Simple Weather Widget vs Transparency Weather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Weather Widget
This app provides a highly customizable and compact weather widget for your iPhone's Today view. Display current conditions and forecasts with a clean, minimalist design, choosing how much information you want to see.
- Compact widget design
- Customizable information display
- Current weather details
- Forecast options
- Color and icon customization
- Today View integration
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Simple Weather Widget is simply the best weather widget in the App Store. It provides a highly customizable, very compact, beautifully designed widget in the "Today" view on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, which displays the current weather (and, optionally, a forecast) for your location. Finally a weather widget with NO WASTED SPACE on your Today screen! A simple, clean, compact design with lots of options so you see as much or as little information as you want. Available information: Current Weather: - Temperature - Clouds/Precipitation - Relative humidity or dew point - Today's high/low temperatures - Wind speed and direction - Sunrise/sunset time - Severe weather alerts (premium users only) - "Feels like" temperature (premium users only) - UV Index (premium users only) Forecast: - Temperature (hourly & daily high/low) - Clouds/Precipitation - Precipitation likelihood (hourly & daily) (premium users only) - Wind speed (hourly) (premium users only) As much or as little as you'd like of all that information, and it only takes up a tiny bit of your Today View screen space. You can also change the colors, select from three icon styles, or add a background image. The free version features high quality weather data for your area from OpenWeatherMap. With a "Premium" upgrade, the widget can access more detailed data ("feels like" temperature, UV index, forecasted precipitation likelihood etc.) powered by the Dark Sky weather data service (it's a paid service, which is why the Premium option costs a bit more). There's also an economical "Plus" option that simply removes the "free version" message and updates the forecast more frequently. To add the widget to your Today view, once you've installed the app, just swipe down from the top of the screen, select the "Today" tab, and then find the "Edit" button at the bottom of the page. Under "Do Not Include", you'll find an item called "Weather" with the app's icon. Tap the little green (+) button next to it, and you're all set!
Transparency Weather
Get detailed weather forecasts with personalized themes and customizable widgets. Offers real-time updates, minute-level precipitation, and long-term predictions for multiple locations. Stay informed about air quality and potential disasters.
- Personalized themes with custom backgrounds
- Real-time and multi-day weather widgets
- Precise street-level location tracking
- Minute-level precipitation forecasts
- Air quality and life index
- Multi-location weather queries
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This app has the following features: [Personalized theme] The app has several high-quality theme, the users can also set any picture in the album as the theme [Weather widget] Provide real-time, next 24 hours, next 5 days and other weather widgets [Accurate Location] precise positioning, accurately up to the street level, dedicated to providing the most accurate weather information [Full-dimensional weather information] Real-time weather, minute-level precipitation, weather in the next 24 hours, weather in the next 15 days, disaster warning, probability of precipitation, air quality and life index, etc. [Multiple weather information] Support multi-location weather query, easy to switch, necessary for business trips User communication QQ group: 701246831
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Transparency Weather at 92% against Simple Weather Widget's 46%. Transparency Weather also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.8). Simple Weather Widget's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Simple Weather Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 6 months and Transparency Weather sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Transparency Weather holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 51 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Simple Weather Widget's written reviews are positive against 92% of Transparency Weather's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Weather Widget | Transparency Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (26 ratings) | 4.5 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 200 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Back Bay Bytes LLC | 经纬 王 |
Customer experience
Simple Weather Widget
Transparency Weather
Bugs and requests
Simple Weather Widget
Reported bugs
15 issues- App does not open
- Error messages 'Unable to Display'
- Widget not showing up in add widget list
- Daily forecast has problem with current temperature in centigrade
- Hourly forecast gone since iOS 11
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- "Unable to Load" errors since iOS 10
- Crash after in-app purchase
- Crash every time after upgrade
- Current location won't update on widget
- App doesn't show up on Add Widget List
- Paid for premium, app crashes
- Location is not correct
- Widget data disappears until tapped
- Doesn't update, spinning wheel
- Paid for deluxe version, app crashes
Requested features
11 requests- Add Russian language
- Fix portrait only on iPad
- Allow manual location input
- Option to select different weather data sources
- Add wind direction to widget
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- Make app universal for iPad layout
- Option to open a different weather app when tapping widget
- Add daily forecast to hourly
- Color weather icons
- List city name in widget
- Add landscape mode for iPad
Transparency Weather
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple Weather Widget
- Premium 6 Month Subscription$0.996 Months
- Simple Weather Widget Plus$0.99
Transparency Weather
- Advanced Features (Monthly)$1.001 Month
- Premium Features (yearly)$6.001 Year
- Weather photo widgetFree
Questions
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