Sensecast vs Elseweather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sensecast
This app provides detailed weather forecasts, combining multiple models with radar and natural hazard tracking. It offers insights into 'feels-like' conditions, power outages, and alerts for severe weather events. Users can compare various forecast sources and access scientific explanations for weather phenomena.
- Multi-model forecast comparison
- Doppler radar and cloud satellite
- Power outage tracking
- Natural hazard alerts (earthquakes, wildfires, cyclones, tornadoes)
- Feels-like temperature and conditions
- Weather Academy glossary
- Widgets and Live Activities
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Most weather apps just show a number. Sensecast shows you why it feels that way. Sensecast combines multi-model forecasts, Doppler radar, power-grid outages, and natural-hazard tracking in one app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Compare 18 sources side by side — radar, live U.S. power outages, and earthquake, wildfire, cyclone, and tornado trackers. Tap any metric for the science behind it. No account needed. Fully localized in Spanish. FEELS-LIKE & CONDITIONS • Apparent temperature: whether humidity (Heat Index) or wind (Wind Chill) drives the difference. • Dew point comfort scale (under 55°F crisp; 60–65°F muggy; over 70°F tropical). • UV index, humidity, barometric-pressure trend, wind compass with Beaufort scale, and AQI (AirNow in the U.S., estimates elsewhere). • Expected rainfall amount beside every precipitation chance. • Pro: Insurance storm verification reports — timestamped observations, shareable with a Ref ID. • Pro: Barometric migraine & health alerts. IPHONE DUO • Fold it open, and the dashboard splits either side of the crease — forecast left, detail right. Prop it half-open for a readout that stays awake; an optional edge rail rides the outer display. All of it works closed. 18 FORECAST SOURCES INCLUDING 3 SUPERCOMPUTER MODELS • 15 forecast sources free — NOAA, MET Norway, DWD (Bright Sky), UK Met Office, Environment Canada GEM, Météo-France, JMA, CMA and more. • Smart routing uses your country's own weather service where it has a live feed. • Pro adds the ECMWF, HRRR and ICON supercomputer models plus a side-by-side comparison grid with consensus and model-spread chips. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR • 2 hours of radar history, an hour of nowcast, and a cloud-satellite feed. • 4 color schemes, 3 map backgrounds, and an on-device tile cache. NATURAL HAZARD TRACKERS (FREE) • USGS earthquakes (M2.5+, 500 miles), NASA FIRMS wildfires (150 miles, ranked by Fire Radiative Power), GDACS cyclones in every basin, and U.S. SPC tornado reports and outlooks. • Optional background alerts for nearby earthquakes (M4.0+) and wildfires, after a clear disclosure. LIVE GRID GUARD — POWER OUTAGES • U.S. county-level outage counts from the DOE's ODIN feed (participating utilities), a grid risk index, utility hotlines and outage-map links, plus a blackout guide. • Grid Guard storm and outage alerts are a Sensecast Pro feature. FORECAST ALERTS (SENSECAST PRO) • Eight optional heads-ups — rain, thunderstorms, snow, ice, heavy precipitation, high wind and temperature extremes — evaluated in the background even while the app is closed. WEATHER ACADEMY • A searchable 43-topic glossary — tap any metric for a plain-language analogy, then the science. WIDGETS & LIVE ACTIVITIES • Small, Medium, and Large Home Screen widgets plus Lock Screen widgets (circular, rectangular, inline). • Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. APPEARANCES • Free: Dynamic (particles) and Clean Weather Sky (gradients). • Pro: Atmosphere photographic skies, OLED Stealth (true #000000), Custom Photo (on-device). • Sleet, hail, and haze included. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no third-party tracking or analytics SDKs. • Location goes to weather and hazard services — never to an ad network. Custom Photo stays on your device. SENSECAST PRO Sensecast Pro is an auto-renewable subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. • Monthly — $4.99 • Annual — $29.99, with a 7-day free trial • Lifetime — $99.99 one-time purchase Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase Sensecast Pro. Terms of Service: https://sensecast.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://sensecast.app/privacy Download Sensecast and understand your weather, not just the forecast.
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 Sensecast's 3. Elseweather also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Sensecast's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Sensecast sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Elseweather asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sensecast ships an update every 5 days, Elseweather every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sensecast | 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 | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Greigh Studios LLC | Jasper Bel |
In-app purchases
Sensecast
- Sensecast Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Sensecast Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Sensecast Pro Lifetime$99.99
Elseweather
No in-app purchases









