What are the best weather apps for iOS?

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Best weather apps for iOS	Price	Last Updated
90 Dark Sky	$3.99	Jan 15, 2019
-- Yahoo Weather	-	Oct 14, 2018
-- Weather Underground	-	Sep 14, 2018
-- The Weather Channel [free]	-	Dec 12, 2018
-- Storm	Free	Aug 14, 2018

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9 Other Options Considered

Yahoo Weather

Top Pro

Balanced Notification Center widget

Current condition, current temperature, high and low, and the same for the upcoming night and morning. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful UI

The app uses beautiful, context and location-aware images as background to make it aesthetically pleasant and a joy to use. See More

Top Con

Lacks alerts for severe weather conditions

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

The app is fast and easy to overview. It brings the important information to the front and offers intuitive ways of accessing more in-depth analysis. See More

Top Pro

Has radar, satellite and heat maps

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Weather Underground

Top Pro

Crowdsourced data

Utilizes data from a Weather Underground weather station closest to your location See More

Top 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. See More

Top 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 BestForecasts that considers accuracy of 70 prediction models and creates a forecast from that process that's then presented to the end-user in a detailed way. See More

Top Con

Banner ads

Top Pro

Simple, easy to read interface

Top Con

Occasionally awkward navigation

Top Pro

Includes solar and lunar display

Indicates what time the sun will rise and set each day as well as the phase of the moon. See More

Top Pro

Severe weather updates and alerts

The app has push alerts for both hazardous and non-hazardous events. It can warn of tornadoes, lightning, rain as well as rainbows. See More

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Solar [free]

Top 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. See More

AccuWeather [free]

Top Pro

Offers a 2-hour forecast specifically for you

AccuWeather will when stuff like rain or snow start or stop in your current location. See More

Top Con

Secretely logs and shares private location information

Top Pro

Clean design

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Radar maps

Top Con

No way to hide or rearrange elements

Top Pro

Daily forecasts

Top Pro

25-day forecast (paid)

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WeatherBug

Top Con

Cluttered UI

Top 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. See More

Top Con

Non-removable ads

Top Pro

Video of national forecasts

Top Pro

Radar map

Top Pro

Detailed hourly and weekly forecasts

Top Pro

Ability to customize your background

Top Pro

Warns of severe weather conditions

This app will send you a push notification a set amount of time before rain, storms, etc. See More

Top Pro

Precise location data

WeatherBug estimates your location with a precision of a few meters. See More

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