Comparison

Galactic Weather vs Pavement Paws

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

Head to head
About

Galactic Weather

Experience your real-time weather forecast visualized as a unique planetary environment. Explore diverse worlds that match current conditions, collect stamps by visiting them, and customize your weather-to-world assignments.

Highlights
  • Real-time weather to world visualization
  • Search any city or use current location
  • Atlas to reassign weather conditions to worlds
  • Collect stamps by visiting matching worlds
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Premium unlock for more worlds and features
Features
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Every forecast becomes a place. Galactic Weather takes today's real conditions where you are and matches them to a world that feels the same way. Freezing and windy becomes a snowbound outpost. Scorching and clear becomes a lava-scarred moon. It's still your actual forecast — just rendered as somewhere instead of a number. WHAT YOU DO — Search any city, or use your location, and land on the world your weather matches right now. — Open the Atlas to see all 70 worlds and reassign which one shows up for any of the 28 weather conditions — make snow always show your favorite, not the default. — Collect stamps in your Passport by actually landing on a world — which means the real forecast somewhere on Earth had to match it at that exact moment. Some are common. Some mean waiting for a specific kind of storm, or checking the other hemisphere in July. ALSO ON APPLE WATCH — Glance at your wrist and see the same idea: today's forecast, matched to a world of its own. Wherever you are, wherever it's night, the watch shows it too. PREMIUM (ONE-TIME, $2.99) — Unlocks the other 50 worlds in the Atlas, so any condition can show any world in the full catalog. — See each world's night painting, not just its day one — it switches based on whether it's actually dark where you're looking, not what time it is on your phone. — Save up to 20 locations, synced across your devices with iCloud — instead of just the one. — No subscription. Pay once, keep it. Nothing recurring, nothing that expires. PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No backend at all — Atlas assignments and saved locations live in iCloud on your own devices. Anonymous usage analytics are optional and never include your city, coordinates, or search history. Not a weather utility — there are better apps for radar and severe-weather alerts. This one is for the days you want to know not just the number, but what it feels like.

About

Pavement Paws

Features
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Pavement Paws tells you when to walk your dog on a hot day, before you step outside. On a sunny afternoon, asphalt can run 25 degrees hotter than the air. Pavement Paws takes your local forecast for temperature, sunshine and wind, and estimates how hot the ground gets in full sun, hour by hour, for asphalt, concrete, artificial turf and grass. Then it turns that into a plan: "Walkies before 10:40 or after 18:20." A colour band and a chart show the whole day, how long the ground stays too hot for paws, and why the pavement is still warm in the evening after the air has cooled. Prefer no chart? Switch to a simple list of times. Happy paws, Quick sniff only or Paws off!: three levels based on the temperatures at which paw pads burn, with a dog on screen whose mood tells you at a glance. Give it your dog's name and the app talks about them. Switch on a morning heads-up and Pavement Paws tells you on hot days only, early enough to walk before the heat. An evening heads-up tells you when the ground cools down. Home screen and Lock Screen widgets keep the answer a glance away. Pavement Paws gives an estimate for pavement in full sun, not a measurement. Shade stays closer to the air temperature. When in doubt, use the 7-second paw test: if you cannot hold the back of your hand on the pavement for 7 seconds, it is too hot for paws. Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek, in °C or °F. No account, no advertising and no tracking.

Screenshots

Galactic Weather4 screens
Pavement Paws4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pavement Paws at none against Galactic Weather's 1. Pavement Paws also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Galactic Weather sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pavement Paws asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Galactic Weather ships an update every 5 days, Pavement Paws every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Galactic Weather versus Pavement Paws: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGalactic WeatherPavement Paws
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGregory RobletoShyam Steenhaut

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Galactic Weather

One-time1
  • Galactic Weather Premium$2.99
None

Pavement Paws

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Galactic Weather free?
Galactic Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pavement Paws free?
Pavement Paws is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Galactic Weather or Pavement Paws have ads?
Neither Galactic Weather nor Pavement Paws shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Galactic Weather or Pavement Paws?
Galactic Weather ships an update every 5 days, and Pavement Paws every 3 days. Most recently, Galactic Weather was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pavement Paws on October 25, 2026.

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