Weatherkind vs Elseweather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weatherkind
This app provides highly accurate weather forecasts by analyzing real-time satellite, radar, and ground station data. It customizes predictions based on local terrain and historical weather patterns, offering minute-by-minute precipitation tracking and detailed long-range outlooks.
- Terrain-aware forecast regions
- Minute-by-minute precipitation tracking
- Forecast performance scoring
- 50 years of local weather history
- Altitude-specific mountain forecasts
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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ENGINEERED TO BE MORE ACCURATE Weatherkind builds a forecast for the place you are actually standing, not the grid square you happen to fall in. It fuses satellite, radar, and thousands of ground stations in real time, shapes its forecast regions around the actual terrain, and follows approaching rain minute by minute. Then it goes back and checks its own work. Every forecast is scored against real weather stations. Where it missed, Weatherkind feeds that error back into what comes next, microclimate by microclimate. A FORECAST SHOULD PROVE ITSELF Most weather apps hand you a number and hope you never check it. Weatherkind publishes its record whether it flatters us or not: typical temperature error, how often predicted rain actually showed up, and how reliability holds from the next hour to day 14. So when Weatherkind says rain at 3pm, you can see exactly how calls like that have performed where you live. THE WORLD IS NOT A GRID Most forecasts treat roughly 65 square miles as one place. A single cell in a global weather model can hold a beach town, a river valley, three ski areas, and a summit four thousand feet higher. Everyone inside it gets the same number. Weatherkind draws a different map. Instead of snapping your location to a grid square, it builds terrain-aware forecast regions that follow the ridgelines, valleys, and coastlines around your exact location, then forecasts each one on its own terms. Fog stays on the coast. Inland heat stays inland. The summit gets the summit's weather. In the mountains, pick your altitude: Valley, Mid-mountain, or Peak, and the whole day changes with it. See where rain turns to snow, where calm air turns to ridgeline wind, and what is actually waiting above tree line. PRECIPITATION, TO THE MINUTE, UP TO 2 HOURS IN ADVANCE Know when the rain starts, how hard it falls, and when it clears, up to two hours out. Automatic alerts arrive before the first drops, and a Live Activity counts down on your Lock Screen, so the warning finds you instead of waiting to be found. Weatherkind is specifically fine-tuned to predict weather events even in the most demanding terrain. So even if you are hiking in a mountain valley, Weatherkind can help. Follow storms, lightning, hail, snow, wildfire smoke, and air quality on animated maps detailed enough to watch a cell slide one valley over and miss you entirely. BUILT FOR THE HOURS THAT MATTER Hourly charts that make the dry windows obvious. A detailed 14-day outlook for the long game. Stargazing planned around cloud cover, moonlight, and dark-sky timing. Compare the trip out against the trip home before you commit to either. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities, and Apple Watch complications keep the forecast one glance away. FIFTY YEARS OF CONTEXT Is this really the wettest spring in memory, or does it just feel that way? Explore up to 50 years of local weather history, follow rain and snow surpluses and deficits, compare this year against the long-term record, and find the moments your weather went completely off script. Weatherkind is made in the unpredictable mountains of Colorado, by people who check the summit forecast before breakfast and hold it accountable after dinner. Free. No ads. Your location is used only for your forecast, never sold. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Elseweather
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Most weather apps answer what. You name a place, they draw you the sky. Elseweather answers where. Pan the map, set the conditions you’re after, and the cities that match are the ones left on the screen. The map is the search Pan to a region and the largest cities in view pick up a temperature, a condition icon and a fortnight of trend. Set a filter and the ones that don’t match drop away, so what’s left is an answer rather than a picture. Conditions, not just places Pick the conditions you’ll accept, sunny, cloudy, fog, rain, snow, storm, then drag a temperature band, cap the rain chance, the wind or the air quality index. They combine, and they’re read over whichever days you point them at: all of them, or any one. Now, then fourteen days A slider steps from the live reading out to a fortnight ahead. The map redraws for the day you’re on, and a filter can sit on a window of days that isn’t the one you’re looking at. Tap a city for the rest A scrubbable chart, a day-by-day table that unfolds into hours, rainfall in millimetres, wind, humidity and air quality, as far ahead as the forecast actually reaches, and no further. Layers over the top Temperature, precipitation, wind and pressure as raster layers under the annotations. Widgets Add the Here widget to your home or lock screen and it shows the conditions where you are — the temperature, the sky, and the hours coming up with the chance of rain under them. It takes its own reading in the background, so it's current when you glance at it, and a tap opens the full forecast for wherever you're standing. No account, no tracking There’s no sign-in, no profile and no analytics or advertising code. Nothing is watching which buttons you press. Elseweather Plus The first three days stay free for everyone. Plus opens all 14, on the map, in the search filter and in every city you tap. Terms of use Elseweather supplies no licence of its own, so it’s covered by Apple’s standard end user licence agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elseweather at none against Weatherkind's 2. Elseweather also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, ads, 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. Weatherkind sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Elseweather asks for nothing beyond the download.
Weatherkind ships an update every 5 days, Elseweather every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weatherkind | Elseweather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Electric Pass Labs, LLC | Jasper Bel |
In-app purchases
Weatherkind
- Weatherkind Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Weatherkind Pro Annual$49.991 Year
Elseweather
No in-app purchases
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