Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar

Name: Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar
Rating: 4.52085 (2542 reviews)

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Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar

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User Reviews for Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar

Watch features need work

I really like the idea of this app. The app is really nice, it looks good, gives me information just the way I would want, and had plenty of customization but the main reason I got the app was for its watch features and well they don’t really work for me. I set everything up as I wanted in the app, set the complication on my watch and closed off the app, the complication showed just what it was suppose to but that’s where it stopped. From there on the only way to get the complication to show accurate info is to open the app, refresh it and then swipe it closed. I’ve tried opening the app on the watch and waiting a bit but it doesn’t work, has to be the app on the phone. I guess I will keep looking for a good weather app that’s friendly w my watch cause no one wants to have to open an app on their phone every 30 minutes or hour to see what the correct weather is.

123r*, Jul 15, 2020

Nice app with (affordable) personal weather station support

A good app with a great feature, support for Netatmo personal weather stations. Most of my daily weather and forecast data come from a weather service, but my Netatmo station is far more accurate about what temperature it actually is at my house. Forecast uses my station to “override” the current temp, giving me the best of both worlds. Even more important was the terrific support the Forecast team gave me when I had trouble figuring out how to configure my station. The user interface for that _could_ use a little work (or better, easier to find doc), but I received multiple personal responses to my questions until I had it figured out. Responsive support is rare these days, and a treasure. Very happy with this app, and the team behind it.

Alderete, Feb 25, 2022

Highly customizable, clean interface, accurate data

Key points; highly customizable, accurate data, great customer service from devs. Great app.I love this app because it can be tailored to suit your own taste. The interface is clean in general, and you can add or remove fields on information if you want more or less to be visible from a glance. I think this app is worth the subscription, though many people want everything for free. Most weather apps have a boring or gaudy UI, are somewhat accurate, and have ads, with an option to pay to remove ads... that’s all. ForecastBar has served me perfectly. I’ve used Accuweather, The Weather Channel app, and the Apple Weather app, among others. Forecast Bar beats them all hands-down.The developers even went above and beyond for me with a recent update: I have my version of the app customized to avoid affecting my night vision (light discipline. red text on black) but a prior update made the phone go bright white while loading, which defeated my purposes. I emailed the developers, and they made the screen go black on startup instead of white. Problem solved, and most other people probably didn’t realize, or necessarily care, but it made a huge difference for me.Forecast Bar has never given me much of a reason to complain. Even when I did have an issue, though minor, it was fixed within days. Definitely a satisfied customer!

Doc Hardware, Nov 12, 2017

Updated review. Watch app still unreliable

Had updated my review because I started using the watch complications again due to the developer giving a response to my review saying that a recent update had fixed the issue. I updated my review too soon because I am having the same issue again. Back to the normal weather for my watch Original review: “Love all the customization his app lets you do and I’ve decided it’s my favorite looking weather app and I’d love to use it for along time. With that being said every 2 or so days when I remove my Apple Watch for charging and then put it back on the watch can’t receive anything from the app..? But then when I click the empty bars it makes on my watch face under “fore cast bar” it will try to open the app for about 3-5 seconds and crash no matter how many times I try it and the main face of my watch still only says “forecast bar” and lots of lines. Please update to get around this issue because everything else about the app I love but I won’t be able to continue using it if I have to power off and restart my watch every time I get done charging it which honestly sometimes doesn’t even fix it. Will Change to 5 stars if fixed”

dsummers99, May 12, 2019

Bait and switch

When I downloaded this app because of the iMessage features, it wasn't clear at all that this was for a trial period, then if I want to keep the functionality, I have to pay. It's a bait and switch and I'm super turned off. It doesn't matter how much I liked the app in iMessage, on my phone, my Apple Watch, whatever, I'm not going to pay to play. It's a shame too, as the app gave me most of what I was looking for, but I'm not interested in having to pay every year to unlock functionality on my phone, then extra for functionality on my watch. Had this app been a pay once and up front for everything sort of app, I'd have very strongly considered it, as it's what I'm looking for, but like I said, the bait and switch nature of their sales pitch has completely turned me off. I get a week of functionality for free? Ridiculous. It's on me for not being aware of this from the get go? Yeah, but honestly, when you're downloading sometjing for use in iMessage, are you usually taking the time to read all of the details? No!Deleting and going back to the other paid apps I use that don't bait and switch like this junk.

