?" activity-aware guidance • Forecast change reviews and 48-hour forecast summaries • Apple Intelligence-powered risk explanations on supported devices — all features work without it Storm Window uses deterministic risk rules for its core safety assessment. Pro+ guidance does not replace the underlying risk rating. Storm Window is forecast guidance, not a guarantee of safe conditions. Weather can change quickly. When thunder roars, go indoors. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SkyForge at none against Storm Window's 4. SkyForge also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Storm Window's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Storm Window sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SkyForge asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SkyForge against 5.0 for Storm Window. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
SkyForge ships an update monthly, Storm Window every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyForge | Storm Window |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tyler Posey | Daniel Schumacher |
Customer experience
SkyForge
Storm Window
In-app purchases
SkyForge
No in-app purchases
Storm Window
- Storm Window Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro+ Monthly$4.991 Month
- Storm Window Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Pro+ Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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