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Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar is #32 in Weather Grossing in Australia and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperHigher Bar, LLC
CategoryWeather
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.5 (2.8k)
Version11.9
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar update history & changes
Last change · 53 events since 17 Dec 2015Full timeline ↓✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots⭐Passed 100 ratings📦Updated to version 11.9⭐Passed 1K ratings📈Charting in a new country📦Updated to version 11.8.1📈Entered the top 100🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 53 events
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· AU
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· AU
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · AU
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· CA
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· CA
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · CA
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· FR
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· FR
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · FR
- 📦Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar updated to version 11.9• iPhone Duo, open: two columns split evenly on the fold, with more of your background in view
• iPhone Duo, half-folded like a book: the columns part to clear the crease
• iPhone Duo, half-folded upright: Weather Details above the fold, today and the days below
• iPhone Duo, closed and stood on its side: a desk glance with the time, weather and coming hours
• iPhone Duo: tap a day to see it in Weather Details beside your forecast
• Locations on iPhone Duo and iPad is a gallery of your places, each with its scene and local time
• Locations gallery: search, set Home, rename, and hold a card to rearrange
• On iPad, Settings uses two columns and the compare screens show current numbers beside the charts
• Settings has its own button in the bar on iPhone Duo and iPad
• Upcoming Travel: add trips by hand, with no calendar access needed
• Add as Trip in location search and the Locations gallery, and your trips sync across devices
• Hourly charts can show up to three data points at once, each with its own color and scale
• New Next Rain widget: when rain or snow is next, even days out
• Next Rain on the Lock Screen and as an Apple Watch complication
• Two new Apple Watch corners: Big Temperature, and Big Temperature + Range
• Radar widget: Metro and City zoom levels, and an optional wind arrow
• Smooth Radar is now the only radar, and the mini radar uses it too
• Radar fills the gap between the newest scan and the forecast with a seamless nowcast
• 18 Hour radar plays its past from live scans, so the picture no longer jumps at Now
• Dragging the radar timeline glides smoothly through time
• Radar Layers and Radar Overlays show every option as a picture
• Every map layer plays smoothly, gliding from frame to frame
• Temperature, Feels Like, Dew Point and Wind use new high-resolution forecast maps
• Outside the US, those maps use the best forecast model for your region
• Wind shows animated flow lines, and winds aloft from 5,000 to 34,000 ft
• Precip Type is now Smooth Radar, colored by rain, snow, ice and freezing rain
• Precipitation 24 Hour and Snow 24 Hour show observed totals, plus totals up to three days ahead
• Wildfire Smoke plays hour by hour, 12 hours back to 18 hours ahead
• Temperature Change shows the last 24 hours as blue (colder) and red (warmer)
• U.S. Satellite shows our own GOES imagery, with clouds that drift smoothly and a Storm Tops style
• Radar opens straight onto your Default Layer, even when it isn't Radar
• View on Map in Details opens the radar on that measurement's layer
• The UV map layer is retired; the UV forecast stays in Details
• New Pressure Units setting: Automatic, inHg, or hPa / mb, separate from your units
• Pressure reads hPa for every non-US units setting, where Metric and Canada said mb
• Your Home location, chart choices, and wind and pressure units carry over to your other devices
• Visualize Day plays at 0.5×, 1×, 2× or 4×, or Auto, which lingers on sunrise and sunset
• The animated sky, map layers and radar timeline use much less power, so your phone stays cooler
• Time Machine shows your chosen weather icon set
• Alert details always finish loading, and an alert's text appears right away
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new… more - ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· US
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · US
- 📈Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar charting in a new countryBrazil
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· CA, AU
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · CA, AU
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· JP
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · JP
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: renamedForecast Bar - Weather + Radar → Forecast Bar - 天気 + レーダー · JP
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· FR
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · FR
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· IT
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · IT
