Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar

Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar

Hourly Rain and Storm Alerts

2.8K ratings
341 reviews
#143 in top-grossing Weather
🔧 Utilities
☀️ Weather
Free
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Released
December 17, 2015
Updated
September 29, 2026

Features

Background Location Access

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Get hyper-accurate, hyper-local live weather and forecasts with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Track storms with advanced radar, receive AI-powered weather summaries for your calendar, and get timely alerts for celestial events and severe weather.

✓Hyper-local live weather and forecasts
✓Customizable home and lock screen widgets
✓NOAA-powered radar with live lightning
✓AI-powered Smart Weather Stories
✓Aurora visibility and sunset alerts
✓Severe weather and precipitation notifications
✓Hourly and daily visual forecasts
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What's New in Forecast Bar

11.7

September 29, 2026

Your own weather station • Weather Station (Gold) shows current conditions from a nearby personal station, or your own. Tune My Forecast learns how your station's spot runs, so the coming hours and daily highs and lows fit where you actually live, in the app, widgets and on Apple Watch. • Tune for My Neighborhood shifts forecasts by how your part of town usually runs, Apple Weather included, and Station vs. Forecast shows day by day whether tuning helps. • Explore Your City's Microclimates: a live map of every station around you, a two-day replay, and your area's typical day. A sky that matches the real weather • The realistic background follows the real sky: cloud layers, rain and snow by type and rate, rainbows, sun halos, fog, haze and smoke. • Clear nights show real stars, planets and the Milky Way, with meteor showers and auroras, turned toward the best view. The moon shows its real surface. • Sky, sun and clouds sit behind the hills, trees and buildings in your photo, in Visualize Day too, and wind-blown rain and snow fill the whole screen. • A Visualize Day widget in four sizes shows the scene for this hour. Tap it to watch the day unfold, or show just the current conditions. Hurricane tracking (Gold) • Each storm's forecast cone, track and forecast points on the radar, with coastal watches and warnings and NHC's 7-day outlook for where storms may form. Tap a storm for its winds, pressure and movement. • A card on the main screen, and optional Hurricane Cone Alerts, when your location falls in a storm's cone. Storm Surge and Extreme Wind Warnings can break through Do Not Disturb. Apple Watch, redesigned • A new main screen with a sky that matches the weather, a range bar for today, an hourly strip in three styles, a Week Ahead list and data tiles you choose. Arrange every section from your iPhone, where Watch Layout shows your real watch screen as you go. • New day, hour, Sun & Moon and Wind screens, a Pollen tile, 6-hour precipitation by type and Apple Weather's minute-by-minute rain for the next hour. • Interactive charts you scrub hour by hour with the Digital Crown, a week out: temperature, rain chance, wind, UV, humidity, pressure, heat index, wind chill and more. • Weather alerts appear as a card above current conditions. Complications show highs in red and lows in blue, follow tinted faces and fit smaller watches. Everything else • Show Overnight Lows, in Data & Layout, gives each day the low of the night that follows it. • Radar starts playing sooner and uses far less data while it loops. • Smart Weather Stories load faster, open each day with what sets it apart, and work late at night. Quick stories are shorter. • Life-threatening warnings can't be hidden, alert mute settings say what they can't silence, and AMBER and Blue Alerts no longer appear. • A Sunrise & Sunset Lock Screen widget, and the temperature curve setting is now a picker that draws both timelines. • Rain and storm Live Activities stay readable in the Dynamic Island beside a call or another app's activity. • Siri and Shortcuts read cleaner forecast sentences, and widgets keep the right hours in half-hour time zones such as India. • Settings has a Rate Forecast Bar row, and after an unexpected close you can send a quick bug report. • Smart and Single Location widgets keep their usual layout when rain is past the hours they show, and backgrounds fall back to a built-in scene when a chosen city pack is gone. • The Current Weather widget's summary moves on with each hour, and on iPad its tall size adds today's written forecast. • Lightning haptics stop after three taps per storm, then rest for half an hour. • Hourly graph hour labels show in full instead of "…". • Widgets say "until" the hour the next condition starts, not an hour later. See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new

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Bronze subscription to Forecast Bar for iOS

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User reviews

Upgrades/Features

The developers are extremely responsive and are adding new suggestions and features often. This app is highly customizable and pretty accurate (we know weather can change in an instant). Looking forward to seeing where this app goes in the near future.

Read before downloading

There’s no free version, they only offer paid subscriptions; although they offer a 7 day free trial, they really should have a free tier so you have enough time to get familiar with the app.

By FAR the best weather app

Our extended family uses this on everything from desktop to Apple Watch. This app has it all - and in an interface that makes sense and provides a fantastic amount of detail without being overwhelming.

The Best and Excellent Weather app

I’ve tried just about every weather app available for the Mac over the years, and Forecast Bar is, without question, the best weather app I’ve ever used.

The menu bar integration is clean, fast, and incredibly convenient. I can see current conditions, detailed forecasts, radar, hourly and extended weather, all without opening a separate application. It’s highly customizable, lightweight, and always reliable.

What really sets Forecast Bar apart is the attention to detail. The interface is beautiful, the information is accurate, and it’s obvious that the developer cares about creating a quality product. Whether I’m checking the weather for my local area or planning travel, it has become an indispensable part of my daily workflow.

If you’re looking for a Mac weather app, I highly recommend Forecast Bar. It’s worth every penny and, in my opinion, it’s the best weather application available for macOS.
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So handy

I love this app because it gives me a high-level overview of everything I need to know in one place. Plus, it’s easy to expand for more info!

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Reported Bugs

5 issues

Widgets not working as expected

Bug

Temperature display issues on Apple Watch

Bug

Alerts and notifications not working properly

Bug

Frequent app crashes and freezes

Bug

Inconsistent location tracking and updates

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Requested Features

6 requests

Pressure charts and graphs

Feature

More customization options for widgets

Feature

Improved Apple Watch app and complications

Feature

Ability to choose weather data source

Feature

Pollen and air quality information

Feature

Standalone Apple Watch app functionality

Feature

FAQ

What does Forecast Bar do?

Forecast Bar provides hyper-accurate, hyper-local live weather and forecasts. It offers customizable widgets for your home and lock screens, advanced radar tracking, AI-powered weather summaries tailored to your calendar, and timely alerts for various weather phenomena and celestial events.

What are the key features of Forecast Bar?

Key features include hyper-local forecasts, customizable widgets for home and lock screens, a NOAA-powered radar with live lightning, AI-driven Smart Weather Stories, aurora visibility alerts, sunset notifications, and push notifications for severe weather and precipitation.

How much does Forecast Bar cost?

The app is free to download and use, with optional in-app purchases for premium features. Some advanced notification types, such as precipitation alerts and custom notifications for specific data points, are part of the 'Gold' subscription.

What devices is Forecast Bar compatible with?

Forecast Bar is designed for iOS devices, including iPhones and Apple Watches. It features a redesigned interface for iOS 26 and supports features like Live Activities on the Lock Screen and customizable complications on the Apple Watch.

What are some common use cases for Forecast Bar?

Common use cases include planning outdoor activities by checking real-time precipitation and temperature forecasts, staying informed about severe weather with timely alerts, tracking storms using the advanced radar, and receiving personalized weather advice based on your calendar events.