Dark Sky AlternativesWeather Forecast Tools and other similar apps like Dark Sky

Dark Sky is described as 'Can tell you at a glance exactly when it will rain (or snow) up to an hour in advance, so you’re free to walk the dog or play another set of tennis and know you’ll stay dry. You can also explore the most beautiful weather animation you’ve ever seen, both forward in time' and is a weather forecast tool in the online services category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Dark Sky for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad, Web-based and Android Tablet apps. The best Dark Sky alternative is Breezy Weather, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dark Sky are Geometric Weather, Windy, AccuWeather and Clima.

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  1. Breezy Weather icon
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    Breezy Weather is a weather app with a strong focus on design, with a simple, clean UX, smooth animations, and Material Design all over, plus lots of customizability.

    88 Breezy Weather alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
    • Breezy Weather is the most popular Android alternative to Dark Sky.

    • Breezy Weather is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Dark Sky.

    • Breezy Weather is Free and Open SourceDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
    • Breezy Weather is Privacy focused and LightweightDark Sky is not according to our users
  2. Geometric Weather is a light and powerful weather app that provides you with real-time temperature, air quality, 15-days weather forecast, and accurate time-sharing trends.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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    Comments about Geometric Weather as an Alternative to Dark Sky
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    After Dark Sky was acquired by Apple in March 2020, they shut down their Android and Wear OS apps in August 2020. They also announced that their iOS app, website, and API (for third-party apps) will shutdown at the end of 2022. Geometric Weather is the best alternative to Dark Sky that I have come across. It is open source and ad-free, and it uses AccuWeather data, which The Outline says is accurate about 75% of the time compared to Dark Sky's 64-67%.

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    • Geometric Weather is Free and Open SourceDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
    • Geometric Weather is Customizable and Privacy focusedDark Sky is not according to our users
  3. Windy icon
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    Windy.com is an extraordinary tool for weather forecast visualization. It’s fast, intuitive, detailed and most accurate weather app trusted by professional pilots, paragliders, skydivers, kiters, surfers, boaters, fishermen, storm chasers and weather geeks, and even by...

    101 Windy alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
     
    • Windy is the most popular Web-based, iPhone & iPad alternative to Dark Sky.

    • Windy is Freemium and ProprietaryDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
    • Windy is CustomizableDark Sky is not according to our users
  4. AccuWeather icon
     38 likes

    AccuWeather is an app that provides hourly, daily and 15-day weather forecasts, which you can integrate with your calendar.

    158 AccuWeather alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Android Wear
    • Kindle Fire
    • Messages
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
     
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    Comments about AccuWeather as an Alternative to Dark Sky
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    I like AccuWeather more because it is not owned by the bloody apple company which suddenly drops support for any device other than apple made. Also supposedly AccuWeather has higher forecast accuracy.

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    • AccuWeather is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Dark Sky.

    • AccuWeather is Freemium and ProprietaryDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Clima icon
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    Beautiful, minimal, and fast weather app that uses the OpenWeatherMap API. (Requires Android 6.0 or later)

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  6. OpenWeather icon
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    OpenWeather - free weather data and forecast API. We provide quickly updated current weather and forecast for any location due to unique algorithms of weather calculation.

    78 OpenWeather alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. CARROT Weather is an eerily accurate weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts. There are secret locations to unlock. And also evil penguins.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
    • Messages
    • visionOS
     
    • CARROT Weather is the most popular Mac alternative to Dark Sky.

    • CARROT Weather is Freemium and ProprietaryDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
  8. Weather icon
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    A small application that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world, and to access updated forecasts provided by various internet services.

    129 Weather alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
    • Weather is the most popular Linux alternative to Dark Sky.

    • Weather is Free and Open SourceDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
    • Weather is LightweightDark Sky is not according to our users
  9. Yr.no icon
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    yr.no is the joint online weather service from the norwegian Meteorological Institute and the norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

    126 Yr.no alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  10. meteoblue icon
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    meteoblue offers precise weather forecasts by combining its own high resolution weather model with over 30 other models from all major weather services in the world to create the most likely forecast.

    85 meteoblue alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  11. wttr.in icon
     5 likes

    A console-oriented weather forecast service that supports various information representation methods like terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients (curl, httpie, or wget), HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • wttr.in is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Dark Sky.

    • wttr.in is Free and Open SourceDark Sky is Paid and Proprietary
    • wttr.in is Lightweight and Privacy focusedDark Sky is not according to our users
  12. Forecastie icon
     25 likes

    Forecastie is a great app for staying updated with the surrounding weather conditions. Forecastie is designed to be as simple and intuitive as possible. This app uses OpenWeatherMap as a data channel and the weather updates are tiny so that you would not use up any significant...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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