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· GB
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · GB
- 📦Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar updated to version 11.8.1• Radar Views: Storm, Rain & Flood, Winter, Tropical, Travel and Clean set every layer in one tap
• Save your own Radar Views from the chip row atop the Overlays sheet
• Radar Slow motion: pause, then replay the half hour around it slowly, frame by frame
• Radar storms glide between frames instead of fading in and out
• Two-minute scans fill Slow motion, scrubbing and the newest frames; Radar settings turns them off
• Radar pauses briefly on the newest scan before looping
• The radar opens on the first forecast frame, and the timeline glides during playback
• Sharper zoomed-in radar and a smoother color scale
• Smooth Radar plays evenly across scans and keeps playing after a double-tap zoom
• Radar Overlays: tinted switches, blue layer symbols while on, and a note under each layer
• Radar warnings are a count chip beside Legend that opens the list upward
• The radar's five-hour weather strip starts off; turn on Show Weather Overlay in Radar settings
• Radar timeline labels and map credits no longer crowd each other, even with large text
• The Radar widget shows European and Australian radar outside the US
• Forecast Discussion: a new reader with section pills, key messages, and watch and warning rows
• Forecast Discussion Icon (Forecasts ▸ Week Ahead) adds a shortcut to the Week Ahead card
• iPad and the open iPhone Duo keep current conditions pinned beside Daily, Details or Live Radar
• Split View: swap sides, drag the divider, and pick layouts in Settings ▸ Split View
• City Packs lead Theme & Visual Style: watch a day in your city, see its pack and request a city
• Long-press the City Packs scene card to preview that pack's scenes
• Pollen Count: types listed worst-first, each with its own artwork, level meter and tree species
• Air Quality: the reading and its category lead, with a 24-hour forecast and pollutant pills
• Sunrise & Sunset: the sun moves along a glowing arc, dotted for the rest of the day
• Sunrise & Sunset on the Lock Screen now matches the gauges beside it
• Apple Watch: the Trio complication with a header spreads its gauges across the full width
• The hourly chart crossfades between data points with different scales
• The 4 and 5 Day Forecast widgets show each day's chance of precipitation
• The forecast stays on screen while it refreshes, and a failed load recovers on its own
• ProMotion iPhones and iPads run the animated sky and Visualize Day at up to 120 frames per second
• The animated sky uses less power and rests after 10 minutes without a touch or while covered
• Widgets and Apple Watch complications do less repeated work on each refresh
• Fixes rare crashes in current conditions, the temperature gauge and the settings forecast preview
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new… more - ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· IT
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new iPad screenshots· IT
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · IT
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: renamedForecast Bar - Weather + Radar → Forecast Bar - Meteo + Radar · IT
- 📈Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar entered the top 100Top Grossing · Weather · FR
- 📈Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar charting in a new countryFrance
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar added 12 languages+ DE + ES + FR + IT + JA + KO + NL + PL + PT + SV + ZH + ZH
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: app got bigger243 MB → 305 MB (+25%)
- 📦Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar updated to version 11.8Clearer language settings.
• App Language and Forecast Language each open their own list, showing every language's native name; the forecast list has search.
• Forecast Language follows App Language by default, unless you choose a different language.
• Changing App Language preserves your chosen forecast language.
• Changing App Language updates the app, widgets and Apple Watch right away, without reopening Forecast Bar.
• Language names use consistent casing and include readable and native names.
Forecast Bar in twelve more languages
• Forecast Bar adds 12 languages on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Dates, times, and weather readings use natural formatting in the new languages.
• Sunrise and sunset widgets on iPhone use full event names for screen readers.
• Notifications use your app-language choice.
• Apple Watch follows the language selected on your phone.
• Report a translation issue in Settings opens an email draft with language details.
Share your city's microclimates
• Microclimate Explorer (Gold) shares your city's warm and cool areas, their gap, and a two-day trend.
Weather Station
• Your own station sets conditions and tunes forecasts; followed stations show reference readings.
• This Is My Station in station details selects which followed station is yours.
Search Settings
• Search Settings finds settings by name or what they do.
• Choosing a search result opens its screen and scrolls to the setting.
Rain gauges and nearby observations
• Rain Gauges on the radar (Gold) show volunteer CoCoRaHS rain totals for the last 24 hours.
