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Hindcast · A weather app

How sure is
the forecast?

Hindcast gives you one plain sentence, the temperature, and three tally marks for how steady the next hours look. Tap them for the reason in words. Everything deeper is one tap further, never all at once.

iPhone, iPad & Watch iOS 18 Free Optional Hindcast Pro

Coming to the App Store

No accounts, no ads, no analytics, and no servers of ours
Why the forecast is what it is: a headline that says whether it rains is the question, and the chance of rain hour by hour
WHY IT MIGHT CHANGE
Today: the headline
TODAY, AT A GLANCE
Sky: cloud at three heights drawn as layers over a skyline, with a slider through the hours
CLOUD AT THREE HEIGHTS
Horizon: looking west, rain out to 40 kilometres, how far away and when it reaches you
RAIN OUT TO 40 KM
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Tally marks for how sure it is
10
Days ahead, hour by hour for the next day
40 km
Of horizon, in any direction
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Accounts, ads or trackers

What it does

A forecast that shows its doubt

Most weather apps give a number and a cloud. Hindcast also says how much to trust them, and keeps the rest one tap away.

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Today, at a glance

A headline sentence, the temperature, confidence marks, the next hours with their chance of rain, Today and Tonight, and a 10-day list. Official alerts appear at the top with a link to the source.

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Why

Plain reasons behind the number: whether the question is if it rains or when, with the chances laid out hour by hour.

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Hour and day

Tap any hour or day for its temperature, rain chance and amount, wind, UV, cloud cover, sunrise, sunset, golden hour and moon.

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Sky

Cloud at three heights drawn as layers over a skyline, with a slider through the hours and the visibility.

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Horizon

Pick a direction and see rain out to 40 km: how far away it is and when it reaches you. Drawn from forecasts at a few points along that line, not from radar, and it says so.

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Context

Today against the typical high for the date, the typical high and low for every month at that place, and, from the record Hindcast keeps, the last 30 days of highs.

Units follow your device's region (°F, mph and inches in the US; °C, km/h and mm elsewhere). Search for a place by name, save as many as you like, and see your current location; times always read in the place's own time zone. Hindcast has no radar, and the confidence marks are a first rule, not a promise.

Built for the bigger screen

A real iPad app

On iPad the next depth opens beside Today instead of over it, so the headline and the reason sit side by side. Light and dark follow your device.

Hindcast on iPad: the saved places in a sidebar, Today in the middle and Why beside it
TODAY AND WHY, SIDE BY SIDE
Hindcast on iPad with the Sky sheet open over Today
SKY

Hindcast Pro

Everything above is free. Pro is the rest of the sky.

An optional yearly subscription, US$9.99 a year in the US (other storefronts are priced by Apple). It renews every year unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Anything that needs Pro shows a small lock in the app.

Pro · The Almanac

Every value, dense, on ink

The Almanac is the same forecast turned over: every number Apple Weather provides, in tables. Now, the next 24 hours and the next 10 days, with dew point, pressure and its trend, gusts, visibility, the kind of precipitation, and Apple's own daytime and overnight forecasts. A switch between Weather and Air changes the columns.

The layer map samples a 25-point grid around the place: wind, rain, cloud and temperature as four sheets you can touch, scrub through the hours and play. It is sampled forecast points, not radar, and says so on screen.

The Almanac on ink: the current values, then a table for the next 24 hours with a Weather and Air switch
THE ALMANAC
The layer map: four sheets for wind, rain, cloud and temperature across a grid of points, with a play control
THE LAYER MAP

Pro · Report card, best time, compare

Was it right, when to go, and where is better

Report card. WeatherKit has no past days, so Hindcast keeps its own record on your device: what each day was forecast to be the day before, and what it read while the app ran. The report card shows how the rain calls and the highs held up, day by day, and exports the record as a spreadsheet. The days shown here are sample data.

Best time. The best hours today and tomorrow to run, ride, walk the dog, hang laundry or eat outside, picked from the hourly forecast with the reason. A forecast, not a promise.

Compare places. Two saved places side by side: now, today, rain, wind, how sure each forecast is and the next days, with a sentence on how they differ.

The report card: Rain right on 11 of 14, highs within 4 degrees on 11 of 14, then each day with its forecast and what was read
REPORT CARD (SAMPLE DAYS)
Best time: Run, Ride, Walk the dog and more, with the best window today and tomorrow and the reason
BEST TIME
Compare places: Tokyo against Oslo, with the sentence Oslo is 25 degrees cooler than Tokyo today, and the next days
COMPARE PLACES

Pro · Trip forecast

The weather for the days you will be there

Add a place and the dates. Each day of the trip shows its forecast and what to pack. Forecasts reach ten days ahead; later days show the typical weather for the month at that place, marked as typical.

