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Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather

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A powerful, open-source Material Design weather app.

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Breezy Weather is a free and open-source Android weather app, forked from Geometric Weather, adding new features, sources, modernizing code, fixing bugs, updating dependencies for security reasons, etc., while keep having a smooth user and developer experience in mind.

Features

Weather data
- Daily and hourly forecasts up to 16 days
  - Temperature
  - Air quality
  - Wind
  - UV index
  - Precipitation
  - Feels like temperature
- Hourly forecasts
  - Humidity / Dew point
  - Pressure
  - Cloud cover
  - Visibility
- Precipitation in the next hour
- Air quality
- Pollen & Mold
- Ephemeris (Sun & Moon)
- Severe weather and precipitation alerts
- Real-time weather conditions
  - Temperature
  - Feels like
  - Wind
  - UV index
  - Humidity
  - Dew point
  - Atmospheric pressure
  - Visibility
  - Cloud cover
  - Ceiling
Multiple weather sources
Large selection of home screen widgets for at-a-glance information
Live wallpaper
Custom icon packs
- Geometric Weather icon packs
- Chronus Weather icon packs
Automatic dark mode
Looking for radar? Check out this document
Free and Open Source
- No proprietary blobs/dependencies (versions 5.0.0-alpha and later)
- Releases generated by GitHub actions, guaranteeing it matches the source code
- Fully works with Open-Meteo (FOSS source)
Privacy-friendly
- No personal data collected by the app (link to app privacy policy)
- Multiple sources are available, with links to their privacy policies for transparency
- Current location is optional and not added by default
- If using current location, an IP location service can be used instead of GPS to send less accurate coordinates to weather source
- No trackers/automatic crash reporters

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78 comments

Best weather app I've used. FOSS but unlike most FOSS weather apps, it doesn't FEEL like your typical FOSS alternative.

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- So it doesn't feel better than the typical bloated half working must pay now and "sacrifice your first born" app?
  
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it also supports Gadgetbridge integration, so I get the weather data from it on my watch.

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- Here's the TIL I need.
  
  Thanks noodlejetski (c:
  
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  Same, thanks original commenter!
  
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- Can this be used on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4?
  
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  https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/
  
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My favorite feature is the 1-row weekly weather widget for my home screen. I have that next to its 1x1 widget for everything I want at a glance using minimal space.

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- Customized widgets is my number 1 desire for most apps
  
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  yeah maybe i'm dumb, but for example in the put a few cities widget they offer, I don't seem to have the option to show for example air pollution instead of temperature. Bummer.
  
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I've been using it for a while now and I love it. FOSS and pretty and customisable.

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Hey, I use this app! It's awesome. They also included lots of information about the air quality measurements, which I appreciated. For example:

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- Than you very much! I've been using this app for moths and I didn't know this. Cool feature.
  
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It's the best weather app for Android. Beautiful design and great optimization.

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I discovered this after giving up on the BBC weather app because it wants me to sign in.

It's been really good, I love the details and it's been getting regular updates. Recommended.

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My weather app of choice for about a year now. Really nice interface and solid performance.

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- I've landed on it as the best blend of accurate and not terrifying for security
  
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I guess I'll keep this in the back of my mind, but I already migrated over to QuickWeather when Geometric Weather went unsupported. It stinks that I can't swipe between locations anymore, but the built-in radar and higher information density outweigh switching back for me.

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  What? I didn't have to subscribe to anything. Are you not choosing Open-Meteo?
  
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Glad I saw this post today, downloaded and love it straight away! So clean and exactly what I wanted out of a FOSS weather app.

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Ive been using it for over a year now and it has been a breeze

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Ohh I'm so glad. I was on geometric weather and it stopped working a few weeks ago. It's a beautiful app.

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Does it have beautiful widget for home screen ?

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- Multiple, and very customisable
  
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Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.

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I was searching for a new weather app a few months ago and landed on Breezy - definitely the best one currently out there for Android!

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Downloaded and using now instead of "Tiny weather forecast germany"

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Is this "breezy weather" in the google play store? It looks similar but that's an app with 100M users, doesn't sound Ned...

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- I installed mine from fdroid. Just searched on the play store and couldn't see the same one on there or even anything with the same name.
  
  The icon is a yellow Pinwheel on a blue background.
  
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Great app, just wish they had a radar.

Also for my American brethren that also use Freedom units, you might have to set speed, temperature, volume, pressure measurements to something our smooth brains can understand:

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Been using it for months now. Can recommend.

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A lock screen daily or weekly display would make this perfect

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The application sounds very good, it is open source and has good functionality, but… is it true that it does not have proprietary dependencies? Because if I'm not mistaken they must depend on a meteorological center and I doubt that it is free material

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- They have three choices of API to use. One of which is NOAA whose data license is compatible with F-Droid's free network resources definition
  
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  Yeah, they build several versions: google play version, fdroid version, and standard version (I am assuming distributed by izzydroid).
  
  You all of them are available on github, and you can choose which one you want to get by using obtainium or download from specific app store / repos.
  
  detailed differences between each version is here: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/blob/main/INSTALL.md
  
  releases: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/releases
  
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Nice app. I'm currently using the yr app from the Norwegian weather services. It would be great if that API could be implemented.

I only have one choice for weather data as it stands.

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- From what I see, MET Norway is an option for weather sources, is that the right one?
  
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  It looks like it's excluded from the F-Droid build.
  
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  It only gives me the one option in the app. But MET Norway should be it...
  
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Cool looking app. I wish it was available on Google Play for people not familiar with third party app downloads.

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  Understood. I just think it could spread and be enjoyed by lots more via that path. Of course, it's all up to the devs.
  
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  And fees
  
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Why does it send intermittent notifications stating the update failed?

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- I ended up just disabling that notifications channel cuz I don't care that much it it fails in the background.
  
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- I had to mess around in Android/Samsung settings to give it permissions to run in the background.
  
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  That's probably why that happened to me, on Android as well. I set the location setting to work only while using the app. I think since I turned off notifications, it stopped sending the failed update message.
  
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any benefits over omWeather?

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How is the report generated andwhere is the data sourced from? I often have huge issues with weather reports being very wrong or not up to date fast enough to be useful so I end up just using the national report but their app is terrible.

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- You get to choose. I use NWS
  
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Tried it, decided to stay with Weawow which is beyond excellent.

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I'd been using Geometric Weather for many years, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was misbehaving, not fetching data sometimes. I didn't realise it had not had an update for almost 3 years!

I had switched to Google's weather app, but maybe I'll switch to this instead. Thanks for the heads-up.

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Been using it for a while now. Great Weather App

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Best weather app since DarkSky. I love the notification of impending rain! Very helpful in Belgium where it rains half of the year sporadically.

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Does it have any widgets lines the cure day/time/weather or 5 day outlook.

I'm one of those people that would rather have a weather widget on my home screen than opening an app every time.

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- Yes it has tons of widget option with clock + weather being one option and weekly weather being another
  
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Can it show something like a dashboard with forecasts for multiple cities at once?

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- Yep, it has a widget for that.
  
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  You mean, homescreen widget?
  
  No in app view for that?
  
  I just installed the app and it looks pretty cool, but can't find forecast graphs for multiple locations on the same screen anywhere.
  
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Just found it and managed to load it into Niagara launcher.

Excellent looking, but it's only been running for 5 mins so I can't really judge it ;-)

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Neat, tossed a widget on my home screen!

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But what's wrong with the regular app for weather on my Redmi 13? It seems to work just fine

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What's with all of the permissions?

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- The release notes mention why they request each one.
  
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