Weather & Widget - Weawow

This app and developer are amazing. Ad free, no tracking, accurate, and free! I had an issue trying to figure out how to make the widget display in wide mode. I emailed the developer and received a response within 24 hours on a weekend! That is customer service you just don’t get anywhere else, and for a free, easy to use and ad free app that made me decide to leave a review. This is the only review I’ve ever left for an app, I am that happy with it. I had completely removed all other weather apps from my phone because of the extremely excessive ads and tracking. Very happy to have an app that doesn’t have all of that. By the way, if you aren’t able to get the wide mode to work, I found that I had to delete the widget then add it again and make the selection for the large icon when adding it again. This is on iOS 18 iPhone 16 pro.

Wow! I was looking for a weather app for my elderly dad’s phone with no ads because he accidentally clicks on the ads as he scrolls and gets lost in them. This app was not only free with no ads, it has a beautiful interface and an diverse set of gadgets. The beautiful backdrop pictures are local weather specific. I would and have recommend this app to friends and elderly parents or kids especially because there are no ads to accidentally click on. If there was one incredibly minor improvement I would ask for it would be to explain what the growing dots on the radar map are (wind/precip/other) or a clickable explanation of that screen. If a second very minor improvement it would be to recognize if I am asking for weather far away to give me the weekly forecast forecast. “As a user who is travelling, I would like the weekly weather to appear first when searching a location more than 100 miles away”.

I love how you can choose the order that various weather features (temp, precipitation, barometric pressure, etc.) are displayed in the main view in the app, and even which features to show on the Home Screen widget. (You can have up to 4 if you use the “current” layout.) I live on a coastal island that often has high winds, and I sail and kayak a lot, so personally I love being able to see the wind speed and direction along with the current temp right from my Home Screen; I’m not aware of any other app that can do this. The only reason I took off a star is for aesthetic reasons. The native iPhone weather app has a much nicer, bolder font that is easier to read on the widget, and the weather icons are all kind of ugly (even though there are 4 styles, there are really just two, one silly childrens book style and one that you can have in full color, black or white. The fourth one is the same as the 2nd and 3rd but with a thermometer in place of the sun/moon/cloud icons.) none of that is terrible but it could be better.