Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar
Hourly Rain and Storm Alerts
Free · In-App Purchases
New in 11.8: Forecast Bar in 12 more languages, plus microclimate sharing for your city, Weather Station forecasts tuned to your own street, and Settings search.
*** Featured by Apple, Lifehacker, Macworld and Cult of Mac! ***
Forecast Bar offers hyper accurate, hyper local live weather and forecasts right at your fingertips, and is customizable to fit your needs. With 12+ Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets, including a multi-city widget to see weather in up to 4 locations at once.
Forecast Bar includes a beautiful and powerful Apple Watch App with 100+ customizable complications, including hourly and daily visual forecasts, Graphs to visualize several different data points, or a Custom Modular with 3 customizable lines. The Watch app is fully customizable, with 3 custom data points you can add, a customizable hourly data point. You can also customize your backgrounds with several options including using your own images, as well as custom font and font size throughout the app.
== Completely Redesigned for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass ==
Track storms like never before with our all-new NOAA-powered radar featuring live lightning strikes, aurora forecasts, and marine warnings. Watch precipitation approach in real-time right from your Lock Screen with our new Live Activity—see exactly when rain starts and ends without opening the app.
Smart Weather Stories transforms forecasts into personalized AI summaries. Connect your calendar to get advice tailored to your plans: "Light rain during your 2pm meeting—bring an umbrella."
Never miss a stunning sky with aurora visibility alerts, eclipse notifications, and Beautiful Sunset alerts. Now with iOS 26 Liquid Glass design.
== Built Different ==
Crafted by a 2-person team over a decade. Trusted daily by users who call it "the most accurate weather app" they've used. Always improving—because your weather app should be.
== Stay Informed with Push Notifications ==
- Personalized daily weather reports for any location, at any time you wish
- Push notifications for severe weather alerts in the United States
- Precipitation alerts sent reliably from our servers (Gold only)
- Custom notifications and alerts! You can configure 14 different data points to look out for what matters to you. For example, get notified in the morning when wind during the day will rise above a certain speed, or if temperatures overnight will drop below freezing. (Gold only)
- Beautiful Sunset alerts that give you a heads up when a stunning sunset (or sunrise!) is heading your way. Get your cameras ready! (Gold only)
- Get notified when earthquakes hit near you! (Gold only)
== Weather at a glance, or in depth ==
- Quickly check the current conditions or forecast for 14 days at a glance, including a succinct summary
- Tap on any day's forecast to see an hour-by-hour breakdown
- Gorgeous animated weather backgrounds
- Apple Weather provided minute-by-minute rain forecasts
- Tap again to see rich, interactive charts of even more details like dew point, pressure, visibility, UV index and more
- Choose between a compact and highly visual view for weather at up to 8 locations at a time
- Animated weather radar in the United States, Europe and Australia, including future radar forecasts, as well as 10+ other powerful visualizations
- Forecast Bar supports iPad multitasking in Slide Over and Split Screen
All subscriptions to Forecast Bar include a free 7 day trial
Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. They will automatically renew at the end of your subscription period unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
You can manage your subscriptions or turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Our privacy policy and terms of use are here: http://forecastbar.com/privacy-policy-for-forecast-bar.pdf and https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Clearer language settings.
• App Language and Forecast Language each open their own list, showing every language's native name; the forecast list has search.
• Forecast Language follows App Language by default, unless you choose a different language.
• Changing App Language preserves your chosen forecast language.
• Changing App Language updates the app, widgets and Apple Watch right away, without reopening Forecast Bar.
• Language names use consistent casing and include readable and native names.
Forecast Bar in twelve more languages
• Forecast Bar adds 12 languages on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Dates, times, and weather readings use natural formatting in the new languages.
• Sunrise and sunset widgets on iPhone use full event names for screen readers.
• Notifications use your app-language choice.
• Apple Watch follows the language selected on your phone.
• Report a translation issue in Settings opens an email draft with language details.
Share your city's microclimates
• Microclimate Explorer (Gold) shares your city's warm and cool areas, their gap, and a two-day trend.
Weather Station
• Your own station sets conditions and tunes forecasts; followed stations show reference readings.
• This Is My Station in station details selects which followed station is yours.
Search Settings
• Search Settings finds settings by name or what they do.
• Choosing a search result opens its screen and scrolls to the setting.
Rain gauges and nearby observations
• Rain Gauges on the radar (Gold) show volunteer CoCoRaHS rain totals for the last 24 hours.
• For past days in the U.S., Time Machine (Gold) compares a nearby station's observed high, low and rain with its normal, and adds the closest rain gauge.
Upcoming Travel
• Upcoming Travel shows the forecast for trips on your calendar, next to the compare card.
• Upcoming Travel settings live in Compare & Home, and Settings search finds them.
Icon styles and regional backgrounds
• Five new matched icon styles for weather and data lead the icon list. Sculpted Matte is the new default, including for anyone on the previous default.
• Backgrounds match your forecast location's landscape by default. Picking a scene in Settings keeps it.
• Coast, Woodlands, Uplands and Drylands are also backgrounds you can pick, right after Open Country.
• Tapping sunrise or sunset quality opens the full quality screen in your language, like on Mac and Apple TV.
Everything else
• Test Notifications, at the end of Settings › Notifications, checks your setup and sends a test notification to this device.
• Notifications keep arriving after iOS renews the app's push registration, without a manual refresh.
• Home stays in your saved locations after you reorder them.
• Apple Watch shows the right place name after you travel.
• Storm Intercept shows it's on only once the setting is saved, and tells you if saving fails.
• Widgets recognize your subscription without opening the app first.
• The 6-hour precipitation chart follows the 24-Hour Clock setting.
• When a tracked storm is a minute or less away, the Storm Tracker card reads "Arriving now" on one line.
• Settings › Siri Shortcuts no longer shows a Siri tip with a placeholder in place of a data point.
• The Apple Watch layout previews in Settings no longer cut off the message shown before the weather has loaded.
• Stars fade gradually as clouds move in at night.
• In Visualize Day, the sun sets behind the photo's skyline instead of fading in mid-air.
• Apple Watch complications fade out long text instead of ending in an ellipsis.
• Fixes for crashes in Settings › Data & Layout, Smart Weather Stories, the iPad locations list and Apple Watch.
See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new
The developer, Higher Bar, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Higher Bar, LLC
- Size
- 305.1 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.1 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 17.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it is not open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
English and 12 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Gold Subscription (iOS Only) ₺999,99
- Silver Subscription (iOS Only) ₺599,99
- Gold Family Subscription ₺1.999,99
- Silver Family Subscription ₺1.199,99
- Copyright
- © 2025 Higher Bar, LLC