Weather Forecast

Review by eFreeware

Weather Forecast is a free Android weather app from TOH Talent Team. It has been on Google Play since March 2017 and has passed 10 million installs, with a 4.6 average from 184,774 ratings, so it is a well-established option rather than a new arrival. The pitch is broad: current conditions for locations worldwide, radar, a 7-day outlook and a widget that keeps the essentials on your home screen.

What makes it worth considering is the combination of coverage and convenience. It shows the temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, along with sunrise and sunset times matched to the city's time zone, pressure, visibility, humidity, precipitation, dew point, and wind speed and direction, and it can hold several places at once. For anyone who checks the sky before making plans, that is a lot of ground covered by one free install.

The trade-off is the usual one for a free weather app: it carries ads. There are no in-app purchases, so nothing is locked behind a payment, and the developer's recent updates mention GDPR consent for users in the EU and UK alongside interface and stability work. I would treat the ad load as the price of admission and judge the rest on whether the forecasts and widgets earn their place on your home screen.

Current conditions and the 7-day outlook

The core of the app is the forecast itself. It shows hourly and daily views and extends to seven days ahead, which is the range most people actually plan around.

Sunrise and sunset times are calculated according to the city's time zone rather than your own, which matters if you are tracking daylight somewhere you are not. The app also reports the moon phase and moon cycle, a small extra that suits anyone who likes to know when the moon will be bright.

Units are flexible: temperature can be read in Celsius or Fahrenheit, and wind and other measurements come in several units. That flexibility is the sort of thing I would expect to matter more over time than any single reading, because it lets the app fit the way you already think about weather instead of the other way around.

The developer describes the interface as simple, with weather information reachable by a touch.

Radar, widgets and lock screen weather

Beyond the forecast, the app includes a weather radar, which is useful for seeing whether rain is moving toward you rather than just whether it is falling now. That is the feature I would reach for before deciding to wait out a shower or leave the umbrella at home.

The widget and status bar notification put current conditions where you will see them without opening anything, and the widget can show multiple locations. You can also put live weather on the lock screen, so checking it takes only a glance. Notifications can be allowed or disabled, which keeps the app from becoming a source of noise if you only want the widget.

Sharing is built in as well: you can send weather and location information to friends. It is a small feature, but it fits the way people pass along storm warnings or vacation conditions. Between the widget, the notification and the lock screen option, the app seems designed to be seen rather than opened, and that is a sensible approach for weather.

Several locations and moving around

The app supports geo-positioning and retrieves conditions for your current location, detecting it automatically through network and GPS. It also lets you search for and manually add a location, which covers the places you care about but are not standing in.

Multiple locations can be saved, so a commute, a relative's town or a trip destination can all sit in the same list. The developer notes that the location updates when you move, using both network and GPS, which is what you want from an app that follows you rather than waiting to be told where you are.

The app is localized to most of the world's languages, so the interface should be readable in the language you already use. Taken together, the location handling and language support make this a reasonable choice for travel, for keeping an eye on family elsewhere, or simply for anyone who splits time between more than one place.

What setup involves

Getting started is described as straightforward. The app searches for your address automatically, so in most cases the first screen already reflects where you are. If you want other places, you search for them and add them manually.

Location detection uses network and GPS, so the app needs access to your position to do its main job. You can also choose whether notifications are allowed, which is worth deciding early rather than letting them accumulate. The widget and lock screen options are there if you want them, and the app works without them if you do not.

The app is free with ads and offers no in-app purchases, so there is nothing to buy and no reason to expect a paywall between you and the forecast. It runs on Android, and the content rating is Everyone.

Who it fits best

This app suits people who want a dependable daily forecast without paying for it and who value seeing the weather on a home screen widget or lock screen. If you keep an eye on several places, whether for family, work or travel, the multi-location support and automatic positioning do most of the work for you.

It also fits anyone who wants more than a temperature and an icon. Pressure, humidity, dew point, visibility, wind and precipitation are all reported, and the radar adds a sense of what is coming rather than only what is happening. That level of detail is unusual to find in a free app, and it is the strongest argument for installing this one.

The flip side is that it is ad-supported, and the interface is built for quick reading rather than for people who enjoy studying charts. Someone who wants a forecast they can absorb in two seconds will be comfortable here; someone who wants a weather workstation will find the app's simple approach limiting. The 4.6 average from a large number of ratings suggests most users get what they came for.

A free forecast worth keeping on your home screen

Weather Forecast earns a recommendation for anyone who wants current conditions, a 7-day outlook and radar in a free Android app, with widgets and multiple locations as the features that make it stick. The developer has kept it updated into 2026, and the install and rating numbers suggest it has held up over the years.

The ads are the main cost. If you can live with that, and you want your weather visible at a glance rather than buried in an app you have to open, this is a sensible install. If you need detailed meteorological charts, this is not the tool for that job.

For most people, the calculation is simple: a free app that covers the essentials, keeps several places in view and puts the forecast where you will actually see it. On that basis, it is easy to recommend.

What's new in version 14.5

Best weather forecast on the store. 24h, 7days forecast, radar, weather widget on home screen. v14.5: UX and stability improvements v13.9: New UX and useful weather info v13.6: Performance and stability improvements v12.6: GDPR message consent for EU/UK users v12.4: Performance and stability improvements v11.9: Update new target SDK as Google requirements v11.8: Performance and stability improvements v11.3: Fix a policy text issue