Once again, we want to thank you for being onboard with our product strategy and actively supporting WeatherKit. The huge volume of feedback makes it way easier for us to write this because we all share the same goal: create one of the best weather app there is, with your help.



3.0

The goal is to launch a stable 3.0 as soon as possible, with the current existing features and less glitches.



3.1

Having a stable foundation will enable us to work on the customisation part of WeatherKit. Here's what we have in mind:

custom app icons (2-5 more icons)

custom weather metrics (if you want to use kelvin and m/s, you can do that)

more weather data in the weather card (sunset / sunrise time, etc)

Apple Watch app

other small fixes, of course



3.2

Software is hard. With this version, the focus is on the push notifications and precision. We want to up our RainAlert & data accuracy game and make some heavy improvements there. We already started working on our backend to improve the efficiency and the way we handle the data.



Other changes would be:

retouch the gradient backgrounds

improve the Glances view







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3.5

A few amazing people reached out to me during the beta asking if we need any help with translating the app. As I previously said, customisation will play a big part in WeatherKit and having the app in a few other languages wouldn't hurt. If you want to help,



We're considering adding these features: ...A few amazing people reached out to me during the beta asking if we need any help with translating the app. As I previously said, customisation will play a big part in WeatherKit and having the app in a few other languages wouldn't hurt. If you want to help, send us an email. We're considering adding these features:

hourly forecasts

revamped camera feature

more & better weather descriptions (personality, maybe?)

better user onboarding



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4.0

At this point, our forecast reports that we'll have a bigger team and more time to brainstorm innovative and helpful features for you. The UI and UX will be better, the customisation part will be smooth like butter and WeatherKit will be really powerful, yet incredibly simple to use.





Based on your feedback, we have started figuring out how it'll be best to include a weather radar functionality and started the research to see at what costs and coverage we can provide this feature in WeatherKit. Ideally, we're looking at a $10k initial development cost and around a monthly recurring cost of $750.



Thank you,

the small indie team behind WeatherKit.



