Weather Mate Pro Reviews

Let me first start off by saying I really like the phone app. Coming from dark sky, it’s nice to finally have a widget. There were a couple reasons I ended up purchasing WeatherMatePro, first off it’s nice to have an app that doesn’t require a monthly subscription and second I was looking for something with multiple watch complications. This brings me to my problem. On WeatherMatePro Store page it shows a beautiful Infograph watch face, with each complication showing a unique weather statistic. However if you try to create the watch face from the watch itself you can only customize a single data point no matter which complication position your are working from so consequently each complication shows the exact same thing. What they want you to do is use the complication center within the actual weather app and then sync it to your watch. The issue here is that the four outside complications must all be the same, and the three inside complications must all be the same. I have sent an email to the developers to see if there is a resolution to this issue, but after more than a month of sending the email, I still have no response. Until the complication issue is resolved, the pictures shown in WeatherMatePro Store are blatant false advertising.

This is an amazing app. That says a lot coming from a weatherman of 40 years! It has some areas in need of improvement, so I can’t give it 5 stars, but it is the best observed weather app I’ve used to date. The radar animation goes back six hours (hurray!) but the time sensitive overlays, like warnings or advisories, are displayed for the entire 6-hour animation even though they were in effect for only 15 minutes of that period. That’s what I find most annoying, but overall, an enjoyable app even from a cynical weatherman like me! Bravo! Update: I’ve been encountering a crash issue lately when it loads up. To solve it, I have to delete WeatherMatePro , then reinstall, and then reconfigure all my lost preferences. That too, is annoying, but it is still an app that I recommend to my friends. Another update: I still experience infrequent crashes (several versions of WeatherMatePro later) that render WeatherMatePro useless and cannot be relaunched. I have to delete WeatherMatePro and reinstall it, then reconfigure my preferences. I can have a lot more patience if I can simply relaunch after a crash, but starting completely over each time is extremely annoying.

It’s not perfect, but it’s an all-around good app. It’s certainly the best-looking weather app I’ve seen, and aesthetics are important to me. The graphics and customization options are great — even my husband commented on how nice it looked when he saw me use it for the first time. I love (the idea of) the temperature app badge and the fact that I can customize WeatherMatePro and widget to show (or not show!) any piece of weather information I want.

The biggest issue I have, and the reason for 4 stars instead of 5, is that even though I have all the permissions in place and the background refresh setting as it should be, it doesn’t always update itself... which means WeatherMatePro badge and the widget are sometimes wrong until I actually open WeatherMatePro and manually refresh it. It’s easy to do, but it defeats the purpose if those 2 extra features. And again, it’s only on occasion and not all the time, but they’re incorrect often enough that I don’t really trust either of them to be accurate... making them pretty useless in a state like Ohio, where yesterday it got up to 73° and today it’ll get down to 30°. If it doesn’t update hourly, it’s probably going to be very wrong!

Just found my new go-to weather app. Was a long time user of the Weather Underground and subsequent Storm apps, but recent changes in the Storm business model has prompted me to go looking for a new app; and, I think I have found it. The amount of information available rivals that of Storm. Weather Mate has a comprehension amount of information available that can be customized to one's particular interests/needs. As a weather geek, I especially appreciate the availability of weather fronts, as well as the centers of circulation (highs and lows). Most weather apps only show radar information on their maps. In my mind, knowing what the fronts look like helps me to not only understand what is driving the local weather that appears on the radar; but, to interpreted what the future weather will be.

Only annoyance I have found so far is with the main screen. The prominent display and location of the clock/day/date is distracting and not warranted. I would rather see the high/low temperature data swapped with the clock data. I am using WeatherMatePro for weather information, not as my watch.

Keep up the good work.

This is the best app if you like to use PWS data so you know exactly where your weather data is coming from AND you are sick of Wunderground, which is almost useless anymore. WeatherMatePro has lots of features and a nice clean interface, beautiful graphics and a nice radar. However there are a few things I don’t like. I find it hard to save my PWS as my default weather station. Sometimes it will show all the others in the surrounding area but not mine even though it is at my location and working fine! But my biggest issue is with weather notifications. Even though I have notifications on for my location and allowed in my iPhone settings I just don’t seem to get them with any regularity. Today for example we had a Winter Weather Advisory at 1323. I didn’t get the notification from WeatherMatePro until 1730!!! 4 hours later! That’s unacceptable, especially for severe weather and is the only reason I keep Wunderground, because their weather notifications are reliable and punctual. I have the paid version of WeatherMatePro and tried to contact customer support. But when I do I get an error that there is no email account associated with my device with no directions on how to do so. Fix these issues and I’ll give WeatherMatePro 5 stars.

