Weather Machine ($1.99 – currently on sale & is normally $3.99)
Version 1.3
Review – “A highly developed application that is visually stunning. You’ll open it just to look at it!”
Weather Machine, developed by Massimiliano Torregiani, is gorgeous for starters. It looks nothing like the other weather applications out there. But that is not where it ends. Built within this application is most everything you want to know on a day by day basis when planning your daily or weekly adventures. A very intuitive application with a great interface means it will be something that you will continuously rely on for daily information.
Before I get into the features I *highly* recommend watching the tutorial and reading the hints at start up. There is so much information built into this that if you don’t know how to find it you will miss out on some great information!
Also, this app has numerous ways that you can get to your information. For example, to go through the days you can flip through the pages on the main window, you can click an icon at the bottom, or you can turn the device upside down. It’s very obvious that a lot of work has gone into this application!
Some of the features built into this application are:
- Current Conditions: Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Precipitation Percentage, Visibility, Dew Point, etc. The app also shows a notification if there are any weather alerts for your area.
- Hourly Forecast, including temperature, wind, % of precipitation, and humidity:
- Viewing option to see a day in quarters, or see an extended outlook for multiple days:
- Lunar and Solar Details: Rise and Set for each, moon phase
- Satellite and Radar information:
There is a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to find everything, but once you do the program is easy to navigate through.
My suggestions for this app are that I’d like to see push notifications available as a feature in futures releases because many people, like myself value push notifications for those emergency weather situations.
In addition, if we could zoom in and out of the radars that would be a great asset. I personally like to see the extents of a weather system so I’ll know how long it’s going to last and that’s not always possible without the ability to zoom.
Once you set this application up and learn your way around it, you’ll instantly fall in love with it, both for how impressive it is graphically, and how much information it provides. Adding those two features will make this weather app one that will be hard to compete with!
This app is currently on sale in the App Store, 50% off it’s regular price, so I’d advise getting it while it’s on sale. You will be impressed! More information on this application can be found on the developer’s website, http://www.maxtorregiani.net/wm/Overview.html.
- Christina G
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