Mercury Weather Reviews

by Marinegundoc

Found this on the Dev spotlight in App Store along with Orbit. Their Orbit app looks useful, but Mercury weather app seems to be an unfinished product. At least there's a free verstion, but I really don't see the point of a $15/year paid version when there are no forecasts, no weather map, no weather radar, and no severe weather alerts. Some reviews said they still have to the stock weather app because they need alerts and radar, but why bother with Mercury even if (what little of it there is) looks polished and shiny.
This is no doubt a good weather app for anyone needing the very basics of weather information.
Devs, if I'm wrong correct me and I'll relook at anything I've missed, but MercuryWeather so far misses the mark for me.

by 305Heavy

How can you charge for a weather app and not give access to radar?

by Digitizedsociety

The ability for it to intelligently source weather data from different sources is a great idea, but Apple weather data is the only data used for my location by MercuryWeather .

Overall I like mercury, but find myself wanting to change the hourly forecast chart so I can see things like precipitation or wind which are things I can do with a few taps with the apple weather app.

by BwoahMwoah

I wanted to give a small, young indie team a shot, but I ended up disappointed.

MercuryWeather tries really hard to be a new Weatherline (RIP), but it does it poorly:
It’s more chaotic and less readable. It doesn’t offer any customization which results in scrolling and scrolling and scrolling - a poor use of screen space.
It’s got a very in your face design, which is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea (I’m not a fan), so the lack of themes or any adjustability hurts Mercury a lot.

Also, the price. It costs just slightly less than Carrot, but it doesn’t offer any additional data sources. If you’re relying only on WeatherKit, you should price your product accordingly. But really, you should just offer more providers.

It definitely takes guts to take on the already good stock weather app and phenomenal Carrot. I respect that.

Having said that, I don’t think Mercury will be successful. It’s just too far behind and I don’t think it will ever be able to catch up.
As a huge fan of Shark Tank and an *anonymous* AppStore reviewer I can’t help myself: you should take MercuryWeather behind a barn, shoot it and then burn it.

I can see you’re talented devs, but I doubt this weather app is the best use of your talent.

by AdamK7890

I wanted to give a small, young indie team a shot, but I ended up disappointed.

MercuryWeather tries really hard to be a new Weatherline (RIP), but it does it poorly:
It’s more chaotic and less readable. It doesn’t offer any customization which results in scrolling and scrolling and scrolling - a poor use of screen space.
It’s got a very in your face design, which is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea (I’m not a fan), so the lack of themes or any adjustability hurts Mercury a lot.

Also, the price. It costs just slightly less than Carrot, but it doesn’t offer any additional data sources. If you’re relying only on WeatherKit, you should price your product accordingly. But really, you should just offer more providers.

It definitely takes guts to take on the already good stock weather app and phenomenal Carrot. I respect that.

Having said that, I don’t think Mercury will be successful. It’s just too far behind and I don’t think it will ever be able to catch up.
As a huge fan of Shark Tank and an *anonymous* AppStore reviewer I can’t help myself: you should take MercuryWeather behind a barn, shoot it and then burn it.

I can see you’re talented devs, but I doubt this weather app is the best use of your talent.

by Jsnsjsksms

Doesn’t update very frequently on my lock screen widget. Have to manually open up MercuryWeather for it to update weather. Most apps update every 15 minutes. I’ve paid very close attention and Mercury doesn’t do this.

by Treevis

I like the design and limited features. The weather items in MercuryWeather are mostly what I use in my other weather app. Overall opinion: lots of attention to detail in the design; less in the functioning of MercuryWeather . I'm using v1.1.4.

Main issues: It's slow to update weather in MercuryWeather and in widgets/complications. App doesn't use background app refresh (not showing in my list). App is now forgetting that I have a subscription and switched all my widgets to demo mode; had to open MercuryWeather settings to verify subscription; then widgets switched back. Watch app's name appears as a variable/key instead of app name in the complications lists (never seen that before). I had to reinstall the watch app for the complications to work. Also, my subscription shows as "Clear" instead of "Mercury"; who is Clear? I'd totally use MercuryWeather if the polish applied to the design was applied to how it functions.

by Giminoshi

Feature no. 2 of the Pro pack is “Remove our slightly annoying banner from your weather overview”? It’s flagrant and also funny, but… idk. Makes me feel weird. Especially when MercuryWeather uses the same data source as the stock weather app.

Also, the comments talk about how beautiful it is, but I find the broken up line graph to be hard to look at. I wish it was a smooth line with the numbers listed at the top of the column or something. Small nitpicks… but we’re comparing a paid app to the free built in weather app (which uses the same exact data)

The trip forecast seems like a nice feature, and I’ve even wanted something like this to exist before, but I only find myself wanting that once or twice a year

by Yoshjosh

I bought this on John Gruber’s recommendation and because I, like many others, miss the dearly departed Weather Line app. This one is ok but still very much a work in progress.