Oct. 2020: I had problems with WeatherMatePro in previous iOS versions, but the last few it has done more than the other apps I’ve tried over the years. It plays well with iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. Sometimes updating my watch is laggy but the info available on the watch is robust.
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Prior to Oct. 2020: I love everything about WeatherMatePro on my iPhone and iPad. However, the way notifications work on my watch is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. It took me the better part of a week to find out what the random audible notification I kept getting on my watch with no visible indication what the sound was for. Honestly I don’t know how I determined it was WeatherMatePro, but it is. (When I take it off of one of my complications it goes away-add & the notification come back) I don’t want random audio notifications, and there is not way to turn the audible off. I’ve turned it off on my phone but there’s not an option on the watch to disable sound notifications. Everything else WeatherMatePro does on my watch is exactly what I want a weather app to do. It’s info and data rich and in my area it can be extremely important to have the extra info when the weather changes often and rapidly at times.

**NOTE: This notification problem was not an issue until the most recent app update.

As others have noted, Storm used to be *the* app for weather nerds, balancing radar views with forecast data and practical usability. But then The Weather Channel got its hands on it and all was lost. I must’ve tried two dozen weather apps over the last few months looking for an alternative, and Weather Mate is absolutely the best choice. Top-notch data presented completely and intelligently with a host of options for reordering or culling how it’s displayed. No “cutesy” reinventions that dumb down forecast information to barely useful tidbits or a single obtuse icon like so many apps do. I also like that it’s one of the few apps that displays the full NWS forecast text (if you want it). Finally, it’s also one of the cheapest, with no subscription required. I like that.

My one criticism would be (and why I give it four stars instead of five) there are elements of the user interface that look like they’re straight out of iOS 6. Hard-coded old style buttons and widgets that really should be modernized. It gives WeatherMatePro the appearance of abandonware. But I’m willing to forgive this oversight because everything else about it is so good. Kudos to the developers For keeping the data plentiful and at the forefront of WeatherMatePro ’s purpose.

I didn’t buy this for the phone app. There are plenty of weather apps out there and I didn’t need another one. I paid money for this, specifically for the CUSTOMIZABLE Watch complications! Most weather apps have NO complications at all, and the one or two apps that do, have only one really lame one. WeatherMatePro not only has GREAT complications, but there’s a bunch! One for every corner, circle, bar, and midsection. AND they’re even customizable to display the info you want them to. Many even display more than one thing in the same corner or circle. The middle bars can contain up to 4 or 5 bits of information. The reason I’m only giving 4 stars right now, is because it doesn’t seem updated for the newest Series 7 faces. Many of the new S7 faces are missing, including the Dual Modular. The other reason is because we can’t individualize the 4 corners (or 3 circles) to display different options. If you select “weather mate” for all 4 corners, then all four will display the same thing. If they can change that one feature to allow individualized corners or circles, then I will change my rating to the 5 stars it deserves.

Can’t find my original review to update, so writing a new one. Originally gave it 5 stars, would give it six now after the excellent customer support I got yesterday! Wendy, you are SUPER!

App went down for me yesterday in North Carolina. Would open and then shut down in about 3 secs., both on my iPad and iPhone. Tried hard re-boots and app reinstall to no avail. Filed a support request and had a reply back in about a half hour. Unbelievable! Support person went to work on the problem and found the issue, put in a rev. to Apple and the rev. was released about 4 hours later. Was trying to stay up-to-date on TS Arthur’s track and forecast, so was very happy with getting WeatherMatePro back up.

Weather Mate is my go-to Wx app. Has everything I could want, and does it beautifully. Particularly like being able to turn on ‘fronts’. I’m still old school. They just keep updating with new and useful features every year. It’s like a Swiss Army knife - all the essentials (and then some), and easy to use. Can’t ask for more. Keep up the good work folks!

REALLY happy with WeatherMatePro and the responsiveness of the WeatherMate staff. Dropped a couple of suggestions to customer service a week ago and today, those features are in! I even received an email from Wendy at WeatherMate notifying me of the changes. What a great, responsive company! NICE JOB! Compare this to the fiasco going on with Storm Radar. DylogicApps, you’ve got a customer for life.

For those of you like me who feel The Weather Channel screwed you by dumping a great product called Storm, replacing it with an inferior radar widget, here’s your new weather app! It pretty much does everything Storm did except the wind and jet stream animations. The layout is pretty good, and the radar map works great. You get the front lines and pressure indicators. It also allows you to view personal weather stations. These two items alone would sell me, especially after the new Storm Radar app dumped them. Includes detailed forecasts, and other cool items like weather radio. This is an app for weather buffs, and a great pickup for those looking for their Storm replacement. Nice job!

