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24 alternatives to Weather Screen

Bring Real-time Weather Effects to your Mac Screen

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Weather Screen launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Rain Screen▲286
Make your Mac rain
2024 · rain-screen.netlify.app · its alternatives →
2
Big Weather▲95
Weather at a glance, right in the menubar of your Mac
2022 · pandora88.work · its alternatives →
3
Weather Status▲80
A super detailed mac weather app
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
4
Weather Dock Express▲62
Mac Weather app with Photorealistic animations
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
5
Forecast Bar for Mac▲68
Live weather and forecasts right in your menu bar or dock.
2019 · forecastbar.com · its alternatives →
6
StormScape▲130
Dynamic weather effects for macos
2025 · its alternatives →
7
Degrees▲218
See the current temperature & weather in your Mac's menu bar
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
Big Weather▲166
Independent software consultancy of Tommi Urtti — software architecture and hands-on senior engineering for cloud, mobile and safety-critical systems.
2025 · urtti.com · its alternatives →
9
Weather Up 3.0▲109
A whole weather app, on your Home Screen & Apple Watch
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
10
Hourglass▲211
Dynamic Mac desktop
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
11
Mercury Weather▲164
A beautifully designed weather app
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
12
StormScreen▲6
Live rain & lightning animations for your Mac desktop
Jan 2026 · cybertech44.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
13
Dear Sun▲88
Weather at a peek for Mac
2021 · dearsun.app · its alternatives →
14
Pixel Weather▲124
8-bit weather app ☀️👾
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
A Weather Way▲71
See how the weather impacts your planned day
2016 · its alternatives →
16
Brezy▲7
Turn your Mac desktop into a living weather scene
Jul 2026 · brezy.app · its alternatives →
17
Moody▲119
Your Mac wallpaper that listens to your music & weather
May 2026 · moody-wallpapers.pages.dev · its alternatives →
18
Weather Forecast App: Menu bar ▲19
Live weather forecasts right from your Mac menu bar!
2025 · linktr.ee · its alternatives →
19
Weather.io▲80
Weather webapp with clean UI and glassmorphism look
2021 · its alternatives →
20
Solace▲171
macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…
Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →
21
Cloudy▲117
Your new favourite weather app for iOS ☀️
2018 · getcloudy.app · its alternatives →
22
Weather mini for Mac▲160
Meet Weather mini 3, smart weather cards on your wrist.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather▲229
A hobby project of mine that was surprisingly easy to put together! I love waking up and seeing the freshly generated image.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
24
Basic Weather▲148
Your new daily weather app. With GIFs. 🌤
2017 · its alternatives →

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