Comparison

SkyForge vs Nimbo Weather

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Full-screen animated weather radar
  • 3D storm visualization
  • Live wind streams
  • 10-day forecast with interactive charts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Privacy-focused, no tracking
Features
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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.

About

Nimbo Weather

Features
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Weather is easier to understand when it feels familiar. Nimbo shows current conditions and the next 24 hours alongside recent weather from the same place. See whether the hours ahead will feel warmer, cooler, wetter, or much the same as yesterday. • A clear current-weather summary • A chronological −24 / NOW / +24 timeline • Comparisons with yesterday and recent days • Best Time Outside based on comfort and weather hazards • Cached weather when your connection is unavailable • Home-screen widgets and companion apps for Apple Watch and Wear OS • Automatic, metric, or imperial units No account, ads, or analytics. Approximate location is optional; city search works without location permission. Weather and place data are provided by Open-Meteo. Historical values are model and reanalysis data, not verified station observations.

Screenshots

SkyForge4 screens
Nimbo Weather1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nimbo Weather at every 2 days against SkyForge's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SkyForge ships an update monthly, Nimbo Weather every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SkyForge versus Nimbo Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkyForgeNimbo Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyler PoseyXasan Ganixodjayev

In-app purchases

None

SkyForge

No in-app purchases

None

Nimbo Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SkyForge free?
SkyForge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nimbo Weather free?
Nimbo Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SkyForge or Nimbo Weather have ads?
Neither SkyForge nor Nimbo Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SkyForge or Nimbo Weather?
SkyForge ships an update monthly, and Nimbo Weather every 2 days. Most recently, SkyForge was updated on October 31, 2026 and Nimbo Weather on October 31, 2026.

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