Comparison

Hello Weather vs Laundry Timer

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

Head to head
About

Hello Weather

Get beautiful, trustworthy weather forecasts with hyperlocal real-time updates. Easily understand current conditions and future predictions with a joyful, information-rich design. Access detailed charts and radar, all customizable to your preferences.

Highlights
  • Information-rich design
  • Detailed data charts
  • Multiple data providers
  • Human-readable weather stats
  • Customizable layout and appearance
  • Widgets and Apple Watch app
  • Built-in radar
Features
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Hello Weather gives you beautiful, trustworthy forecasts powered by the best weather data on Earth. With hyperlocal real-time info and a joyful design that’s easy to read at a glance, you’ll always be prepared for whatever’s coming your way. APP OF THE DAY 2026 + featured globally since 2018 "One of my very favorites in recent years. It’s attractive, original, and highly useful." — Daring Fireball Five reasons why you’ll love planning your day with Hello Weather... 1. All the info you need is right in your face. Current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, minute-by-minute rain, and weather alerts, all in a design you can read in seconds. Everything you need, nothing you don’t. 2. Simple on the surface. Details one tap away. Sometimes you need to dig deeper. Is it going to be windy enough to fly a kite today? When’s the best time to go? Just tap the wind card (or any other stat) for a super friendly chart showing what’s up. 3. Forecasts so advanced, they might be fivecasts. Switch from Apple Weather to ultra-detailed forecasts from the world’s best data providers, like The Weather Channel, AccuWeather, and Foreca. Pick the source that works best for your area, or switch back and forth to compare. 4. You don’t need to be a weather expert. What does barometric pressure mean? Is the dewpoint good or bad? We translated those esoteric stats into human words, so you’ll know how it really feels outside. 5. It’ll make you smile. We filled the app with tons of thoughtful little touches to brighten your day. You’ll love the beautiful color themes, automatic night mode, and sweet secret extras. And that’s not all… • Hello Weather works everywhere, from your phone to your wrist. Great on iPhone and iPad, with widgets, notifications, and a full Apple Watch app to keep you updated on the go. It speaks 27 languages, too. • Radar’s built right in. When there’s a storm front ahead, we’ve got your back. Our powerful radar tab shows you exactly what’s headed your way. • You can have it your way. Tune your app’s layout and appearance to your heart’s content. Pick custom icon sets, themes, charts, data points, or tweak fiddly details if you want. • Made with care by a tiny indie company. We pour a lot of love into our app, and we take great care of our customers. We’re always just an email away, and we’ll get back to you quickly. Here’s what the experts say: "It’s so great-looking, and so easy to use, that it’s been my go-to weather app since I discovered it." — Cult of Mac "Hello Weather strips it down to the essence." — Macworld --- Hello Weather’s free to use, but it’s way better if you upgrade for the Pro stuff. Free features: • No ads or gimmicks. • Easy to read forecasts, powered by Apple Weather. • Minute-by-minute rain estimates. • Basic radar. • Automatic color themes and dark mode. • Weather units customization, including simultaneous Fahrenheit & Celsius mode. Upgrade to Pro and get: • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. • Notifications for rain, severe weather alerts, and future forecasts. • Apple Watch app and complications. • More data sources, including The Weather Channel, AccuWeather, Foreca, and others. • Radar animation and layers. • Air quality and pollen info (with certain data sources). • Weather icon sets, themes, and loads of additional customization options. • Custom app icons. • Some secret stuff too! One more thing—a note about privacy: We’re proud to have the strongest and most transparent privacy policy we can muster. We’ll never track you, sell ads, collect data, or do anything like that. • Privacy Policy: https://helloweather.com/privacy • Terms of Use: https://helloweather.com/privacy#terms Thanks so much for trying Hello Weather! We hope you like it.

About

Laundry Timer

This weather app estimates outdoor drying times for laundry based on local conditions. It helps plan the best times and days to hang clothes, considering temperature, humidity, and wind. Receive notifications when laundry is estimated to be dry and warnings about adverse weather.