For_I_Am_A_Rain_Dog_Too, Aug 16, 2017

Love the app but frustrated with Dark Mode implementation

Been using this app for a couple years now and it’s high quality with a lot of good details and customization.However, now that dark mode is baked into iOS13, I find myself disappointed with the current implementation and my inability to get my in-app weather screen to embrace the loveliness that is Dark Mode.The app reflects Dark Mode within the settings screens of the app and on the widgets, but the in-app weather screen (where all your forecasts and such are) it does not (I’d love to be wrong and have missed some quirky detail here). I think this is where the customization backfires because I can only get my app to display in a mid-range grey colored background.Technically I could try to achieve a fully black background by creating my own background pack via the customization (and I have) but even this I cannot get to work and so I’m left without Dark Mode support in the one place in the app that I really, really want it. And so I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that the app supports this new iOS feature when it isn’t done app-wide.Again, I’d love to be wrong here, but until I can get the app fully Dark, I’m not feeling it.Will update to 5* if/when the developers adjust their implementation to fully embrace Dark Mode app-wide.

Hobermikersmith, Sep 23, 2019

Basics: great. Extras: poor.

The app does what it’s supposed to do on the iPhone and iPad. In fact it does so a skosh better than most other apps of its kind. A clean and customizable interface along with little “above and beyond” items (like the temperature on the app icon) make it a pleasure to use in the phone. It’s a bit annoying that the icon looks like its for a water intake tracking app (see: just about every water intake tracking app in the store; their stickers icon would be better) but that’s minor. Tha Apple Watch is a different story. I’m a paid (annual) Full Access + Watch subscriber but the watch app doesn’t even show up. I’ve written to the dev multiple times and received no response at all. Not even an acknowledgement of receipt. An app that doesn’t give what you paid for, and a dev that won’t even respond to requests for support doesn’t merit a good rating, even when the basics of the app are fine.

iByron, Dec 07, 2018

Especially great for Apple Watch support

This is a great weather app for Apple users because it gives a consistent, highly configurable, interface for detailed weather information on Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Apple Watches. That’s the reason I originally started using it, but nowadays the most important reason is the myriad of complications for the Watch.I use it as the large center complication for the Infograph Modular face. This rectangle can be configured (1) as a graph showing the next few hours of any one of 11 types of weather data such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, or precipitation chance.(2) As a table showing conditions and a choice of weather data for the next five hours/days.(3) As 3 lines of text showing current and upcoming weather data of your choice. But wait, there’s more, and my real reason for using this app. One of these 3 lines can show your next appointment! This isn’t weather data; why would I want this? Because I use every other complication position for something else and have no complication space for appointments. Two lines of data are sufficient for me to see the weather so mixing in the appointment line with the weather lines solves my hoarding of complications.

PhoneTrips, Oct 26, 2021

Extremely Disappointed

Discovered Forecast Bar early this morning. I was excited about some specific complications for my new Apple Watch Series 5 and all the other things offered by a seemingly well designed and popular app. After a couple of hours I was impressed enough to go ahead and purchase the Premium Subscription; mainly, so I could use the awesome watch features of Forecast Bar.Well, here I am about 12 hours later, and I have discovered that the app is stupid slow on both my watch and my phone. The phone app and the iPad app freeze on a regular basis causing me to quit and restart. The watch app doesn’t show data in the watch complications on a regular basis. I’ve read the FAQ item about this problem and followed all of the developer’s guidelines for remedy. As is, I have to manually refresh the watch app quite often so the watch complications will show data. When you look at a watch face, you want information at that instant – not after having to mess with some software. Also, the iPad version of Forecast Bar keeps alerting me that it is not connected to a watch – so, I can’t change some settings which means I don’t have full use of the iPad app. I know an iPad doesn’t work with an Apple Watch like an iPhone does, but having a less than fully functioning app is very disappointing. I hope this app can be fixed very soon. Otherwise, I will just have to delete Forecast Bar and move on to something else. Nobody has time for tech like this.

