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What are Android's Best Weather Apps?
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I've been using Weawow and I like it so far.
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.
I'm using Today Weather. Great overall app in terms of UI and info.
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.
Overdrop is very well designed, has beautiful themes but is more minimal which suits my needs.
I was using Appy Weather and liked it for similar reasons but it's weather sources are not as good and sometimes inaccurate so I had to switch.
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.
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!
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!
I have to follow rainfall amounts for work and I use Weather Underground for the hourly precipitation estimate and 10 day look ahead. I still use Weather channel for the radar but I'm going to check out some of these to look for a better one
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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