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About Helios UV

Helios UV is a beautiful, no-nonsense UV-index tracker for every Apple device you own. Live forecasts, burn-time predictions tailored to your skin type, threshold alerts, and widgets that follow the sun across your day. WHAT HELIOS DOES • Live UV index — updated hourly from Apple WeatherKit, with 30-second interpolation between samples so the displayed value tracks reality, not the last forecast tick. • Time to burn — personalized to your Fitzpatrick skin type (I–VI), the same six-type scale widely used in dermatology and public-health sun-safety guidance. Helios maps your skin type to a documented minimum erythemal dose and recomputes minutes-to-burn every 30 seconds against the current UV. • Trend you can read — a 24-hour forecast rendered as a Catmull-Rom-spline sparkline, segments colored by UV intensity. See the peak coming, and the safe-time crossings flagged. • Threshold alerts — pick the UV level that matters to you and Helios fires a local notification when the forecast crosses it (Pro). Dangerous-UV safety alerts are free for everyone. • Widgets — Home Screen, Lock Screen, watch face, Smart Stack, macOS desktop, Apple TV dashboard. Pro unlocks every surface. • 12 Pro color palettes — Mono, Mono Teal, Vegas Neon, Pastel, Response, and more. Standard and a colorblind-friendly High Contrast palette are included free. EVERYWHERE YOU WEAR, CARRY, OR SIT One purchase. Five platforms. Each surface drawn for the device it lives on: • iPhone & iPad — full dashboard, two widget sizes, threshold-crossing notifications • Mac — menu bar status item, dashboard window, four widget sizes • Apple Watch — four complications and a Smart Stack tile • Apple TV — a leanback living-room dashboard POWERED BY APPLE WEATHERKIT Every UV reading in Helios comes from Apple's own forecasting pipeline — the same data that powers Apple's built-in Weather app. No scraped feeds, no third-party API in front of someone else's API. PRIVACY Helios has no analytics SDKs, no advertising, no third-party crash reporters, and no Kludge-operated server. Location goes to Apple WeatherKit; subscriptions go to Apple StoreKit; settings stay on your device. Full privacy policy: https://heliosuv.kludgeltd.com/privacy PRICING Helios is free to use with the full UV index forecast and dangerous-UV safety alerts on every Apple device. Helios UV Pro unlocks every color palette, every widget, watch complications, the macOS menu bar item, custom threshold alerts, and the target-UV picker. • Monthly: $0.99/month • Yearly: $9.99/year (best value per month) • Family Yearly: $14.99/year, shareable with up to 6 family members via Apple Family Sharing All Pro tiers include a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. The minutes-to-burn estimate is a guide, not medical advice. Wear sunscreen, reapply, and consult a dermatologist about your personal sun safety. LEGAL Privacy policy: https://heliosuv.kludgeltd.com/privacy Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s new

Version 1.1.1 · Updated October 1, 2026

• Siri, Spotlight, and Shortcuts: ask for the current UV, how long until you burn, or when UV drops below your target, and switch between your saved locations. Works from the Action button too. • Apple Watch on watchOS 27: complications pick up a fresh forecast from your iPhone right away, ease into forecast revisions instead of jumping, and the UV Gauge shows its "UV" caption again. • Home Screen widgets in the Tinted and Clear styles keep a clear hierarchy: the UV number, category, and gauge take the accent while the rest stays quiet. • Picking a Pro target UV on the Free tier now opens the Pro screen, the way picking a Pro color scheme does. • Forecast times line up everywhere: the target time, the widget flip, and the notification share one crossing, and "All UV times" says "Tomorrow" for levels reached the next morning. Half-hour time zones are exact. • Turning notifications back on alerts you right away if UV is already above your target, and scheduled alerts survive a time zone change. • Billing problems show up: a subscription in payment retry gets an "update payment" prompt instead of quietly reading as Free. • "Change Sun Profile" returns straight to the dashboard, background refresh re-arms when you leave the app, and onboarding scales with your text size. • VoiceOver: location search announces what happened, the trend is spoken in widgets and complications, and secondary text is easier to read. • Offline, the paywall and Restore Purchases say "No internet connection." in all 10 languages, plus translation fixes across the paywall and the watch.

App privacy

The developer, Kludge Ltd, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Purchases: Purchase History
  • Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location

Used for: App Functionality

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data

Used for: App Functionality

Alternatives to Helios UV

Looking for apps like Helios UV? Here are 6 similar apps on the App Store. The highest rated is UV Report (5.0/5), and all 6 are free to download.

Helios UV vs. alternatives
App Rating Price Last updated
Helios UV 5.0 / 5 (1 rating) Free October 1, 2026
UV Index – Sun Exposure – Free Apr 5, 2026
UV Report 5.0 / 5 (1) Free Aug 6, 2026
AvioWeather – Free Sep 28, 2026
UV Index - Sunscreen & Tanning 5.0 / 5 (1) Free Aug 10, 2026
Weather Sunscreen – Free Oct 17, 2025
UV Guard: UV Index & Tanning – Free Jun 25, 2026