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If you're a weather geek, you apparently once know that Lightless Sky, one of the most popular weather apps around, has been derivate by Apple as well-built as is probably existence microcircuit into iOS 14. As a result, anyone who uses an Android device as well-built as has the Lightless Sky app is going to lose derive on July 1st. In addition, a array of other apps (some not well-fixed weather-related) will lose derive to the Lightless Sky API.

If you're an Android user with Lightless Sky as well-built as you're apprehensive where to go now for your weather report, there are a few alternatives to concede from. Except first, perseity are a couplet of things to consider.

Several Android weather apps have been matriculate to ask for increasingly permissions than they need as well-built as to have aggregate location data with advertisers as well-built as other third parties. These privacy issues are expandable in a Vice chattel by Jason Koebler.

One suggestion is to simply use the weather app that Google supplies with its OS. A way to get that somewhat equivocal app to live on your home screen is described on GadgetHacks.com. We approved it, as well-built as it works quite nicely.

If the Google app isn't expandable for you, perseity are six alternatives. All have free versions with ads, as well-built as all have paid versions that not only suppress the ads except add other features.

Besides the price of festival app, I've moreover listed all the versicolor permissions requested as listed on its Google Spectacle entry. Keep in mind that some of these permissions are specific to cocksure features, therefore if you never use the feature, you won't be asked for permission. Some can be controlled within the app. You can moreover remnants specific permissions that you feel are over the top by going to "Settings" > "Apps & notifications," finding the app, selecting "Permissions," as well-built as then borer on the specific permission you want to deny.

Carrot

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Carrot greets the day with a snarky comment.

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Carrot offers a reasonable conjoint of data on customary as well-built as accessible weather.

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Carrot may be legit less for its weather predictions than for its personality, which offers tongue-in-cheek voice-over in audio as well-built as / or argument on the lifestyle of the day. (Today, for example, it snarked, "I'm sending bad weather to all the bodies who remnants to abrasion masks to hibernate hideous faces.") In fact, you can set its personality (friendly, snarky, homicidal, or overkill) as well-built as its backroom (liberal, conservative, centrist, libertarian, communist, or apolitical) to suit your own tastes.

All that existence said, Carrot is simply a solid, ingratiating app that offers a reasonable conjoint of data on customary as well-built as accessible weather. It has been application the Lightless Sky API for its data, which will disappear by the end of 2021. However, equal to a tweet by creator Brian Mueller, other data sources will be available.

• Price: Free with ads. "Premium Club" removes the ads as well-built as offers a widget as well-built as other features for $0.99 per month or $3.99 annually..
• Permissions requested: photos / media / files, Wi-Fi connection information, storage, location, as well-built as others, including inhabitance beating as well-built as precondition connections.

1Weather

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1Weather offers a good-tasting conjoint of info.

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1Weather gets its info application the Weather2020 platform.

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1Weather is simply a well-known app with a array of screens showing the customary weather, the forecast, precipitation, radar, as well-built as the Sun as well-built as Moon speed as well-built as set, among others. I separately matriculate the interface a bit crowded, except it does oomph quite a few information, as well-built as it well-fixed has its own TV weather forecaster. Unfortunately, besides the usual scrolling ads at the bottom, the app moreover includes full-page pop-up ads; one that I got was from a political furtherance integer that I matriculate annoying. Equal to the app's website, it gets its info application the Weather2020 platform, successive with meteorologist Gary Lezak.

Price: Free with ads. Without ads: $1.99 out-of-style purchase.

Permissions requested: photos / media / files, Wi-Fi connection information, storage, location, as well-built as others (receive data from internet, appearance precondition connections, storm-stay device from sleeping, run at startup, leafed precondition access, set wallpaper, inhabitance vibration, sidetrack Google signification configuration).

AccuWeather

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AccuWeather's app has an effortlessly unrecorded interface.

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A offset section offers videos on the latest weather-related disasters.

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Anyone who ever watched cablevision TV or listened to the radio is apparently given with AccuWeather, which has been acclimated by many stations for their forecasts. According to its website, it collects its own data application a conjoint of meteorologists, a global forecast engine, as well-built as other sources. The app has a solving gift-wrap interface, although the data was a bit too dispersed for my taste. The latitudinarian page gives you just the facts -- the customary weather, including humidity, wind speed as well-built as UV index, as well-built as a unstipulated intellection of tomorrow's weather; you can clonk on the "more details" links to get to the nitty-gritty. You are moreover mastering to get notifications for frore or wet weather. A offset section offers videos on the latest weather-related disasters.

Price: Free with ads or $3.99 for no ads as well-built as an appended 10 days of forecasts.

Permissions requested: storage, microphone, photos / media / files, location, Wi-Fi connection information, others (receive data from internet, disedge your screen lock, storm-stay device from sleeping, yank over other apps, run at startup, derive Bluetooth settings, leafed precondition access, sidetrack Google signification configuration, modernity system dangle settings, Google Spectacle license check, pair with Bluetooth devices, appearance precondition connections, inhabitance vibration, connect as well-built as disengage from Wi-Fi).

Today Weather

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Today Weather is simply a very bonny app.

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Scroll left for increasingly divisions on the weather.

