Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ranking weather models by how their forecasts turned out
Weather apps all claim to be accurate but never show their work. So I built a scoreboard that checks: it takes the forecasts each model published (ECMWF, GFS, ICON, AIFS and others, plus Apple Weather, Foreca, OpenWeather and Visual Crossing), waits for the weather to happen, and scores temperature, wind and rain against observations. A few things that surprised me: - AIFS performs very well, yet almost no commercial apps give you access to it or uses it in their blend (I suspect some do without disclosing it tho) - Foreca scores surprisingly well compared to other apps and raw models - ICON…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Weather Forecast APIs with weather models from multiple national weather providers, combining the best models for accurate forecasts worldwide. Explore the API documentation to learn more about the available weather models, their origin countries, resolutions, forecast lengths, and update frequencie
2021 · open-meteo.com · its alternatives →
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I was walking around New York last month during some light rain and noticed about half the people had umbrellas open. When the rain picked up a few minutes later, that number jumped closer to 80%. It got me thinking it'd be cool to track this somehow, so I built a website! I am taking a sidewalk livestream, feeding it into a YOLO model for people tracking, then sending a frame of each detected person to Gemini 2.0 Flash, which returns structured JSON about each person's clothing and if they're holding an umbrella. I also had fun making the site look like a TV weather channel. I showed some…
2025 · walzr.com · its alternatives →
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A weather app for people who hate weather apps.
2018 · alcohollick.com · its alternatives →
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The most accurate weather forecasting app
2020 · tomorrow.io · its alternatives →
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Probably the most honest weather app.
2014 · authenticweather.com · its alternatives →
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Weather app for expats showing °C and °F side-by-side
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Karl Weather▲82A beautiful SF microclimate weather app for iOS
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Explore global weather forecasts on interactive maps with temperature, wind, and precipitation overlays. 16-day outlooks for cities worldwide, powered by NOAA GFS.
2014 · weather-explorer.com · its alternatives →
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Weather Screen▲113Bring Real-time Weather Effects to your Mac Screen
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Free weather app with accurate forecasts and weather reports
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Big Weather▲166Independent software consultancy of Tommi Urtti — software architecture and hands-on senior engineering for cloud, mobile and safety-critical systems.
2025 · urtti.com · its alternatives →
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Weather Line 2▲125Your weather forecast in a simple infographic
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Rainy Skies 2.0▲146Your weather app, now with Radar and Apple Watch App
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Live weather forecasts right from your Mac menu bar!
2025 · linktr.ee · its alternatives →
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Forecast▲100Elegant and simple, but yet another weather app
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Live weather and forecasts right in your menu bar or dock.
2019 · forecastbar.com · its alternatives →
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Weatherian▲69Multi-model meteogram, single screen weather forecast app
2023 · weatherian.com · its alternatives →
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