Windoo vs Weather 247
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Windoo
This app works with a physical device to measure wind speed, temperature, humidity, and pressure. It's ideal for outdoor enthusiasts like sailors, surfers, and hikers, providing instant readings and historical data.
- Instant wind, temperature, humidity, and pressure measurements
- Graphical display of readings
- Measurement history tracking
- Share measurements on social media
- Display measurements on a map
- Multiple unit options for wind, temperature, and pressure
- Supports instant, min, max, and average modes
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The SKYWATCH Windoo measures accurately the wind speed, the temperature, the humidity and the pressure with your iPhone or your iPad! Your device for all outdoor activities: sailing, kite surfing, windsurfing, paragliding, paddling, hiking… The device doesn’t have any battery and has to be plugged into the headphone jack. The device needs that audio output level is at the maximum. If not, the application will ask you to push up the volume. 3 steps to have your local weather on your iPhone or iPad: 1. Get a SKYWATCH Windoo on windoo.ch or by a JDC distributor (www.jdc.ch/distributors) 2. Download the Windoo application 3. Connect the Windoo to your device General features: • Instant measurements • Graphical display of measurements • Measurements history • Share measurements on Facebook, Twitter and windoo.ch • Display of all measurements on a map • Wind speed units: km/h, m/s, fps, mph, knots, Beaufort • Temperature units: °C, °F • Pressure units: hPa, mbar, inHg • Modes: instant, minimum, maximum, average • Available languages: English, French, Japanese, German and Chinese Windoo 1 features: • Wind speed • Wind direction • Temperature, wind chill Windoo 2 features: • Wind speed • Wind direction • Temperature, wind chill • Humidity, dew point Windoo 3 features: • Wind speed • Wind direction • Temperature, wind chill • Humidity, dew point • Pressure (QFE, QNH), altitude Compatible with iPhone 4S or newer and iPad 2 or newer. iOS 6.0 or newer is required. The application is not working on iPhone 4.
Weather 247
Get detailed weather forecasts for the next 48 hours and 8 days. Visualize weather patterns with radar and meteorological layers on an interactive map. Supports both metric and imperial units, and dark mode.
- 48-hour forecast details
- 8-day forecast overview
- Interactive weather map
- Radar animation
- Metric and imperial units
- Dark mode support
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This simple and intuitive weather forecast app will show 48 hours forecast on dashboard, daily forecast on calendar, radar and other meteorologic layers on map. Support metric and imperial unit type. Support iOS13 dark mode. 48 hours forecast: 1. Temperature and feels like 2. Wind speed and direction 3. Humidity and clouds percentage 4. Sea level pressure and dew point 8 days forecast: 1. Min/max and feels like temperature 2. Clouds percentage 3. UV index Meteorologic layers on map: 1. 3/1 hours radar animation 2. Clouds and precipitation 3. Sea level pressure 4. Wind speed 5. Temperature
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Weather 247 at 100% against Windoo's 25%. Weather 247 also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5). Windoo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). 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. Weather 247 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Windoo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Weather 247 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Windoo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Weather 247's.
Windoo ships an update every 3 months, Weather 247 every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Windoo | Weather 247 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JDC Electronic SA | Heavenbrook Software Inc. |
Customer experience
Windoo
Weather 247
In-app purchases
Windoo
No in-app purchases
Weather 247
- Weather upgrade$0.99
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