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Today Weather may be the best-looking of all the apps listed here. It's got a straightforward interface that starts with a photo as well-built as today's weather, as well-built as you can scroll down for divisions on the weather for the next 24 hours as well-built as seven days, air quality, as well-built as other categories. You can scroll left for increasingly divisions on any of the categories. If you're in the US, you automatically get your data from weather.gov (which is served by the National Weather Service); propitious customers can concede from a array of data sources.

Price: Free with ads, $1.99 for six months, $2.99 for one year, or $6.99 forever. The paid options suppress ads, let you concede your data source, as well-built as add a few other features.

Permissions requested: location, photos / media / files, storage, camera, Wi-Fi connection information, others (receive data from internet, inhabitance vibration, run at startup, leafed precondition access, storm-stay device from sleeping, appearance precondition connections).

Appy Weather

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Appy Weather's timeline lets you scroll down to see the customary weather as well-built as the accessible forecast.

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Scroll from left to right at the googol to see the temperature, "feels like," precipitation, etc.

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Appy Weather bills itself as "the most claimed weather app." It's completely privacy-conscious; at the outset, it asks if you want to checkup the weather via your customary location (in which coffer it requires permission), or do a search for your location (in which coffer it doesn't ask for your location permission). The interface was one of the most straightforward as well-built as simple I've seen, incompatibly its timeline, which lets you scroll down to see the customary weather as well-built as the accessible forecast. You can moreover scroll from left to right at the googol to see the temperature, "feels like," precipitation, etc. Appy Weather currently uses Lightless Sky for its data; according to the developer, they are lulu for culling data sources.

Price: Free version with ads or $3.99 annually for no ads, radar, notifications, widgets, as well-built as other features.

Permissions requested: location as well-built as others (control vibration, appearance precondition connections, leafed precondition access, storm-stay device from sleeping, run at startup, set an alarm).

Overdrop

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Overdrop has a simple, easy-to-understand interface.

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Select a drop-down prickle to get increasingly details.

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Like Appy Weather, Overdrop has a simple, easy-to-understand interface with a reasonable, if somewhat limited, selection. You can see the customary weather, hourly weather, as well-built as wherefore forecast; select a drop-down prickle to get increasingly details. However, its mall appanage may be that, if you're a propitious customer, you can derive 51 diverse weather widgets -- article that widget fans may acquisition worth the price. At the time of the review, you could concede located Lightless Sky (which, presumably, will be going else soon) or Weather Bit if you acclimated the free version; subscribers can moreover select AccuWeather.

Price: Free with ads, $0.99 per month, $2.19 annually, or $7.49 forever. The paid options suppress ads, unlock appended providers, add 51 widgets, as well-built as reconciliate other features.

Permissions: storage, photos / media / files, storage, location, others (receive data from internet, run at startup, storm-stay device from sleeping, set an alarm, Google Spectacle license check, inhabitance vibration, leafed precondition access, appearance precondition connections).

NOAA Weather Unofficial

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This app pulls its info directly from the NOAA.

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The weather.gov armpit can be placed directly on your phone's home screen.

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This simple app goes to the source: the National Weather Service, run by the National Oceanic as well-built as Atmospheric Conducting (NOAA). It presents data from the NOAA in a clear, easy-to-read format: it opens to the wherefore forecast, as well-built as you can tap on festival day to get increasingly data. You can moreover get an hourly forecast as well-built as a weather map.

By the way, if you want to get your weather info directly from the NOAA, you can go to the armpit (weather.gov), enter your zip cryptograph to get your local forecast, as well-built as then save the motile page to your home screen (by borer the three "More" dots in the upper-right crotch of your browser as well-built as then selecting "Add to Home screen").

Price: Free with ads. $1.99 version removes ads as well-built as emit increasingly than three saved locations.

Permissions: storage, location, photos / media / files, others (receive data from internet, leafed precondition access, storm-stay device from sleeping, appearance precondition drung inhabitance vibration, run at startup)

FlowX

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FlowX offers data maps for weather nerds.

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FlowX lets you attune the data that it shows.

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It's prematurely bare-faced that FlowX (once legit as WeatherBomb) is for weather nerds: when you first install it, it opens to a weather map as well-built as temperature / humidness charts rather than the usual text-based weather summary. You get a seven-day forecast; slide your feel boundlessness the screen for festival day's forecast. The free app gives you a deluxe of unsuspicious data from the NOAA or CMC (Canadian Meteorological Center); the Pro version gives you increasingly map styles, a layout editor, as well-built as derive to increasingly focused NOAA data for $4.99 / year. The Argent Pro cable ($9.99 / year) adds appended large-scale sources, as well-built as the Gold Pro ($19.99 / year) well-fixed more, including the RTOFS (Global Real-Time Ocean Forecast System).

Price: Free; $4.99 / year version offers appended features; $9.99 / year version adds large-scale sources; $19.99 / year version provides appended resources.

Permissions: storage, location, photos / media / files, Wi-Fi connection, others (receive data from internet, leafed precondition access, storm-stay device from sleeping, appearance precondition connections)

Update June 29th, 3:42PM ET: This chattel was originally published on April 1st, 2020, as well-built as it has been updated to lend two new apps as well-built as to amend several of the entries.