Super Buffet, Jun 27, 2020

An excellent weather app

I find this weather app extremely accurate. I’ve compared it to several other iPhone weather apps side-by-side, and it consistently has the most up-to-date information. It will also say things like “rain beginning or ending at such and such a time” and invariably it is correct.It’s predictions for temperature and weather a week out also seems on the mark (as much as one can predict that far in the future.) It’s easy to add or delete cities, and as I travel quite a bit, I find the forecast for domestic and international city is also very accurate.The developers seem to be continually trying to improve the app; this is a good thing.So I fully recommend Forecast Bar.

YogaMan108, Nov 21, 2021

Description

*** Featured by Apple, Lifehacker, Macworld and Cult of Mac! *** Forecast Bar offers hyper accurate, hyper local live weather and forecasts right at your fingertips and is highly customizable to fit your needs. With full support for iOS 15 and watchOS 8, Forecast Bar is the most powerful and last weather app you will ever need! == Highly Customizable == - Create a customized weather summary to use in the app and widget which can contain any combination of 20+ data points with everything from wind speeds to air quality to live precipitation! - 6 new Home Screen widgets keep the weather right at your fingertips, including a Multi-City widget to track 4 cities at once. (Silver and Gold only) - Easily choose between many options for icons and backgrounds, and even the app icon. - Create your own background packs using the images found on your phone or tablet! (Silver and Gold only) == Stay Informed with Push Notifications == - Personalized daily weather report for any location, at any time you wish - Push notifications for severe weather alerts in the United States - Precipitation alerts sent reliably from our servers (Gold only) - Custom notifications and alerts! You can configure 14 different data points to look out for what matters to you.

For example, get notified in the morning when wind during the day will rise above a certain speed, or if temperatures overnight will drop below freezing. (Gold only) - Beautiful Sunset alerts that give you a heads up when a stunning sunset (or sunrise!) is heading your way. Get your cameras ready! (Gold only) - Get notified when earthquakes hit near you! (Gold only) == Weather at a glance, or in depth == - Quickly check the current conditions or forecast for 14 days at a glance, including a succinct summary available in over 40 languages - Tap on any day’s forecast to see an hour-by-hour breakdown - Tap again to see even more details like dew point, pressure, visibility, UV index and more - Save unlimited favorite locations (and even rename them) across the globe for easy access - Choose between a compact and highly visual view for weather at up to 8 locations at a time (Silver or Gold and Weather Company data source only) - Utilize nearby Personal Weather Stations (PWS) for even more hyper-local weather accuracy - Animated weather radar in the United States, Europe and Australia, including future radar forecasts - Check weather conditions up to 70 years in the past or future with Time Machine == Apple Watch Support (requires watchOS7) == - Forecast Bar includes a beautiful and powerful Apple Watch App with 100+ customizable complications, including hourly and daily visual forecasts, Graphs to visualize several different data points, or a Custom Modular with 3 customizable lines. With the new Series 7 watch, you can even use two of them at a time! The Watch app is fully customizable, with 3 custom data points you can add, a customizable hourly data point. == First Class iPad Support == - Forecast Bar supports iPad multitasking in Slide Over and Split Screen == Ready for Apples latest iOS and newest iPhones == - An iMessage app lets you quickly check and share weather at all your favorite locations right from within Messages Your free download includes one week of a Gold subscription. Afterwards, you will need to subscribe to continue making full use of Forecast Bar. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. They will automatically renew at the end of your subscription period unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions or turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Our privacy policy and terms of use are here: http://forecastbar.com/privacy-policy-for-forecast-bar.pdf