EverythingWeather

Review by eFreeware

If you follow storms the way other people follow sports, EverythingWeather is built for you. It is a free app that pulls its information straight from NOAA and the National Weather Service, and it covers anywhere in the United States and its territories. Rather than a single tidy forecast screen, it gathers the raw material that forecasters and weather hobbyists actually read: radar, outlooks, discussions, tropical tracks, tides and space weather.

The appeal is the breadth. A casual user who wants tomorrow's high temperature will find that here, but the same app also carries the Storm Prediction Center's severe and fire weather outlooks, the Weather Prediction Center's rainfall forecasts, and the National Hurricane Center's storm data. I would expect it to suit people who want to understand why a forecast says what it says, not just what it says. With more than 10,000 installs and a 4.4 average from 369 ratings, it has found an audience since its March 2025 release.

A home screen you arrange yourself

The starting point is a home page you can customize, showing current conditions and the forecast for your chosen locations. The developer also places current hazards, the SPC and WPC outlooks, and the Winter Storm Severity Index right on that page, so the most urgent information sits alongside the ordinary forecast. For anyone in a region where winter storms or severe weather are a regular concern, that arrangement puts the warnings where you will see them without hunting through menus.

Beyond the home page, the app offers detailed weekly and hourly forecast data, so you can look at the broad shape of the week or drill into particular hours. There is astronomy information too, including upcoming meteor showers, which is a nice fit for people who watch the sky as well as the barometer. Favorites let you keep a set of locations on hand, and the app plots those saved places on the map so you can compare conditions across them at a glance.

Radar and map layers for people who read maps

The radar side is where this app separates itself from a simple forecast tool. It shows real-time radar with lightning data, and it layers on a long list of overlays: composite and level 2 radar, GOES satellite imagery with a three-hour loop, the SPC's severe and fire weather outlooks for days one through eight, active mesoscale discussions, storm reports from the last six or twenty-four hours, and the WPC's excessive rainfall outlook and precipitation discussions. Forecast rainfall amounts for the coming week are available as well.

You can customize the colors for each NWS product and filter the map so only the layers you care about are visible. That matters when a map can carry this much information; without filtering, the display would be unreadable, and the app gives you the tools to decide what stays. Lightning data comes from the GOES satellite GLM instrument, and tidal information and forecasts are included for the US and its territories, which is unusual to see alongside radar in the same app.

Recent updates expanded the level 2 radar products with additional tilts and improved performance for the mrms and hi-res radar layers. The developer says the app leans less on the NWS API, so it keeps working if that service fails. I would take that as a sign of attention to the practical side of running a data-heavy weather app, since a single upstream outage can otherwise leave a screen empty.

Alerts, tropical tracking and space weather

Alerts are handled with real-time push notifications for NWS hazards, and you can customize what you receive. Daily weather summaries and tropical notifications are also available, which gives you a way to keep an eye on developing systems without opening the app. The app shows current hazards in effect, covering the full range of NWS alerts, so the notification and the in-app view draw on the same source.

For hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center material is extensive. It includes tropical outlooks and discussions, active depressions, storms and hurricanes with their forecast tracks, watches and warnings, surface wind field, wind probabilities, wind radii, the arrival time of tropical-storm-force winds, and peak storm surge. That is the kind of detail that matters to people making decisions about coastal property, travel or family in a storm's path, and it is presented alongside the same map layers used for everyday weather.

A space weather page covers solar wind readings, magnetometer output from GOES, flare odds, KP index and outlook, plus images of the sun. It is a niche addition, but it fits the app's overall character: this is a tool for people who treat the atmosphere, and the space around it, as something worth watching closely.

NWS products, stories and the web companion

NWS text products are included too, among them storm reports, climate summaries and forecast discussions. These are the written explanations behind a forecast, and having them in the same place as the radar and outlooks saves moving between sources. Weather stories from all NWS offices can be shared, which is a small feature but a useful one if you like passing along a local office's explanation of what is happening.

A recent addition is a web version at app.everythingwx.com. Signing in on one device syncs pro subscriptions and settings to the others, so a setup made on a phone appears in a browser. The app is free with no ads, but it does offer in-app purchases, including a pro subscription. I would treat the account and sync as a notable part of the app.

The update also reworked NBM temperature trends and the extended forecast to follow the chosen location exactly, not a nearby one. For anyone comparing small differences between towns, that is a meaningful correction.

What it asks of you

The trade-off with an app like this is density. EverythingWeather is built around the full catalog of NWS and NOAA products, and that is a lot of material to put in front of someone. A reader who wants a simple answer about whether to bring a jacket will find it, but they will be doing so inside an interface designed for people who want the outlooks, discussions and map layers too. The customization helps, since you can decide what appears on the home page and which layers show on the map, but it also means the app rewards a bit of setup rather than working perfectly out of the box.

Coverage is another consideration. The app is built for the United States and its territories, and its alerts, outlooks and discussions come from the National Weather Service. There is current-conditions data from around the world on the map, but the forecast and warning machinery is American. If your interest is in another country's weather, the app's center of gravity will not match it.

The in-app purchases are the other thing to weigh. The app itself is free and carries no ads, and a pro subscription syncs across devices through an account. Whether that matters depends on how much you value the web version and cross-device settings.

Who this fits

I would point this app at weather enthusiasts, storm chasers, sailors and pilots who already read forecast discussions, and anyone who lives in a part of the country where severe weather, winter storms or hurricanes are a real part of the calendar. The combination of SPC outlooks, NHC tropical data, tidal forecasts and space weather in one place is not something a general-purpose weather app typically offers. If you have ever opened three different sites to compare a radar loop with a forecast discussion, this is the kind of app that consolidates that work.

It also suits people who like to configure their tools. The customizable home page, the color and filter controls on the map, and the choice of which notifications to receive all assume a user who wants to decide what matters. Someone who prefers a single screen with a big number and an icon will still get useful information, but the app's strengths sit in the parts that ask for a little more engagement.

Families with members in hurricane country, or anyone tracking a storm for a relative, will find the tropical section especially relevant, since it covers tracks, watches and warnings, wind probabilities and surge. The space weather page, meanwhile, is there for the hobbyist who checks the aurora forecast alongside the rain forecast.

A weather app for people who read the whole forecast

EverythingWeather is a free, ad-free app that takes NOAA and National Weather Service data seriously and puts a great deal of it in one place. Radar with lightning and satellite layers, SPC and WPC outlooks, NHC tropical tracking, tides, NWS text products and a space weather page make it unusually complete for a mobile weather tool. The 4.4 rating from 369 ratings suggests the people who use it find that depth worthwhile, and the recent updates to radar and location accuracy show the developer is still working on the data pipeline.

The app asks for some patience in return. It is dense, it is built around US sources, and it offers in-app purchases tied to a pro subscription and cross-device sync. For the reader who wants a forecast and nothing else, that is more machinery than necessary. For the reader who wants the outlooks, the discussions and the storm tracks in one place, it is a strong fit, and the free download makes it easy to see whether the depth suits you.

What's new in version 1.7.0

- EverythingWeather for the web is now live at app.everythingwx.com. - Just create an account and log in on any device to sync pro subscriptions and settings. - Expanded array of level 2 radar products, including the addition of several tilts. - Better performance for mrms and hi-res radar. - Less reliance on the NWS API to ensure data remains available even if their API goes down. - NBM temp trends and extended forecast are now always for the exact forecast location, not just a nearby point!