Skyhue

Weather, drawn.

A forecast you can read at a glance: the place you're in as a living scene, and the numbers that decide your day beneath it.

Free on the App Store. Skyhue Plus, an optional subscription, is on its way.

Skyhue's home screen for Atlanta on an iPhone: a drawn clear late morning, 67 degrees, with the daily and hourly forecast cards below

The forecast, drawn

The sky over the kind of place you are in, a sun or moon where it really stands, rain when rain is coming. Today's numbers sit beneath it in tiles you can read without hunting: feels like, wind, humidity, UV, visibility, pressure, sun and moon.

Weather data by Apple Weather. Data sources.

A drawn cloudy day over Seattle: 48 degrees, feels like 45, with the daily forecast card below

The next hour, minute by minute

When rain or snow is close, a card appears under the sky with sixty minute marks: when it starts, when it peaks, when it's over. Light rain shows its shape too, not a flat line.

The rain shown is an example.

Birmingham, Alabama, 67 degrees, with an example next-hour card: light rain for the next hour, heaviest around 19 minutes, drawn as sixty minute marks

The Planner

Verdicts, not just figures. The best hour to be outside, how the trails are after the last rain, whether tonight is a night for stars, when the frost comes, what sunscreen you'll want, and how the sunset will look, each with its reason.

Part of Skyhue Plus.

The Planner for Baltimore: Best hour 1 to 4 PM, Laundry poor, Golden hour 5:46 to 6:13 PM, Stargazing poor, Sunscreen midday, Sunset plain, Frost none, Trails dry

Tonight's sky

How dark your sky really is, from NASA's night-light satellite data, on a map you can pan. Which constellations and planets are up tonight. And when the aurora has a chance, from NOAA's forecast, with its own map.

Maps are part of Skyhue Plus.

The Sky map over Puget Sound: light pollution from NASA night-light data as a coloured overlay, city sky over Seattle and Tacoma, darker sky toward the Olympic Peninsula

Every tile has its page

Tap any number and the page opens on what it means for you, then the day as a timetable, ruled hour by hour, with the peak and the thresholds marked. Wind gets a dial, the sun an arc, the moon a strip of the week's phases.

The Wind page for Atlanta: a drawn dial reading 11 mph, gusts 18, from the east-northeast, then the next 24 hours as a ruled board

Weather alerts, as they are issued

Warnings, watches and advisories for your places appear under the sky, each with the issuing office, when it ends, and what to do. Tap one for the full text from Apple's alert page. Turn on notices and Skyhue tells you about rain, frost, aurora and alerts, planned on your phone from the forecast it already has.

Notices are part of Skyhue Plus. The alert shown is an example.

An example severe thunderstorm warning shown as a row under Baltimore's clear day sky, with the issuing office and the instruction to take shelter

Nothing about you leaves your phone

No account, no analytics, no trackers. Skyhue fetches forecasts by rounded coordinates from its own server over an encrypted connection, searches its own copy of the world's place names, and keeps a count of every request it has ever made that you can read in the app.

The full privacy policy.

The Data & Privacy page in Skyhue listing its data sources, starting with Apple Weather and GeoNames

Ready to try it?

Skyhue is free on the App Store for iPhone. Skyhue Plus, an optional subscription on its way, will add the Planner, the sky maps, notices and alternate icons.

Download on the App Store