Trips: three upcoming trips, Long weekend in Oslo, Visiting family in Lima and Hiking week in Reykjavik, with their dates
YOUR TRIPS
A trip to Oslo: a range of 44 to 61 degrees, rain likely on 3 days, each day with its chance of rain and temperatures, and a card saying pack a rain jacket
A TRIP, DAY BY DAY

Pro · Notifications

A nudge when it matters, from your own device

Notifications are planned on your device from the forecast Hindcast has already loaded, and refreshed a few times a day when your device allows. There is no server and nothing is sent to anyone. They are forecasts, not radar, and they never claim to be more.

  • Rain 15, 30 or 60 minutes before it reaches a place you saved.
  • Forecast changes when rain moves by two hours or more, appears or clears, or the high for today or tomorrow changes a lot, at most once every six hours and never at night.
  • Golden hour and blue hour before the low warm light after sunrise and before sunset, and the deep-blue twilight after sunset and before sunrise, skipped when the sky looks grey or wet.
  • A morning brief at the time you choose: the day in a line.
Notification: Rain reaching Tokyo. Rain in 20 min. 58% chance at its heaviest. Forecast, not radar. Notification: Tokyo, the forecast changed. Tomorrow’s rain moved from 3:41 PM to 6:41 PM. Notification: Golden hour in Tokyo. Starts at 4:25 PM. Clear skies. Notification: Blue hour in Tokyo. Starts at 5:25 PM. Clear skies. Notification: Tokyo. Rain likely from 12 AM. High 70 degrees. Low confidence.
Settings: units, rain notifications with a lead time, forecast changes and a morning brief
NOTIFICATION SETTINGS
Settings: golden and blue hour switches for evening and morning, how long before, and only when the sky looks worth it
GOLDEN AND BLUE HOUR

Pro · Make it yours

Your units, your cards, your icon

Customise Today. Switch the cards below the headline on and off and drag them into the order you like, with an optional sun card that lists sunrise, sunset and the golden and blue hours. Alerts, the headline, the temperature and the confidence marks always stay at the top.

Settings. Choose your own temperature, wind and rain units, how long before rain you are told, and whether Hindcast opens on Today or the Almanac.

App icons. Seven alternate icons for your Home Screen, from layered clouds to a vermilion sun.

Customise Today: five cards, each with a switch and a drag handle, and a button to reset to the standard layout
CUSTOMISE TODAY
Today with the sun card first, listing sunrise, morning and evening golden hour, evening blue hour and sunset, then Today and Tonight
TODAY, YOUR WAY
Settings: seven alternate app icons, Layered clouds, Sun and cloud, Vermilion sun, Rain cloud, Dusk, Sunrise, Tally rain and Rain and sun
SEVEN ICONS

Pro · Everywhere you look

Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts

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Widgets for any place

Point a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget at any saved place: touch and hold, Edit Widget, choose. The widgets read what the app last loaded, so they never spend a forecast request of their own.

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Shortcuts and Siri

Five actions: will it rain, will it rain at a time, the forecast, the forecast for a trip, and the best time. Ask Siri, find them in Spotlight, or build them into a shortcut. The answers come from the same forecast as the app.

Apple Watch · Complications are Pro

On your wrist

A companion Watch app shows the place you last looked at on your iPhone: the temperature, the headline, the three confidence marks, the next hours with their chance of rain and the next days. It gets everything from your iPhone, so the Watch never asks for a forecast of its own.

With Hindcast Pro, add a complication to your watch face: the temperature, how sure the forecast is, and when rain is next due, in circular, rectangular, inline and corner sizes. Open Hindcast on the iPhone to refresh it.

The Hindcast Watch app: Tokyo, 19 degrees, Rain likely from 12 AM, three confidence marks and Rain 56% at 12 AM
NOW
The Watch app's next hours: 12 AM 19 degrees 56%, 1 AM 19 degrees 58%, 2 AM 19 degrees 29%
NEXT HOURS
The Watch app's next days: Thursday 100% 21 and 17 degrees, Friday 70% 28 and 19, Saturday 78% 22 and 17
NEXT DAYS

Honest about what it is

Hindcast has no radar. The Horizon and the map are built from sampled forecast points, and say so on screen. Weather data provided by Apple Weather. Your location goes to Apple for the forecast and nowhere else; the places you save stay on your device.

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Hindcast

A weather app that says how sure it is. Free, with Hindcast Pro as one optional yearly subscription.

Coming to the App Store

iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch · iOS 18 or later

Weather data provided by Apple Weather.