Weather
Simplistic interface
Developers from Macro Pinch are known for creating lightweight apps packed with plenty of features to choose from. While there's room for improvement, usually the apps perform well and deliver all the tools they've promised.
The interface is quite simplistic, there are no themes to choose from and the app has no customization settings for the UI. There's no toolbar, users must simply swipe the screen to reach additional sections in the app and get more information. The forecast is collected from wunderground.com.
Check the weather in your location
When you launch it, the app requires you to enable location services so that it can determine your last recorded location. It takes some time to do so, but if you don't have the patience nor the time, you can manually enter your location and select the city from the suggestions the app provides you with. There's the option of adding multiple locations if you wish.
The app displays temperature either in the imperial system in Fahrenheit or the metric system in Celsius degrees. It only shows a simplistic animation portraying the current forecast, but there's no information on wind speed. Swipe the screen to the left to see temperatures for upcoming hours together with changes of rain.
Temperature icon in the notification bar and home screen widgets
Weather app also displays the forecast for the upcoming 5 days together with a short description. You can have the app feature an icon with temperatures on the status bar, so you can check the weather without launching the application.
Other than that, the home screen widget might seem useful but it displays little information and doesn't even have customization options. Information on wind speed, precipitation, alerts, news, moon phases is missing from this app, making it suitable only for a few users.
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Bottom Line
Design / UI8
While the interface is lightweight and easy-to-use, it only highlights the simplicity of this app and the many features that it's missing. |
Function7
The app is stripped of essential information that many users truly need in their day-to-day lives, making it lag behind other similar apps. |
Security9
It only needs access to location services, thus not posing any privacy issues. |
Battery6
It keeps location services on and updates the forecast periodically, consuming a lot of battery in the process. |
Price8
Free of charge, but comes with plenty of ads. Also there's a separate section in which the developer is advertising some of its other applications. |
Compatibility8
Developers didn't mention Android versions required for this app, but it should work just fine on 5.0 also. |
It's missing some essential features for weather apps.
Specifications
- price:
- Free with ads
- current version:
- Varies with device
- reviewed version:
- Varies with device
- developer:
- MacroPinch
- category:
- WEATHER
- os version req.:
- Varies with device
- age rating:
- N/A
- in-app purchases:
- No
- hits:
- 284