Always Weather
A calm weather app

The whole day, under your thumb.

Open it, drag your thumb through the hours, and you know. The time, the temperature, what it feels like, the wind and the rain all follow your thumb, and each hour settles into place with a light tick.

London Thursday 17 September

Rain from 13:00, clearing by 16:00.

A sample Thursday in London, as the app draws it. Drag along the hours, or use the arrow keys.

One plain sentence sums the day up: “Rain from 13:00, clearing by 16:00.” or “Dry all day.” Exactly what you opened a weather app to find out. Today hour by hour, up to ten days ahead, your current location and up to ten saved places, and a small home-screen widget with the next few hours. It opens straight to your last forecast, even without a signal.

See the rain before it reaches you

The rain map shows the radar for the last hour and the next two, then hour by hour, across Europe and North America. In the UK and Ireland a line from the latest radar says when the rain starts, and your national weather service's warnings sit on the days they cover.

Rain on the map: the radar over the UK and Ireland at 18:40 around Inverness, “Raining now, clear by 20:00. Moving north-east at 19 mph.”, with the radar and forecast hours in a strip under the map.
Rain in the next few hours: London at 12:00, cloudy and 17 degrees, “4° warmer than yesterday.” and, from the latest radar, “Rain likely between 13:00 and 15:00.”
Official warnings, in plain sight: Bergen at 12:00, 12 degrees and heavy rain, with MET Norway's orange warnings for rain and for landslides on the day they cover.

One forecast, on every screen you have

The same forecast, the same words and the same one-thumb sweep through the hours, wherever you open it. On a wide screen the hour you're looking at sits beside sunrise, what to wear and the days ahead.

App Store

Mac and iPhone

One purchase covers both. Sky after dark on the Mac, Paper in your pocket: the same forecast, the same hours under your thumb.

Always Weather on a Mac in Sky after dark: London at 20:00, 16 degrees on a clear night, the hourly bars on the left, and What to wear with its pictures on the right.
Always Weather on an iPhone in Paper: the row of days, then What to wear for a walk with pictures of a T-shirt, a light layer and sun cream, and sunrise and sunset.

Google Play

Android phone and Googlebook

On a Googlebook the hours sit on the left and the days on the right. On the phone, one thumb drags you through the day.

Always Weather on a Googlebook in Paper: the day's sentence and the hours on the left, and What to wear with its pictures, sunrise and sunset and the days ahead on the right.
Always Weather on an Android phone in Sky: London at 14:00, 16 degrees and rain, with the hourly bars and the rain under them.

Microsoft Store

Windows PC

A window made for a PC: drag along the hours, scroll sideways on a touchpad or press the arrow keys. In Sky even the title bar takes the colour of the sky. For Windows 11 on Intel, AMD and Snapdragon PCs.

Always Weather on a Windows PC in Sky: a window on the desktop showing London at 14:00, 16 degrees and rain, “Rain from 13:00, clearing by 16:00.” and the hourly bars on the left, and What to wear, sunrise and sunset and the 10-day forecast on the right.

App Store and Google Play

Apple Watch and Pixel Watch

The next twelve hours on your wrist. Turn the crown and the hours follow, with the same light tick as under your thumb. The watch takes your place from your phone and fetches its own forecast, so it stays right when the phone is out of reach.

Put the temperature and the next rain on your Apple Watch face, or today's high and low and a tile of the next four hours on your Pixel Watch. It comes with the iPhone and Android apps, at no extra cost.

Always Weather on an Apple Watch: London now, 15 degrees and partly cloudy, “Rain from 13:00, clearing by 16:00.”, and the next twelve hours' bars with the rain under them.
Always Weather on a Pixel Watch: London at 13:00, 17 degrees and rain, 0.2 mm and wind 13 mph, with the hourly bars.

Free

Linux, made on Omarchy

A tile of its own on Hyprland, the same sweep through the hours, two columns when the tile is wide, and your Omarchy theme's light or dark. A line in Omarchy's bar shows the hour's weather, and a click opens the app. For Arch systems on Intel and AMD.

Install it with one command; pacman adds Java 21 if it isn't there:

curl -LO https://github.com/xternal/guzh.uk/releases/download/always-weather-linux-1.0.4/always-weather-bin-1.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst && sudo pacman -U always-weather-bin-1.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Always Weather on Linux, in Omarchy, in Sky: London at 16:00, 14 degrees and rain, “Rain until 18:00, then dry.” and the hourly bars on the left, and What to wear, sunrise and sunset and the 10-day forecast on the right. Omarchy's bar along the top shows the same hour: 14° Rain.

What you get

10 days
ahead, and today hour by hour with feels-like, wind and rain
10 places
saved, plus wherever you happen to be standing
Once
£3.99 on the App Store, £3.59 on Google Play and the Microsoft Store in the UK, free on Linux, with no subscription and no in-app purchases
Zero
ads, accounts and trackers, by design rather than by promise
01 Two looks

The same forecast, shown your way

Sky takes the colour of the weather at the hour you choose, so the screen itself tells you what the day is doing. Paper is warm and typographic: just the words and the numbers. Pick one when you first open the app, switch any time in Settings.

02 Made for everyone

One thumb, or none at all

Works with TalkBack: swipe up or down to move through the hours, and each hour is read out in full. Text stays high in contrast, and the layout holds together at twice the normal font size.

03 Private by design

It knows the weather, not you

  • Your location is rounded to about a kilometre before it leaves your phone
  • No account, no ads, no analytics and nothing to sign up for
  • Saved places and settings stay on your phone
  • Anonymous crash reports on Android, which you can turn off in Settings

Read the privacy policy

Questions

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.
Something not right, or an idea?
Write to apps@guzh.uk, see help and contact, or suggest an idea without an account. Every message is read by the person who makes the app.

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