Comparison

WeatherExt vs Strike Weather

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

Head to head
About

WeatherExt

Visualize current weather conditions with animated skies and detailed hourly and daily forecasts. Explore interactive radar maps and save multiple locations. An optional subscription offers advanced features like tide times and weather alerts.

Highlights
  • Animated weather visualizations
  • Hourly and 7-day forecasts
  • Interactive radar map
  • Saved locations and widgets
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Optional Pro subscription
Features
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See your weather at a glance with WeatherExt for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. ANIMATED SKIES Clouds, sunshine, rain, snow, fog, and nighttime skies move with the weather. Moon phases reflect the date, and the Atmosphere theme follows the weather. Choose Dynamic, Atmosphere, Paper & ink, Temperature, Rain outlook, Wind, or Daylight for the app, widgets, and Apple Watch. Atmosphere supports Light, Dark, or System appearance. YOUR DAY AND WEEK AHEAD See current conditions, daily highs and lows, and a brief outlook for your day. Browse hourly forecasts and up to seven days ahead. Explore an hour with an interactive timeline, or open a day for charts and conditions. INTERACTIVE RADAR Play the radar timeline or open the full-screen map to pan and zoom. View the latest imagery and available forecast frames for your location. YOUR PLACES AND WIDGETS Save cities and swipe between their forecasts. Use Current Location while the app is open, or search for a city without granting location access. Add widgets to keep your forecast close at hand. WEATHER ON YOUR WRIST The companion Apple Watch app shows current weather, hourly and daily forecasts, complications, and Smart Stack widgets. WEATHEREXT PRO An optional subscription unlocks: • High and low tide times, heights, and charts near supported U.S. coastal stations on iPhone and iPad. • More saved locations. • A choice of additional weather providers available for your region. • Weather alerts • Rain notifications Privacy Policy: https://weatherextension.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Strike Weather

Get detailed weather forecasts, real-time radar, and customizable rain alerts. Explore historical weather data and understand every weather reading with plain-language explanations. Choose your preferred weather data source for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Live weather conditions with plain-English summaries
  • Scrubbable 24-hour and 7-day forecasts
  • Customizable rain and snow alerts
  • Interactive radar with lightning, satellite, and warnings
  • Historical weather data back to 1940
  • Plain-language explanations of weather metrics
  • Choice of multiple weather data sources
Features
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Strike Weather is a private, no-nonsense weather app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that shows what's happening now and what's next. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE A live sky that matches the conditions, a plain-English summary, a 48-hour chart of temperature, rain, wind, humidity or UV, and up to 10 days ahead. Weather News from the National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center, NOAA and NASA sits below the forecast. ASK (BETA) Ask about the weather and Apple Intelligence answers on your device. Follow up, plan your day ("Is tomorrow good for a bike ride?"), compare places and days, and find out when rain will reach you or stop. It remembers if you run cold, and works with Siri. Needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Try it free for 3 hours, once, or keep it with Strike+. MAPS: RADAR, WILDFIRE, EARTHQUAKES Your nearest NEXRAD radar site, or a wide-area mosaic covering the US, Canada and Germany. Scrub back two hours, or look an hour ahead with an on-device estimate. Switch to Wildfire for fires, smoke, burn bans and drought, or Earthquakes for USGS quakes (Strike+). Add storm cells, warnings, hurricanes, lightning, wind or satellite clouds, on a light map or a 3D globe. KNOW BEFORE IT RAINS A banner says when rain or snow will start, how heavy it will be and how long it lasts. Rain alerts notify you 5 to 30 minutes ahead, and commute alerts warn you before you leave. ON YOUR WRIST The temperature, rain starting soon, the next hours and the week on Apple Watch, with complications. Tap the radar for Storm Watch: the nearest warning and lightning, and which way. WIDGETS AND LOCK SCREEN Home Screen widgets with a sky that follows the weather, a warning banner, a next-hour rain strip and a radar widget. Lock Screen gauges for the chance of rain, UV, wind and sunrise and sunset. A rain Live Activity sits on your Lock Screen. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS "Will it rain today?" "What should I wear?" Ask for the weather, alerts, wind, or sunrise and sunset by voice. TIME MACHINE What was the weather on your birthday? Pick any date back to 2001. EVERY READING, EXPLAINED Tap a reading, from Feels Like to UV, Drought and Pressure, for a plain-language explanation and a chart. Choose which Conditions show and in what order, in Fahrenheit, Celsius or Kelvin. YOUR WEATHER SOURCE, YOUR CHOICE Automatic uses the official service for your country (the National Weather Service, Environment Canada, DWD, SMHI or FMI), then Apple Weather. Strike Select (beta) combines them and shows each source side by side. Or pick one yourself, or bring your own free Tomorrow.io, OpenWeather or WeatherAPI.com key, kept in your Keychain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking. Your location goes only to the weather and radar services you use. Settings and favorites sync through your own iCloud. STRIKE+ Strike+ adds Ask, Strike Select, burn bans, drought and earthquake maps, wind, smoke, wildfire and satellite layers, Apple Watch, the rain Live Activity, the radar widget, Lock Screen gauges, Time Machine, Siri weather phrases and experimental features, for you or your family, monthly, yearly or once for good. The forecast, alerts and the radar's warnings stay free. GOOD TO KNOW - Radar and warnings cover the US; the mosaic also covers Canada and Germany. - The radar look-ahead moves existing rain; it can't show new storms. - Burn bans come from each state's published map, which can lag. Check with your county before you burn. - Ask is a beta and can be wrong. In an emergency, follow your local authorities. DATA SOURCES Apple Weather; NWS and NOAA (radar, lightning, satellite, warnings, hurricanes, news, models); US EPA (UV); US Drought Monitor; USGS; Environment Canada; DWD (Bright Sky); SMHI; FMI; MET Norway; NASA POWER, FIRMS and news; state forestry agencies and the BLM (burn bans); Tomorrow.io, OpenWeather and WeatherAPI.com with your own key. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

WeatherExt4 screens
Strike Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Strike Weather at free against WeatherExt's free with in-app purchases. Strike Weather also leads on ratings volume (27 vs 2). WeatherExt's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. WeatherExt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Strike Weather sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WeatherExt against 5.0 for Strike Weather. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strike Weather has 27 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WeatherExt ships an update daily, Strike Weather every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
WeatherExt versus Strike Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeatherExtStrike Weather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings227 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTim LelandStephen Glassell

Customer experience

WeatherExt

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Strike Weather

All ratings27 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WeatherExt

Subscriptions2
  • WeatherExt Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • WeatherExt Pro Yearly$32.991 Year
9 purchases

Strike Weather

Subscriptions4
  • Strike+ Individual Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Strike+ Family Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Strike+ Individual Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • Strike+ Family Yearly7 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
Show 2 more
  • Strike+ Individual Lifetime$39.99
  • Strike+ Family Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is WeatherExt free?
WeatherExt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Strike Weather free?
Strike Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WeatherExt or Strike Weather?
WeatherExt and Strike Weather are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 27 ratings respectively.
Do WeatherExt or Strike Weather have ads?
Neither WeatherExt nor Strike Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WeatherExt or Strike Weather?
WeatherExt ships an update daily, and Strike Weather every 3 days. Most recently, WeatherExt was updated on October 24, 2026 and Strike Weather on October 24, 2026.

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