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Add to SafariWhen comparing The Weather Channel vs 1Weather, the Slant community recommends 1Weather for most people. In the question“What are the best weather apps for Android?” 1Weather is ranked 1st while The Weather Channel is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose 1Weather is:
Even if 1Weather still takes inspiration from HTC widget designs, 1Weather's are some the best available. There are 7 widgets available.
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Pros
Pro Bright and quick user interface
The overall theme of The Weather Channel app is bright with a consistent amount of Weather Channel blue. Fortunately the app also performs well. The app shares a similar design to the Google Play Store with scrolling tabs for "radar," "now," "videos," and "forecast." The scrolling tabs are very fluid and each tab is quick to load.
Pro Solid offering of widgets
The Weather Channel widgets are attractive and functional. The widgets are available in 1x1, 2x2, and 4x1 sizes and even follow their own application's design language instead of following HTC like many others.
Pro Solid radar maps
The Weather Channel app's maps provide a descent amount of radar options but the overall design is very confusing and the in app tutorial hint is useless.
Pro Video forecasts
The Weather Channel with its large TV presence offers an impressive amount of weather forecasts videos in the app. Although many of the videos in the app such as "Lady and the Shark!" have absolutely nothing to do with weather.
Pro Travel based information
The Weather Channel application allows you to input a starting point and destination on a radar map and then predict if you will encounter any type of storms along the route. The feature needs work and doesn't always work properly but the idea is promising if improved.
Pro Attractive widget design 1x1
Even if 1Weather still takes inspiration from HTC widget designs, 1Weather's are some the best available. There are 7 widgets available.
Pro Clear and easy to use UI
The UI of 1Weather is clean with a simple menu bar across the bottom of the screen for each section (current weather, precipitation, radar maps etc).
Pro Useful explanations throughout app
1Weather provides explanations at the tap of each weather measurement from the UV index to the moon phases.
Pro Live weather maps
1Weather offers live weather maps for radar, clouds, surface temperature, dew point, relative humidity, wind speed, and UV index in both terrain or satellite views. The maps work perfectly as well except for maybe the absence of pinch to zoom.
Pro First third-party weather app to support Android Wear
1Weather is the first third party weather app to offer Android Wear support.
Cons
Con Focused more on features than actual weather
A lot of the developers time for The Weather Channel app has not gone toward better weather forecasts but many unnecessary features like weather achievements and the annoying mPOINTS reward system.
Con Unremovable advertisements
The Weather Channel app includes banner advertisements like most weather applications but unlike other applications that let you pay a dollar or two to remove them, The Weather Channel forces them on you. Even worse is that they are positioned conveniently at the bottom of the application right where you are likely to accidentally open them.
Con Banner advertisements
1Weather features annoying banner advertisements for users that have not paid the $1.99 upgrade. Another annoyance is that the advertisements are right next to the menu bar meaning your likely to open the advertisement at least once.
