Best privacy-respecting weather app?

43t34fg4

So, I currently use omWeather, but the widget UI on my home screen looks so bad to me. Any other privacy-respecting ones that have a better UI? Or would it just be best to bookmark a site like weather.com to my home screen? If it matters, for U.S. (I see some apps are for specific countries).

itsjpb

43t34fg4 i use breezy weather, it is open source and you can pick your weather a pi, so you should be good for privacy

43t34fg4

itsjpb Hmm, this looks cool, but when I add any widget to my home screen, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/LEmoA48.jpeg

EDIT: Nevermind, I had to move the "current location" profile under the manual location I set. Weird.

MarsTrue

I use this one, it has a lot of widgets. I set the location manually and only give it network permission. Works great.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.thosp.yourlocalweather/

tango

No offence to anyone, but i really dont see the point in having a weather app, can just check through browser (vanadium) incognito mode then close. Having apps that you dont really need just increase your risk of attack in my opinion.

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tango

Agreed. I keep Environment Canada url for my city bookmarked. It's a very clean page without ads, pictures, or videos.

Dumdum

tango i really dont see the point in having a weather app,

Some people like widgets, which require an app I believe.

Having apps that you dont really need just increase your risk of attack in my opinion.

Doubt that a weather app makes much of a difference, but ultimately depends on threat models anyway so...

+1 to Breezy Weather by the way.

nuclearvvinter

tango Weather alerts are nice

boarim

tango I usually found weather forecast websites full of bloated JavaScript and full of trackers. In my humble opinion, having a well designed open-source weather app seems a better choice security and usability-wise.

I use Breezy Weather by the way 😉

SuperNoodle

I use OpenWeather and I am very happy with it, the widget looks good and can be customised (theme, corners, opacity, location, size). The only permission it needs to function is Network so it can regularly fetch data.

43t34fg4

SuperNoodle So far, have went with Breezy that was suggested here: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/11137-best-privacy-respecting-weather-app/2

Had OpenWeather as a source to pull everything from, which I am using. Sweet!

lattich

I'd like to recommend the app "just weather", it's open source and doesn't have any ads or tracking. It has a widget, but like the app itself it's pretty barebones. More than enough for me though!

Murcielago

+1 for Breezy Weather.

Alternatively, you could give Prognoza a try. The app offers a widget, has a minimalist design and uses weather data from Open Meteo or MET Norway.

https://github.com/davidtakac/Prognoza

cdflasdkesalkjfkdfkjsdajfd

Why Do you simply use a HTML file containing your preferred locations and a shortcut to this file in your desktop?

By Example:

<HTML>
    <BODY STYLE="background-color: #000000">
        <FONT SIZE="+4">
            <H1 STYLE="text-align: center; color: #FFDCCC">WEATHER</H1>
            <P STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="https://weather.com/es-ES/tiempo/hoy/l/SPXX0050:1:SP" STYLE="text-decoration: none; color: #FFDCCC">MALGRAT DE MAR</A></P>
            <BR>
        </FONT>
    </BODY>
</HTML>

Eirikr70

I use Geometric weather and I like it.

brookie229

Eirikr70
Is Geometric Weather still working for you? I was using that app on 2 of my devices but just recently (4-5 days ago) it stopped fetching data, so I've given up on it. I'm using Breezy right now. Just curious.

d4f2

..or: Forecastie

Eirikr70

brookie229 It was still working. Anyway, I just noticed that it was unmaintained and that Breezy weather was a fork ... So I migrated

Roger

brookie229

It appears eirik has already answered your question, but I just wanted to share a couple links to GitHub issue pages in case anyone else gets a "request weather data failed" error with geometric weather and searches this forum, especially since geometric weather was used by sideofburritos in a grapheneos obtanium tutorial video and will probably be among the first apps installed by many people.

https://github.com/WangDaYeeeeee/GeometricWeather/issues/505

https://github.com/WangDaYeeeeee/GeometricWeather/issues/503

https://github.com/WangDaYeeeeee/GeometricWeather/issues/492

In short it appears Geometric weather is no longer maintained, and it has been removed from the playstore. But luckily someone has forked it to create Breezy weather, which has been working great for me.

5rlyn

I know its not FOSS but I find Yr to be a pretty good app.

ifman13

i use rain, its simply and beautiful