# UV Index Widget - Worldwide

> Sun Exposure, SPF & Vitamin D

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1100568288](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1100568288)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1100568288`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bjorn Jenssen
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (14,506 ratings)
- **Version:** 14.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-15
- **First published:** 2016-05-03
- **Size:** 132 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uv-index-widget-worldwide/id1100568288)
- **Website:** [https://uv-index-worldwide.web.app](https://uv-index-worldwide.web.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://uv-index-worldwide.web.app/privacy\_bjorn\_jenssen.html](https://uv-index-worldwide.web.app/privacy_bjorn_jenssen.html)

## Description

**UV Index Widget - Worldwide** helps you monitor sun exposure and plan time outdoors with current UV readings, peak forecasts, sunrise and sunset times, and detailed 7-day hour-by-hour predictions. Check UV conditions anywhere in the world, including travel destinations, and receive alerts when levels become unsafe or sunburn risk is high.

Personalize recommendations by selecting your skin type, track estimated vitamin D production, and sync hourly UV and vitamin D data with Apple Health. Add customizable Home Screen, Lock Screen, Today View, and Apple Watch widgets, complications, notifications, SPF reapplication reminders, and sun exposure insights for convenient protection wherever you go.

## Rankings

- #14,035 — Overall
- #10 — Great Apps Updated for watchOS 27

## Review summary

Users praise the UV Index Widget for its handy home-screen widget and detailed sun-safety guidance, especially beneficial for UV-sensitive skin and Vitamin D tracking. Repeated concerns focus on price and mandatory subscriptions, data accuracy and timing inconsistencies, and widget/license issues, which temper enthusiasm for some.

### Pros

- Home-screen UV widget is handy for quick checks
- Provides detailed UV guidance, sunburn risk timing, and sunscreen suggestions
- Free features and widgets offer good value without mandatory paid subscription
- Helpful for UV-sensitive individuals and melanoma risk awareness
- Vitamin D exposure tracking / time tracking support

### Cons

- Pricing and subscription model perceived as overpriced or required for core features
- UV data can be inaccurate or inconsistent (time offsets, incorrect values, or missing data)
- Widget availability can be flaky or temporarily unavailable
- Issues with restoring Pro purchases or updating location data

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1100568288)