Weather Clock Widget vs Weather for China
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weather Clock Widget
Display a smart, animated clock with hour-by-hour weather forecasts directly on your home screen. Get essential weather information at a glance, personalize your devices, and even share live weather updates.
- Live Weather Clock widget
- Hour-by-hour weather forecast
- Home screen and lock screen integration
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Customizable themes and icon sets
- iMessage Weather app
- Siri support
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Everything you want to know about the Weather at a glance! Based on an original idea, Weather Clock Widget lets you put a simple, smart and beautiful animated clock with hour-by-hour Weather forecast right on your Home screen. Just take a look at the clock and you'll be informed when you should take an umbrella or what are the best times to tan. New in 3.4: a stunning Liquid Glass design and three Lock screen Weather widgets — current conditions in three beautiful styles! Personalize your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with the most elegant weather widget, showing current weather, hourly forecast, time and date! Feature highlights: • Free • Original idea • Intuitive and easy to use • Unique live Weather Clock widget for Home Screen • Beautiful new Liquid Glass design • Three new Lock screen Weather widgets — current conditions in 3 styles • iMessage Weather app: send your live Weather Clock via iMessage! • Nine types of Weather data • Local and international locations • Local and world time • Apple Watch Weather app and complications • Multiple icon sets • Visual themes. Enjoy 7 themes! • Night mode. Use scheduler to switch between your favorite themes. • Siri support. Use Siri to show Weather Clock widget with the most accurate hour-by-hour Weather forecast. Product details: • Home screen widget, three Lock screen weather widgets, iMessage and full-screen Weather app for iPhone and iPad • Apple Watch app & Complications • Weather data for more than 1 million locations worldwide • "Follow me" location (it updates when you open the app, so you always know your local Weather) • Locations can be added by GPS, U.S. Zip Code, or by browsing the location list Hour-by-hour Weather forecast includes: • Temperature of air • "Feels like" temperature • Humidity • Precipitation (snow) amounts • Dew point • Chance of precipitations • Wind speed and direction • Geomagnetic activity • UV index
Weather for China
Get accurate, real-time weather forecasts for China, updated frequently by experts. View detailed information including temperature, precipitation, wind, and more for up to 10 days ahead. Explore weather data for cities worldwide.
- Live weather forecasts for China
- Expert-supervised updates up to 10x daily
- Detailed forecast metrics (temperature, precipitation, wind)
- 10-day forecast in landscape mode
- Global city weather data
- Forecast reliability value
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Find quickly and easily every day the weather forecast LIVE for China supervised 24/24 by weather forecasters China experts updated up to 10X a day! - Weather forecast for the morning / afternoon / evening / night - Value of forecast reliability - Probability of sunshine and precipitations - Perceived temperature - Average, mimimum and maximum temparature - Wind force, wind direction, gust force - Limit of snowfall - Limit zero degrees - Fog - Cities from the whole world Exposure for 10 days in landscape mode. Vendor: MeteoNews
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Weather Clock Widget at 89% against Weather for China's 0%. Weather Clock Widget also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (2.5K vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Weather Clock Widget sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Weather for China sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Weather Clock Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weather Clock Widget has 2.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Weather Clock Widget's written reviews are positive against 0% of Weather for China's.
Weather Clock Widget ships an update every 2 months, Weather for China every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weather Clock Widget | Weather for China |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.5K ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 215 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elecont LLC | ID Mobile SA |
Customer experience
Weather Clock Widget
Weather for China
Bugs and requests
Weather Clock Widget
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widget loses time
- Weather information is inaccurate
- App shows sun at night in wrong hemisphere
Requested features
6 requests- Show weather readings for early morning hours
- Add sunrise/sunset times
- Allow custom background or color options
- Ability to pin the widget to the home screen
- Add more location options
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- Improve widget functionality
Weather for China
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Weather Clock Widget
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Apple Watch app$1.99
Weather for China
- Remove Ads$4.99
Questions
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