# Apple Weather

20 Hacker News commenters recommended Apple Weather and 54 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Praised for accurate rain and wind forecasts and a 10-day view with precipitation; critics say it lags Dark Sky on accuracy and notifications.

## Why people recommend it

- Accurate rain and weather forecasts (5 comments): "The rainfall-per-minute over the next hour on iOS seems about the same accuracy as Dark Sky had" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566165)) "seems the most accurate forecast for Prague when it comes to TP/FP for rain in Prague" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606893)) "the iOS weather app is hyper accurate I’ve found in Europe in comparison to America" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608806))
- Matches Dark Sky accuracy since acquisition (3 comments): "The rainfall-per-minute over the next hour on iOS seems about the same accuracy as Dark Sky had" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566165)) "Apple's weather app is finally good though since the Dark Sky acquisition." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098932)) "it works the same as it did with Dark Sky" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573083))
- Smooth and well optimized app (2 comments): "Overall the app is relatively optimized" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236630)) "the macOS one feels very smooth" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249748))

## What people warn about

- Less accurate than Dark Sky (4 comments): "they've never gotten close to the the accuracy and reliability that Dark Sky had for everything local climate/weather related" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713575)) "Apple Weather has never been as accurate as Dark Sky for me, especially for rain forecast." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611610)) "mostly with Apple Weather as the source (no source is as good as Dark Sky was" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569254))
- Rain forecasts often wrong (3 comments): "I've been burned by Apple's rain forecast many times causing me to time my bike ride home at the worst possible time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959481)) "A lot of times I’m literary standing in the rain and Apple tells me the chance for rain is 0%" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567636)) "Its precipitation percentages have also been much more accurate than Apple weather" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567676))
- Uses too much RAM (4 comments): "250 MB is exactly the sort of bloat you'd expect from this sort of daft web-browser-wrapper application" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235821)) "can jump to 1GB on a mac if you click around a little with the wind gust direction particle effect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233201)) "Even a weather app that uses "only" 250MB of RAM should never have been delivered" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237240))
- Awkward, dull design (4 comments): "Apple Weather is functional, but dull." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573080)) "They just feel awkward and unreliable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957825)) "I got fed up with several things in Apple Weather but they appeared to be lack of care and attention to design" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521276))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Brolly](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brolly.md): 28 recommend
- [Sundial weather app](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sundial.md): 22 recommend
- [Acme Weather](https://hackerapproved.com/p/acme-weather.md): 17 recommend
- [Yr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yr-no.md): 12 recommend
- [wttr.in](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wttr-in.md): 11 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Apple Weather", https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-weather/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).