Tired of looking at columns of numbers and trying to form an internal visualization out of them, or wondering how the cloud cover and precipitation likelihood will actually change over time from those crazy weather symbols, etc.? You may find, like me, that this information-loaded, incredibly intuitive, wholistic, and instantly comprehensible weather app is the only one you need ... it did away with all my favorites accumulated over years of searching, except the couple I keep for alerts & radar. This amazing app translates reams of data into a visual representation that is immediately comprehensible by the day or week. The widgets in themselves convey such a quick understanding of the detailed weather picture that opening the app is often not necessary. Weather Strip should have 10 times the number of 5-star reviews shown on the App Store.

Weather Strip earns it place on my home screen with the amount of information it packs into each glance. It is a brilliant portrayal of the immediate situation and what’s to come. I think the design is brilliant, but I can’t say the same for the color scheme. The poor color choices are my reason for giving the app only four stars. Weather Strip makes every day seem a bit gloomy and flat. I wish the developer at least provided one or two alternative color choices, and that one of these was a bit brighter. I would like a brighter sun in a bluer sky for the sunny days, darker more brooding clouds for the cloudy days, shinier snow, wetter rain. It would be wonderful if Weather Strip not only gave me the information at a glance, but helped me feel the weather at a glance. Still, nothing else in the App Store comes close to matching Weather Strip yet. It will stay on my home screen even if it is a bit dull to look at.

There’s nothing quite like Weather Strip. Once you get used to the interface, which takes about one minute for the first 98%, then a day for the rest, you can learn everything you need to know about the weather for today and for the week in five seconds, with more detail than any block of numbers and letters. More important, you get the feeling of weather trends at the same time. It’s like having a watch that’s both digital and analog at the same time — only for weather. The interface could use a little cleaning up, and I would love the ability to go backward in time and see yesterday’s weather, or last week’s.