Weather

Review by eFreeware

Most of us only care about the weather at the moment we need to decide something: whether to carry an umbrella, whether to move a trip, whether to leave the windows open. The problem with a lot of forecast apps is that they make you work for that answer, hunting through menus or waiting for a location to resolve. Weather, from the developer Weather Radar Team, is built around the opposite idea: open it, let it find you, and read the forecast.

It is a free app in the Weather category, with ads and in-app purchases present. That combination is worth keeping in mind as you read, because it shapes what the app is: a broad, general-purpose forecast tool rather than a specialist service. The numbers suggest plenty of people have made their peace with that trade-off, with more than 10 million installs and a 4.4 average across 258,930 ratings.

The app has been around for a while, first released in September 2017, and the developer has kept it current with an update in August 2026. In this review I want to look at what it actually offers, what it asks of you and where a straightforward forecast app of this type fits into a daily routine.

Location first, forecast second

The feature the developer leads with is location detection. One tap enables GPS, and the app then shows conditions for wherever you are. That is a small thing in theory, but it is the difference between an app you check and an app you ignore, because the fastest forecast is the one that does not ask you to type anything.

What appeals to me is the fallback for when GPS is off. The app can detect your position over the network instead, and the developer notes that in large cities such as New York or London this is usually enough to get the right result without switching GPS on. If the detected position is wrong, GPS can be enabled to correct it. For anyone who keeps location services off by habit, that is a useful middle ground.

You are not locked to one place, either. The app supports manually adding locations, and you can track conditions in several of them at once, which is the setup I would expect to suit anyone splitting time between a home city and somewhere they travel to regularly. Both network and GPS positioning are supported, and the location follows you as you move.

The developer also pitches the app as fast and accurate, and says the interface is modern and easy to use. Those are the kind of claims every weather app makes, so I would treat them as the developer's ambition rather than a promise you can verify from a store page.

What you can actually read on screen

Current conditions are covered in reasonable depth. You get temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit, sunrise and sunset times adjusted to the city's time zone, atmospheric pressure, visibility, relative humidity, precipitation in various units, dew point, and wind speed and direction. Several of those measurements can be displayed in more than one unit, which matters if you are used to reading pressure or wind a particular way.

Beyond the present moment, the app offers hourly forecasts and a longer outlook running from seven to ten days. Chart graphs are available for both the hourly and daily views, which helps when you want to see a trend rather than a single number. There is also a moon phase display if that is something you follow.

Radar and rain maps are included, with animated weather conditions and graphics layered over the data. Animated radar is one of those features that is genuinely useful for judging whether a band of rain is heading your way or already past you, and it is the part of a forecast app I would expect to reach for when the hourly numbers look ambiguous.

The developer lists global coverage, so you can look up conditions in cities anywhere rather than only where you happen to be standing. That, combined with multiple saved locations, makes the app more of a general weather reference than a single-city widget.

Widgets, notifications and the lock screen

Weather apps live or die by how little effort they demand, and this one spreads itself across several surfaces. There is a home screen widget and an ongoing notification, and the widget can show multiple locations at once. You can also set your lock screen to carry live weather information, which means a glance at the phone is enough to get the temperature.

Notifications can be allowed or disabled, so if you would rather the app stayed silent you have that option. Weather and location information can be shared with friends, a small convenience for planning something with other people rather than a headline feature.

The app is free to download, carries ads and offers in-app purchases. I would not read too much into that beyond the obvious: this is an ad-supported app with optional paid elements. The developer also provides an email address and describes support as available around the clock, which is more than many free apps bother to offer.

What the app asks of you

The main requirement is location access. To get the automatic behavior the app is built around, you need to let it detect where you are, either through GPS or over the network. If you would rather not grant that at all, you can still add locations by hand, but you lose the one-tap convenience that makes the app quick to open.

The second consideration is the ad-supported model and the presence of in-app purchases. Neither is unusual for a free weather app, and the install and rating figures suggest a large audience has accepted both. What I would say is that a forecast is a utility you might open several times a day, so any friction in that loop is felt more often than in an app you use weekly.

Nothing here requires an account or a subscription, and the app is rated for Everyone.

One more thing worth setting expectations on: the app covers a lot of ground, from radar to moon phases to lock screen displays, and that breadth is the point. If you want a single number and nothing else, the extra panels are simply there to be ignored.

Getting the most out of a daily check

The sensible way to use an app like this is to set it up once and then stop thinking about it. Add the places you care about, put the widget where you will see it, and let the automatic location handling do the rest. The multiple-location support is what makes that worthwhile, since a widget showing two cities tells you more at a glance than one showing a single temperature.

For planning further ahead, the hourly view and the seven-to-ten-day outlook are the two places to look, and the chart graphs are the quickest way to read either. When the numbers are borderline, the radar and rain maps give you the spatial picture that a percentage alone cannot.

If you travel or move around a lot, the network-based location detection is the feature to lean on. The developer's note about large cities is the useful detail here: in dense areas the app can often place you correctly without GPS, and switching GPS on is the fix when it cannot. Keeping notifications off until you actually want them is the other easy win, since the app lets you control that.

Finally, the unit switches are worth setting early. Temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit, pressure and wind in the units you are used to, and you will not have to translate readings in your head every time you open the app. A support email is available if something does not behave as expected.

A dependable everyday forecast with ads attached

Weather is a broad, free forecast app that tries to cover the whole job: current conditions, hourly and ten-day outlooks, radar and rain maps, multiple locations, widgets and a lock screen display. It is not a niche tool, and it does not pretend to be. The app is built around speed, accuracy and a clean interface, and the features behind that are wide-ranging.

The caveats are the ones you would expect from a free app of this size. Ads are present, in-app purchases are offered, and the automatic location behavior depends on you granting location access, whether through GPS or the network. Those are real considerations, but they are also the standard terms of a free weather app, and the 10 million-plus installs and 4.4 rating suggest most people find them acceptable.

I would point this app at anyone who wants one place to check the forecast for home and a few other cities, and who values having radar and a widget in the same package. If you open your weather app several times a day, the combination of automatic location, a widget and hourly charts is exactly the kind of setup that saves you a few seconds each time, and those seconds add up.

It is a straightforward recommendation for a general audience rather than a specialist one. Set your locations and units once, keep the widget handy, and the app does what a weather app should: tells you what is happening outside without making you ask twice.