Highlights
  • Drying time estimates based on weather
  • Multiple timers for different fabric types
  • 3-day drying rate forecast (upgradable to 7)
  • Future drying time predictions
  • Drying completion notifications
  • Adverse weather warnings
  • Drying progress charts
Features
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Laundry Timer is a weather app and timer dedicated drying your washing outside. It estimates how long your laundry will take to dry based on local weather conditions and helps you plan which are the best times / days to hang out your washing. It takes into account temperature, solar energy, humidity, wind speed and cloud cover. Save energy and reduce wear and tear on your clothes by drying them outside more often! Features include: - Multiple timers to reflect the drying rates of different fabric types (from light fabrics such as bed sheets to heavy fabrics such as towels). - Three day drying rate forecast (upgradable to 7 days) showing changes in the estimated drying rate throughout each day. - Future drying time estimates: check how long your washing will take to dry for future times / days - Notifications when your laundry is estimated to be dry. - Warnings about adverse conditions such as rain or high gusts of wind. - Charts showing how dry your laundry items are estimated to be at a given time. - Settings to calibrate the timers to better suit our own laundry items. Laundry Timer can be useful all year round: Autumn / Winter: Laundry Timer can be particularly useful in cooler conditions when it can be hard to judge how long it will take for your laundry to dry. - Use the app help you find the best days to plan a wash, and find out how early you need to put your clothes out for them to be dry by the end of the day. - Laundry can still dry on cold days, given the right humidity and wind speed. But even if your laundry is unlikely to be fully dry by the end of the day, you can use the app to estimate whether it will be almost dry. This way you can reduce drying costs by partially drying your laundry outside, before putting it in the dryer to finish the job. To do this tap the relevant fabric type to view the chart. From here you can look up time you want to bring your laundry in, to see how dry it is estimated to be at that time. Spring / Summer: On warm sunny days you don’t always need much help in determining whether or not your laundry will dry. However Laundry timer can be useful in other ways: - If you’re putting out your laundry out later in the day it’s not always obvious your clothes will be dry in time. Use laundry timer to determine if there is enough time to put a late wash on. To do this, tap the timer icon in the current day in the Forecast tab, then drag the slider to the appropriate time (based on how long your wash cycle is). You can then see the estimated drying times at that time. - It’s best not to leave bright or dark coloured fabrics out in direct sunlight for too long to avoid them fading. Use laundry timer to remind you when your clothes are likely to be dry so they don't need to be out longer than necessary. You can also turn fabrics inside out to keep colours vibrant. - If you have multiple loads of washing to get through and limited drying space, you can use Laundry Timer to help judge when to put a new load of washing on. That way you can time it so the previous load is dry by the time the next load is ready to hang out. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/laundrytimer/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Hello Weather4 screens
Laundry Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Hello Weather at none against Laundry Timer's shown. Hello Weather also leads on ratings volume (9.5K vs 19) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Laundry Timer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (92% vs 75%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Both are free to download. Hello Weather sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Laundry Timer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Laundry Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello Weather has 9.5K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Hello Weather's written reviews are positive against 92% of Laundry Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hello Weather ships an update every 9 days, Laundry Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hello Weather versus Laundry Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHello WeatherLaundry Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9.5K ratings)5.0 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.5% of reviews91.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.5K — better19
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#84 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size313 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElectric Dream Machine LLCEdward Hesketh

Customer experience

Hello Weather

All ratings9,492 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews481 reviews
Positive75.5%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.2%

Laundry Timer

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Bugs and requests

Hello Weather

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Location detection issues
  • Radar tab not functioning properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Moon phase information
  • Precipitation amount details
  • Severe weather notifications
  • Expanded international data sources

Laundry Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Hello Weather

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Monthly Family7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Family$2.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Yearly Family7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Hello Weather Pro Lifetime$44.99
  • Lifetime$99.99
  • Lifetime (Family)$149.99
1 purchases

Laundry Timer

Subscriptions1
  • Laundry Timer Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Year

Questions

Is Hello Weather free?
Hello Weather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Laundry Timer free?
Laundry Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hello Weather or Laundry Timer?
Laundry Timer is rated higher. Hello Weather averages 4.7 out of 5 from 9.5K ratings, while Laundry Timer averages 5.0 from 19 ratings.
Do Hello Weather or Laundry Timer have ads?
Laundry Timer shows ads; Hello Weather does not.
Which is updated more often, Hello Weather or Laundry Timer?
Hello Weather ships an update every 9 days, and Laundry Timer every 6 weeks. Most recently, Hello Weather was updated on October 3, 2026 and Laundry Timer on September 30, 2026.

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