There's simply nothing else like it in WeatherMatePro store. This is the most accurate and feature-rich app on the market. I'm saying this based on personal evaluation of over twenty popular apps (and not so popular ones). It provides a perfect blend of accurate current, forecast, and historical weather information.

The radar projections are phenomenal! They're tied to the IBM / Weather Underground modeling, which is very timely and responsive. The future rendering is amazingly accurate. And the forecasts are based on Weather Underground data, which is consistently within ForecastAdvisor's top three throughout the US.

Even better, you can tie local weather information to a personal weather station near you. This is INCREDIBLY valuable! I live in an area with significant microclimate variations. The closest "official" weather station is about ten miles away and almost always significantly different from my location. However, a nearby PWS is almost always spot-on. As a result, I can get real temp and precipitation readings for "home" through a major weather service app. Simply amazing!

Weather Mate Pro is a perfect companion for PWS (Personal Weather Station) owners or observers. After a couple of months of running WMP, I can, for at least my setup, view my home PWS and have Official NWS observations along with the community of PWS observers all in one excellent app with accurate historical data. Access to Official NWS statements without having to use other apps to me a great bonus. I have eliminated several paid and free apps. The radar has storm tracks that’s similar to the popular Storm/WU. Storm notifications are so far quick and accurate. WeatherMatePro literally takes the good out of several now defunct apps or ones that have changed over time. The features seem endless.

I have been looking for a PWS app with this much reference and customization for years. WeatherMatePro Pro version is well worth the $5 fee.

This weather app is perfect for casual weather and for those wanting to view their PWS systems in the weather community. I eliminated several paid and free apps because of this Weather Mate Pro. I hope you have such good fortune as well. Thank you to the developers of WeatherMatePro!

Although, I’ve officially been a meteorologist for only a year, I would say I know a thing or two about the weather from all my time in college. And let STRESS how important it is to use NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) for your weather source. This is the most accurate weather data and it is assessable to everyone, not just meteorologists. BUT, I’ve always wanted to experience the convenience of weather apps, and the NWS doesn’t provide an official app. So I did some searching on all the top rated weather apps on WeatherMatePro Store and checked all their weather sources, since most aren’t listed in their general description. And all the other apps pull weather data from third party providers, which is a recipe for errors, even if they’re small, in weather forecasts. So to say I was excited to find WeatherMatePro that emphases they use NWS and NOAA for their app, is an understatement. Also, a major perk is it being compatible to use as a widget on the newest iPhone updates, so all I do is scroll left and all my weather data is up and refreshed for me without having to open WeatherMatePro . The standard free version of WeatherMatePro is great itself but I highly recommend spending the one time $3.99 for the upgraded version of WeatherMatePro . The upgrade allows you to view much more weather on your screens widget page so there’s never a need to open WeatherMatePro . Just scroll and look and go!

I am a gardener (and a weather nerd), and I absolutely need to know the long-term average high and low temperature and the long-term record high and low temperature for my location each day. It's the first thing I check each morning. For years I used Intellicast, because it had a very simple graphic each day with current temp and all the other (average and record) temperature data on it. Simple and beautiful. Then Intellicast was replaced by Storm with no historic weather data. I searched and searched for a new weather app with historic weather data and found none. I finally settled on WeatherMatePro because it has a nice clean look, lets me choose my weather data (dewpoint, moon rise, etc) and the radar function includes future storm tracks instead of where the storm has already been. I did not find the historic weather info until I'd had WeatherMatePro for about a year. I'm not sure if it came with an update or if it's because it's hard to find. The historic info is under an icon called "almanac" that is only visible when you expand the top menu with the three dots in the upper right corner. Who knew? I think WeatherMatePro developers would be wise to highlight the fact that they have historic weather data, because no other weather app does, and many gardeners need this information. Thanks for a great app.

UPDATE: I confirm everything I said in the past, and I like to see they are pushing recent updates again which is great! I wish they could redesign the look within WeatherMatePro to a more modern and updated look, other than that WeatherMatePro is still A+. In terms of looks, I feel carrot weather is the best plus it allows to personalize the layout but WeatherMatePro is much better for all devices.

