Slant community chat on Discourse| 9 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Price | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Dark Sky· · · | 12 | 0 | $3.99 | Sep 3, 2017 |
| #2 Yahoo Weather· · · | 8 | 0 | – | Jul 15, 2016 |
| #3 Weather Underground· · · | 6 | 0 | – | Sep 3, 2017 |
| #4 The Weather Channel [free]· · · | 1 | 0 | – | Oct 18, 2014 |
| #5 Storm· · · | 2 | 0 | Free | May 3, 2017 |
| #6 AccuWeather [free]· · · | 2 | 2 | – | Aug 25, 2017 |
Pro Eerily accurate weather predictions
Multiple reports suggest that Dark Sky has an uncanny precision in its ability to predict weather conditions.
Pro Pinpoint location accuracy
The app adjusts information such as distance of a storm, time until it starts raining, etc, based on your location that it can estimate within a few meters of your exact location.
Pro Notifies before severe weather conditions
Dark Sky can tell you how many minutes you have before it starts raining, a snowstorm begins, etc. You adjust how many minutes beforehand it the app should send a push notification.
Con Inaccurate temperatures
While the app's ability to predict weather conditions and when it will rain is on point, temperatures appear to be about 3-5 degrees warmer than what is actually recorded each day.
Con Somewhat sluggish
Occasional loading screens make the app feel a bit laggy.
Pro Beautiful UI
The app uses beautiful, context and location-aware images as background to make it aesthetically pleasant and a joy to use.
Pro Detailed, easy to overview, five-day forecasts
Yahoo Weather's main screen shows a enough information to get a good understanding of the upcoming weather without being too overwhelming. And it has radar, satellite and heat maps if you wish to get even more detailed information.
Con Nags about switching phone's search engine
The app will ask you whether you wish to switch your phone's search engine to Yahoo.
Pro Accurate, detailed forecasts from crowdsourced data
Weather Underground crowdsources weather information. Anyone can set up a personal weather station and give that data to Weather Underground. A network of over 20.000 personal stations supplements roughly 10.000 National Weather Service stations. All collected data is run through a tool called Best...
Con Purchase through in-app-purchase is only good for a year
The app only allows the user access to the paid features for one year when purchased through an in-app-purchase. This can add up to an expensive app if used for many years.
Pro Offers a 2-hour forecast specifically for you
AccuWeather will when stuff like rain or snow start or stop in your current location.
Con Information could be displayed in a more simpler manner
Information can be displayed in a much more simple and streamlined format. While the graphical features are very cool and attract the eye, the app can also be visually distracting for someone who just wants the weather information conveyed to them as efficiently as possible.
Pro Spark lightning notifier
A feature called Spark shows where lightnings take place by accessing real-time lightning monitoring information. You can then set it up to notify you when lightning has struck in a specific place or when a lightning storm is near your location.
Pro Warns of severe weather conditions
This app will send you a push notification a set amount of time before rain, storms, etc.
Pro Best visualization of multiple data points at once
Changes in conditions via icons, changes in temperature over time via graph/numbers.
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Pro Minimalistic, vibrant UI with only the most important information
Solar has a colorful, clean interface and offers a 24-hour & 3-day forecast (accessed by swiping up or down respectively) with ability to switch between location by swiping horizontally. Each view displays only temperature, conditions, date, time and location.
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