Weather BUB

Review by eFreeware

Most weather apps are interchangeable grids of numbers, and that is exactly the gap Weather BUB is built to fill. It is the official Lil BUB weather app from Weather Creative Inc., and it presents the forecast through the persona of the famous cat rather than through a neutral dashboard.

Because that personality is the product, the app is best understood as a forecast tool with a mascot layered on top. The underlying data is conventional: conditions from around the world, a 10-day outlook, hourly detail, and the usual metrics. If you want your weather delivered with a bit of warmth rather than clinical precision, this is the app the developer built; if you want an austere instrument panel, the framing here will feel like decoration.

It has been on Google Play since September 2016 and has been updated as recently as October 2026, which suggests a project that is still being tended rather than left to sit. The install base sits above 100,000, with a 4.9 average across 8,697 ratings, so the audience it has found is a satisfied one.

What the forecast actually covers

The core of the app is a forecast that works for locations worldwide. You get a 10-day outlook for planning further ahead and an hourly breakdown for the day in front of you, which between them cover the two questions most people open a weather app to answer: what is happening now, and what is coming later in the week.

Alongside the headline numbers, the app reports today's high and low, what the temperature feels like, humidity, wind, and sunrise and sunset times. That is a fuller picture than a simple temperature reading, and the feels-like figure and wind are the two I would expect to matter most when you are deciding how to dress or whether to move an outdoor plan.

GPS is part of the package, so the app can key its forecast to where you are rather than making you type a location each time. For anyone who checks conditions in several places, the worldwide coverage handles the rest.

Radar and sharing the fur-cast

Radar is included, which is the feature I would point to first when the question is whether a shower is about to pass over. An hourly list tells you what the next few hours look like on average; a radar view is what you want when you are watching a band of rain move and trying to judge whether it will reach you before you head out.

Forecasts can be posted to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. That is a small feature, but it fits the character of the app: the developer is treating the weather as something to pass along rather than a private reading, and the sharing options are the natural outlet for that.

Taken together, radar and sharing round out a feature set that is broader than the cutesy presentation might suggest. The mascot is the hook, but the app is doing the ordinary work of a weather app underneath it.

Ads, purchases and what the premium switch does

Weather BUB is free to install and supported by advertising, and it also offers in-app purchases. On a daily-use app, that combination is worth weighing before you commit a home-screen slot.

The most recent update concerns the paid side of the app. According to the release notes, premium now switches on the moment a purchase goes through, even if the app is interrupted partway through checkout, and a rare crash that could follow a purchase has been fixed. Those are maintenance fixes rather than new capabilities, but they address the moment when a purchase is most likely to go wrong, which is the moment that matters most to anyone who has paid.

The content rating is Teen, which is worth noting if you are setting the app up on a device shared with younger children.

Where the app's focus points

The design brief here is clear: make checking the weather pleasant. Every part of the presentation, from the naming to the sharing feature to the mascot herself, serves that goal. The forecast data is serious enough for everyday planning, but the app is not trying to be a professional meteorological workstation, and it does not read as one.

That makes it a good fit for people who check the weather as a small daily ritual and would rather it came with some charm than with a wall of charts. It also suits anyone who wants the practical pieces, hourly and 10-day forecasts, radar, GPS and the current conditions, without giving up personality to get them.

If you are the sort of user who wants the plainest possible interface and nothing else, the theme will be the main thing you notice, and the ads and in-app purchases will be the main thing you weigh. Neither is hidden; both are simply part of what this app is.

A forecast worth smiling at

Weather BUB is a competent weather app wearing an unusual costume. The functionality is familiar and reasonably complete: worldwide forecasts, hourly and 10-day views, radar, GPS, and the metrics that matter for getting through a day. The costume is the official Lil BUB branding, and it is the reason this app exists rather than being one of a hundred identical forecast tools.

I would suggest it to people who like the character and want their daily forecast to feel a little lighter, and to anyone who wants radar and hourly detail in an app that does not take itself too seriously. The 4.9 average from 8,697 ratings suggests that audience knows what it is getting.

Go in expecting ads, in-app purchases, and a presentation built around a cat, and the app delivers what it advertises. Go in expecting a stripped-down data terminal, and you will spend your time looking past the theme. For the right user, this is a forecast they will actually enjoy opening.

What's new in version 6.2.9

Sunnier upgrades! Premium now switches on the moment your purchase goes through — even if the app gets interrupted mid-checkout — and we fixed a rare crash right after buying. Plus a few behind-the-scenes tune-ups. Thanks for brightening our forecast!