StormCast vs SkyRewind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StormCast
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Rain on the way? See where it’s moving. With StormCast, follow rain and lightning on the map and get alerts for the places you choose: home, work or your weekend destination. Check the radar alongside hourly forecasts to see how the weather could change. FOLLOW RAIN AND LIGHTNING • Rain radar with two hours of history and a movement forecast up to two hours ahead • Live lightning, with distance from your location • Storm cells with movement direction and speed • Satellite, temperature, wind and wave maps ALERTS FOR YOUR PLACES • Nearby lightning alerts with a customisable radius • Incoming rain alerts with updates as it approaches • Approaching storms with an estimated arrival time • Italian Civil Protection weather alerts for your places in Italy • Quiet hours configurable for each place CHECK THE DAYS AHEAD • Hourly and daily forecasts up to 14 days ahead • Forecast reliability index • Air quality, UV, pressure, visibility and marine data • Sunrise, sunset, daylight hours and moon phases • Recent nearby earthquakes, using INGV and USGS data START WITH YOUR FIRST PLACE Search for a location, explore the map and turn on monitoring. Allow notifications on your device to receive alerts. FREE, WITH OPTIONAL PREMIUM StormCast is free to download. Radar, lightning and forecasts are available with ads and a daily usage limit shown in the app. Push alerts remain active after your viewing time runs out. StormCast Premium removes ads and the time limit. It includes Display mode, which turns a tablet into a weather station, beyond the initial trial period. Premium is an annual subscription. The current price is shown in the app before purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled in your store account settings. Restore purchases using the same store account. Available in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. Forecasts and alerts are estimates based on available data. They do not guarantee the timing or location of severe weather and do not replace official guidance or other personal safety measures. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://www.stormcastlab.com/privacy.html
SkyRewind
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Weather now. The next few hours. This day, years ago. SkyRewind brings current conditions, forecasts and historical comparisons for your area together on one compact main screen, with no vertical page scrolling. Swipe horizontally through hours, dates and years to explore the data. WEATHER WHERE YOU ARE When you open the app, it asks for permission to use your device's location. If you allow access, it selects your weather area and checks your position while you use the app and when you reopen it. There is no background location tracking. If you decline GPS access, you can select one town manually and still use weather, forecasts and history. Choosing another town replaces the previous one; there is no list of favorite places. A manually selected town stays fixed and does not follow your movements. No account is required. TODAY, TOMORROW AND YEARS PAST - Check the current temperature, feels-like temperature, conditions and weather-data timestamp. - Explore the next 24 hours for temperatures and rain probability, including after midnight. - See forecasts for today and the following six days. - Compare the selected day's forecast low and high with the same calendar date in previous years. - Move along the historical timeline to select a year. Each difference clearly identifies Today or Forecast and whether it is higher or lower. The current temperature remains separate from daily comparisons: low with low, high with high. The visual atmosphere follows the season, time of day and difference from the historical average. HISTORY WITH CONTEXT Historical coverage can extend back to 1940 where data is available for that area and date. A new area's archive may take time to prepare: the app indicates loading, partial coverage or temporary unavailability. A complete series is not necessarily available for every date or location. Data is provided by Open-Meteo. Current conditions and forecasts are based on weather models; the displayed timestamp refers to the data, not a live measurement from a station at your location. Historical ERA5 data is a model-based reanalysis of the area. Averages and differences are calculated by SkyRewind. Weather data is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The app uses Italian when the system language is Italian and English otherwise. You can change the language in Settings. Weather information is indicative and should not be your only source for emergencies, personal safety or critical operational decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SkyRewind at none against StormCast's shown. SkyRewind also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StormCast ships an update weekly, SkyRewind daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StormCast | SkyRewind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simone Baldi | Giuseppe Nesca |
In-app purchases
StormCast
No in-app purchases
SkyRewind
No in-app purchases