• For past days in the U.S., Time Machine (Gold) compares a nearby station's observed high, low and rain with its normal, and adds the closest rain gauge.
Upcoming Travel
• Upcoming Travel shows the forecast for trips on your calendar, next to the compare card.
• Upcoming Travel settings live in Compare & Home, and Settings search finds them.
Icon styles and regional backgrounds
• Five new matched icon styles for weather and data lead the icon list. Sculpted Matte is the new default, including for anyone on the previous default.
• Backgrounds match your forecast location's landscape by default. Picking a scene in Settings keeps it.
• Coast, Woodlands, Uplands and Drylands are also backgrounds you can pick, right after Open Country.
• Tapping sunrise or sunset quality opens the full quality screen in your language, like on Mac and Apple TV.
Everything else
• Test Notifications, at the end of Settings › Notifications, checks your setup and sends a test notification to this device.
• Notifications keep arriving after iOS renews the app's push registration, without a manual refresh.
• Home stays in your saved locations after you reorder them.
• Apple Watch shows the right place name after you travel.
• Storm Intercept shows it's on only once the setting is saved, and tells you if saving fails.
• Widgets recognize your subscription without opening the app first.
• The 6-hour precipitation chart follows the 24-Hour Clock setting.
• When a tracked storm is a minute or less away, the Storm Tracker card reads "Arriving now" on one line.
• Settings › Siri Shortcuts no longer shows a Siri tip with a placeholder in place of a data point.
• The Apple Watch layout previews in Settings no longer cut off the message shown before the weather has loaded.
• Stars fade gradually as clouds move in at night.
• In Visualize Day, the sun sets behind the photo's skyline instead of fading in mid-air.
• Apple Watch complications fade out long text instead of ending in an ellipsis.
• Fixes for crashes in Settings › Data & Layout, Smart Weather Stories, the iPad locations list and Apple Watch.
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new… more - 📈Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar entered the top 100Top Grossing · Weather · AU
- 📈Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar charting in a new countryAustralia
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· US
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 9) · US
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: description updated· CA
- ✏️Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 9) · CA
- 📦Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar updated to version 11.7Your own weather station
• Weather Station (Gold) shows current conditions from a nearby personal station, or your own. Tune My Forecast learns how your station's spot runs, so the coming hours and daily highs and lows fit where you actually live, in the app, widgets and on Apple Watch.
• Tune for My Neighborhood shifts forecasts by how your part of town usually runs, Apple Weather included, and Station vs. Forecast shows day by day whether tuning helps.
• Explore Your City's Microclimates: a live map of every station around you, a two-day replay, and your area's typical day.
A sky that matches the real weather
• The realistic background follows the real sky: cloud layers, rain and snow by type and rate, rainbows, sun halos, fog, haze and smoke.
• Clear nights show real stars, planets and the Milky Way, with meteor showers and auroras, turned toward the best view. The moon shows its real surface.
• Sky, sun and clouds sit behind the hills, trees and buildings in your photo, in Visualize Day too, and wind-blown rain and snow fill the whole screen.
• A Visualize Day widget in four sizes shows the scene for this hour. Tap it to watch the day unfold, or show just the current conditions.
Hurricane tracking (Gold)
• Each storm's forecast cone, track and forecast points on the radar, with coastal watches and warnings and NHC's 7-day outlook for where storms may form. Tap a storm for its winds, pressure and movement.
• A card on the main screen, and optional Hurricane Cone Alerts, when your location falls in a storm's cone. Storm Surge and Extreme Wind Warnings can break through Do Not Disturb.
Apple Watch, redesigned
• A new main screen with a sky that matches the weather, a range bar for today, an hourly strip in three styles, a Week Ahead list and data tiles you choose. Arrange every section from your iPhone, where Watch Layout shows your real watch screen as you go.
• New day, hour, Sun & Moon and Wind screens, a Pollen tile, 6-hour precipitation by type and Apple Weather's minute-by-minute rain for the next hour.
