Comparison

Sky in Pixels 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

Sky in Pixels

Features
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Sky in Pixels brings the weather to life in pixel art. Check your own weather with friendly weather characters or through a room window, and visit scenes across Japan and the world in their own current weather and local time. • Check weather for your current location or a place you choose • See hourly and 7-day forecasts • Choose Simple mode with friendly weather characters or Room mode with a window view, and swipe sideways to switch • Swipe down to Places: 10 scenes in Japan and 21 around the world, each changing with its own weather and local time • Keep going up to a pixel Earth, Moon and solar system. Pick a scene from the globe, check the moon phase with moonrise and moonset, and see where the planets are today • Tokyo Tower, the Ichihara countryside, the wooden desk room and the Earth, Moon and solar system are free • Use the app without granting location access • Music starts off and can be enabled in Settings Sky in Pixels PRO unlocks all scenery, including Mount Fuji, Shibuya, Kyoto, Shirakawa-go, Miyajima, Kouri Beach, Biei and Himeji Castle, plus world scenes of Paris, New York, London, Giza, Venice, San Francisco, Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, Sydney, Hawaii, the Kenyan savanna, Iceland, the Great Wall, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul’s Gyeongbokgung, Taiwan’s Jiufen Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, Cappadocia, Santorini and Mont-Saint-Michel. It also unlocks the tatami and attic rooms, short forecast summaries, next-hour rain forecasts and more music. Minute-by-minute rain information appears only where and when available. The free version displays a banner ad at the bottom of the screen. PRO removes ads so you can enjoy more of the scenery. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time purchase. Eligible subscribers can try PRO free for one week. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Sky in Pixels4 screens
Tiny Skies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tiny Skies at none against Sky in Pixels's shown. On price, update cadence, 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. Sky in Pixels sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Tiny Skies sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Sky in Pixels versus Tiny Skies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSky in PixelsTiny Skies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB60 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKazuhiro ItoSnizyx Software LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sky in Pixels

Subscriptions2
  • Sky in Pixels PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Sky in Pixels PRO (Yearly)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sky in Pixels PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
2 purchases

Tiny Skies

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

Questions

Is Sky in Pixels free?
Sky in Pixels is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiny Skies free?
Tiny Skies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sky in Pixels or Tiny Skies have ads?
Sky in Pixels shows ads; Tiny Skies does not.
Which is updated more often, Sky in Pixels or Tiny Skies?
Sky in Pixels ships an update every 2 days, and Tiny Skies every 2 days. Most recently, Sky in Pixels was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tiny Skies on October 31, 2026.

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