WillyWeather 4+

Good but not perfect!

I have to say I’m a bit of a weather app tragic and I’ve been a Pocket Weather AU customer since it launched. I’m now using Willy Weather since the new owners of Pocket Weather decided to close it down.

Willy Weather is a good app and I can get most of the information I need but it’s missing some simple functionality which would make it even better - mostly a quick way to scroll between different cities you’ve added easily and different weather options like temp, rain, wind, etc. rather than having to select from a menu all the time. Scrolling between pages would turn a 3-4 step process into a simple swipe. You can do all the things you need but not simply by swiping and that would improve the hell out of a good app.

For now, I’m running with Willy Weather.

Removed shortcut buttons: less user friendly

This app has never saved the changes made to the default graph on the main screen. Most irritating. Fortunately at the top of the screen there was an icon giving one-tap access to my saved customised graph. Open app, tap, voila: I could see the thing that I refer to most often and exactly how I want it. *Now* I have to open app, tap on favourites, scroll to the bottom of my saved places list (because I can’t even move my graph favourite to the top) and tap again. So Developer Greg, *please* don’t paste in your boiler plate text about how it’s still “easy” to see a custom graph. I know how to do it. It’s now more steps and more user friction.

If you’re not going to restore the shortcut buttons, please let us edit the sequence of panels on the main screen so those who want to see a (custom!) graph at the top can, those who want forecasts first can, those who want radar first, etc. You let us edit tab sequence, how about main screen panels?

Backstory: I’m seeking a replacement to the superb but now defunct Pocket Weather, which opened with graph view rather than forecasts, and I thought this app might have been the one. I even paid to remove ads. But with this change (together with the need to scroll to see radar instead of tapping on the radar icon to jump to it) I’m rethinking that.

Developer Response ,

Hi Thomasina, Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I am flagging it for discussion. We do listen, but like all app developers we have future directions and plans that we do not always disclose. Moving the map and graph shortcuts frees up real estate that can be used in other ways. The favourites system is a step forward for us, also. Be assured, however, that we are a very active team, and are always tweaking. Hopefully we can justify your initial faith in the future. Greg, WillyWeather Support

I love it but it needs a tweak

I love this app, I’m a weather nerd and this one has all the general information I want on a daily basis in one place.
A new feature is audio notifications. It’s a great idea but the execution is very annoying and disrupting at times. I would like to be able to tweak the sensitivity of alerts in the same way that I can with the Rain Parrot app, which tells me if there’s rain coming but I can choose the hours I want to be notified within (not bedtime), how much rain I want to know about and when (I don’t bother with light rain, just heavier, and only 20minutes or less out, not an hour away because I live in a rain shadow and most of those alerts end up being a false alarm). I would like to be able to turn off audio sheep graziers and flood warnings as I live in the district but those warnings don’t apply to me, but keep storm, wind and fire weather type warnings.
If you could continue to develop the usefulness and personalisation of notifications it will only improve Willy Weather. Then I would happily rate it 5 stars.