Forecast+ | Weather & Forecast Widget app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 4784 ratings )
Weather Lifestyle
Developer: Avanio Labs
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.0.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 17 Sep 2014
App size: 1.58 Mb

Forget about the boring weather summary in your notification center!

Meet Forecast+, an elegant weather and forecast widget for iOS 8. It shows the current weather and 5-day forecast with a minimal design.

FEATURES

● Support auto detect location / manually search for a location
● Show current temperature
● Show localized weather description
● Show maximum and minimum temperature
● Show humidity
● 5-day weather forecast
● Support compact view (minimal)
● Show/hide forecast with single tap

SETTINGS

● Location (Auto/Manual)
● Compact view
● Temperature scale
● Weather description language

Note: Forecast+ provides all main functionality in the widget only. Its app is only for widget settings.

Weather data provided by Forecast.

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Pros and cons of Forecast+ | Weather & Forecast Widget app for iPhone and iPad

Forecast+ | Weather & Forecast Widget app good for

This is literally the only weather app on the App Store worth anything. Simple and concise information, and very well designed.
Love the widget. Perfect implementation of the new feature. It could use some added info like multiple locations, current location, or hourly forecast. But other than that fantastic!!!
Beautiful widget. Really wish it was location based. If that is possible and implemented this will be a 5 star perfect widget! Good job peeps!
Other than not syncing with your current location, this app is perfect. Fits with the notification bar seamlessly. Clean.
Im excited to use this widget--its what ios weather should look like! But in my area we really need to know the feels like temperature. Hope this feature can be added soon--maybe an option to show feels like instead of humidity? Thanks!
Great widget, Ill give you 5 stars as soon as you create a possibility to display the forecast for the rest of the day.

Some bad moments

At first glance, this little app - which does only one task: show the current weather and five-day forecast in Notification Center - struck me as way cool. To display just the current weather, it uses only a wee bit of space. You can tap to take a quick look at a five-day forecast, then tap to close it. So far, so good. However: the current temperature is almost always wrong, often off by several degrees. The forecast high for the day, displayed at the right of the current weather line, is almost always identical to the CURRENT temp, and is wildly different from the ACTUAL forecast high. Further, the forecast high on the current weather line almost never agrees with the forecast high for the day in the five-day forecast weather line. SO, there seems to be two errors happening here. First: wherever this app pulls its temp information from: the source service is wildly inaccurate. Second: information in the app itself is contradictory - as evidenced in two completely different points of info about the current day forecast high. Ive triple-checked the location that I added to this app, and it is correct. Even if it was wrong: it wouldnt explain the presence of conflicting information for forecast high for the current day. I could have forgiven the developer for this, hoping it was just birthing pains -- but: they have been ignoring their users on Twitter for the past 6 days; and two very polite emails reporting the problems to them have not had the courtesy of a reply. Most legit developers at least have auto-replies in place, which they can use to inform the recipient how long it would take to receive a substantive reply; this developer hasnt bothered to do that. I work for an app developer providing customer support; I do not write bad reviews lightly; but I felt I had to warn other users about the errors in this app, AND the complete absence of customer support. Its not an expensive app, but why spend even $0.99 on an unsupported, inaccurate piece of junk?
Updated: -temperature update is slow. -accuracy is another issue here. The current, high & low temperatures are completely wrong. Maybe you should update your weather data source. Whats good is it in the widget give you wrong data !!! Great little widget. So much better than Apple default app. Please add the following: 1. Feel like temperature. I believe you do have space in the middle. 2. Customize how often the widget update the temperature. Ex: every 3 hrs
App hasnt refreshed in 30 minutes. Temperature is off by 7 degrees Celsius. No hourly forecast. Uninstalled. Not worth the purchase.
Looks great but weather is wrong... No point of having a weather app that doesnt show you the right weather for your region. Also, avaniolabs doesnt care to answer peoples questions on Twitter.
Just flat out stopped working. The section in the notification area for this app now sits blank. Wasted my money on this? The whole bundle (3 apps) is terrible.
Do not get this app. Its constantly wrong. Sure it looks nice, but if it does not complete its primary function, then theres no point in getting it.