A phone-first weather app built to answer “what do I actually need to know?” at a glance — one screen, no clutter, no account, no ads.

• 📱One screen, portrait-first. The whole picture fits without scrolling.
• 🗣️Plain-language outlook. “Rain likely around 3 PM,” read straight from the hourly data.
• ↔️Swipe through time. Hourly (48 h back, 72 h ahead) and daily (7 days back, 16 ahead) strips.
• 📍Find any place. Search a city or street address, or open the map and tap anywhere to forecast that exact spot.
• 💧Precipitation you can see. Water-fill bars scaled to amount, tinted by probability.
• 🫁Air quality. A colour-coded air-quality index — Canada’s AQHI (1–10) for Canadian locations, the US AQI everywhere else. Tap the “Air” line on the summary for the details — a scale showing where your reading sits among all the categories, what the category means, and a breakdown of pollutants like PM2.5 and ozone.
• ⚠️No severe-weather alerts. Better Weather doesn’t issue or show watches and warnings. For official alerts, check your national weather service — in Canada, Environment Canada (weather.gc.ca).
• 🌙Handcrafted details. Live moon phase, a custom fog icon, aligned numbers, day markers.
• 🗺️Live radar map. Animated precipitation you can scrub back through time.
• 🔓Free & private. Powered by Open-Meteo — no keys, no tracking, no sign-in.
• How the forecast works
• 🕰️Honest history. Recent past days are the model’s best estimate; days older than ~5 days switch to observation-based reanalysis — what actually happened. (Chance-of-rain stays model-based.)
• 📐An area, not a pinpoint. Each forecast covers a small area — typically 1–3 km across near towns, larger in remote spots — not one exact address. The yellow circle on the Map marks it.