Comparison

Ask Cloudman vs WeatherMetro

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

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About

Ask Cloudman

This app provides weather forecasts in a conversational format, answering your questions directly instead of presenting raw data. It visually represents the forecast by showing a character dressed appropriately for the day's conditions and offers a home screen widget for quick access.

Highlights
  • Conversational weather queries
  • Visual outfit representation of forecast
  • Home screen widget
  • Daily trip briefs
  • Hourly and weekly forecast details
  • Nearby weather map
  • Personalized weather alerts
Features
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Meet Cloudman. Ask him the questions a forecast can't answer. Most weather apps hand you a grid of numbers and leave the thinking to you. Cloudman does the thinking. He reads the forecast for where you are and dresses for it — one glance at what he's wearing and you know: tee, hoodie, puffy, parka, raincoat. Then you ask him the rest. ASK, DON'T SCROLL "What should I wear?" "Need a coat tonight?" "Best beach day this week?" He answers in a sentence, in plain words. When you ask, the day folds into his pocket and the conversation has the screen; tap him to come home. HE DRESSES FOR IT Cloudman changes outfits when you should. His verdict for the day is one line, and he'll say when it flips — tee till four, hoodie for the ride home. Tap him and he texts you the day in three lines, the third one about what you told him matters. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The widget wears the weather. The temperature, where the day goes, and Cloudman dressed for it — no app to open. Add it from Settings; he'll walk you through it. THE BEST DAY FOR IT Beach, hike, the weekend — ask which day and he scores the week and names the one, with the hour. ANYWHERE "Check weather in Monterey" hands you a card for there. "Heading to Tahoe Friday" gets a trip brief with the clock at both ends. THE DAY, HONESTLY Tap the Today card: the day as columns you can scrub, feels-like, wind and gusts, rain by the hour, UV, sunrise and sunset. The week in one row a day, with what stands out. WHERE THE SUN IS The Nearby map shows the readings around you, hour by hour, so on a foggy morning you can see which neighbourhood is warm — tap a place to look closer. HE LEARNS YOUR MORNINGS Tell him what matters — the run, the school gate, Friday's bike — and he brings it up when the weather does. FRIDAYS, A POEM Once a week he writes your neighbourhood three lines — about the fog on the hill, the bus that sighs, the sun by one — never a temperature. Tap the card, watch him write, share the page. °F OR °C Every degree in the unit you read. BUILT TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT YOU No account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking. Location is used only to fetch your forecast and is never stored. Everything the app remembers sits under a random identifier you can erase in one tap from Settings. Weather data by Apple Weather. Replies in chat are generated by AI and can be wrong — check the sky before you trust the coat.

About

WeatherMetro

Features
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WeatherMetro is the forecast that tells you what actually happens next. Not “60% chance today”, but “rain starting in 12 minutes”. Not a single number on a sunny graphic, but the radar, the air, the pollen, the UV and thirty years of context, side by side, for 5.2 million places on Earth - with a privacy promise almost no weather app makes: your location is used once to pick a place, then forgotten. What you’ll love about WeatherMetro: – Rain, to the minute: a minute-by-minute rain timeline for the next hour – Watch it move: radar from two hours back to two hours ahead – Every town on Earth: 5.2 million places, each with the full forecast – Side by side: home, work, and wherever you’re worrying about, compared at a glance – How it actually feels: air quality, pollen and UV beside the temperature – Thirty years of context: is this hot, or just summer? The climate chart answers – Honest about accuracy: every forecast names the model behind it, and the models are scored – Light, all year: sunrise, sunset and twilight - and it works offline – The Feed: what the sky is doing right now, from people standing under it RAIN, TO THE MINUTE “Starting in 12 minutes” beats “60% today”. WeatherMetro gives you a minute-by-minute rain timeline for the next hour, hourly detail all day, and a 16-day outlook - with plain-language summaries like “no rain in the next 6 hours”, so you don’t have to read a chart to know whether to take a jacket. WATCH IT MOVE Radar from two hours back to two hours ahead. Scrub through it and watch the weather arrive. When a watch or warning is issued for your place, it sits right at the top of the forecast, where it belongs. EVERY TOWN ON EARTH Most weather apps cover the big cities well and everywhere else badly. WeatherMetro carries the full forecast for 5.2 million places - search any of them, save the ones you care about, and see them side by side. HOW IT ACTUALLY FEELS The temperature is half the story. PM2.5, ozone, pollen and UV live beside the forecast, worldwide, along with humidity, dew point and feels-like - so “how should I dress?” and “can I run outside today?” have one answer, in one place. THIRTY YEARS OF CONTEXT Is this hot, or just summer? A thirty-year climate chart for your exact place answers. And On This Day shows what today’s date has looked like across the years - the warmest, the coldest, and where this year falls. HONEST ABOUT ACCURACY Every forecast in WeatherMetro names the weather model behind it, and the models are scored and ranked against what actually happened at your place. Few weather apps tell you where the forecast comes from - fewer still tell you how often it has been right. LIGHT, ALL YEAR Sunrise, sunset and twilight for the whole year, for any place - and it works offline. Plan the golden hour in a place you have not landed in yet. THE FEED Radar shows you the rain; the Feed shows you the hail on someone’s balcony three streets away. See what people near your place are posting about the sky right now, and add what you can see out your own window. A SKY THAT KEEPS TIME The app is drawn on the Skyshift gradient: its colours follow the real sky through dawn, day, dusk and night. You can often tell the weather from the colour of the screen before you read a word. PRIVACY, THE SHORT VERSION We use your location to pick a place, then forget it. We do not store a location history, we do not sell data to anyone, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. Analytics is anonymous, off by default, and turning it off actually stops collection rather than hiding it. No account is needed - and if you make one, you can export or delete everything from inside the app. Download WeatherMetro and know what the sky will do next.

Screenshots

Ask Cloudman4 screens
WeatherMetro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: WeatherMetro at 16.4 against Ask Cloudman's 18.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Ask Cloudman versus WeatherMetro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsk CloudmanWeatherMetro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames SchulteWeatherMetro

In-app purchases

None

Ask Cloudman

No in-app purchases

None

WeatherMetro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ask Cloudman free?
Ask Cloudman is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WeatherMetro free?
WeatherMetro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ask Cloudman or WeatherMetro have ads?
Neither Ask Cloudman nor WeatherMetro shows ads.

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