Ventusky: Weather Maps & Radar 4+

Remember poor Michael who got the weather forecast wrong just before some of the most severe gale the UK had ever experienced? He should have used this App and then he would not have ended up remembered for one of the biggest blunders ever. I just love using weather Apps, they are terrific when deciding whether or not to go to my allotments, to know what weather you are facing on journeys or simply planning ahead. To be honest, I prefer using the Apps to media broadcasts. Ventusky is one of the best two I have - indeed in many respects, the best. I would echo other reviewers comments about keys for the colours....they are not essential to enjoy the App maps but would be a beneficial addition. If you have some background knowledge of weather, enjoy knowing and predicting it, this App for a meagre £2.99 is terrific value.

Thank you for your great review. I am glad to hear that. We are planning more features.

I have been waiting for a weather app like this for ages. One that combines slick animations with reliable data. However, i’m desperate for the developers to implement two key features. Firstly, the app desperately needs a quick way to change the forecast to the current date and time. I constantly find myself browsing the week ahead but then then there’s no way quick way to go back to the current forecast. Secondly, it would be incredible if there could be a little information bubble on the map (over the location selected) that displays nice large text with information about the metric selected on the map for the current date/time at that location. At the moment your eyes are forced to jump up and down to read the forecast at the bottom whilst viewing the visualisation on the map - Im aware that the map does have the relevant metric written at regular intervals on the map already, but the text is tiny and its often not written directly by the location selected.

Thank you for your review and suggestions. Your first problem is already solved in the app. You can click on the small button right next to play button above timeline - this button change time to current.

I work as a photographer outdoors and use a small set of App’s to get the forecast I need. I do like this App a lot, it has a good interface, lots of options - which could be improved with an option for buttons to quickly job between favourites type of info, or a swipe across screen.

There is one big issue though and I can’t find anywhere in the App to report it to the developers or support and that is the cloud rendering. It’s impossible to tell if your looking at land/sea or cloud! I’d guess clouds are white so it probably is the light grey colour, but again it could be the moody light blue. PLEASE can we either have more contrast, different colours - land green, sea blue and clouds white would be very obvious. Or a slider to change the opacity of the clouds. As a very basic function it’s falls down on this big time. Meaning I have to switch to another App that does it well. Actually none a very good but with the basics that you have here with a colour tweak it would be the best.

If the developers can respond and fix this I’m back up to a five star rating! Thank you.

UPDATE: Thanks for the explanation, it helps but I don’t see any numbers showing opacity of the cloud in the app on my iPhone Max. I tried to send you an email with screen grab compared to your web app which looks much better and different to my app but no email to contact you is listed.

Hi, thank you for your review. Cloud scale is from blue as a clear sky to white as a overcast. You can always see the exact values on the map and understand what to expect without using color scale. You can contact us on info@ventusky.com.