PWS Console vs Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PWS Console
This app consolidates weather information from various sources into a clear and intuitive interface. It offers current conditions, detailed forecasts, interactive radar, and the option to integrate personal weather station data for a comprehensive view.
- Current conditions and detailed forecasts
- Interactive weather radar
- Personal weather station integration
- Visual trend presentations
- Apple Watch support
- Widgets and complications
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PWS Console brings your weather together in one clear, thoughtfully designed experience for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Get current conditions, detailed forecasts, interactive radar, and at-a-glance weather information designed to make the data that matters easy to understand. BUILT FOR PERSONAL WEATHER STATION OWNERS Connect your Weather Underground personal weather station to bring your own observations into PWS Console. Temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, heat index, wind chill, and other available station observations are presented alongside carefully selected forecast and weather information. FORECASTS DESIGNED TO BE READ PWS Console goes beyond rows of generic forecast cards. Follow temperature trends, apparent temperature, precipitation chances, conditions, and extended outlooks through visual presentations designed to make changing weather easier to understand. RADAR WHEN YOU NEED THE BIGGER PICTURE Explore interactive weather radar to see precipitation and approaching weather around you. FROM THE BIG SCREEN TO YOUR WRIST PWS Console is designed for the Apple ecosystem. Use it on iPhone and iPad, check weather from Apple Watch, and keep important conditions close at hand with widgets and complications. NO PERSONAL WEATHER STATION REQUIRED You don't need to own a personal weather station to use PWS Console. Location-based weather, forecasts, and radar are available without Weather Underground credentials. Personal weather station integration is an additional option for users who want to incorporate their own observations. WEATHER INFORMATION FROM TRUSTED SOURCES PWS Console brings together weather information from established providers and presents it through a consistent interface, selecting appropriate data for each part of the experience. Whether you're checking current conditions, planning around the forecast, watching approaching weather, or simply glancing at your wrist, PWS Console gives you a clearer view of your weather.
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather
Access detailed weather readings from your Ecowitt station on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Monitor various sensors, receive customizable alerts, and view historical data and forecasts. Integrates seamlessly with your home Wi-Fi or Ecowitt Cloud.
- Real-time weather readings
- Customizable sensor alerts
- Apple Watch complications
- Historical data graphs
- 5-day weather forecasts
- CSV data export
- Water leak detection alarm
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Weathervane turns readings from your Ecowitt weather station into a clear, detailed dashboard for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Free, with no ads and no account to create. Connect directly to your gateway on your home Wi-Fi, or use Ecowitt Cloud to check your stations from anywhere. Weathervane shows only the readings your station and sensors provide, with no empty sections for equipment you don't have. See temperature, humidity, dew point, feels like, pressure, wind, rainfall, solar radiation, UV, air quality, CO2, lightning, soil moisture, soil temperature and conductivity, leaf wetness, water leaks, distance and depth, battery levels, signal strength and more. APPLE WATCH Your station on your wrist, with complications for your watch face. Pick any of your stations right on the watch. With Ecowitt Cloud, the watch reads your station itself, so complications stay up to date even when your iPhone isn't nearby. ALERTS Get notified about the weather, your sensors and your devices: high and low temperatures, frost tonight, strong wind and gusts, rain starting and stopping, heavy rain, lightning nearby, falling pressure, humidity, air quality, a daily summary, sensors that stop reporting, low batteries, a station going offline and firmware updates. Set quiet hours so alerts wait until morning. WATER-LEAK ALARM With a WH55 leak sensor, Weathervane sounds a distinct rising alarm the moment water is detected, shows a red warning on your dashboard and watch, and tells you when it's dry again. HISTORY AND RECORDS Graphs from one hour to a month. Tap any graph to see the exact reading and time. The Records screen keeps your highs, lows and totals from today back to all-time. Export your data as a CSV file. FORECAST A 5-day forecast with a one-line summary and each day's chance of rain, plus sunrise, sunset and the moon phase. In the US & Europe, a live radar map and the National Weather Service's written forecast for each day. FEATURES • Apple Watch app and complications • Weather, sensor and device alerts • Water-leak alarm • Live radar and written forecasts (US) • Siri and Shortcuts • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • History graphs and Records • CSV export • "Compared to yesterday" notes • 3-hour pressure trend and outlook • Share a picture of current conditions • Two-column iPad layout with an expanded forecast • Multiple stations, with local and cloud support • Firmware update status for every device • Custom names and order for stations and sensors • Reorder cards on dashboard • Fahrenheit or Celsius, your choice of pressure, wind and rain units • Units that follow your region, with knots, m/s and metric distances • 12-hour or 24-hour time • Light and dark appearance • Demo mode, to try it without a station SUPPORTED HARDWARE Gateways: GW1100, GW1200, GW2000, GW3000, and the WittField WS6210 and WS6006 4G gateways. The original GW1000 through Ecowitt Cloud. Consoles: HP2550, HP2551, HP2560, HP2561, HP2564 Wittboy Pro, HP3500, WS2320, WS2910, WS3800, WS3820, WS3900, WS3910, WN1820, WN1821, WN1920 and WN1980. Stations: any package built on one of these, including GW1101, GW1201, GW1202, GW1210, GW2001, GW3001, GW3002, Wittboy, Essense3, WN1981, HP2552 and HP2553H. Newer and regional models not listed here usually work too, as they share the same interfaces. Available readings depend on your gateway, firmware and connected sensors. Weathervane is independently developed and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ecowitt. Ecowitt and related product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather at none against PWS Console's 3. Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). PWS Console's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. PWS Console sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PWS Console against 5.0 for Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PWS Console ships an update every 2 days, Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PWS Console | Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Branson | Leech Software |
Customer experience
PWS Console
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather
In-app purchases
PWS Console
- Small Contribution$2.99
- Medium Contribution$4.99
- Large Contribution$9.99
Dashboard for ECOWITT Weather
No in-app purchases
Questions
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