• Interactive charts you scrub hour by hour with the Digital Crown, a week out: temperature, rain chance, wind, UV, humidity, pressure, heat index, wind chill and more.
• Weather alerts appear as a card above current conditions. Complications show highs in red and lows in blue, follow tinted faces and fit smaller watches.
Everything else
• Show Overnight Lows, in Data & Layout, gives each day the low of the night that follows it.
• Radar starts playing sooner and uses far less data while it loops.
• Smart Weather Stories load faster, open each day with what sets it apart, and work late at night. Quick stories are shorter.
• Life-threatening warnings can't be hidden, alert mute settings say what they can't silence, and AMBER and Blue Alerts no longer appear.
• A Sunrise & Sunset Lock Screen widget, and the temperature curve setting is now a picker that draws both timelines.
• Rain and storm Live Activities stay readable in the Dynamic Island beside a call or another app's activity.
• Siri and Shortcuts read cleaner forecast sentences, and widgets keep the right hours in half-hour time zones such as India.
• Settings has a Rate Forecast Bar row, and after an unexpected close you can send a quick bug report.
• Smart and Single Location widgets keep their usual layout when rain is past the hours they show, and backgrounds fall back to a built-in scene when a chosen city pack is gone.
• The Current Weather widget's summary moves on with each hour, and on iPad its tall size adds today's written forecast.
• Lightning haptics stop after three taps per storm, then rest for half an hour.
• Hourly graph hour labels show in full instead of "…".
• Widgets say "until" the hour the next condition starts, not an hour later.
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new… more - 🆕Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar first spotted by AppInsider#78 in Top Grossing · Weather · Canada
- 📦Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar version 11.6.1No release notes
- 🆕Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.5 ★
2.8k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#32
Weather GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
11
▲ +59% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar on the App Store
App details
App ID
1057030968
Publisher
Higher Bar, LLC
On the store since
Dec 2015
10 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.1+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
13
NL EN FR DE IT JA KO PL PT ZH ES SV …
Size
311 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | WeatherGrossing | #32 |
| Canada | WeatherFree | #173 |
 Saudi Arabia | WeatherFree | #180 |
Apps near Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #32.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
2.8k ratings
Measured
Ratings
2.8k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
11
▲ +59% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
81/100
faster than 88% of Weather apps
New ratings by country (2)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 9 | 90% | ▲ +24% |
 United Kingdom | 1 | 10% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar
*** Featured by Apple, Lifehacker, Macworld and Cult of Mac! ***
Forecast Bar offers hyper accurate, hyper local live weather and forecasts right at your fingertips, and is customizable to fit your needs. With 17 Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including Next Rain and a multi-city widget to see weather in up to 4 locations at once.
Forecast Bar includes a beautiful and powerful Apple Watch App with 100+ customizable complications, including hourly and daily visual forecasts, Graphs to visualize several different data points, or a Custom Modular with 3 customizable lines. The Watch app is fully customizable, with 3 custom data points and a customizable hourly data point. Customize your backgrounds with your own images, and set the font and font size.
== Made for iPhone Duo and iPad ==
Forecast Bar fits every way you hold iPhone Duo: two columns when it's open, Weather Details above the fold when it's half-folded, and a desk glance when it's closed and stood on its side. On iPhone Duo and iPad, Locations is a gallery of your places.
== Smooth Radar and New Forecast Maps ==
Track storms on Smooth Radar with live lightning strikes, aurora forecasts and marine warnings, and a seamless nowcast into the forecast. New high-resolution maps cover temperature, dew point and wind, with animated flow lines and winds aloft. Watch precipitation approach in real time right from your Lock Screen with our Live Activity: see exactly when rain starts and ends without opening the app.
Smart Weather Stories transforms forecasts into personalized AI summaries. Connect your calendar to get advice tailored to your plans: "Light rain during your 2pm meeting—bring an umbrella."
Never miss a stunning sky with aurora visibility alerts, eclipse notifications, and Beautiful Sunset alerts.
== Built Different ==
Crafted by a 2-person team over a decade. Trusted daily by users who call it "the most accurate weather app" they've used.
