WEATHERSNITCH 2 UPDATE

My favorite view, however, is the middle “Week” one. Tapping on a day opens a small popover with the icon in greater detail, high and low temperatures, and humidity percentage. Month view is pretty self explanatory in that it displays a calendar with weather icons and temperature associated to each day of the month. The bottom part of the UI is WeatherSnitch’s main controller, as swiping between locations automatically updates the data visualized above in the Month, Week, and Day views. Units, colors and other options can be tweaked in the Settings, which have some clever switches for on/off items, as well as units and types (see screenshots below). The single-location section lists current time, weather and “feels like” factor, an icon representing the weather, and a bunch of additional information such as rainfall, sunrise and sunset time, humidity percentage, visibility, and wind. Locations you’ve configured in WeatherSnitch will appear along the bottom of the app as a section you can swipe to change between places. Speaking of Apple’s Weather widget: I believe average users will be more than fine with iOS 5, Weather in Notification Center and the additional features Weather received through the betas, but there will still be room for apps that provide a more detailed look at weather data, forecasts, and so forth. WeatherSnitch 2 lets you add multiple locations, search the ones you’ve already added, and add your current location by tapping on the default GPS icon as in Apple’s Weather app for iOS.

WEATHERSNITCH 2 UPDATE

WeatherSnitch 2.0 looks a lot like its little brother, now free on the App Store, albeit it’s been completely rewritten to have a new design with snappier animations, and faster update times.

As it turns out, WeatherSnitch 2 builds on the excellent feature set of version 1 adding a darker UI, more reliable and accurate weather data and forecasts, moon phases, and more. So it was with a bit of curiosity that I approached WeatherSnitch 2 last month, when I learned that the developers had switched the original WeatherSnitch to a free app, and released a major 2.0 version as a standalone, paid app. Eventually I decided to stick with a combination of BeachWeather and WeatherSnitch for iPhone, even though I appreciated the attention to details of Shine, a beautifully designed weather app that was subsequently updated to work better internationally. I have tried several weather apps for the iPhone in the past year.

Weathersnitch 2