Step back in time while looking ahead at the weather. Halcyon Forecast is a beautifully nostalgic weather application that brings classic, skeuomorphic "HTC Sense" style widgets right to your modern iOS Home Screen, perfectly paired with an immersive, atmospheric weather app experience.
Whether you're checking the temperature before your morning commute or tracking a severe thunderstorm, Halcyon Forecast combines retro aesthetics with powerful, modern weather data.
Features
Iconic Skeuomorphic Widgets: Bring the legendary, classic flip-clock and realistic weather widgets to your iOS Home Screen. Available in Small, Medium, and Large sizes to perfectly fit your aesthetic.
Atmospheric Backgrounds: The app comes alive with stunning, dynamic weather backgrounds that realistically reflect the current conditions and time of day—complete with parallax tilt effects powered by your device's gyroscope.
Immersive Weather Centerpiece: Experience the weather like never before with large, glowing skeuomorphic weather symbols, moving clouds, and mechanical flip animations.
Hyper-Local Forecasting: Get precise current conditions, alongside an interactive 24-hour timeline graph and a comprehensive 5-day extended forecast.
Severe Weather & Rain Alerts: Stay safe and dry with real-time severe weather alert banners and imminent rain warnings that appear exactly when you need them.
Detailed Metrics: Dive into the details with beautiful metric cards for Wind (featuring a spinning skeuomorphic turbine), Humidity, and Precipitation.
Dark Mode Optimized: Designed with a deep, rich dark theme that makes the weather animations pop and the text crisp and legible against any background.
Experience the perfect blend of nostalgic design and modern weather forecasting. Download Halcyon Forecast today!
Was really looking forward to utilizing this app as one of my first widgets and gladly paid the .99 cents. I’m not sure what the deal is but no matter what I do the widget never actually shows on my home screen. It’s just blank. I have all the latest software updates and I have a 17pro. Bummer.
Developer Response
Hi Zwalston,Thank you so much for supporting Halcyon Forecast and taking the time to share your feedback. We are truly sorry for the frustrating first impression!We investigated this immediately on an iPhone 17 Pro and identified the exact bug: on a fresh install before the app has cached local weather data, WidgetKit was encountering a network timeout on cold start, causing iOS to terminate the extension and leave behind a blank container.We have completely resolved this in Version 1.6.9:1. Zero-Lag Gallery Previews: Widgets now render instantly in the Widget Gallery without waiting for network requests.2. Cold-Start Safety Guard: We added a strict timeout safeguard with instantaneous sample fallback so widgets will never freeze or appear blank, even on fresh installs or with slow connectivity.3. Memory Optimization: Reduced timeline footprint to ensure smooth performance across all iPhone 17 Pro & iOS devices.Please update to Version 1.6.9 when it is available from the App Store and re-add your widget, it should appear instantly in all its retro skeuomorphic glory! If you have any further questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us directly at coryblaze@gmail.com. If this resolves the issue, we would be deeply grateful if you'd consider updating your rating. Thank you again for your patience and support!Just to add, you might need to open the app first then add your widget.
Best Weather App!
Cerbberuss
Keeps the updates rolling! Just missing radar but that’s okay by me.
What's New in Version 1.7.2:
• New Braun Bauhaus & Cassette Tape Widgets (2×2, 4×2, 4×4): Added two iconic industrial designs—1960s Dieter Rams Braun Minimalist (precision analog clock dial, barometer/humidity gauge, wind vector anemometer, and 5-day synoptic pods) and 1982 Walkman Cassette Tape (rotating dual spools, mechanical rolling temperature counter, 6-key piano transport bar, handwritten city label, and 5-day mixtape tracklist).
• Redesigned Apple Weather-Style Fullscreen Radar: Edge-to-edge interactive map across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Dark, Satellite, and Hybrid map styles, classic 6-color Doppler precipitation gauge, floating glass timeline dock, 1.0x/1.5x/2.0x playback speeds, and city/country search.
• Street-Level Radar Overzoom & Smooth Playback: High-definition 512px radar tiles with intelligent sub-tile overzoom (Z 8–16) keep precipitation visible down to neighborhood level (2.5 km), with dual-frame buffering and live interactive radar across all dashboard themes (Modern, Classic Mac, Classified Terminal, and Star Trek LCARS).
• 16-Bit Dream, Luminous Terminal & HTC Sense Upgrades: Added intelligent Next Weather Change alerts and an SNES RPG scouting dialogue box to 16-Bit Dream (4×4), a symmetrical Weather Station HUD for Luminous Terminal (2×2), and refined HTC Sense & CRT Channel widget typography.
• New Device Support & Performance: Added full layout and transparent wallpaper support for iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone Duo (foldable), and iPad Extra Large widgets, improved Rain Watch Dynamic Island cutout clearance, and optimized 120Hz ProMotion scrolling.
Version 1.7.2
The developer, Cory Baxter, 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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Information
Seller
Cory Baxter
Size
29.5 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.