Comparison

widget weather vs ER Weather

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

Head to head
About

widget weather

This app offers a highly customizable weather widget and application for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Personalize symbols, detail levels, fonts, and backgrounds. It provides two forecast services and saves data locally for offline access.

Highlights
  • Customizable weather widget
  • Animated weather symbols
  • Two forecast services
  • Offline forecast data
  • Apple Watch support
  • Touch responsive meteogram
Features
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Even bad weather can be forecasted beautifully! Works on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac! -"I have tried every widget and this is by far the best. The pixelated weather animations are very cool. It has a ton of options and I like how you can double tap the widget to refresh the info." (New type widget does not support double tapping) -"Maybe the best weather widget on the appstore." -"It's simple, beautiful and does what it says." -"LOVE THIS! Best weather app I've used so far!" -“The app is great, I only ask that the application, on the iPad, can be viewed in landscape. Attach 5 Stars, but, when the landscape is ready, become 7 Stars. Congratulations!” (iPad now supports landscape mode) widget weather is a highly customizable weather app with widgets. Pick your favorite weather symbols, detail level, font and background color. There are even two weather forecast services so pick the most accurate one for your location. On Apple Watch you can use swipe up/down or use the digital crown to travel through time on the current weather page. Tap the screen to go back to current weather. Feature list: -Touch responsive meteogram -Two forecast styles: list and graph (meteogram) -Customizable widgets -Separate locations for widgets -Apple Watch support -20 beautiful weather icon sets -2 animated weather symbol sets -Customizable background -Customizable detail level (rain/wind/units etc.) -Font picker -Forecast for map locations and GPS position -Two forecast services: openweathermap.org and met.no -Choose how often new forecast data should be downloaded -Weather forecast in 49 languages -Universal for iPhone and iPad and the iPad version can be installed on Mac and gives you weather widgets on your desktop Usage tips: -Touch and drag graph or tap list to show forecast details -You can force update a location manually by double clicking the screen in the app -To change the location for a widget: Long press a widget and choose “Edit widget”, then choose from a list of your locations. Add more locations from within the app before selecting them in a widget ### Weather forecast from met.no available in: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Weather forecast from openweathermap.org available in: English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Zulu. App menus in English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

About

ER Weather

This weather app prioritizes privacy and uses a unique forecast system to predict severe weather events like tornadoes and thunderstorms. It aims for high accuracy while minimizing resource usage.

Highlights
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Custom severe weather prediction
  • Tornado and thunderstorm alerts
  • Lightning and hail detection
  • Wind and snow squall forecasts
  • Resource-efficient operation
Features
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A light privacy focused weather app that uses a custom forecast system to predict phenomenas like tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, hail, lightning, powerful winds, snow squalls and others. Trying to achieve the most accurate forecast possible with the least resources.

Screenshots

widget weather4 screens
ER Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ER Weather at Free against widget weather's $3.99. ER Weather also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). widget weather's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 1) and chart position (#126 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ER Weather is free to download; widget weather costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ER Weather holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: widget weather has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of widget weather's written reviews are positive against 100% of ER Weather's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

widget weather ships an update every 6 weeks, ER Weather weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
widget weather versus ER Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwidget weatherER Weather
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (73 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings73 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#126 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrond RossvollJEAN-MARIE BOIS

Customer experience

widget weather

All ratings73 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral1.4%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews122 reviews
Positive68.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative19.7%

ER Weather

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

widget weather

No in-app purchases

None

ER Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is widget weather free?
widget weather costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ER Weather free?
ER Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, widget weather or ER Weather?
ER Weather is rated higher. widget weather averages 4.7 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while ER Weather averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do widget weather or ER Weather have ads?
Neither widget weather nor ER Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, widget weather or ER Weather?
widget weather ships an update every 6 weeks, and ER Weather weekly. Most recently, widget weather was updated on October 29, 2026 and ER Weather on October 24, 2026.

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