The main thing I bought this for was to get a widget on my home screen with a graph showing the weather for the next few days. The widget on MercuryWeather is clunky, only updates once in a long while, and is frequently blank, showing no temperatures or dates. It’s not cutting it.

MercuryWeather itself is…fine. But I expected more.

by Deltaalpha74

I subscribed to MercuryWeather based on a Daring Fireball review. The iOS app is great. I like everything about it. My issue is the the WatchOS implementation is buggy. The complication does not consistently load and the complication picker on the Watch app has a placeholder for MercuryWeather name. There doesn’t seem to be a way to directly interact with the developer so I am writing a review to see how I can get this resolved.

by SoupRKnowva

The visuals here are good and the data presentation. But why they make it impossible to easily switch between cities? You have to be in a sort of pop up pane to see another city rather than the regular view. We should be able to swipe between cities we have saved in the main view like many other weather apps

by Kory108

Love the line design for reading weather, super quick and easy way to get a feel for the upcoming conditions. For a new app there’s lots of potential - though definitely a few things that hopefully will be added soon: radar, humidity widget for the Lock Screen being two.

The only bug I’ve found so far is the current temp for the Apple Watch widget showing in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.

by Francola

Love the beautiful UI and minimal design. One star knocked because I can’t begin to understand the choice of having the search magnifying glass graphic take up so much space at the top. Move it down into the temp graphic field and free up that space to see more of the UI at the bottom of the screen, please. Or for that matter along with the minimal interface, just leave it off completely as the user can already just tap the city name to bring up the location chooser. Or maybe just pull down to access locations being that the pull down to refresh is nonexistent.

by Ramplo

MercuryWeather is just so much nicer to look at than Apple weather! I miss dark sky and don’t need ALL their details, but I would love to see a radar map (and really needy - I’d REALLY love it to have the little cones that show the direction storms are heading and estimate time with the lines…) as someone who spends a lot of time outside for work it’s great to look at a map and say “well, looks like we have at least 20 minutes till this clears. Let’s go kill some time” or “looks like this is a whole line of pop up storms, let’s call it for today”

On a similar note when I’m planning things I’ll say “weather looks good Wednesday” and most people say “oh? My app says rain” yes the little icon shows rain, and it will rain…at 10:30pm. Being able to get that view further out is super helpful.

All in all, for now I’ll take the every day comfort of MercuryWeather and look at Apple weather when I need future details or radar. I’ll just keep crossing my fingers and hoping for a little bit more down the road 🤞🤞

by EddyGeez!

I have a road trip starting in a couple days, so decided to try out the new “trip weather” feature. I added in the cities for the first 6 days of the trip. But the “trip view” screen that lists each city just shows the *current* temperature in each of the cities. I would prefer to at least see the high-low temperature for each day in each city, so it could be used as an easy reference when deciding how to pack. I realize I can tap on the transportation icons above each day on the main screen, but the “trip” screen seems like it could be more useful. I realize this is a new feature, so maybe there’s more to come.

by Jimmy Tee 67

I like that I can have MercuryWeather displayed as widgets showing current weather, hourly weather and 7 day forecast. With but one glance available across multiple devices I can get all the information I need. Weather alerts are detailed and prominently displayed if needed and I love the fact I can have numerous other locations available, again with just a glance.
The price and the lack of radar maps reduced it to a 4 star rating imo, but this is one solid weather app. Despite the price and it being without maps, MercuryWeather was still good enough for me to do the switch and become my full primary weather app. Try it.

by Toromei

The simple and elegant presentation is already good! I’d love to see a slightly more information-dense UI on Apple Watch, especially with the complications, because the screen sizes have been getting larger since Series 4. It’s great to be able to see the next few hours of weather at a glance, and it would be even better to have options for current/high/low temperatures, time of sunset, etc. :)

by Bad_Bandit

MercuryWeather seems well thought out. It is extremely simple and direct, while still providing most of the information I want while looking at a weather app.
The one thing missing is air quality index data. Air quality is increasingly important these days and I can’t fully abandon Apple Weather app without this crucial feature.
The top pane of MercuryWeather features a large current temp display with 3 tappable toggle positions below it (2 at night, since one is UV). These toggles are humidity/dew point, wind/gusts and UV. I really wish I could toggle UV to AQI! This makes sense to have those two share a position, and having one of the items not tappable makes it feel broken. Plus, having the UV position come and go at day/night is more confusing than a simple “-“ there at night.
I hope the devs will include AQI data soon. It would be a big feature boost without adding much app complexity.

by Da Evil 1

Update: The main reason I subscribed to MercuryWeather was because it used open weather as it’s data source which was more accurate than the stock apple weather app. MercuryWeather has been updated to use apple weather so it has the same temperature and forecast as the stock weather app which is inaccurate. I would love to have the option to pick which service MercuryWeather uses.

by Dfabs

I like the clean layout and line graph display of the forecast. In combination with other favorite weather apps Mercury provides an intuitive display and nice widget options. The trip planning forecast is a nice addition—though it would be helpful if the temp display on the main city list showed high & low for the day so you could understand generally what the day was like to help with planning and packing. When a trip approaches within the week the weather for the travel city is spliced into the forecast.

