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Dark Sky 5 — Weather app that predicts if it will rain or snow (and more)
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Josh Puetz
Dark Sky is ESSENTIAL: it's the first thing I put on a new iOS device!
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Dark Sky is the app when people find out I download and try almost every app I hear about and they ask, "What's your favorite app?" I tell them this one without even hesitating.
@mzuvella It works throughout the US and the UK. Other countries aren’t covered very well at the moment, though.
I used dark sky for about two years. It's a good app but since the developers started to offer their prediction service as an api, other apps have started to include their prediction data. I use Weather Line, which (I think) uses the Dark Sky prediction service and whose interface I prefer. Check the Weather is another good one.
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I love Dark Sky - I can say with absolute certainty that I open it 830 (or 832) times a year at a minimum. Sometimes it feels like 830 times a day...
I feel slightly lost when I'm not in the UK and the data is a little less immediate.
I quite like the new UI. The report functionality is nice. The new hourly view is far more useful and easy to understand than the previous version. I wonder if activating and sharing the pressure sensor data will have any impact on battery life?
For me, this is a must have app.
I've used this since day 1. It's a fantastic idea that I'm surprised hasn't been white labeled into the OS yet. Isn't the data available on http://forecast.io on the web and Arcus on Android?
There's so much to love about this app, and I really like the fact that the makers continue to change things around, trying to optimize UI ever more. That said, I don't love the new first screen graphic. It's useful, to be sure, but it's not what I want to see first: it's redundant to what's open-able on the second screen, and I miss the old graph showing predicted rainfall at my location in the next hour. Nevertheless, this is a must-have app that keeps evolving in productive ways.
@mcandrew Couldn't agree more - I miss that first graph. Showing the vertical display is a little redundant, and feels like an unnatural way to display time. Of course many calendars show the hours as a stacked column, but that's generally in the context of a horizontal week.
I love the app, but on the whole I think the navigation is poor. The main paradigm is four horizontal-scrolling screens (though you don't begin on screen 1), but the globe view (screen 1, which you swipe into) cannot be swiped out of, and the daily-details view can't be swiped out of either. Those two screens require a "close" button, but they're in different places, making the whole system even more unintuitive.
Love the data; disappointed that the update only seems to muddy the navigation even more.
I’ve been using Dark Sky for a while now, and it’s one of the most useful apps on my phone (and watch). It provides minute-to-minute precipitation alerts, and great radar and weather forecasting. Today they released a new, redesigned version of the app that can even use your phone’s pressure sensor to crowd-source better weather data. It’s pretty amazing!
arrrr. i tried to submit yesterday i PH says the link was already submitted long ago with the original version. Not clear to me how PH should work for major service updates
Been a user since the original version (kickstarter!) and nice to follow its progress and see continued development to make a better experience.
I've used Dark Sky for 2-3 years. It's so accurate! Seriously, Amazing.
The notifications are top notch. The interactive radar is top notch (though I wish it allowed for me to see further in advance). This thing is invaluable during outdoor activities.
Here's a little anecdote: I was on the golf course with my dad, when I got a buzzing in my pocket. "Rain in 4 minutes". I said, "Dad, we've gotta get off the course". We got off in about three minutes, and a minute later came the downpour.
I love this app in the US, but since moving abroad it doesn't work as well as other weather apps. The EU may not be the target market, and perhaps there is a tech issue with the radar and other data sources Dark Sky uses, but it'd be great to see coverage here and around the globe.
@skylerwshaw Yeah. They told me that getting radar access from governments was time-consuming and difficult, and they can’t do much without that data. But yeah, it’s awesome in the US.
Looks amazing but the app is not available on the Hong Kong Apple Store yet. I read on the comments that other than US and UK it doesn't work very well, I guess I'll have to wait a bit..
I loved this app when I was in the US & UK, but was disappointed to see it didn't work in Australia. The crowdsourced feature is a great addition!
I love the app and use it everyday!
It's a blessing that it works both in the US and the UK, as I spend 90% of my year in those two countries.
I loved the simplicity of v1, and I honestly feel they never got it completely right again. The UI doesn't really feel right to me, and I think the today's widget is a missed opportunity—a line of text is not really enough, when graphics could convey much more in the same space (there's a minimum height for today's widgets in any case).
Nevertheless, it's the one app I would never delete from my iPhone, especially living in London.
@rrrraulsc I think they’re trying really hard for it, but getting access to good radar data in many countries is quite difficult.
@lachlanjc @rrrraulsc Not for Aus! http://www.programmableweb.com/a... We eagerly await integration.