Weather Apps

Weather 2x for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Sep 24, 2012 a 8:02 pm

Weather 2x is an iPhone and iPad app that will make even the worst of weather condition look amazing -- especially on the iPhone 5's new display. The information provided by Weather 2x includes the current condition and a 5-day forecast that can be broken up into 3-hour intervals. Weather 2x does not include in-depth details about the weather, like radars, but rather focuses on bringing the most important information to you in an elegant and beautiful package.

Solar : Weather for iPhone review

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 a 2:25 am

Solar: Weather is a unique weather app for the iPhone that offers a one-of-a-kind interactive UI and experience. Instead of simply displaying the weather forecast for you, Solar: Weather will display different information based on gestures. For example, swiping up with scroll through the 24-hr forecast, swiping down will display the 3 day forecast, and swiping left/right will switch between locations. It's actually very fun to use.

Weather Neue for iPhone review

By Leanna Lofte, Sunday, Jul 8, 2012 a 2:48 pm

Weather Neue is an iPhone weather app designed for minimalists. Instead of a plethora of features and options, Weather Neue simply consists of one screen that gives you the current weather conditions, a 3 day forecast, and other basic weather information.

Magical Weather for iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Jun 29, 2012 a 3:03 am

Magical Weather isn't feature heavy, but it looks great, provides 24-hr and 6-day forecasts, and includes beautiful background animations to help you tell your rain from your shine. Unlike the iPhone and iPad, the iPad doesn't include a stock weather app. Apple reportedly didn't think weather looked good on the bigger screen. Magical Weather is one of a very small handful of App Store apps that shows Apple they were wrong. But is Magical Weather the right weather app for you?

The Weather Channel for iPhone review

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, May 18, 2012 a 3:38 pm

The Weather Channel for iPhone is the most popular alternative to Apple's built-in Weather app and it recently received a complete makeover. It still has all the great features of the previous design, but the new UI is much more beautiful and user friendly.

iMore Picks of the Week for April 14, 2012

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Apr 14, 2012 a 6:35 pm

Every week the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week's selections include apps a beautiful iPad weather app, apps for sports and politics, a fun camera app, an app filled with inspirations, a puzzle game, a music app, and an alternative to Instagram.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Solving the case of the missing iPad apps: The best clock, voice recording, weather, calculator, and stock apps alternatives

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Apr 9, 2012 a 2:18 pm

Apple chose not to include clock, voice recording, weather, calculator, and stock apps, but luckily the App Store has great alternatives for each one!

When Steve Jobs introduced the very first iPad, one of his big statements was that the 75 million iPhone users in the world already knew how to use it. Well, many of those users were suprised to discover that four of the built-in apps that they had grown to love on their iPhone were missing on their iPad. Namely, Clock, Voice Memos, Weather, Calculator and Stocks. Rumor has it Apple didn't think those apps would scale to look good on the bigger iPad screen. Fortunately, many great developers have filled that void and proven that, not only can these apps look good on the iPad. They can look great.

Living Earth for iPad review: The best weather app for the iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Apr 5, 2012 a 9:56 pm

I'm not going to lie, settling on one single app to label as "the best" weather app for iPad wasn't easy. On one hand I had a collection of feature-packed apps that provided every little detail about the weather, including videos and interactive forecasts. On the other hand, I had a group of apps that didn't necessarily have as many features, but were beautiful, easy to use, and fit the needs of most people. Reminding myself that I was looking for best, not most feature-filled, it was easy for me to give Living Earth for iPad the title.

WeatherPro update hits, brings iCloud support and increased radar support

By Jared DiPane, Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 a 11:10 am

No one likes when their favorite application is left out of the update party, and the folks behind WeatherPro didn't want you to feel that way either. An update has hit the AppStore for WeatherPro users that enables iCloud support for those of you who have updated to iOS 5 along with increased radar support. Knowing the weather for the day ahead is always pretty important to many of us, no one likes to walk out of the door in their finest of clothing and step right into the middle of a wild thunderstorm, do they?

Report the weather with Weddar for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011 a 12:43 am

Weddar for iPhone is a weather forecast app powered by the people, for the people. You can check out current weather reports from real people as well as contribute your own. Instead of a generic forecasts, Weddar provides reports such as "feels good, but a little windy" for a more personal and realistic feel.

The recent update of Weddar includes the following:

Better contrast of weather conditions icons (on map screen “+” popovers);
Improved location descriptions when sharing reports to Twitter and Facebook;
Location context (“Chuo, Tokyo” instead of “Chuo” or “Almada, Portugal” instead of “Almada”);
“Fresh” is now “Cool”;
Share of “Hell” is now reported correctly as “like hell.”;
5 requests per day limit (Request/Fill) - Prevents misusage of the requests feature;
Images files optimization resulting in smaller application and faster loading;
App code, Server code and general performance optimization.

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think! Check out the screenshots after the break.

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