== Stay Informed with Push Notifications ==
- Personalized daily weather reports for any location, at any time you wish
- Push notifications for severe weather alerts in the United States
- Precipitation alerts sent reliably from our servers (Gold only)
- Custom notifications and alerts! You can configure 14 different data points to look out for what matters to you. For example, get notified in the morning when wind during the day will rise above a certain speed, or if temperatures overnight will drop below freezing. (Gold only)
- Beautiful Sunset alerts for when a stunning sunset (or sunrise!) is on its way. (Gold only)
- Get notified when earthquakes hit near you! (Gold only)
== Weather at a glance, or in depth ==
- Quickly check the current conditions or forecast for 14 days at a glance, including a succinct summary
- Tap on any day's forecast to see an hour-by-hour breakdown
- Gorgeous animated weather backgrounds
- Apple Weather provided minute-by-minute rain forecasts
- Tap again to see rich, interactive charts of even more deta
Forecast Bar offers hyper accurate, hyper local live weather and forecasts right at your fingertips, and is customizable to fit your needs. With 17 Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including Next Rain and a multi-city widget to see weather in up to 4 locations at once.
Forecast Bar includes a beautiful and powerful Apple Watch App with 100+ customizable complications, including hourly and daily visual forecasts, Graphs to visualize several different data points, or a Custom Modular with 3 customizable lines. The Watch app is fully customizable, with 3 custom data points and a customizable hourly data point. Customize your backgrounds with your own images, and set the font and font size.
== Made for iPhone Duo and iPad ==
Forecast Bar fits every way you hold iPhone Duo: two columns when it's open, Weather Details above the fold when it's half-folded, and a desk glance when it's closed and stood on its side. On iPhone Duo and iPad, Locations is a gallery of your places.
== Smooth Radar and New Forecast Maps ==
Track storms on Smooth Radar with live lightning strikes, aurora forecasts and marine warnings, and a seamless nowcast into the forecast. New high-resolution maps cover temperature, dew point and wind, with animated flow lines and winds aloft. Watch precipitation approach in real time right from your Lock Screen with our Live Activity: see exactly when rain starts and ends without opening the app.
Smart Weather Stories transforms forecasts into personalized AI summaries. Connect your calendar to get advice tailored to your plans: "Light rain during your 2pm meeting—bring an umbrella."
Never miss a stunning sky with aurora visibility alerts, eclipse notifications, and Beautiful Sunset alerts.
== Built Different ==
Crafted by a 2-person team over a decade. Trusted daily by users who call it "the most accurate weather app" they've used.
== Stay Informed with Push Notifications ==
- Personalized daily weather reports for any location, at any time you wish
- Push notifications for severe weather alerts in the United States
- Precipitation alerts sent reliably from our servers (Gold only)
- Custom notifications and alerts! You can configure 14 different data points to look out for what matters to you. For example, get notified in the morning when wind during the day will rise above a certain speed, or if temperatures overnight will drop below freezing. (Gold only)
- Beautiful Sunset alerts for when a stunning sunset (or sunrise!) is on its way. (Gold only)
- Get notified when earthquakes hit near you! (Gold only)
== Weather at a glance, or in depth ==
- Quickly check the current conditions or forecast for 14 days at a glance, including a succinct summary
- Tap on any day's forecast to see an hour-by-hour breakdown
- Gorgeous animated weather backgrounds
- Apple Weather provided minute-by-minute rain forecasts
- Tap again to see rich, interactive charts of even more deta
Latest updates
11.9
• iPhone Duo, open: two columns split evenly on the fold, with more of your background in view
• iPhone Duo, half-folded like a book: the columns part to clear the crease
• iPhone Duo, half-folded upright: Weather Details above the fold, today and the days below
• iPhone Duo, closed and stood on its side: a desk glance with the time, weather and coming hours
• iPhone Duo: tap a day to see it in Weather Details beside your forecast
• Locations on iPhone Duo and iPad is a gallery of your places, each with its scene and local time
• Locations gallery: search, set Home, rename, and hold a card to rearrange
• On iPad, Settings uses two columns and the compare screens show current numbers beside the charts
• Settings has its own button in the bar on iPhone Duo and iPad
• Upcoming Travel: add trips by hand, with no calendar access needed
• Add as Trip in location search and the Locations gallery, and your trips sync across devices
• Hourly charts can show up to three data points at once, each with its own color and scale
