Accurate and easy to use.
Rain Tally has quickly become my first choice of weather apps.BlackLabRock
Useful Rain App!
As a gardener I need to be aware of how much water my plants are getting. I have several weather apps but none of them gives me reliable info on how much rain fell. This app allows me to set how much rain I need per week (I base it on how hot the weather will be) and then the actual measurements so I can determine how much watering I need to do. I love that it shows me daily amounts and totals for seven day periods. Plus it projects how much rain we’ll get over the next many days. This has become my “go to” app.Dolly972
Great App!
Rainfall tracking is critical for my collections of rare and hard to find trees and plants. This app is a joy!Suiguy
My most used app
This app is just what I needed but never knew existed. As a gardener and an angler I use this information to plan my watering schedule as well as planning my weekend float trips.hunterwv
Not worth it
Highly inaccurate. If you live inside a town or city that reports its rain totals then it will work for you but for rural areas it reads the same as the closest town with a rain reportJPS89!
Developer Response
I’m sorry you found that Rain Tally wasn’t accurate for your location. Rainfall numbers do update over a week or so as weather data is finalized, so your local numbers may be corrected in time. However, rainfall amounts can be VERY local. I have seen actual amounts measured in rain gauges near my own home to differ by as much as two inches within two miles of my house in a heavy storm, and no online weather data service can capture those sorts of differences. For these scenarios, Rain Tally allows you to quickly log your own rain gauge numbers. That manual number will be shown throughout the app, rather than the online weather data. I hope you can find a solution to your rainfall measurement problem, even if it’s not Rain Tally! Good luck!Basic and simple
The app does exactly what it is supposed to do. It helps me determine when to run my sprinklers or not.Kbtowell
Accurate and easy to use.
Rain Tally has quickly become my first choice of weather apps.Very useful
This is a great app. One of the problems with having a backyard garden is knowing when and how much to water and the app helps with that. The interface is attractive and intuitive. Tiles are well organized and provide a lot of information that I can take in at a glance. This app is definitely a keeper!TruroRider
Trove of information!
Efficient use of graphics and space. The most useful tool for measuring and predicting rain that I know of.WBJohnston
Poorly labeled charts
This is a good app but the charts are so poorly labeled that the information’s usefulness is diluted. Two examples from one chart: Annual Cumulative Precipitation
1. According to the chart, we have received 22.9” through July 2. That seems accurate - except that today is June 30.
2. The chart has four trend lines. One is bold; the other three are fine-lined. I assume the bold line is this year (2024) and the other three are the past three years. But none is labeled so you can’t tell which year is which.
The initial graphic on the “Recent” screen is confusing - probably accurate but it’s imprecise. Is there a 57% chance of rain tomorrow and an 82% chance the next day? If so, how much? The vertical axis has no labels.
Good app but (significantly) underdeveloped. I hope they complete it.Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback. I can try to clarify a few points. You note that you "received 22.9” through July 2 but that today is June 30." The Trends chart is currently showing the amount through the end of the available forecast, and you should have forecast data through the end of July 2 on June 30. These are the same numbers you see on the Recents screen in the forecast section. I can see that including the forecast in the Trends screen could be confusing and will remove the forecast data from this screen. You note that the chart has four trend lines where one is bold and the other are fine lines, but that they are unlabeled. The label is pinned to the bottom of the Trends screen, which is showing that bold blue represents the highlighted year ("2024 highlighted"), next to a control that lets you highlight a different year. This control and label applies to everything on the Trends screen, and so is not shown next to the individual charts. I will add a one-time popup to explain that control. Finally, on the initial graphic of the recent screen, if you tap the chart it will show you the individual amounts for each day. These values for chance of rain and amount for each date are also shown in the table below for each date. The chart at the top is intended to be compact, glanceable version of the more details table below. There are trade offs to make information clear on a small screen, and the lack of axis labels on this chart is a design choice, and the chart is tappable to display that context when desired. I would be happy to hear more of your thoughts on feature development, so please feel free to email me using the "Email the Developer" button in the Settings screen if you have more thoughts.
