Comparison

weatherfeels vs Unhinged Weather

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

Head to head
About

weatherfeels

Experience a continuous, rotating weather broadcast with live US National Weather Service data. Enjoy retro visuals, customizable music playback, and essential weather details for your screen.

Highlights
  • Continuous rotating weather broadcast
  • Live US National Weather Service data
  • Retro CRT mode with visual effects
  • Customizable music playback
  • Burn-in protection for screens
  • Supports Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Features
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A local forecast channel for your television, rebuilt for Apple platforms. weatherfeels puts a continuous, rotating weather broadcast on your screen — the kind that used to run between programmes on cable, with a slow crawl of conditions along the bottom and music playing over the top. Every forecast is live from the US National Weather Service. Leave it running on a TV, a monitor, or in a window while you work. WHAT IT SHOWS • Current Conditions — temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, ceiling and visibility • Local Forecast and Extended Forecast — the next several days at a glance • Hourly Forecast and Hourly Graph — temperature, dew point, cloud cover and precipitation chance • Local Radar — animated regional radar composites • Regional Observations and Regional Forecast — nearby cities on a state map • Travel Forecast — conditions for cities down the road • Almanac — sunrise, sunset, moon phases and records • Hazards and SPC Outlook — active alerts and convective risk when there is any Displays rotate on their own, or step through them yourself. Turn off any you do not care about. YOUR OWN MUSIC Play music behind the weather, the way the original did: • Files on the device • A folder on a server you host • A playlist from your Apple Music library (requires an Apple Music subscription) DRAWN, NOT SCALED Nothing here is a screenshot of a 640×480 web page stretched to fit. The backgrounds are redrawn as vector gradients and shapes, the type is real outline fonts rasterised at your display's resolution, and the weather icons are pixel art kept crisp with nearest-neighbour scaling. On an Apple TV 4K it renders at native 2160p. If you want the era rather than just the layout, there is a CRT mode: barrel-curved glass, phosphor bloom, colour fringing and scanlines that drift, all on the GPU. Or keep plain scanlines. Or none at all. BUILT FOR A SCREEN THAT STAYS ON • Burn-in protection nudges the picture a few pixels every 90 seconds, so a static header cannot etch itself into an OLED panel • The screen saver is held off while the rotation is running • Adjustable pace, from brisk to very slow ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac, all included. FREE, AND OPEN SOURCE No price, no in-app purchases, no subscription, and no advertising. Built by fans of the era, and the whole thing is on GitHub under the MIT licence — read it, fork it, or send a fix. NO ACCOUNTS, NO TRACKING There is no sign-in, no analytics and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your location is sent to the National Weather Service to fetch your forecast and is used for nothing else. Your music library is read on the device and never leaves it. FORECASTS ARE US ONLY Data comes from the US National Weather Service, so forecasts are available for United States locations. You can follow your device's location or pick a city by name or ZIP code. Weather data from NOAA / the National Weather Service. Radar composites from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Convective outlooks from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. An independent, unofficial tribute to the local forecast units of the 1990s, made by fans and given away. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any broadcast network, weather service trademark or media company.

About

Unhinged Weather

Features
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The forecast, but emotionally unstable. Unhinged Weather gives you a proper local forecast, then talks about it like a slightly unhinged friend. Temperatures, rain, wind and official warnings stay honest. The jokes are optional. The coat advice is not. WHAT YOU GET, FREE • Hourly and 7-day forecast for where you are, or any town you search • What to wear, based on the actual weather, not a vibe • Washing line verdicts before you ruin a load • Rain timing, so you know when the sky is about to betray you • Official UK warnings, kept clear and separate from the jokes • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets SIX PERSONALITIES Classic, Sarcastic and Dramatic are free. Supportive, Brutally Honest and British are in Unhinged Plus. WIDGETS Put the chaos on your Home Screen. Small, medium and Lock Screen sizes, with themes if you have Plus. UNHINGED PLUS Accurate weather stays free. Plus adds extra personalities, widget themes, more saved locations and extra alerts. Designed for iPhone. Built in the UK, for weather that cannot behave. Privacy: https://unhingedweather.co.uk/privacy/ Terms: https://unhingedweather.co.uk/terms/

Screenshots

weatherfeels4 screens
Unhinged Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: weatherfeels at daily against Unhinged Weather's every 3 weeks. weatherfeels also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Unhinged Weather's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

weatherfeels ships an update daily, Unhinged Weather every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
weatherfeels versus Unhinged Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterweatherfeelsUnhinged Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin HollandNatasha Card

In-app purchases

None

weatherfeels

No in-app purchases

None

Unhinged Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is weatherfeels free?
weatherfeels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Unhinged Weather free?
Unhinged Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do weatherfeels or Unhinged Weather have ads?
Neither weatherfeels nor Unhinged Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, weatherfeels or Unhinged Weather?
weatherfeels ships an update daily, and Unhinged Weather every 3 weeks. Most recently, weatherfeels was updated on November 6, 2026 and Unhinged Weather on October 31, 2026.

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