Comparison

Wetterstein vs Tiny Skies

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

Head to head
About

Wetterstein

This app visualizes current weather conditions using a unique stone on a chain metaphor. It offers a minimalist and artistic approach to checking the forecast.

Highlights
  • Unique weather visualization
  • Stone on a chain metaphor
  • Minimalist design
  • Artistic weather display
Features
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Wetterstein shows you the weather as a stone on a chain.

About

Tiny Skies

Features
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Tiny Skies turns the weather forecast into a tiny world. Your city is drawn as an isometric miniature diorama — its real landmarks, streets and rivers on a small block of land — and the scene changes with the weather outside your window: clouds drift over it, rain falls on wet streets, snow settles on the roofs, fog rolls between the towers, lightning flashes over it at night. WEATHER YOU CAN SEE • Current conditions, feels-like temperature, wind and humidity, with an hourly strip and a 7-day forecast • Data from Apple Weather • Morning, day, evening and night versions of every scene, so the diorama follows the light as well as the weather A LIVING SCENE • Tilt your phone and the diorama shifts with depth; drag it to look around • Rain, snow, fog, clouds and lightning are animated live on the scene • Animate turns a scene into a short looping film ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Small, medium and large widgets show the current scene and temperature and update through the day • Lock Screen widgets with the temperature and conditions • Works with tinted and clear Home Screens A CITY EVERYONE DRAWS TOGETHER • Your current location or any city in the world • Every city's scenes are shared: when anyone draws a city's weather, everyone who follows that city gets it, instantly and free • Found a city: be the first to draw it, and it's yours • Share a card of today's scene FREE, WITH TINY SKIES PLUS FOR MORE Tiny Skies is free: the real weather, the built-in artwork, the widgets, every community scene of your cities and one AI scene of your own. Tiny Skies Plus draws new scenes of your cities as the weather and the light change, with 10 scene credits a month — each scene drawn costs 1 credit (a new city's first view also draws its base scene), a private redraw just for you costs 1, and an animated loop costs 3. Credits reset on the 1st. Plus members also put their name on the cities they found and can claim cities founded by free explorers. Tiny Skies Plus is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, and the subscription renews automatically for the same price and period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Scenes are generated by AI image services (Google's Gemini models, fal.ai for some styles) after you confirm you are 18 or older; without that, Tiny Skies still shows the real weather over its built-in artwork. Each new scene takes about a minute to draw and needs a network connection. Tiny Skies has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Founder names are public and follow the community rules (tinyskies.app/rules); you can report or block any name. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tinyskies.app/privacy

Screenshots

Wetterstein4 screens
Tiny Skies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wetterstein at none against Tiny Skies's 2. Tiny Skies's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Tiny Skies sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Wetterstein asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wetterstein ships an update every 5 days, Tiny Skies every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Wetterstein versus Tiny Skies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWettersteinTiny Skies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB60 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJonathan Peter BraunSnizyx Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Wetterstein

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny Skies

Subscriptions2
  • Tiny Skies Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tiny Skies Plus Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Wetterstein free?
Wetterstein is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Skies free?
Tiny Skies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wetterstein or Tiny Skies have ads?
Neither Wetterstein nor Tiny Skies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wetterstein or Tiny Skies?
Wetterstein ships an update every 5 days, and Tiny Skies every 2 days. Most recently, Wetterstein was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tiny Skies on October 31, 2026.

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