Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar

Hourly Rain and Storm Alerts

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

The weather app that lives in your menu bar: the temperature one glance away, then a click for live radar, storm alerts and a 15-day forecast from three trusted sources. The weather app that lives in your menu bar. Forecast Bar puts hyper-accurate weather one glance away. Three independent data sources — The Weather Company, Apple Weather, and the NWS — combine for the best possible accuracy. The temperature, conditions, or any data point you care about sits quietly in your menu bar, and a single click opens a rich, animated forecast with an hourly timeline, 15-day outlook, radar, alerts, and AI-powered weather stories. MENU BAR WEATHER, REIMAGINED Seven display styles, up to five independent items per screen, each showing a different data point — temperature, feels-like, humidity, wind, UV, precipitation chance, and more. Live updates every refresh, adjustable sizing, and per-screen height memory so nothing jumps when you switch monitors. THE FORECAST POPOVER One click opens a richly detailed, scrollable forecast: current conditions with a "next hour" precipitation narrative, an animated 48-hour timeline, a tappable 15-day outlook, full NWS severe weather alerts, an inline mini radar, and expandable detail screens for every metric — temperature, wind, UV, pollen, AQI, pressure, sun, and moon. TEAR-AWAY PANEL Drag the popover off the menu bar and it becomes its own window — complete with title bar and close button — that you can park anywhere on your desktop. Perfect for severe weather days, second-monitor setups, or keeping an eye on the hourly timeline while you work. Drag back to snap home, or press Escape to redock. SMART WEATHER STORIES (Pro) AI-powered daily briefings written just for you. Choose a tone — Just the Facts, Friendly Narrative, or a custom prompt — and Forecast Bar surfaces what actually matters: "Grab a jacket for the 3pm meeting — a cold front arrives at 2." Optionally factors in your calendar and refreshes throughout the day. FULL-FEATURED RADAR A standalone radar window with live precipitation worldwide, future radar, precipitation type, satellite, live lightning, 24-hour totals, temperature and wind maps, UV index, driving conditions, and aurora forecast. NWS warnings draw directly on the map, and critical alerts can break through Do Not Disturb. NOTIFICATIONS THAT ACTUALLY HELP NWS alerts the moment they're issued for every US location you save. Pro adds precipitation nowcasts, custom alerts on any data point, morning and evening reports, sunset and earthquake alerts, aurora alerts, and celestial events — all with quiet hours and granular controls. AND MORE • Global keyboard shortcuts — fully customizable, system-wide (Pro) • Unlimited saved locations with worldwide search and Follow Me mode • Multiple themes with dynamic backgrounds and full Dark Mode support • iCloud sync across all your Apple devices • Fully native for macOS Forecast Bar offers two subscriptions: Plus for the full weather experience, and Pro for everything in Plus plus Smart Weather Stories AI, extended radar layers, custom notifications, keyboard shortcuts, and more. --- 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/

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• Radar Views: Storm, Rain & Flood, Winter, Tropical, Travel and Clean set every layer in one click • 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; arrow keys step frames • 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-click zoom • Radar Overlays: tinted switches, blue layer symbols while on, and a note under each layer • Radar settings add Map Style and Weather Warnings, so both can be set without opening the radar • The radar window marks a saved city with a small dot • Radar timeline labels, weather attribution and map credits no longer crowd each other • 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 • City Packs lead Theme & Visual Style: watch a day in your city, see its pack and request a city • 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 • The hourly chart crossfades between data points with different scales • Smart Weather Stories asks for calendar access when needed; Select Calendars appears once granted • A weather load that fails in transport recovers on its own • The animated sky uses less power, and rests after 5 minutes with no keyboard or mouse input • Widgets do less repeated work on each refresh • Opening Forecast Bar from a widget or link while it is still launching no longer crashes • Fixes rare crashes in current conditions, the temperature gauge and the settings forecast preview See everything that's new at forecastbar.com/whats-new

The developer, Higher Bar, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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Seller
Higher Bar, LLC
Size
225.1 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.3 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 13.3 or later.
Languages
English and 12 more
  • English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • 1 Year 15min Updates (Premium) $9.99
  • One Year of 15 Minute Updates $7.99
  • One Year of 1 Hour Background $4.99
  • 1 Year 10min Updates (Premium) $14.99
  • 1 Year 60min Updates (Premium) $7.99
  • One Year of 10min Updates $11.99
  • One Year of 15min Background Updates $6.99
  • One Month of 15 Minute Updates $1.49
  • One Year of 10min Background Updates $9.99
  • Premium Upgrade (Add-On) $2.99
Copyright
© 2020 Higher Bar, LLC