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Just found this today and thought I'd share.


Features:

✅ Beautiful, minimal UI
✅ 8-day forecast
✅ Imperial units support
✅ Dark and light themes
✅ No ads or trackers
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

why would I want Imperial units?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It would be useful if you live in the United States, or any of the dozens of countries that use the system either as a standalone measurement of temperature or as part of a dual system. The British Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas... Etc.

I find it actually kind of a fun way to start a conversation with anyone outside of the U.S. by attempting to convert my local weather to Celsius. I'm on international calls fairly regularly and (can't blame anyone for this) telling anyone outside the US or the countries above the temperature in fahrenheit is like speaking a foreign language.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Oh, in case you're not aware, generally a feature list isn't specifically catered to one specific person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fun to fuck with people in winter that it will be in the thirties tomorrow. I like to show little kids and see what they say. If they’re younger than ~8, it tends to work, then I get to tell them about the world a little more and if they’re interested, teach them how to convert. That was the first conversion I figured out, it’s pretty easy, and it’s applicable to the real world, so it’s great at getting kids into math.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lovely, but no widget support... Is there any foss weather app with good widget selection? I tried a bunch from F-Droid a while ago and didn't find any.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Breezy Weather has a great selection of widgets, some of them even Material You.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yea I don't know why I didn't see them before when I installed it... Weird. Thx

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just searched F-Droid and Play Store for Breezy Weather and couldn't find it at all. What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The IzzyOnDroid repo, most likely.

If you're using the stock F-Droid store app, you have to manually add it. If you're on one of the newer clients, like Neo Store, it's enabled out-of-the-box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cool, thanks! I ended up pulling the apk from izzyondroid but will look at editing my f-droid repos (didn't realize that was a thing lol).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Breezy Weather isn't on the Play Store or the main F-Droid repo. You could either use IzzyOnDroid (different F-Droid repo) or just use Obtainium to get the APKs straight from Github.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Breezy Weather. 13 widgets, great UI, multiple data sources.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yea this is the issue I had, ended up just buying Today Weather cause widgets

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Not foss but I'm enjoying shadow weather a lot, and I like supporting small time devs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Geometric Weather

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/wangdaye.com.geometricweather/

Widgets, notifications, slick UI, and available on the main F-Droid repo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's a fork called Breezy as well. Geometric hasn't been updated in a while.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you are in Finland, I've yet to find anything that beats the Finnish Meteorological Institute's app.

Particularly useful, is the cloud radar view, which lets you see the movements of rainclouds in 15 minute increments.

By looking at how the clouds are moving, I can reliably tell how long a given rain shower will last, if and when there will be a gap in the downpour, how long it will last...

It's kind of mind blowing how accurate it is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good one ! I still prefer Prognoza on IzzyOnDroid Repo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for mentioning this! Always wanted a foss material ui weather app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also check out Breezy Weather.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

aww not compatible with my device :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Looks very nice!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Kind of off-topic here, but I'm looking for recommendations on a weather app that shows multiple cities on the same screen. My use case is different from that of most of people: I travel a lot and want to see weather in many locations at a glance. I currently use Klara weather and it does the job, but the reason I use this app is that I couldn't find any other apps, and I wish there was some choice.

Klara looks like this:

As you can see it only fits 3 cities in a screen and ideally I want something minimal with as many locations in one screen as possible, even if it's not FOSS, but if I have a choice I always prefer FOSS. Klara is not open source AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it work with Gadgetbridge?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure, but link for those who (like me) may not know what GadgetBridge is - thanks for making me aware!:

GadgetBridge description:

A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications.

Links:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great but it's too minimal for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just say you don't like minimalism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do like minimalism but not everywhere. Here I'd like automatic location, saving multiple locations as favorites, and maybe a simple widget.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No say you don't like minimalism!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is there something similar for iOS?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really dig the style. However, I live in a town that has a fairly common name and the application defaults to another location.

Is there any way I could prompt the right location?

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think its just a current limitation of the app. Hopefully the feature gets added soon, there's a few minor issues that would make the app really great. It works for my home city but can't seem to find where I work, which is unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd you're in the US you can use zip code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, one of my fav

there is also "rain", also lightweight an nice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where can I find that? The generic name makes it hard to search for. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ugh... does it just randomize locations?