Wetter vs SatelliteWx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wetter
This application visualizes weather data through detailed meteograms, showing past conditions and future forecasts for any location worldwide. It offers extensive historical and predictive data, including temperature, precipitation, and wind, sourced from multiple forecast models.
- Beautiful meteogram visualizations
- Data from ECMWF and DWD ICON models
- Global location data
- 14-day forecast and history
- Temperature, rain, cloud cover, and more
- Location selection via database, map, or current GPS
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Wetter is an app which draws beautiful meteograms. A meteogram is a time plot that uses data for a specific location on the ground. It can display past weather conditions up to the current time forecast and predict weather out into the future. - data from 6 weather forecast models (ECMWF, ICON, GFS, UKMO, JMA, and GEM), 3 of them can displayed together - data for every place on the world - Wetter is free of charge, no subscription, no in app purchases - 14 day forecast data - 14 day history data - zoom and slide - display temperature, rain prediction, cloud cover, humidity, CAPE, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, dew point - the location can be selected from a database with ~200000 entries - or the location can be selected from the map - or your current location can be used - you can maintain a favorite list
SatelliteWx
Access live GOES satellite imagery, radar, lightning data, and severe weather overlays. The free version offers comprehensive data, while the Pro subscription unlocks higher resolution, advanced analysis tools, and extended archives for detailed weather tracking.
- Live GOES satellite imagery
- Mosaic radar and lightning detection
- Severe weather overlays
- Advanced analysis tools (Pro)
- Extended data archives (Pro)
- Customizable favorites and regions
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Satellite Weather puts live GOES-19 (East) and GOES-18 (West) imagery, mosaic radar, lightning detection, and severe-weather overlays in one fast, ad-free app. Free gives you all of the data. Pro gives you the resolution, the advanced tools, more favorites, and a longer archive. FREE • All 16 ABI channels plus every RGB product, GeoColor included • Every weather overlay — MRMS radar with hail size and rotation tracks, GLM lightning (flash, density, minimum flash area), NWS warnings, watches and mesoscale discussions, SPC outlooks, ProbSevere and storm reports, RAP variables across pressure levels, RTMA surface analysis, METAR observations, aviation, active fires, and tropical • Live GOES CONUS view and the full-disk hemisphere view • Mesoscale 2 — one-minute imagery wherever the sector is pointed • Animation loops up to 20 frames, and a 6-hour archive • Drawing, sharing, and the measure tool • Physical map boundaries — states, counties, roads, cities, rivers, lat/lon grid • One saved favorite — sign in with a free account to sync favorites and custom regions across devices and satellitewx.com • Convenient layering system to add all of the above on top of your satellite imagery • No ads PRO ($1.99/mo or $19.99/year — 2 week free trial) • Full-resolution local views — regional, sub-regional, state and metro. Every view is rendered at the same pixel count as CONUS but covers far less ground, so a state view carries roughly five times the detail of that same area seen in the free CONUS view. Zooming into CONUS magnifies one fixed image; Pro renders that area fresh. • Full-disk north and south crops, plus the ocean views • Mesoscale 1 — the second one-minute sector • Soundings, skew-T, and cross-section analysis tools • Pixel inspector for exact brightness temperatures • Time series tool for storm trends • Dual and quad (tablet) pane setup to view more data at once • Animation loops up to 100 frames • The full 48-hour archive — replay an entire event from the start • Up to 25 favorites (saved views), synced across your devices • No ads, ever PRIVACY & TERMS • Your location stays on your device — used only to center the map. We never see it. • No ads. No third-party tracking. No advertising SDKs. • Privacy Policy: https://satellitewx.com/privacy.html • Terms of Use (EULA): https://satellitewx.com/terms.html Built by weather enthusiasts. Questions, bug reports, feature ideas: support@satellitewx.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wetter at none against SatelliteWx's 2. Wetter also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). SatelliteWx's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. SatelliteWx sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Wetter asks for nothing beyond the download.
SatelliteWx holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wetter has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Wetter ships an update every 3 months, SatelliteWx every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wetter | SatelliteWx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Wesemann | Satellite Weather LLC |
Customer experience
Wetter
SatelliteWx
In-app purchases
Wetter
No in-app purchases
SatelliteWx
- Satellite Weather Pro (monthly)14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Satellite Weather Pro Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year