Monthly average temperature graph (premium feature) is very useful. It’s unfortunate that MercuryWeather lacks radar, but the iOS weather app and many others fill in this gap. I think the design could be improved if some of the elements were made more compact, for example, the search/globe icon in the top right takes up a whole line of vertical space in the top of MercuryWeather which essentially leaves a blank bar at the top and pushes the forecast at the bottom below the fold (for standard sized iPhones). That blank space at the top could be filled with glyphs and small widgets to give glanceable weather data for the day. I also think the hourly graph should display the day when it crosses over midnight.

by Iamjeeves

Really nice simplistic app, with some nice features. I would like to see a large widget so that I can use it in my stack. Currently only the small and medium widgets are available. Also, would like to be able to select dark mode for the interface and widgets...that would make it a 5 star rating and my go to weather app.

by EHerron

I love MercuryWeather! It’s UI is stunning and it’s very functional. I look forward to buying a lifetime subscription after a few months. One thing I think it’s missing besides radar and I know the devs already are on this is UV forecast data, I love that it has the data for the moment but it would be cool to see the predicted UV via the hourly view. Also y’all should add air quality

by Kevin Johar

Ingot MercuryWeather for the widgets and nice UI/UX. I only got about half of what I wanted. So the widgets look great BUT for instance I can’t see the daily highs and lows while displaying the current temp. Simple fixes are all this needs to be great. Just copy the data that’s on the OG weather app but use your format and design and it’ll be great!

by Impaler80s

I puchased a lifetime sub for this software. I'm using it regularly on all my devices. I still need the Apple default app for weather notifcations and radar, though. So I'm using both. I may be missing something, but I noticed I'm unable to add trips on the Mac app...only on iOS/iPadOS. Also, would appreciate notificaitons for preciptation or bad weather. All in all, a great start and I appreciate the parity across all my devices. They're clearly Mac users.

by Arkansas Roadtripper

Simple, easy to find info, seems reasonably accurate. No frills, just the most important info. App works well on my 6th gen iPad, but I’m disappointed that my iPhone 7+ iOS, 15.7.8, isn’t adequate to install MercuryWeather. Everything else I load works with my older iOS. Not buying a new phone just to get one app. ☹️

by Kayrenee138

I can be very picky about my weather apps due to living in a place where the heat will be in triple digits in summer and below freezing in winter, so a solid and reliable weather app is extremely important to me. This one is just what I need and the widgets are simple yet very beautiful and informative. Thank you to all that developed this outstanding app.

by B00tang

I’m not sure how MercuryWeather snuck under everyone’s notice. It is beautiful and just appeared out of no where with everything I want. Shouldn’t everyone be talking about it?
I gave it a few days using the free version and it basically had everything I need. I decided to subscribe for a year with the IAP just in hope it keeps this dev afloat.

by Jamesecarpenter

I love the design and the overall style of MercuryWeather. Simple yet elegant. The dev definitely gets 5 stars for overall design and performance. Glad to subscribe and I look forward to future updates.

by River_ee

This is looking to be a nice replacement for the dear departed Weatherline, plus an iPad version too (and Mac soon)! I’d love to see the widgets get a more readable design with less small text and less harsh dark mode. Update: widgets have been improved just how I wanted!

Request: Add the daily weather description that’s on the iPad version to the iPhone app

by Jspooner

I’ve been looking at the Apple weather app for years now, and this has a fresh new look. It has a nice blend of freemium and premium features.

by Ssdev0305

I deleted Apple’s Weather app and exclusively use Mercury. The way the weather is presented makes it super easy to know the forecast at a glance. And with the awesome widgets on my Lock Screen and my Home Screen, I’m always a glance away from all the weather details I need. If you’re considering Mercury, you should totally go for it! It’s beautifully designed and maintained, and you’ll love the experience!

by FM_M

Excellent design, clear presentation of data that turns it into information. About the only thing that I could say really feels “missing“ to me (and that’s a stretch) is that you can only see either real temperature or feels-like temperature; if they added a tap toggle (like they have a humidity/dewpoint and wind/gusts) to give us actual/feels-like, that’d be seriously awesome.

by Rgigger

After apple bought weather line and shut it down I was very distraught. There just wasn't anything that compared. Then at some point I came across Mercury and it's even better. All is well in the world again.

by Bowsertune

Mercury is a really thoughtful weather app! It beats that native Apple Weather at trip planning. Meaning that you can see what the weather is like in your upcoming trip vs where you are leaving from, all in one view. Very cool. However, I would urge these fine developers to consider radar views of incoming precipitation/storms so that I might full replace the Apple Weather app with this. It makes me feel good to support developers that put this much care in their apps.