Comparison

SkyForge vs Downpour 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 animated weather map as your primary interface. View detailed radar, wind streams, and temperature overlays, alongside a comprehensive 10-day forecast with interactive charts. Get severe weather alerts and air quality information for your current location or saved cities.

Highlights
  • Full-screen animated precipitation radar
  • Live wind stream visualization
  • 10-day forecast with daily briefs
  • Interactive hourly forecast charts
  • Severe weather watches and warnings
  • Automatic location-based weather
  • Dark and light map themes
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

Downpour Weather

Features
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Downpour is a focused weather radar built for answering one question quickly: what is the weather doing around me? LIVE WEATHER RADAR Follow NOAA NEXRAD precipitation across the United States with an animated recent-history timeline, readable roads, and a clear intensity legend. FUTURE RADAR Move beyond now with an HRRR simulated-reflectivity forecast extending up to 18 hours. Downpour clearly separates observed radar from forecast guidance and shows the active model run. LOCAL FORECASTS See current conditions, hourly and daily outlooks, wind, humidity, pressure, dew point, sunrise, and sunset. Conditions follow the map: pan anywhere in the U.S. and the forecast updates for the place under the crosshair. Forecasts use Apple Weather, with the National Weather Service as a U.S. fallback. SEVERE WEATHER View active National Weather Service warning polygons directly over the radar map and tap them for details. BUILT FOR PRIVACY No account, advertising, analytics SDK, or tracking. Optional calendar briefings and notifications are processed on your device. DOWNPOUR PRO An optional auto-renewing subscription adds live radar widgets, radar on Apple Watch, and precipitation Live Activities where minute-by-minute data is available. Yearly and monthly plans; the price and term are shown before you subscribe, and you can cancel anytime in Settings. Downpour also supports widgets, Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SkyForge4 screens
Downpour Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Downpour Weather at every 8 days against SkyForge's monthly. SkyForge's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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, Downpour Weather every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SkyForge versus Downpour Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkyForgeDownpour Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyler PoseyBrad Hauser

In-app purchases

None

SkyForge

No in-app purchases

None

Downpour Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SkyForge free?
SkyForge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Downpour Weather free?
Downpour Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SkyForge or Downpour Weather have ads?
Neither SkyForge nor Downpour Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SkyForge or Downpour Weather?
SkyForge ships an update monthly, and Downpour Weather every 8 days. Most recently, SkyForge was updated on October 6, 2026 and Downpour Weather on October 12, 2026.

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