Update 9/21: They extended the deadline to switch apps by 5 months from May to October but ZERO improvements were made to the app in that time. Customer support and company awareness are nonexistent.Original review: First off, what a let down by AcuRite. This app provides less information, looks much worse, and charts are useless. You can not name individual sensors and no longer can share data with weather underground for free. The only option is to pay about $20 per year to save only a year of data and have access to weather underground. Charts do not scale anymore and are curved so much that increases cause the plotted line to appear to go backwards. It also no longer shows lightning distances or times, highs and lows, light interpretation, hours of light, or feels like temperature. It is more difficult to navigate as well. I am very disappointed in AcuRite, especially as a long term customer, as they gave a 2 week notice before forcing everyone to switch without any consideration for existing customers. I will no longer be recommending AcuRite to others and will be switching brands once my current set up stops working. We should not be forced to pay to access more than a months worth of data when we spend hundreds on the equipment and have no other option to view the data.

This doesn’t compare with the original app. Just to look at yesterday’s information you have to change a wheel instead of picking a date from the calendar. Old app had nice full page display. This had a small screen on my iPad. There are so many things wrong with this app it is unusable for how and what information I want. Doesn’t even give you highs and lows for different weather factors for past day or history -only give a graph. I always kept records of highs and lows along with the times. Can’t with this app. If they get rid of the old app I will never use this new one and get a different system probably Ambiant. Why did you want to join an app that contains so many different sensors that are not anything to do with weather. I have that other app it is fine for those sensors but not weather. You are a weather company and you sold out.They are ending the myaccurire app support on Oct 7. They appear not to care about their customers. You are no longer a weather company!Update. Now they are ending the my accurate app on November 4th. What happened they moved it back a month. Have they ever looked at the reviews here. Worst reviews of any app I have ever seen on Apple. Will they learned they have killed their business with this terrible new app just to include sensors that have little to do with weather.

My 8 year old Iris station stopped sending - probably needed batteries - and since it is difficult to get to, I decided to go ahead and replace the system with the new Optimus. I appreciate the availability of the remote battery pack, will make things much easier in the future. The station seems fine, the display is much nicer, but the app isn’t ready for prime time. I agree with an earlier review that it doesn’t seem designed for the weather station enthusiast. To start off, with installation I ended up with 0.05 inches on the rain gauge; I was able to clear this on the display, but AcuRite tells me there is no way to reset the total in the app, so now my app and display don’t match. A small thing, but annoying if you follow the yearly totals. Probably could have avoided this by doing a reset of the display before setting up the app, but who knew? Since my interest is the weather station, I only have the one sensor, but every time I open the app, I have to select that sensor - extra step. Can’t the view default to the previous state? And things like highs and lows, tracked in the ole myAcurite, don’t seem available. And what is going on with the graphs? 48 hours seems to just show the previous 24. What is being graphed for temperature and humidity, the daily average? Not helpful. If not showing you separate curves for the highs and lows but just some average, don’t display the data as a continuous line. I could go on but you get the idea…. I think the hardware of the new system looks good, but they need to realize who their core market is and engineer the app toward those wants. I am sure it will improve with time.

I downloaded it with high hesitation seeing a solid 1 of 5 reviews. When I saw “Smart Life” I instantly knew what happened. Acurite is the second product I use that has decided to get out of the App business and has sold out their data to a 3rd party App services house who knows absolutely nothing about how we loyal weather fanatic customers review and consume our weather data daily. They bundle everything into a common platform Home Services App. and in this case threw together a couple of very basic pages with an Acurite logo to show basic Acurite data. Same problem with my other device company that did this. NO customer interaction or product testing rounds before rolling out. Rookie mistake Acurite. We lost data viewing, history, trends, and all sorts of features we had instantly at our fingertips. What a shame after over 10 years with you when Chaney Instruments was the owner. In the Board Room this looked like an incredible cost cutting measure but in fact it’s a customer cutting feature many of us won’t stand for. Hope you get busy with your new App vendor before this ship sinks. Until I see good reviews here I’m abstaining and spreading the word.