Live Weather: Weather Forecast

Review by eFreeware

If you check the forecast more than once a day, or you plan around rain rather than just dressing for it, Live Weather is built for you. It comes from Weather Forecast - WaiWao Studio and puts current conditions, hourly outlooks, a longer daily forecast, radar and air quality readings in one place. The app is free, it carries ads, and it offers in-app purchases.

What draws me to it is the range. A single screen can tell you the temperature now and how it feels, the day's high and low, wind speed and direction, and then hand off to hour-by-hour detail or a daily view stretching out 25 days. For anyone who wants to decide whether to move a cookout, a bike ride or a delivery run, that spread of time scales is the point.

It has clearly found an audience: more than 10 million installs and a 4.7 average across 218,728 ratings. The developer lists in-app support for over 100 languages, which fits an app that claims to work anywhere in the world.

Hourly and daily planning, down to the minute

The forecast side is the core. You get a 24-hour and 72-hour view with hourly entries, plus a daily forecast that runs to 10 or 25 days. The daily entries carry temperature, a weather summary, humidity, UV index, the chance of rain, snow or sleet, the chance of lightning, wind direction, speed and level, and sunrise and sunset times.

For short-term decisions there is Rain Tracker, which the developer describes as showing precipitation and snowfall minute by minute across the next two hours, along with snow depth. That is the part I would lean on when the question is whether to leave now or wait twenty minutes, since a daily percentage does not answer that.

Today's detail panel adds humidity, UV, visibility, rain and drizzle, altitude and cloud cover. It is a lot of numbers at once, and whether that feels thorough or crowded will depend on how you like your weather served.

Alerts, air quality and the radar map

Weather warnings are handled with some care. The app shows the affected area, when a warning starts and ends, a summary, the warning text and the data source, and uses different warning colors for different severity levels. It covers strong wind, heavy rain, snowstorms and thunderstorms. If you live somewhere that gets any of those, having the source named alongside the warning is the sort of detail that helps you judge how seriously to take it.

Air quality gets similar treatment. There are levels for PM10, PM2.5, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone, with explanations and recommendations tied to each level, plus UV and pollen information. The developer also mentions travel recommendations attached to those readings.

The radar map is the feature I would open when a storm is somewhere nearby. It layers cloud cover, sun, rain, snow, hail, thunderstorms and lightning areas, and lets you follow how clouds, fronts and active storms are moving to judge whether they will reach you. Watching a cell track toward your area is a different exercise from reading a percentage, and it is the reason a map belongs in a forecast app.

Saved cities, widgets and daily notifications

You can add and remove cities by hand, reorder them, and set up notifications and widgets per city and forecast. Any location can be saved, and the app shows current conditions for any number of global locations at once. That suits a household split between two towns, or anyone tracking a place they are traveling to before they go.

There is a weather widget showing the current temperature, time and date for your location, along with simple conditions and daily and hourly forecasts, updating as conditions change. A daily notification pushes the key weather information so you have it without opening anything.

Display and units are configurable: temperature, precipitation, visibility, wind speed, pressure, time system and date format, plus a light or dark mode. These are small settings, but they are the difference between an app you read at a glance and one you have to translate in your head.

What setup asks of you

Current conditions are shown for your exact location, and cities are added, removed and reordered manually, with notifications and widgets configured per city.

Units and formats are set the same way, by choosing your preferred temperature, precipitation, visibility, wind speed and pressure units, along with the time system and date format. Light and dark mode sit alongside those choices.

The app is free with ads and in-app purchases. The most recent update is a bug fix, dated November 7, 2025, and the app first appeared in February 2023.

Where it lands for different users

This fits people who want one app to answer several different weather questions: what it is doing now, what the next two hours hold, what the next few weeks look like, and where the rain is coming from. The combination of minute-level precipitation, a long daily outlook, air quality detail and a layered radar map is unusual to find together in a free app.

It also suits anyone managing more than one place, since saved cities, per-city widgets and per-city notifications are part of the design rather than an afterthought. Travelers who want to watch conditions at a destination before leaving are covered by the same tools.

The trade-offs are the ones that come with a free, ad-supported app that also offers purchases. You are trading some attention and possibly some money for a broad feature set, and the volume of readings on screen assumes you want that much detail. Someone who only wants a temperature and a rain icon may find it busier than necessary.

A broad forecast toolkit worth installing

Live Weather earns a recommendation for anyone who treats weather as something to plan around rather than glance at. Hourly and 25-day forecasts, minute-by-minute precipitation, warnings with sources and severity colors, air quality and pollen readings, a radar map with storm tracking, saved cities, widgets and daily notifications cover most of what a general-purpose forecast app can reasonably do.

The 4.7 average over 218,728 ratings suggests that combination works for a large number of people, and the free download with ads and optional purchases keeps the entry cost low.

I would point it at commuters, parents coordinating outdoor plans, travelers watching a destination and anyone in a region that sees strong wind, heavy rain, snow or thunderstorms. If your needs stop at a single number for a single city, a simpler app will do, but for breadth in one place, this is a strong candidate.

What's new in version 1.1.42

fix bug