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?
If you’re not a fan of high information density, I recommend Overdrop. It presents the key information in a simple, clear way.
Also been testing Weather Today which seems to be another good one in the few weeks I’ve had it.
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)
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 use weather apps every day. My job revolves around the weather. I currently live in NW Indiana and the weather here is notoriously fickle. I need good forecasts.
Over the years, AccuWeather has been the most accurate and user-friendly by MILES.
I use Geometric Weather from fdroid, it’s very polished. It’s entirely FOSS, so nothing’s spying on you.
All apps on my phone are foss and foss is awesome but foss software can still spy on you.
Geometric weather hasn’t been updated in ages, its been forked and is called breezy weather fyi
can’t seem to find that on the play store or fdroid
Just installed it 5 minutes ago from Fdroid, so it’s there.
I couldn’t find
breezy weatherbutgeometric weatheris there.
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.
Wow, I’ve been using geometric for some time now but breezy definitely fixes a few things that had been annoying me! Thank you!
Shadow weather is what I’ve been using since dark sky shut down. It has multiple sources, including apple(dark sky). Seems to be pretty accurate since it pulls from several sources.
Seconding, the UI isn’t the prettiest but it has a lot of information, one of the best weather radar setups I’ve encountered, and fairly accurate predictions due to pulling data from multiple sources.
I like geometric weather on github
Yup. This has been my go-to weather app for a few months now.
I’m actually developing a weather app for Android. Its still in its early phases and is lacking in features, but if you search for Weather Warbler on the play store, you will find it. It’s in beta and you can expect some bugs here and there, but trying to build a fun weather app.
Overdrop is a really nice one with a great looking UI.
Carrot Weather is also pretty good and has funny quotes it shows you if you like that kinda thing, but the dev is primarily an IOS developer so the Android app is pretty far behind feature wise if you compare the two versions.
+1 to Overdrop. I like it quite a bit!
Overdrop does have a great UI and plenty of widget options. I go between Overdrop and Today, as I prefer the overall UX of Overdrop, but find the multi-location switching easier to do in Today (unless I’ve somehow missed it in Overdrop).
Not an app, but I’ve become quite a fan of MerrySky recently on both mobile and desktop.
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If I remember correctly it’s a drop in replacement for the Dark Sky API.
Yep, this is it.
I’m surprised no one here has said Shadow Weather. It’s meant to be a replacement for Dark Skies on Android.
Downloading weather apps like I was downloading Lemmy apps the other day…
Check this site for the most accurate weather provider in your area. Then choose an app that can use that as a source. https://www.forecastadvisor.com/
I was about to write that some local (country level) have the better forecast.
Living in Switzerland, I’m using mostly MeteoSwiss as it gives me good forecast.
Do you know any similar site that works well for outside us?
I like Today Weather (paid app IIRC). Has customixable widgets
I’m fairly satisfied with AccuWeather. Not as good as Dark Skies was but close!
Shadow Weather on Android is pretty good, a lot of people switched to it after dark sky went down. It does forecast aggregation from multiple sources like dark sky used to.
