Ever since I started using smart phones, I have been jumping between different weather apps and have not been very satisfied with most of them. I found the apps from the big weather providers like Accuweather and Weather Channel to be bloated and distracting with advertisements and irrelevant news. The app I was closest to being satisfied with was the free version of Dark Sky, but I didn’t get to enjoy it for very long since I discovered it not long before Apple acquired it. What are some of the best weather apps on Android right now?
I like Today Weather (paid app IIRC). Has customixable widgets
I’ve been using Weawow and I like it so far.
Yes. Weawow is customizable and you can switch the weather provider. Also a good selection of widgets if you need them.
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Another happy user of Weawow here!
This is a great weather app. I can vouch for that. I’ve been using it for a little while now and I really like the layout.
Honestly, my go to has to be Weather Today. Great layout with support for Apple Weatherkit (dark sky api).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kokoschka.michael.weather
I’ve been using Rain for a few weeks now and I love it
I liked Appy Weather for a while. Nice clean design, and had access to the Dark Sky API and now the Apple Weather API after Dark Sky was shut down.
The precipitation notifications became nonsense for me though. We were on week 2 of a drought recently and I would get notifications saying things like “heavy rain continues for 8 hours” with no precipitation in sight. Not sure if that was the app’s fault (developer hasn’t updated in a while) or the API’s, but yeah. Inaccurate notifications.
I am on a Pixel Fold now, so I’m currently using the redesigned Google Weather app. I really like the redesign. I just noticed that I had notifications disabled due to previously using that other app though, so I’m curious to see if it has live precipitation notifications now that they have the ML-Powered Dark Sky-like Nowcast thing.
Is the new Google Weather app still the web app you get when searching “weather”?
I couldn’t find it in the app store and am curious if it’s just the web app.
It is not a separate app, but it can be opened by tapping on the weather widget or searching weather in the Google app, tapping the 3 dot menu next to “Weather / Today” and then tap on add to homescreen. It is more like a full app UI vs searching for weather.
Windy is it. Great initial view of favorites for the quick check and beautiful visualizations, but man does it get deep if you want to double click.
For instance, a few weeks back I wanted to see why the sun looked orange and the sky was pale at ~3pm, so I pulled up the particulates map. I could see a 6hr moving map of particulates making their way from Alberta CA over to the skies to my west.
Also, they show a breakdown of all the major weather service providers’ forecasts and detail which are better in which situations, helping you understand if that forecast you’re planning on is really going to happen or it’s just wishful thinking.
Oh, and you can set up alerts to notify you days ahead of time if conditions are right for activities, like if it’s cool enough and good enough air quality to go for a run or if the wave swells will be high for surfing or what have you.
Personally the BBC Weather app has always been my favourite although the default Samsung one has gotten really good, too.
I highly recommend Foreca Weather. They have recently decided to put a ton of work into the app and for the past few months it’s been getting updated weekly with a bunch of new features. I love that kind of shit.
I’m using Today Weather. Great overall app in terms of UI and info.
wX
Wx is great, but it is really complex for someone who didnt attend classes in meteorology. Sure it is usable, but a lot of its functions are not geared for the average user IMO.
This one, I presume?
wX (Weather app geared towards storm chasers, meteorologists and weather enthusiasts)
just downloaded. I think this is going to get to be my new weather app – but that UI is going to take some getting used to.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I love checking the future forecast via different weather models. Very nice and fun. Been using this for a few years now.
I pay the $20 a year for full access to the other like 4 models, mostly because I want the programmer to be able to eat so they can keep putting the app out.
International: Weather&Radar - best overall UK: Wearher Forcast UK or MetOffice app (same source but different UI) GER: Deutscher Wetterdienst und Regen Vorschau (very accurate but only GER)
Pretty neat, installed it from their GitHub. What change I was really hoping for from Geometric Weather was better widgets and to have the widgets include material you colors. Seems like they’re largely unchanged right now.
I use Geometric Weather from fdroid, it’s very polished. It’s entirely FOSS, so nothing’s spying on you.
Geometric weather hasn’t been updated in ages, its been forked and is called breezy weather fyi
Wow, I’ve been using geometric for some time now but breezy definitely fixes a few things that had been annoying me! Thank you!
can’t seem to find that on the play store or fdroid
https://github.com/weblate/breezy-weather The page says available on Fdroid soon™️
I like yr.no, by the Norwegian meteorological institute.
Pretty neat, installed it from their GitHub. What change I was really hoping for from Geometric Weather was better widgets and to have the widgets include material you colors. Seems like they’re largely unchanged right now.
Just installed it 5 minutes ago from Fdroid, so it’s there.
I couldn’t find
breezy weatherbutgeometric weatheris there.
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