Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather

Screenshots:

https://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/01-main-header-1.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/04-main-daily-hourly-1.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/05-main-daily-hourly-2.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/06-main-daily-hourly-3.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/07-air-quality-pollen.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/08-ephemeris-details.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/10-widgets-1.pnghttps://f-droid.org/repo/org.breezyweather/en-US/phoneScreenshots/11-widgets-2.png

Breezy Weather is a free and open-source Android weather app, forked from Geometric Weather, adding new features, sources, modernizing code, fixing bugs, updating dependencies for security reasons, etc., while keep having a smooth user and developer experience in mind.

Features

  • Weather data

    • Daily and hourly forecasts up to 16 days
      • Temperature
      • Air quality
      • Wind
      • UV index
      • Precipitation
      • Feels like temperature
    • Hourly forecasts
      • Humidity / Dew point
      • Pressure
      • Cloud cover
      • Visibility
    • Precipitation in the next hour
    • Air quality
    • Pollen & Mold
    • Ephemeris (Sun & Moon)
    • Severe weather and precipitation alerts
    • Real-time weather conditions
      • Temperature
      • Feels like
      • Wind
      • UV index
      • Humidity
      • Dew point
      • Atmospheric pressure
      • Visibility
      • Cloud cover
      • Ceiling
  • Multiple weather sources

  • Large selection of home screen widgets for at-a-glance information

  • Live wallpaper

  • Custom icon packs

    • Geometric Weather icon packs
    • Chronus Weather icon packs
  • Automatic dark mode

  • Looking for radar? Check out this document

  • Free and Open Source

    • No proprietary blobs/dependencies (versions 5.0.0-alpha and later)
    • Releases generated by GitHub actions, guaranteeing it matches the source code
    • Fully works with Open-Meteo (FOSS source)
  • Privacy-friendly

    • No personal data collected by the app (link to app privacy policy)
    • Multiple sources are available, with links to their privacy policies for transparency
    • Current location is optional and not added by default
    • If using current location, an IP location service can be used instead of GPS to send less accurate coordinates to weather source
    • No trackers/automatic crash reporters

Note: If the link isn’t working for you or if you can’t find the app, update the default F-Droid repository in your F-Droid client.

FatLegTed, (edited )
@FatLegTed@piefed.social avatar

Just found it and managed to load it into Niagara launcher.

Excellent looking, but it's only been running for 5 mins so I can't really judge it ;-)

CyberDine,

Great app, just wish they had a radar.

Also for my American brethren that also use Freedom units, you might have to set speed, temperature, volume, pressure measurements to something our smooth brains can understand:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d2f4bb08-097d-42ec-b656-ee61160b499d.jpeg

apocalypticat,
@apocalypticat@lemmy.world avatar

Why does it send intermittent notifications stating the update failed?

CyberDine,

I had to mess around in Android/Samsung settings to give it permissions to run in the background.

apocalypticat,
@apocalypticat@lemmy.world avatar

That’s probably why that happened to me, on Android as well. I set the location setting to work only while using the app. I think since I turned off notifications, it stopped sending the failed update message.

AnActOfCreation,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

I ended up just disabling that notifications channel cuz I don’t care that much it it fails in the background.

GekkoState,

Does it have any widgets lines the cure day/time/weather or 5 day outlook.

I’m one of those people that would rather have a weather widget on my home screen than opening an app every time.

Sentau,

Yes it has tons of widget option with clock + weather being one option and weekly weather being another

Foxfire,
@Foxfire@pawb.social avatar

Glad I saw this post today, downloaded and love it straight away! So clean and exactly what I wanted out of a FOSS weather app.

michael_palmer,

It’s the best weather app for Android. Beautiful design and great optimization.

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Nice app. I’m currently using the yr app from the Norwegian weather services. It would be great if that API could be implemented.

I only have one choice for weather data as it stands.

cinnamonTea,

From what I see, MET Norway is an option for weather sources, is that the right one?

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

It only gives me the one option in the app. But MET Norway should be it…

cinnamonTea,

For me it’s when I add a new location, then I get to choose what sources to pull from

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Yeah but there are not as much options there as the ‘help me choose’ GitHub link suggests. Open météo is the only option.

Will have to look into this later.

cinnamonTea,

Very strange. I installed through the neo store a week or so ago and have a couple options https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/bc980ffb-7168-40f4-a3a9-9e8a68eeb8a5.png

cinnamonTea,

The version is 5.1.8_fdroid, which is the same one I also see in fdroid

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

In neo store it allowed me to install the Izzy version, which lets me select multiple sources. It’s weird not to have that in every install, though

cinnamonTea,

Definitely strange… Glad it worked out, though

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

I’ll try the neo store version later and see if it differs somehow. In the documentation there’s some take about ‘flavors’ of the same app, which is a bit bizarre imho.

Phrey,

It looks like it’s excluded from the F-Droid build.

David,

Been using it for a while now. Great Weather App

jol,

Ohh I’m so glad. I was on geometric weather and it stopped working a few weeks ago. It’s a beautiful app.

ReakDuck,

Downloaded and using now instead of “Tiny weather forecast germany”

yoz,

Does it have beautiful widget for home screen ?

Hedlosa,

Multiple, and very customisable

RalphWolf,

Tried it, decided to stay with Weawow which is beyond excellent.

JustEnoughDucks,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

Best weather app since DarkSky. I love the notification of impending rain! Very helpful in Belgium where it rains half of the year sporadically.

vort3,
@vort3@lemmy.ml avatar

Can it show something like a dashboard with forecasts for multiple cities at once?

barryamelton,

Yep, it has a widget for that.

vort3,
@vort3@lemmy.ml avatar

You mean, homescreen widget?

No in app view for that?

I just installed the app and it looks pretty cool, but can’t find forecast graphs for multiple locations on the same screen anywhere.

cinnamonTea,

If it’s just about current weather, the locations view kind of does this. Otherwise, I’d be super interested to hear which app you’d seen that in before, sounds like an interesting feature

vort3,
@vort3@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t think it’s FOSS (that’s why I’m looking for a replacement), but Klara does this: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/460e6096-0cc2-4910-beea-4b91332723ff.jpeg

cinnamonTea,

Very cool feature, thanks for sharing!

vort3,
@vort3@lemmy.ml avatar

No problem.

If you ever find a FOSS alternative, let me know :-)

nfsu2,
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

Ive been using it for over a year now and it has been a breeze

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