RainCue: Rain Alert App

A rain alert app that only goes off when the rain is actually your problem.

RainCue watches the sky over your area and warns you before it starts raining. It isn't another weather app with a seven-day forecast and a cloud icon: it's an alarm for the exact moment you were about to walk out the door.

YOUR ROUTINES ARE THE DIFFERENCE

Tell it when you leave for work, when the laundry is out, when you walk the dog. RainCue only looks at those windows.

• If rain is coming during your window, you get a warning with time to spare and the minute it starts.
• If there's a dry gap before it, it says so: sometimes leaving ten minutes early is all it takes.
• If it isn't going to rain, it says nothing at all.

That silence is the feature, not the lack of one. Most days RainCue is right by staying quiet, which is why you can leave it installed without it turning into one more app that nags.

ALERTS THAT ARRIVE IN TIME

• Pick the area you want watched: home, work, wherever you actually are.
• Set how much rain you care about, from drizzle to downpours only.
• Set quiet hours and sleep through the night.
• Send yourself a test alert any time, so you know how it sounds before you need it.

ON YOUR HOME SCREEN

• A widget with the minutes left before the rain, without opening the app.

WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU OPEN IT

One sentence answering the only thing you were going to ask — is it going to rain, and when — plus a two-hour timeline. Nothing else.

WE'RE HONEST ABOUT THE DATA

Forecast precision is not the same everywhere, and the app says so on screen instead of pretending. Where there's fine weather radar you'll see exact minutes; where there isn't, the app talks in hours and says "may rain" instead of promising. We'd rather tell you we don't know than invent a time.

Weather data from MET Norway and national weather services, credited inside the app.

NO ACCOUNTS, NO SIGN-UP

There's no account to create and no email to hand over. We don't know who you are. We store the coordinates of the areas you pick so we can watch them, and you can delete everything from settings with one button.

Your location is only read if you tap "use my location", and only that once: the app doesn't follow you around or check where you are in the background.

PREMIUM: ONE PAYMENT

The free version keeps one routine active, which is plenty to find out whether this is for you. Premium lets you keep as many routines as you want at once. One payment, not a subscription.