Weather Line - Super Forecast Reviews

by Greg6392

The Dark sky app is a one time fee and is very similar to the original this app in its simplicity and ease-of-use.

The new this app app either requires a subscription or a one-time fee of $45. this app also uses dark sky data for their app, so you’re basically now going directly to the source for your weather data.

The team at this app did a very underhanded thing here to their original user base. It is their responsibility to come up with a sustainable business model. They didn’t with version one and now the people who bought and enjoyed v1 are being punished. They could have kept version 1 and added ad support, but instead they bloated the original with a bunch of features nobody cares about in order to justify a subscription model. The unfortunate thing is weatherline1 was an excellent app. It featured a clean, intuitive design, and it was fast! The new version pales in comparison and now you get to pay them every month!

by DakotaMilkshakes

FINALLY, iPhone X support...but the weather data is still unreliable with no option to use alternate sources.

Edit: Hi Ryan, Yes, since the launch of the iPhone app store in July of 2008 I have used and reviewed a few weather apps. Your app has been my favorite for many years however, I’m growing tired of being let down for missing temperature and rain forecasts. During a recent trip to Cooperstown, NY this app reported cloudy and low 50s the whole weekend when actually it was several days of rain and low 40s. It frequently misses the mark at home in CO.

While Dark Sky data is very useful for near time forecasting, I found it is notoriously horrible with forecasts several days out. This is consistent across my travels on either US coast and through the mid-west. I’m surprised you haven’t encountered this. So far, Weather Underground’s service has been consistently on the mark. I use Carrot Weather now and pay extra for the WU service but much prefer the presentation from this app. Carrot Weather offers an Apple Watch complication so that’s another plus.

by Beatus82

I bought, used and enjoyed WeatherLine for one feature, the hourly weather time line in my widgets. The auto update on my phone installed the latest version of WeatherLine and now I discover that the feature I bought WeatherLine for has been placed behind a paywall, and in order to use it again, I must buy into their service bundling for 44 USD!or a monthly fee. This is an unfair transition to essentially nerf the utility of your app that I have grown to rely on and now demand more money to get it back. Even if I might enjoy the new features you’re taking away something I have used for some time and instead of asking if I would like additional features you have opted to remove the reason I used your app in the first place, the “weather line” widget. Not a customer friendly gesture. Offer me new features for a fee don’t take away the original features.

by Brandon Siegel

Don’t mind paying a subscription for the new app if the price is reasonable, but this version is a step down in functionality. The widget takes at least 4-5 seconds to refresh every time I view it and is often blank while doing so. In the old version at least I could look at the slightly out of date weather data while it refreshed. And honestly adding the loading indicator on the widget makes it feel like it takes longer (I know it’s just psychology but removing it would make the widget feel snappy again as long as you fix the issue where it blanks out when loading new data). Another issue is that in collapsed mode the weather line is cut off so you basically have to use the expanded mode, and the expanded mode layout has tons of useless empty space. It also wish it would show both the real and feels like temp in the widget.

All that said, I do feel the subscription prices are a little high. $5/year is reasonable especially since the original app was priced at the same point. $10 /year is too much. I would be fine with just having the dark sky data at that price point, and make the TWC data an additional purchase. And yes as many have said, some accommodation should have been made for people who purchased the original app. Either limited features but without ads, or full features with ads, or something.

by Samgechter

Great little app, with an easy to use graph to see what the day’s going to look like very quickly. But I’ve been fooled by its forecast for rain many times, where there’s a moderate percentage chance of rain but it shows nothing on the graph. It really needs to show percent chance like the basic Weather app does. I’ve written to the company about the problem with their forecasts, and they’ve told me it’s about the underlying data from Dark Sky. But that’s their problem too if they are using the data.

I also don’t like that there’s a limit to the number of cities you can add, and you can’t just check a place that you’re heading off to really quickly, you have to add it as a city, and may have to remove another one from your list.

by MrBrownSound

I found a winner. I’ve bought so... many weather apps trying to be clever, fancy, slow UI, and show complex representations- that make it hard to get a sense of the weather at a glance. WeatherLine displays the crux of absolutely everything on a single page with NO vertical scrolling. It gives me verbal text of the incoming rain or snow, and how much. It gives me HOURLY weather for the next few hours in such a easy to understand way. Some apps give the graph in increments of 2 hours. In a click, I can see the days view. All the rest like the wind, and real feel is always on the bottom. That’s all I look at. I can know all this in maybe 5 seconds flat. The way it displays its temp graph for the hours and days is also very easy to get used to since it’s what we’ve more or less been seeing on the weather channels for years. This developer really nailed it.

by Sidfs

Discount for existing v1 customers had some glitches but were fixed on day 1. Their support team was very responsive and helpful.
It's been my go-to app for weather for years, and the upgrade is great. UI refresh is fantastic, and high level view / browsing around cities in the home page is a welcome update.
When you use the api of other weather apps, you do have to wonder how long they can keep it a "fixed price", so while I do not love the move to subscription, I understand it. I'd rather pay with my money than with my personal data and I'm excited to see where they'll take WeatherLine now that they are getting sustainably paid for it.
Jury still out there on the combined weather sources, but it does seem to bring more details to the forecast, so excited to see how it works out!