PREVIOUS REVIEW: WeatherMatePro has a lot of information and the best widgets, frankly I wish they had a a better layout and updated design more like the actual apple weather app or carrot weather app, but none of those has better little square widgets for iPhone than WeatherMatePro, and that’s all I use WeatherMatePro for by now until they redesign the layout once you open WeatherMatePro . If they ever manage to do that, I’m pretty sure this will be the only weather app I’ll use. They also have the best Apple Watch complications configuration so you can make them look with the info you desire, WeatherMatePro is so close to being perfect, hoping they redesign their in app looks and layouts🤞🏻

I’m kind of a weather app nerd.. I have just over a dozen. I used to call WU (weather underground) my favorite, but it got buggy and less reliable. So I switched to this one and have yet to be disappointed. It has all the weather info you could possibly want, it correctly locates me every time, it has a watch complication (sometimes the temp updating lags, but I think they are all like that). It has a decent radar, I like the recent addition of the radius rings to help see how far away storms are. The only thing I think is lacking is if you use carrot or dark sky, they give you a better idea for when rain will start/stop and have some nice graphs. Also sometimes I just want to see the current radar picture, but it has to load the last several hours to animate which takes some time.. But an app can never be perfect!

Update July 2023:
Years later, still one of the best weather apps I have. Best radar of all the weather apps I have.
I find myself always looking for a new and awesome weather app, I try most of em out there. But always wind up back to the ‘ol trusty Weather Mate

Update: Finally formatted to fit iPhone X screen! Thank you!

Still waiting on UI update and map zoom start feature a year after this original review was written, but once again customer support is the BEST in WeatherMatePro Store – or anywhere else for that matter...

The reintroduction of the WeatherRadio is fabulous. AND, the lightning, storm tracking and other layer data on the map is extensive and pretty accurate as far as I can tell. Although the UI could perhaps use a little modern spit and polish, WeatherMatePro has something even better going for it than the best weather forecasting -- it's got responsive customer support. The rest should take a lesson. All that aside -- I have found the forecasting very accurate and the oodles of customizable data very welcome. I live in Southwest Florida where weather can change on a dime, so the more data the better. The only complaint I had about their super quick-loading radar was that the initial view was so zoomed out it takes a lot of pinching to zoom in to my city. But they responded immediately to let me know they are working on providing a custom zoom setting. Still waiting on that, but a tiny inconvenience. Awesome. So five stars even if it's not yet perfect.

EDIT! WeatherMatePro is still the best app out there. I actually like WeatherMatePro more than the original Storm app which is hard to believe. Also, I emailed the developer to ask for some enhancements and they replied within a day and said that they were already on the list to add to WeatherMatePro ! Truly a great find when it comes to weather apps.

Storm was my go to app for weather. It had a feature set that was perfect for just about anyone. Weather channel bought them and they essentially shelved WeatherMatePro . I must have downloaded 10 other apps trying to find something to replace Storm, but nothing came close. Until now... Weather Mate Pro is not just as good as Storm, it’s actually better. The available layers and feature set is far superior to what Storm had. I am so happy to have found WeatherMatePro! The only thing missing is the distance rings around your location. I think Storm used it for lightning tracking, but it was very handy to see the distance rings of 25, 50, 75, and 100 miles right on the radar. You could look at the movement of an incoming storm and quickly see the speed and estimate the actual timing it would be arriving. Hopefully they will add it in the future. Anyways, great app that I highly recommend!

For some reason, only WeatherMatePro and what used to be Storm (but is now whatever the weather channel monstrosity app is called) will show you real time weather fronts. If you know how to look at a weather map, the position and speed of an incoming warm or cold front can tell you a lot about what the weather will be like for the day. You can supplement that info with current radar, temps, the NWS’ forecast discussion, wind speed, dew point, pressure, etc. This one has all of that, (which means everything that Storm had), except with a much more outdated GUI. Like as if we were still on iOS 5. But I’ll HAPPILY take a bad looking weather app with tons of great info over a garbage weather app (i.e. WeatherMatePro formerly known as Storm) without any real info. It’s ironic, because those people basically turned Storm into an app that somehow looks worse than WeatherMatePro, which is saying a lot since WeatherMatePro looks like its stuck in 2011. Like everyone in the reviews is saying: This is the only weather app that’s a suitable replacement for the old Storm app. Developers of WeatherMatePro will get 5 stars from me, regardless, if for no other reason than its the only app which shows positions of cold fronts relative your location. Update the GUI and I’ll give you that sixth star! ;)

I chose this originally because it is one of the few weather mapping apps I’ve run across with a “fronts” layer. In my area, the location of high and low pressure centers and the nature of the fronts between them are very helpful in understanding what weather changes I can expect. The wind animation feature, something I haven’t seen before, is very well conceived and executed! It shows me (motorcyclist, sailor, and rotorcraft pilot) at a brief glance how surface winds are flowing and how that might change in time. Combined w radar and fronts layers, I can tell a lot about what to expect in my day. When I got WeatherMatePro originally, the free version ads delayed the opening of the map feature, but once I paid to remove them, WeatherMatePro has performed well. I’ve recently begun using the (new?) option to show the map first upon opening WeatherMatePro , which has been very convenient. Overall, WeatherMatePro is working extremely well for what I need to know about the weather.