Comparison

widget weather vs Doppler Radar Map Live Pro

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

Doppler Radar Map Live Pro

Get real-time weather updates and forecasts with this comprehensive radar app. It displays precipitation, severe weather warnings, and detailed local and global weather information. Plan your activities with accurate temperature, humidity, and wind data.

Highlights
  • Interactive radar map with precipitation types
  • Global weather and radar forecasts
  • 24-hour and 14-day weather forecasts
  • Severe weather warnings and alerts
  • Detailed weather conditions (temperature, humidity, wind)
  • Multiple location support
Features
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Two hours of radar behind you. Forty-five minutes ahead. Doppler Radar Map Live Pro is built for people who want to read the weather themselves. The radar is high-resolution and fast-refreshing — individual cells stay sharp as you zoom in, instead of dissolving into colored mush — and you get the controls to interrogate it. RADAR, IN DEPTH - Detailed, accurate radar showing rain, snow, sleet and hail - Radar history stretches the loop back through 1, 1.5 or 2 hours - Nowcast prediction runs up to 45 minutes forward, so you can see where a cell is tracking - The scrubber snaps to time detents with haptic feedback, or animates hands-free - Radar opacity, standard or hybrid basemaps, full zoom and pan NOAA SEVERE WEATHER, WITHOUT THE NOISE - Official NOAA land and marine warnings, watches and advisories, drawn as shapes on the map - Set the severity threshold that is worth a notification to you - Time Sensitive alerts break through Focus when it matters - Rain forecast notifications with a minimum rainfall threshold you choose - Tap any alert to open its full advisory report in place HURRICANE TRACKING - Hurricane tracker with forecast cones, historical tracks and storm detail - Monitor several active systems at once - Full-screen weather maps on iPad THE FORECAST BEHIND THE MAP - Current conditions, 24-hour hourly detail, 14-day outlook - Feels-like, minimum and maximum temperature, humidity, dew point - Wind speed and direction, chance of rain - Sunrise, sunset and moon phases - Long press anywhere on the radar to read conditions at that coordinate APPLE WATCH - Radar loop on your wrist, centered on your selected location - The Digital Crown scrubs the animation frame by frame WHEREVER YOU GO - Multiple saved locations worldwide, switched in a tap - Imperial or metric units (F/mph or C/kmh) Privacy Policy: https://www.vorinn.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.vorinn.com/terms/

Screenshots

widget weather4 screens
Doppler Radar Map Live Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: widget weather at none against Doppler Radar Map Live Pro's shown. widget weather also leads on price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and review sentiment (69% vs 55%). Doppler Radar Map Live Pro's advantage is ratings volume (547 vs 73). On rating, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

widget weather costs $3.99 and Doppler Radar Map Live Pro $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

widget weather holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doppler Radar Map Live Pro has 547 ratings behind it against 73, 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 55% of Doppler Radar Map Live Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

widget weather ships an update every 6 weeks, Doppler Radar Map Live Pro monthly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
widget weather versus Doppler Radar Map Live Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwidget weatherDoppler Radar Map Live Pro
Price$3.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.7 (73 ratings) — better4.6 (547 ratings)
Positive reviews68.9% of reviews — better55.2% of reviews
Number of ratings73547 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#65 — better#108
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB111 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrond RossvollVoros Innovation

Customer experience

widget weather

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

Doppler Radar Map Live Pro

All ratings544 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive55.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative34.3%

Bugs and requests

widget weather

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Doppler Radar Map Live Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Radar doesn't download even when it's raining
  • App goes completely "blind" and needs to be deleted and re-installed

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to scroll or swipe beyond a small part of the initially visible map
  • Detailed hourly weather info for 3 days or more
  • Landscape view
  • Timeline for the radar
  • Ability to toggle between cities and their forecasts

In-app purchases

None

widget weather

No in-app purchases

None

Doppler Radar Map Live Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is widget weather free?
widget weather costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Doppler Radar Map Live Pro free?
Doppler Radar Map Live Pro costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, widget weather or Doppler Radar Map Live Pro?
widget weather is rated higher. widget weather averages 4.7 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Doppler Radar Map Live Pro averages 4.6 from 547 ratings.
Do widget weather or Doppler Radar Map Live Pro have ads?
Doppler Radar Map Live Pro shows ads; widget weather does not.
Which is updated more often, widget weather or Doppler Radar Map Live Pro?
widget weather ships an update every 6 weeks, and Doppler Radar Map Live Pro monthly. Most recently, widget weather was updated on October 29, 2026 and Doppler Radar Map Live Pro on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, widget weather or Doppler Radar Map Live Pro?
widget weather currently peaks at #65 in the App Store charts, and Doppler Radar Map Live Pro at #108. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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