by Spadekicker

This is something that I have been looking for. Used Weather Line for a while when it first came out. Moved around between weather apps to get the things I wanted and now I’m back. Great update to an easy to use, awesome looking weather app. I work outside and need accurate weather all the time. WeatherLine has always been reliable for me. A couple of things I’d love to have added: first is a pollen count for the day. 2 of my family members really plan their day around this. Second, would be a radar that runs a little longer (2hrs) so it’s easier to see what a storm may do. In addition add a few hours of future radar. I use TWC Storm radar for these reasons and it is really nice. Either way, Weather Line is a solid weather app and is back as my go to for weather forecasts. Great work!!

by John747$3627

When I want to know the weather, there are three contexts I care about: now & today, this week, and this month. Weather Line has nailed these three views with an incredibly intuitive visual that quickly conveys how the temp will change. The horizontal line is the perfect graphic to display changes over time. It is superior to a vertical line format and weather tables of text. I’m amazed more weather apps don’t copy this format; once you get used to it there is no better way to quickly grasp upcoming changes. I’ve downloaded and tried most weather apps out there, and none are as fast and at conveying the weather info I need. Hats off to the designer for making a simple, intuitive weather app that does everything it needs to do and nothing more.

by FerrousGuy

WeatherLine was excellently designed in v1, and this new version is exponentially better. All the new features and data are super useful, and WeatherLine also presents data in a highly glanceable format, which is perfect for weather data.

To speak to their switch to a subscription model, I think a major flaw in criticism of that decision lies in the idea that it’s all about some kind of simple money grab by the developers.

First of all, any up-to-date developer on App Store economics would know that would be a seriously flawed endeavor. Secondly, a likely major reason for this is the expensive nature of weather API data feeds that only become more burdensome the more users you get.

App consumers rarely consider the ongoing costs of keeping apps up and running, especially when that app is or becomes highly popular.

Believe it or not, many developers simply want to make great products and build sustainable business models so they can keep making great products. And if we want to prevent dark-patterned-riddled, poorly designed apps from giant faceless corporations from becoming the default in WeatherLine Store, we need to support small, indie level publishers like the guys behind Weather Line.

by Digitalblend

This is my favorite weather app, by far, but I just can’t justify the high subscription price so I don’t currently use it (and there’s just not enough there to use WeatherLine without a subscription); there are so many perfectly adequate weather apps out there that are free or of minimal cost with no subscription at all. I understand that development costs money and the high price point is most likely due to paying services for their weather data since you use multiple sources, but $45 to buy WeatherLine up front is kind of a hefty premium to pay for a good-looking interface to otherwise free data that I can get elsewhere. Maybe if you make an iPadOS interface as well it will seem like a better value.

by Kevin Hoctor

I’ve tried so many weather apps and I usually have to trade off getting more detail for a nicer interface or just not caring about how it looks so I can get weather details. Weather Line is the best of both worlds.

Moving between different locations or between hourly and daily forecasts is so clean in Weather Line. It even allows me to set my home location and shows it clearly when I’m away. The data is super accurate as well. I’m loving WeatherLine.

And for under $10 a year, I get all the extra features and feel good about supporting developers that obviously put a lot of love into WeatherLine. The free version is nice, but pay for the annual subscription and you won’t be disappointed.

by JanuaryLove01

I’ve used this app for years and have always been very happy with the design, the forecasts, and the features. When they announced a paid annual subscription for continued use, they were very respectful and asked a perfectly reasonable price, so I purchased immediately to support this company I have come to rely upon daily. The new features that come with the subscription and the redesign for iOS 13 are beautiful and helpful. My one and only complaint (and it is a small one) is that when I purchased the subscription and was upgraded, all my cities were lost. I added in again the ones that are most important to me, and that whole process took maybe a minute.

by Ssteveo333

I love the way WeatherLine visualizes weather averages and forecasts, but I like having a lot of cities for reference when planning travel. It won’t let you add cities unless you delete one of your 10. Seems like an odd limitation for an app I paid $4 for. Tried to send them an email about it but the feedback button doesn’t work.

Edit: thank you for the response to my review! I guess I’m just a little bit too curious when searching for cities and their weather, interesting that <1% of your users have reached that limit. I really do love WeatherLine - hopefully with more users your costs will come down and more cities can be added ;)

by Tojaha

I love my iPhone.

I don’t love using multiple apps to give me all of the information or functionality I want.

Dark Sky is the most accurate precipitation forecasting app I’ve used; amazingly accurate.

I also used RadarScope because I liked the features and accuracy of their app better than any other I’ve seen or used.

I wasn’t sure either way on the visual layout of the weather forecast; until I used WeatherLine. Details, details, details; the developer thought of them all, and included all of the right ones; but still customizable so you can tailor the info to your preferences.

Ok, so how much does it cost for the best of all weather worlds within one app? Not much at all for such a great, all-in-one weather app. And, this is a completely stand alone app. No need to purchase Dark Sky, RadarScope.... This one covers them all.

All of this, in an app that is more accurate and way more thoughtfully laid out than any of the “local” tv channel or similar apps.

It deserves 10 stars 👍

Great job by WeatherLine developer 👌