Weather glance - accurate & beautiful forecast with widget app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
4848 ratings )
Weather
Developer: B TO J PTY LTD
Free
Current version: 8.5, last update: 7 years agoFirst release : 04 Mar 2014
App size: 18.02 Mb
** Highly intuitive and super accurate weather forecast powered by forecast.io (Dark Sky data) **
Weather glance is an intuitive and detailed weather app.
It shows you temperature by colour so you can find out all the weather conditions and trends at a quick glance.
[ IMPORTANT ] In-app purchase is required to get forecast.io weather info.
Also, those weather panels are "Tappable".
So, you can drill down detailed info at a specific time for the next 7 days.
Information included;
- Current weather conditions
- Temperature
- Wind speed and wind direction
- Chance of rain in graph form
- Humidity
- Next 24 hours weather forecast
- Next 14 days weather forecast
- Multiple cities globally
- Compatible with °C and °F
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod
- Time set switch (am/pm, 00:00)
- Sortable locations
- Location service switch (ON or OFF)
- Notification widget
Add on In-App purchase
- Data from forecast.io (Dark Sky)
- Hourly forecast
- Faster data load
Pros and cons of Weather glance - accurate & beautiful forecast with widget app for iPhone and iPad
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most impressive thing is the developer rly hear the suggestion and improve it well, cant be nicer
Very nice app, very complete. I look forward to an update for the iphone 6 and 6+. The top is to have a widget as compact and complete as the application. Is that planned ?
Default time is set on UKs time (Greenwich meridian). There is an option to set the time format but none to set the time according to the location (the app seems not even to use the time set on the device)
In a field crowded with weather apps, this one stands out for its simple, charming graphic design and ease of use. (It’s generally very intuitive, although it took me a minute of tinkering to figure out that the line under the day’s weather varied in height to indicate precipitation.) Two small problems that I have encountered so far: you can’t rearrange your list of cities, and it can’t find Tokyo — only the largest city in the world! — in its list of available locations. Otherwise, worth having.
I love the design and one-handed functionality. If I had to wish for any changes it would be these two:
- make sure weather tab colors dont get too bright, as to make the white text unreadable.
- be able to swipe to other locations by swiping on the top header.
Other than that, amazing work!
Nice app. The bright background on some sunny weather conditions makes the white text hard to read. Also, Id like the option to have an am/pm clock rather than 24 hour.
Both concerns were addressed in the last update. Great quick improvements!
Some bad moments
The time is not right. It says " 3:45am" when its actually 3:45pm. I tried with different cities next to where I live and the pbm remains. If I switch to 24h format, its still wrong.
also there are some places the app can find with the research tool, but wont display. (Papeete in French Polynesia for example).
The app is nice but doesnt seem like it has been finished. I would not recommend it. There are other better weather apps than this one, that work perfectly.
Its a shame, it used to be such a beautiful app a few months ago... Glad I didnt pay for it.
The UI is very congested and overloaded with information. The background colors (specially blue and yellow) has white fonts that are impossible to read. The main information shown (temperature variation) throughout a DAY is quite useless. Why do I wanna know that? I’m more interested in the graphical trend for a WEEK.
Why did you delete the 24h time format? Just make it optional in the settings.
Why does the app tell me every single time I start it that it cant determine my location and then created London as a default location?
Colour schemes got a little better now.
The concept of this app is really nice but more attention and efforts should be put on details. Some examples:
- The app constantly creates new location entries, even if you stay in the same place. Why not a single "current location" instead.
- The forecasts for upcoming days each start at the current time of the day. So if, for example, you want to check Mondays weather on Saturday night, and click on "Monday", youll see the weather forecast for Monday night, followed by the weather for Tuesday morning and noon. So youd actually have to click on "Sunday" to get the weather for Monday during the day. Really odd! Just make it a fix 0am-12pm row, guys!
- The localizations are all mixed up. In the last update, a 12h time view was added but at the same time this replaced the 24h time view for German users...
The non-temperature info (precip, etc.) is tiny, and if youre not going to include windchill or Humidex (the "feels like" temp) its basically useless in hot or cold places. (Minus 11 with windchill today is -22! Very different!) Thanks but no thanks, deleting.