Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar
Higher Bar, LLC Weather iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar is a free Weather app for iPhone and iPad by Higher Bar, LLC. Rated 4.5/5 from 2,805 ratings. Requires iOS 16.1.
- Rating
- 4.5
- 2.8K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 293 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 27
- 2026 · v11.8.1
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About Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar
*** Featured by Apple, Lifehacker, Macworld and Cult of Mac! *** Forecast Bar offers hyper accurate, hyper local live weather and forecasts right at your fingertips, and is customizable to fit your needs. With 12+ Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets, including a multi-city widget to see weather in up to 4 locations at once. Forecast Bar includes a beautiful and powerful Apple Watch App with 100+ customizable complications, including hourly and daily visual forecasts, Graphs to visualize several different data points, or a Custom Modular with 3 customizable lines. The Watch app is fully customizable, with 3 custom data points you can add, a customizable hourly data point. You can also customize your backgrounds with several options including using your own images, as well as custom font and font size throughout the app. == Completely Redesigned for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass == Track storms like never before with our all-new NOAA-powered radar featuring live lightning strikes, aurora forecasts, and marine warnings. Watch precipitation approach in real-time right from your Lock Screen with our new Live Activity—see exactly when rain starts and ends without opening the app. Smart Weather Stories transforms forecasts into personalized AI summaries. Connect your calendar to get advice tailored to your plans: "Light rain during your 2pm meeting—bring an umbrella." Never miss a stunning sky with aurora visibility alerts, eclipse notifications, and Beautiful Sunset alerts. Now with iOS 26 Liquid Glass design. == Built Different == Crafted by a 2-person team over a decade. Trusted daily by users who call it "the most accurate weather app" they've used. Always improving—because your weather app should be. == Stay Informed with Push Notifications == - Personalized daily weather reports for any location, at any time you wish - Push notifications for severe weather alerts in the United States - Precipitation alerts sent reliably from our servers (Gold only) - Custom notifications and alerts! You can configure 14 different data points to look out for what matters to you. For example, get notified in the morning when wind during the day will rise above a certain speed, or if temperatures overnight will drop below freezing. (Gold only) - Beautiful Sunset alerts that give you a heads up when a stunning sunset (or sunrise!) is heading your way. Get your cameras ready! (Gold only) - Get notified when earthquakes hit near you! (Gold only) == Weather at a glance, or in depth == - Quickly check the current conditions or forecast for 14 days at a glance, including a succinct summary - Tap on any day's forecast to see an hour-by-hour breakdown - Gorgeous animated weather backgrounds - Apple Weather provided minute-by-minute rain forecasts - Tap again to see rich, interactive charts of even more details like dew point, pressure, visibility, UV index and more - Choose between a compact and highly visual view for weather at up to 8 locations at a time - Animated weather radar in the United States, Europe and Australia, including future radar forecasts, as well as 10+ other powerful visualizations - Forecast Bar supports iPad multitasking in Slide Over and Split Screen All subscriptions to Forecast Bar include a free 7 day trial Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. They will automatically renew at the end of your subscription period unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions or turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Our privacy policy and terms of use are here: http://forecastbar.com/privacy-policy-for-forecast-bar.pdf and https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & reviews
4.5
2.8K ratings
What’s new
Version 11.8.1 · Updated October 27, 2026
• Radar Views: Storm, Rain & Flood, Winter, Tropical, Travel and Clean set every layer in one tap • Save your own Radar Views from the chip row atop the Overlays sheet • Radar Slow motion: pause, then replay the half hour around it slowly, frame by frame • Radar storms glide between frames instead of fading in and out • Two-minute scans fill Slow motion, scrubbing and the newest frames; Radar settings turns them off • Radar pauses briefly on the newest scan before looping • The radar opens on the first forecast frame, and the timeline glides during playback • Sharper zoomed-in radar and a smoother color scale • Smooth Radar plays evenly across scans and keeps playing after a double-tap zoom • Radar Overlays: tinted switches, blue layer symbols while on, and a note under each layer • Radar warnings are a count chip beside Legend that opens the list upward • The radar's five-hour weather strip starts off; turn on Show Weather Overlay in Radar settings • Radar timeline labels and map credits no longer crowd each other, even with large text • The Radar widget shows European and Australian radar outside the US • Forecast Discussion: a new reader with section pills, key messages, and watch and warning rows • Forecast Discussion Icon (Forecasts ▸ Week Ahead) adds a shortcut to the Week Ahead card • iPad and the open iPhone Duo keep current conditions pinned beside Daily, Details or Live Radar • Split View: swap sides, drag the divider, and pick layouts in Settings ▸ Split View • City Packs lead Theme & Visual Style: watch a day in your city, see its pack and request a city • Long-press the City Packs scene card to preview that pack's scenes • Pollen Count: types listed worst-first, each with its own artwork, level meter and tree species • Air Quality: the reading and its category lead, with a 24-hour forecast and pollutant pills • Sunrise & Sunset: the sun moves along a glowing arc, dotted for the rest of the day • Sunrise & Sunset on the Lock Screen now matches the gauges beside it • Apple Watch: the Trio complication with a header spreads its gauges across the full width • The hourly chart crossfades between data points with different scales • The 4 and 5 Day Forecast widgets show each day's chance of precipitation • The forecast stays on screen while it refreshes, and a failed load recovers on its own • ProMotion iPhones and iPads run the animated sky and Visualize Day at up to 120 frames per second • The animated sky uses less power and rests after 10 minutes without a touch or while covered • Widgets and Apple Watch complications do less repeated work on each refresh • Fixes rare crashes in current conditions, the temperature gauge and the settings forecast preview See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new
App privacy
The developer, Higher Bar, LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
- Identifiers: User ID
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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