Weather Forecast: Live Weather

Review by eFreeware

Weather Forecast: Live Weather is for people who check the sky before they commit to anything: a run, a drive, a day of errands, a flight, a wedding. The developer, WaiWao Studio, pitches it as one of the best weather apps, and the shape of it is familiar: current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, radar, alerts and widgets, all in one place. It is free to install, with ads and in-app purchases present.

What makes it worth a closer look is how much detail it packs into that routine. The app reports temperature and what it feels like, precipitation, UV index, humidity, visibility, pressure, pollen count, and sunrise and sunset times. For anyone who plans around heat, allergies or daylight rather than just rain, that set of readings covers more ground than a simple high-and-low glance.

The audience here is broad but not vague. It suits commuters, parents coordinating school runs, gardeners, cyclists and anyone whose day is shaped by the weather. It also suits people who want the forecast visible without opening anything, since the app offers home screen widgets in several sizes.

Daily planning without opening an app

The widget support is the feature I would expect to matter most in daily use. Widgets come in 2x1, 4x1, 4x2, 5x1 and 5x2 sizes, which means you can fit current and upcoming conditions into a small strip on a home screen or give them a larger panel. The developer also lets the widgets switch between different themes, so the look can be adjusted rather than fixed.

That matters because the alternative is opening an app every time you want to know whether to grab a jacket. A widget that shows the current temperature and the next few hours turns the app into something you glance at rather than something you visit. For anyone who checks the forecast several times a day, that difference adds up.

The trade-off is that widgets occupy home screen space, and larger sizes take more of it. The five-size range gives you room to choose how much you are willing to give up, which is a reasonable way to handle it.

Hourly detail, ten days out and rain warnings

The forecast side covers both short and long horizons. You can see conditions, maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation and wind on a daily basis, and the same data hour by hour. The outlook stretches ten days ahead, which is enough to plan a trip or a weekend without pretending to know what the weather will do in three weeks.

There is also a precipitation forecast that tells you to bring an umbrella before it rains. That is a small thing, but it is the kind of prompt that saves a soaking. For anyone who walks, cycles or waits outdoors, a nudge ahead of a shower is more useful than a percentage buried in a table.

Severe weather alerts are included as well, with real-time warnings. For regions where storms, heat waves or high winds arrive quickly, having those alerts in the same app as the forecast keeps you from checking two places. The combination of hourly detail, a ten-day view and alerts covers most of what a general-purpose weather app needs to do.

Maps, radar and the settings you can change

The app includes a local conditions view alongside a weather map and radar. Radar is the part I would expect people to reach for when rain is nearby, since it shows where precipitation is rather than just whether it is likely. It is the kind of feature that answers a different question from the forecast: not whether it will rain, but where it is raining now.

Units are customizable across several measurements. Temperature can be set to Fahrenheit or Celsius, wind to MPH, KPH, knots or MPS, and pressure to inches or millibars. That flexibility matters for sailors, pilots, hikers and anyone who works with a particular convention and does not want to convert in their head.

More than 30 languages are available, so the app suits a wide range of users. Combined with the unit options, it is a forecast tool that can be adjusted to the way you already read weather rather than forcing a single format.

What to expect when you install it

The app is free to download and free to use, according to the developer, with ads and in-app purchases present. It is rated for Everyone and has been available since February 2019, with the most recent update in October 2025. That is a long run for a weather app, and the update history suggests it is still being worked on.

Once installed, you choose your units and language and add a widget if you want one on your home screen.

The install base is substantial: over 10 million installs and a 4.8 average from more than 170,000 ratings. Those numbers do not tell you whether the forecast will be right for your area, but they do suggest the app has been widely used and generally well received.

Where this forecast app fits

This is a general-purpose weather app, and it is built for people who want a lot of information in one place. If your routine involves checking temperature, rain, wind, UV and air quality before heading out, the breadth of the readings here is the appeal. If you mostly want a single number and a simple icon, the app offers more than you need, though the widgets let you reduce what you see.

It suits travelers and expatriates particularly well, since the language support and unit options mean it can be configured for different countries and conventions. It also suits anyone in a region with severe weather, where the alerts and radar earn their place alongside the forecast.

The main caveats are the ads and in-app purchases, which come with the free version, and the fact that a weather app is only as good as its data for your location. The developer calls the forecasts accurate, and the ratings suggest many users agree, but no app can guarantee that for every town.

A detailed free forecast worth trying

Weather Forecast: Live Weather is a strong option for anyone who wants a thorough local forecast without paying for it. The combination of current conditions, hourly and ten-day forecasts, radar, alerts and configurable widgets covers the jobs most people need a weather app to do. The unit and language options make it adaptable, and the long update history is reassuring.

The ads and in-app purchases are the price of the free version, and they are worth knowing about before you install. For most users, though, the depth of information and the widget support make it a reasonable choice to try. If you want a forecast you can glance at and a radar you can check when the sky looks wrong, this app is built for that.