I'm looking for a FOSS Weather app for android

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 102 points – 1 years ago

Hello! I'm looking for a foss weather app for android, so I went ahead to f-droid and tried a bunch of them, but didn't find any that fully satisfies me: I want to be able to see the hourly forecast of any day of the week, not just the "global" forecast, and I want the weather service used not to require a credit card (openweathermap.org for example requires the credit card to get an API key). Geometric Weather is the one that I'm currently using, with open-meteo as provider, but sadly it displays hourly forecasts only for the current day, but not for other days.

Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance!

The Breezy Weather (fdroid link) is a fork and continuation of GeometricWeather. As I can see, there are hourly forecasts for the next days, just scroll horizontally (AccuWeather and Open-Meteo providers, tho, I haven't checked others).

I just wish it had a precipitation radar. I'm pretty sure the data is available because I've seen another FOSS app that had it, but I can't remember which now.

wX can show radar as well as daily/hourly for the next week or so. Not super pretty to look at but extremely functional

I couldn't agree more. Hmm. Maybe OSS Weather [fdroid link] has a radar map, but it didn't provide much information. Unfortunately, I don't remember

OSS Weather has decent radar for rain and solid stats in the home screen too. There's three different sources for weather data you can select, so I'd bet one will be better than the others for radar mapping.

omWeather [f-droid link] has that!

This one has been an absolute discovery. Amazing app well beyond the others I've tested up to now. Recommended.

I like rain: https://github.com/DarkMooNight/Rain

"Rain" is also available at Izzy's: https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/com.yoshi.rain

Another vote from me for Rain. Much nicer to look at than the BBC Weather App.

Not FOSS, but did you know you can get your weather forecasts straight from the source? Weather.gov gives not only a standard 7 day forecast but also provides all sorts of weather data and lots of the charts on the site is designed to be customized then bookmarked even if your browser has cookies disabled!

wX gets its data from weather.gov and is open source. It has a lot of forecast products and can even notify you of watches and warnings.

Looks neat, I'm going to try this one.

wX is actually terrifying in its depth.

This is the right choice. Everything else is pretty much just a different frontend for the same data.

Geometric Weather has been continued by different devs, and that version is called Breezy Weather.

You can also find it in the Izzy f-droid repo.

Uh, that's nice. Thanks!

Breezy is really a nice app, too bad on my phone the background updates just don't work (yes they used to work on GeometricWeather)

Did you set the right power saving settings on your phone's settings?

Yes battery optimization is disabled for the app, and no energy saver mode is on

omWeather, on fdroid

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+1 for Breezy weather

I'm using Forecastie and Weather Widget. Both use openweathermap but via its public API, so only need internet access and your location

Been using forcastie for years and I like it. However there are plenty good apps I am sure on F-Droid.

Breezy Weather is the obvious option here, as many others have said.

Geometric Weather is outdated and Breezy Weather is the updated fork of it. So it's an improved version.

Not FOSS, but free and ad-free, from a small Japanese developer: Weawow. The only thing that requires you to make a small donation is to unlock a couple of weather providers, but you have a big selection without it.