Comparison

widget weather vs Dynamic Sky

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

Dynamic Sky

Experience weather visually with an animated sky that reflects real-time conditions. Get glanceable forecasts, plain-language summaries, and customizable sky styles. Live Activities keep you updated without opening the app.

Highlights
  • Animated living sky reflecting real weather
  • Live Activities for Dynamic Island and Lock Screen
  • Plain-language weather summaries
  • Hourly forecast and sunrise/sunset times
  • Five distinct customizable sky styles
  • Premium themes and living world animations (Pro)
Features
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Dynamic Sky turns your real weather into a beautiful, living scene. Instead of a list of numbers, you get an animated sky that reflects exactly what's happening outside — sun arcing overhead, rain falling, fog rolling in, snow drifting down, and storms lighting up the horizon. A LIVING SKY Your forecast, rendered in motion. Clouds build before rain arrives, the sky shifts from day to golden hour to a star-filled night, and the moon shows its real phase. It's weather you can feel at a glance. RIGHT IN THE DYNAMIC ISLAND Start a Live Activity and keep your conditions, temperature, and a mini-forecast glanceable in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen — updating as the day changes, no app-opening required. AT A GLANCE A friendly plain-language summary tells you what actually matters — "rain moving in shortly," "warming to 28° later," "a calm, clear night." Plus an hourly forecast and sunrise/sunset times. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from five distinct sky styles: - Classic Sky — clean and natural - Minimal — calm and understated - Cyberpunk — neon nights and retro sunsets - Pixel Sky — playful retro pixels - Fantasy — dreamy, magical skies DYNAMIC SKY PRO A one-time purchase unlocks: - All premium themes - The full 24-hour hourly forecast - A living world — birds, balloons, planes and shooting stars drifting through your sky - Multiple saved locations - Personalization controls for animation and rare events PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Your location is used only to fetch your weather, and your settings stay on your device. Weather data provided by Apple Weather. Download Dynamic Sky and let your weather come to life.

Screenshots

widget weather4 screens
Dynamic Sky4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dynamic Sky at Free against widget weather's $3.99. Dynamic Sky also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). widget weather's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (73 vs 1). On ads and monetization model 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

Dynamic Sky is free to download; widget weather costs $3.99 up front. Dynamic Sky sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. widget weather asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dynamic Sky 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 Dynamic Sky's.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
widget weather versus Dynamic Sky: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwidget weatherDynamic Sky
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 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#62 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrond RossvollMuhammad Sufyaan Ashraf

Customer experience

widget weather

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

Dynamic Sky

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

widget weather

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dynamic Sky

One-time1
  • Dynamic Sky Pro$4.99

Questions

Is widget weather free?
widget weather costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dynamic Sky free?
Dynamic Sky is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, widget weather or Dynamic Sky?
Dynamic Sky is rated higher. widget weather averages 4.7 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Dynamic Sky averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do widget weather or Dynamic Sky have ads?
Neither widget weather nor Dynamic Sky shows ads.

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