• New Next Rain widget: when rain or snow is next, even days out
• Next Rain on the Lock Screen and as an Apple Watch complication
• Two new Apple Watch corners: Big Temperature, and Big Temperature + Range
• Radar widget: Metro and City zoom levels, and an optional wind arrow
• Smooth Radar is now the only radar, and the mini radar uses it too
• Radar fills the gap between the newest scan and the forecast with a seamless nowcast
• 18 Hour radar plays its past from live scans, so the picture no longer jumps at Now
• Dragging the radar timeline glides smoothly through time
• Radar Layers and Radar Overlays show every option as a picture
• Every map layer plays smoothly, gliding from frame to frame
• Temperature, Feels Like, Dew Point and Wind use new high-resolution forecast maps
• Outside the US, those maps use the best forecast model for your region
• Wind shows animated flow lines, and winds aloft from 5,000 to 34,000 ft
• Precip Type is now Smooth Radar, colored by rain, snow, ice and freezing rain
• Precipitation 24 Hour and Snow 24 Hour show observed totals, plus totals up to three days ahead
• Wildfire Smoke plays hour by hour, 12 hours back to 18 hours ahead
• Temperature Change shows the last 24 hours as blue (colder) and red (warmer)
• U.S. Satellite shows our own GOES imagery, with clouds that drift smoothly and a Storm Tops style
• Radar opens straight onto your Default Layer, even when it isn't Radar
• View on Map in Details opens the radar on that measurement's layer
• The UV map layer is retired; the UV forecast stays in Details
• New Pressure Units setting: Automatic, inHg, or hPa / mb, separate from your units
• Pressure reads hPa for every non-US units setting, where Metric and Canada said mb
• Your Home location, chart choices, and wind and pressure units carry over to your other devices
• Visualize Day plays at 0.5×, 1×, 2× or 4×, or Auto, which lingers on sunrise and sunset
• The animated sky, map layers and radar timeline use much less power, so your phone stays cooler
• Time Machine shows your chosen weather icon set
• Alert details always finish loading, and an alert's text appears right away
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new
11.8.1
• Radar Views: Storm, Rain & Flood, Winter, Tropical, Travel and Clean set every layer in one tap
• Save your own Radar Views from the chip row atop the Overlays sheet
• Radar Slow motion: pause, then replay the half hour around it slowly, frame by frame
• Radar storms glide between frames instead of fading in and out
• Two-minute scans fill Slow motion, scrubbing and the newest frames; Radar settings turns them off
• Radar pauses briefly on the newest scan before looping
• The radar opens on the first forecast frame, and the timeline glides during playback
• Sharper zoomed-in radar and a smoother color scale
• Smooth Radar plays evenly across scans and keeps playing after a double-tap zoom
• Radar Overlays: tinted switches, blue layer symbols while on, and a note under each layer
• Radar warnings are a count chip beside Legend that opens the list upward
• The radar's five-hour weather strip starts off; turn on Show Weather Overlay in Radar settings
• Radar timeline labels and map credits no longer crowd each other, even with large text
• The Radar widget shows European and Australian radar outside the US
• Forecast Discussion: a new reader with section pills, key messages, and watch and warning rows
• Forecast Discussion Icon (Forecasts ▸ Week Ahead) adds a shortcut to the Week Ahead card
• iPad and the open iPhone Duo keep current conditions pinned beside Daily, Details or Live Radar
• Split View: swap sides, drag the divider, and pick layouts in Settings ▸ Split View
• City Packs lead Theme & Visual Style: watch a day in your city, see its pack and request a city
• Long-press the City Packs scene card to preview that pack's scenes
• Pollen Count: types listed worst-first, each with its own artwork, level meter and tree species
• Air Quality: the reading and its category lead, with a 24-hour forecast and pollutant pills
• Sunrise & Sunset: the sun moves along a glowing arc, dotted for the rest of the day
• Sunrise & Sunset on the Lock Screen now matches the gauges beside it
• Apple Watch: the Trio complication with a header spreads its gauges across the full width
• The hourly chart crossfades between data points with different scales
• The 4 and 5 Day Forecast widgets show each day's chance of precipitation
• The forecast stays on screen while it refreshes, and a failed load recovers on its own
• ProMotion iPhones and iPads run the animated sky and Visualize Day at up to 120 frames per second
• The animated sky uses less power and rests after 10 minutes without a touch or while covered
• Widgets and Apple Watch complications do less repeated work on each refresh
• Fixes rare crashes in current conditions, the temperature gauge and the settings forecast preview
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new
11.8
Clearer language settings.
