All Weather Mode: Weather Home

Review by eFreeware

If you check the forecast several times a day, the routine is familiar: unlock the phone, find the weather app, wait for it to load, then go back to whatever you were doing. All Weather Mode: Weather Home takes a different route. It is a launcher, so it replaces the home screen itself and folds the forecast into the place you already start from, with current conditions one swipe to the right.

The app comes from Clarity App Crafting and is free to install, with ads and no in-app purchases. It has passed 500,000 installs and holds a 4.0 average from 772 ratings, which suggests a fair number of people have made it their daily home screen. It has been on Google Play since November 2023 and was last updated in September 2026.

I would expect the strongest fit to be someone who wants weather without another app icon in the mix: a commuter deciding on a jacket, a runner judging an evening window, a parent planning a weekend outdoors. If you already like your current launcher and have no interest in changing it, the pitch here is weaker, because the weather only arrives as part of the home-screen package.

The forecast lives where you already start

The feature the developer leads with is one-swipe access. Swipe right from the home screen and you land on your local conditions, the hourly outlook and the 7-day view without opening a separate app. That is the whole idea: the forecast sits inside the launcher rather than beside it.

The current-conditions panel covers the usual ground and then some. You get the temperature alongside a feels-like reading, humidity, wind speed and visibility, plus sunrise and sunset times. For anyone who plans around daylight, those last two are a useful detail to have on hand.

The hourly view shows how conditions are expected to shift through the day, with precipitation percentages attached to each hour. The weekly view stretches to seven days with daily highs and lows. Together they cover the three questions most people actually ask of a weather app: what is it doing now, what is it doing later, and what does the rest of the week look like.

Multiple locations for trips and far-off family

You can save more than one location and move between them. The developer gives two sensible reasons: checking the forecast for an upcoming trip, and following conditions where friends or family live. Both are the kind of thing that otherwise means fiddling with a search box every time.

Switching between saved places is described as easy, which matters more than it sounds. A multi-location weather feature is only useful if changing cities takes a moment rather than a menu crawl. On that point I am taking the developer's word.

This is also where the launcher format pays off twice. The same swipe that surfaces your local forecast keeps a daily check to a single gesture.

An app drawer and search ride along

Because this is a launcher, it also handles the ordinary home-screen jobs. Swipe up and you get an app drawer listing what is installed on the phone; from there you can move favorites back onto the home screen. The developer frames this as keeping apps organized, and it is the standard launcher bargain: you get a tidy drawer in exchange for learning a new layout.

There is also web search built into the home screen, powered by Yahoo. It is a small addition rather than a headline feature, but it fits the same logic as the weather panel: fewer detours to other apps for things you do constantly.

None of this is unusual for a launcher, and I would not treat it as the reason to install. The reason is the weather; the drawer and search are what keep the home screen usable once the forecast has moved in.

What installing it actually costs you

The important thing to understand before you install is that this is a launcher app, and the developer is upfront that your home-screen layout may change. Your apps are not removed; they stay on the phone and may simply appear in a different place. The ones you want back on the home screen are moved there from the app drawer.

That reshuffle is the real cost, and it is a one-time job rather than an ongoing one. If you have spent time arranging your home screen into folders and pages, expect to rebuild some of that. The weather panel is the reward for doing so, and whether the trade is worth it depends on how much you value having the forecast a swipe away.

On money, the picture is simple: the app is free, it carries ads, and there are no in-app purchases.

Getting the most from the switch

The sensible approach is to treat the first session as a setup session. Install it, look at where your apps ended up, and rebuild the home screen with the handful you actually open — messages, camera, music, whatever earns a spot. The developer's own advice is to move favorites back from the drawer, and doing it once at the start saves hunting later.

After that, the routine is mostly about the swipe. The hourly view with precipitation percentages is the one I would lean on for short-term decisions, like whether a walk or a run is going to be rained on, while the 7-day outlook with daily highs and lows is better for planning further out. Sunrise and sunset are worth a glance if your plans involve daylight.

If you travel or have people you check in on, add those locations early rather than waiting until you need them. The feature is only convenient if the places are already saved. And since the app is free with ads, trying the layout for a few days costs nothing while you decide whether the weather panel deserves a spot on your home screen.

A launcher for people who check the sky first

All Weather Mode does one thing differently from a standard weather app: it puts the forecast inside the home screen instead of behind an icon. Current conditions, hourly changes with precipitation percentages, a 7-day outlook with highs and lows, multiple saved locations, sunrise and sunset — all of it sits one swipe from where you already are. The app drawer and Yahoo-powered search keep the rest of the home-screen experience functional.

The trade-offs are clear. It is a launcher, so your layout will change and you will spend some time putting it back together. The 4.0 average from 772 ratings is a decent score, though a rating never tells you whether a particular layout will suit you.

I would point this at anyone who checks the weather as a matter of habit and is willing to reorganize a home screen to get it closer. If you are happy with the launcher you have, the weather panel is not enough on its own to justify the upheaval. For everyone else, it is a free way to make the forecast part of the first thing you see.