![]() New in 2.1 is the ability to scroll down and dismiss the current weather at the bottom of the screen to get a better view of the weeks ahead. The week view is handy for quickly checking what your week looks like. I can’t say this is useful for me personally, but it’s a nice touch. You also now have the ability to swipe the UI to view the moon phases for the month. The ability to glance at a monthly forecast is a great tool for planning trips or other activities. This popup can be dragged to another day to get the information for that day as well. The month view has been in Weathersnitch since the beginning, but starting in version 2.1 you get much more accurate information with a nice HUD-style popup with the high and low for the day. With 2.1, Snitchware has again introduced some significant UI changes, hand-drawn weather artwork, and added a ton of new features, all of which greatly enhance the application. After Apple added Siri to iOS, some would say that the native iPhone weather features integrated in Siri and Notification Center are adequate, but for geeks like me granular information is key, and we’ll take as much as we can get. Virtually every time both apps displayed the same information, which put me at ease that I could rely on Weathersnitch to give me what I needed. While testing, I often checked the stock Apple Weather app and compared it to the data in Weathersnitch. I’ve been able to beta test Weathersnitch 2.1 over the past few months, and I’m happy to report that the development team have brought a ton of great improvements to the app, including much more accurate forecast information. The biggest issue with v2.0 was there was often some inaccuracy, which for a weather app can make it rather useless. Version 2 brought a revamped interface and tons of detail oriented features to find out what your forecast looked like. Version 1.0 was a nice simple default-style app, but had limited functionality. I’ve often switched back-and-forth between most of the popular apps over the years, and finally decided that I needed to find one I liked and stick with it.įor some time now I’ve been using Weathersnitch from the guys at Snitchware as my main source for weather information. ![]() Something as simple as your local weather can quickly turn into a headache. There’s so much that can hurt the usefulness of a weather app, from bad APIs to an over-crowded or complicated interface. There are a slew of weather apps on the App Store, and finding good ones can be difficult. With the introduction of Notification Center in iOS 5, some people were happy with the new forecast features that were available natively in the OS. Most iPhone users like to keep track of their local weather.
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