• App Language and Forecast Language each open their own list, showing every language's native name; the forecast list has search.
• Forecast Language follows App Language by default, unless you choose a different language.
• Changing App Language preserves your chosen forecast language.
• Changing App Language updates the app, widgets and Apple Watch right away, without reopening Forecast Bar.
• Language names use consistent casing and include readable and native names.
Forecast Bar in twelve more languages
• Forecast Bar adds 12 languages on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Dates, times, and weather readings use natural formatting in the new languages.
• Sunrise and sunset widgets on iPhone use full event names for screen readers.
• Notifications use your app-language choice.
• Apple Watch follows the language selected on your phone.
• Report a translation issue in Settings opens an email draft with language details.
Share your city's microclimates
• Microclimate Explorer (Gold) shares your city's warm and cool areas, their gap, and a two-day trend.
Weather Station
• Your own station sets conditions and tunes forecasts; followed stations show reference readings.
• This Is My Station in station details selects which followed station is yours.
Search Settings
• Search Settings finds settings by name or what they do.
• Choosing a search result opens its screen and scrolls to the setting.
Rain gauges and nearby observations
• Rain Gauges on the radar (Gold) show volunteer CoCoRaHS rain totals for the last 24 hours.
• For past days in the U.S., Time Machine (Gold) compares a nearby station's observed high, low and rain with its normal, and adds the closest rain gauge.
Upcoming Travel
• Upcoming Travel shows the forecast for trips on your calendar, next to the compare card.
• Upcoming Travel settings live in Compare & Home, and Settings search finds them.
Icon styles and regional backgrounds
• Five new matched icon styles for weather and data lead the icon list. Sculpted Matte is the new default, including for anyone on the previous default.
• Backgrounds match your forecast location's landscape by default. Picking a scene in Settings keeps it.
• Coast, Woodlands, Uplands and Drylands are also backgrounds you can pick, right after Open Country.
• Tapping sunrise or sunset quality opens the full quality screen in your language, like on Mac and Apple TV.
Everything else
• Test Notifications, at the end of Settings › Notifications, checks your setup and sends a test notification to this device.
• Notifications keep arriving after iOS renews the app's push registration, without a manual refresh.
• Home stays in your saved locations after you reorder them.
• Apple Watch shows the right place name after you travel.
• Storm Intercept shows it's on only once the setting is saved, and tells you if saving fails.
• Widgets recognize your subscription without opening the app first.
• The 6-hour precipitation chart follows the 24-Hour Clock setting.
• When a tracked storm is a minute or less away, the Storm Tracker card reads "Arriving now" on one line.
• Settings › Siri Shortcuts no longer shows a Siri tip with a placeholder in place of a data point.
• The Apple Watch layout previews in Settings no longer cut off the message shown before the weather has loaded.
• Stars fade gradually as clouds move in at night.
• In Visualize Day, the sun sets behind the photo's skyline instead of fading in mid-air.
• Apple Watch complications fade out long text instead of ending in an ellipsis.
• Fixes for crashes in Settings › Data & Layout, Smart Weather Stories, the iPad locations list and Apple Watch.
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new
Store changes
What Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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New iPad screenshots
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