Weather forecast

Review by eFreeware

If you check the sky more than once a day, this is the sort of app that fits into that routine. Weather forecast is a free Android app that puts current conditions, an hourly outlook and a seven-day forecast on one screen, with an animated radar map, home screen widgets and a Wear OS companion on top. It is the kind of tool for someone who wants the numbers, not just a sun icon.

The developer has been shipping it since March 2020, and the install count sits above five million with a 4.2 average from roughly 39,550 ratings. That is a healthy signal for a free weather app, though ratings only tell you so much.

I would describe this as a dashboard app. It assumes you want humidity, wind chill, UV index and pressure alongside the temperature, and it gives you the settings to shape all of that to your own units and formats.

Built for detail-minded planners

The clearest fit is anyone whose day depends on specifics: a cyclist deciding whether the wind will make a route miserable, a gardener watching rain probability and overnight lows, a photographer timing a sunrise. The app surfaces those values directly rather than burying them, and the unit settings mean you can read wind in knots or m/s, pressure in inHg or hPa, and precipitation in millimeters or inches.

It also suits people who keep an eye on several places at once. You can save as many locations as you like and delete them freely, switch the current-location tracking on or off, and search for a new place by name, with a server-side fallback if the first search comes up empty. That covers a family spread across time zones or anyone tracking a second home.

If your interest in weather is casual, the depth here may be more than you need. But nothing about it is complicated to read: the main tab gives you now, hourly and daily views, and the extra fields sit alongside rather than in the way.

Forecasts for the next hour and the next week

The core of the app is a set of three forecast views. The current-conditions screen shows temperature, wind speed and direction, the day's high and low, and a clock and date alongside. From there you can see a 24-hour strip running from the present moment, with a temperature chart and the chance of rain or snow depending on conditions.

The daily view stretches seven days ahead, showing the day of the week, another temperature chart and the same rain or snow probability. Both views carry a fuller set of readings: humidity, precipitation, real-feel temperature, dew point, cloud cover, UV index, pressure, sunrise, sunset and moon phases. Hourly views also show ozone and wind direction.

That is a lot of data per row, and the layout matters as much as the data. The developer has revised the interface over time, and the current version is built to keep these readings scannable rather than overwhelming. Whether it succeeds is something you would judge on your own screen.

A radar map you can actually read

The radar screen is reachable from the map on the main view or through the settings menu. It is animated, so you can watch precipitation move rather than guess from a static frame, and you can switch the layer between temperature, wind, humidity, rain or snow, clouds and pressure.

The wind and rain layers are the ones I would expect to earn their place, since the developer pitches them as useful for storm warning. You can zoom in and out for a closer look, see the location name and temperature on the map, and reset the view to your current position with a single tap.

Not every weather app of this size includes a layered radar, so it is a genuine part of the package rather than a token extra. It is also the feature most likely to keep you in the app rather than a widget.

Widgets, lock screen and watch

The app pushes information out to places you already look. There are home screen widgets in several sizes, with options for a solid or transparent background and a toggle for showing or hiding the location name. Some widgets also open the alarm clock or calendar, which is a small convenience if you keep those on the same screen.

Beyond widgets, you can put weather on the lock screen, show the temperature in the status bar without opening anything, and receive three notifications a day in the morning, noon and evening. A daily weather summary can appear each morning, and a dark background option keeps all conditions on one dark theme if you prefer that to color changes.

The app also runs on Wear OS, so real-time conditions, hourly and daily forecasts and the detail readings are available from a watch. There is a language setting that changes the app's language without touching your phone's, which is a thoughtful touch for bilingual households.

Free, with ads and nothing to buy

Weather forecast costs nothing to download and there are no in-app purchases. The trade-off is advertising. There is no subscription and no tier to compare.

I would treat the ads as the main cost of using it. For a free app with this many features, that seems a reasonable exchange, though it is worth deciding up front whether you mind them in something you might open several times a day.

The app is rated for Everyone and has been updated as recently as October 2026, so it is not an abandoned project. That matters for a weather app, where stale data sources are the fastest way to lose trust.

How it compares with other weather apps

Most weather apps fall into one of two camps: the minimalist kind that gives you a temperature and an icon, and the data-heavy kind that gives you everything. This one sits firmly in the second camp, and that is the comparison worth making before you install it. If you already use a simple app and never open the detail view, you will not gain much here.

Against a dedicated radar service, the app's radar is a feature within a broader tool rather than the whole point. Against a paid weather app, the difference is the ads. Against a general assistant or search widget, the advantage is having the full forecast and radar in one place rather than a single line of text.

The closest alternative is simply another free weather app with a similar feature set. What separates this one is the breadth of the detail fields, the layered radar and the widget and watch options together, rather than any single standout.

A capable free option for forecast-heavy users

Weather forecast is worth installing if you want a lot of weather information in one place and do not mind ads paying for it. The hourly and seven-day views are thorough, the radar is layered and animated, and the widgets, lock screen display and Wear OS support mean you can get the numbers without opening the app each time.

The people most likely to keep it are those who plan around wind, rain probability and UV, and those tracking more than one location. If a glance at the temperature is all you need, a lighter app will serve you just as well. For everyone else, this is a well-equipped free option with a track record behind it.

My recommendation is to install it, set your units and formats first, then add the locations you care about. That is where the app starts to feel tailored rather than generic.

What's new

v1.76: Performance and stability improvements v1.67: Wear OS supported v1.57: New useful weather notification v1.56: New UI UX for better using experience. v1.29: Performance and stability improvements v1.19: Updated latest Admob SDK v1.17: Updated location privacy v1.15: Added FCM