- How much does Always Weather cost?
- You pay once: £3.99 on the App Store for iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac together, £3.59 on Google Play for Android phones, Pixel Watch and Googlebooks, and £3.59 on the Microsoft Store for Windows. It is free on Linux. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase and no advertising, and each store shows your local price.
- Which devices does it run on?
- iPhone with iOS 17 or later, Apple Watch with watchOS 11 or later, Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later, Android phones with Android 12 or later, Pixel Watch, Googlebooks, Windows 11 PCs with Intel, AMD or Snapdragon chips, and Arch Linux (made on Omarchy) on Intel and AMD.
- Where does the forecast come from?
- From national weather services: the Met Office for the UK and Ireland, Deutscher Wetterdienst for Germany, the US National Weather Service for the United States, and MET Norway everywhere else and for the days after those forecasts end. Rain radar comes from EUMETNET OPERA across Europe, and from NOAA with Environment and Climate Change Canada in North America.
- Does it work where I live?
- The forecast covers the whole world, ten days ahead. The rain map covers Europe, the United States and southern Canada. Official warnings come for the UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway and the United States, and the next few hours of rain, worked out from radar, for the UK and Ireland.
- Can it tell me when rain is on its way?
- Yes, if you ask it to. Turn on alerts and it tells you before rain or snow starts, and when an official warning is issued for your place. Your phone checks for itself every so often, so no server keeps a list of devices or knows where you are. On the Mac and on Windows it checks while the app is open.
- What does it know about me?
- Very little. There is no account, no advertising and no analytics. If you use your current location, it is rounded to about a kilometre before it leaves your device, and your saved places and settings stay on it. Only the Android app sends crash reports: anonymous, and you can turn them off in Settings. The Mac, iPhone, Windows and Linux apps send none. The privacy policy has every detail.
- Does it work without a signal?
- It opens straight to your last forecast, even offline, and says when that forecast came. It fetches a new one as soon as it can.