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Review: Perfect Weather for iPhone

9/17/2013

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Contrast Software (formerly App Cubby), the company that brought iOS users Launch Center Pro, Trip Cubby, @Timer, and Mirror have released Perfect Weather - NOAA Radar and Forecast for the iPhone. Perfect Weather might not exactly be perfect, but it sure is one hell of an app for the iPhone and feels right at home on iOS 7.  

The main screen of Perfect Weather displays locations that you add (including your current location) in tabs similar to Apple's Passbook application.  Adding new locations is extremely easy, just press the Edit button and you are presented with a search screen that accepts both city or zip code.  Once your city or location is selected, it is added as a colored tab in the location list.   The tab colors seem to be random and there currently is no way to customize them.  When a tab is selected, the information for that location is brought to the forefront and that's when the app magic begins.

Once the location tab is selected, a weather card is displayed which contains current conditions and tempurature, a 6 day forecast with high and low temperatures , percentage of precipitation for the day, and an interactive radar image of the surrounding area customizable to show clouds or rain patterns.  However, what is first shown by default is not all the information offered by the app.  A quick horizontal swipe on the forecast area reveals a temperature line graph and another swipe shows information such as sunrise/sunset, humidity, wind speed, and barometric pressure.  It is amazing how much information is packed into a card.  Kudos to the Perfect Weather design and development team for making the information readable and very accessible in a small amount of screen real estate.  My only complaint, and one that might be prevalent in many iOS 7 apps, is the use of a light and thin font which against a white background can be a bit difficult to see at times.  From my interaction with the Perfect Weather team, subsequent updates to the app might include changes to these fonts for better readability.

The information displayed on each card can also be customized by a press and hold on the tab "carat" which when dragged with your finger will collapse and expand the data sections accordion style to show as much information you care to see. 

Overall, Perfect Weather is a slick weather application that deserves a look from those who appreciate finely crafted (and certainly accurate) applications.  The application is certainly not perfect (is any app?), and I have only minor complaints.  In addition to the font changes for readability, I would like to see the city name displayed in the current (Your Location) tab, 
Also, as its full name suggests, Perfect Weather pulls weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). which means that it is only for use in the United States. Aside from these minor quibbless, the application is a wonderful balance of design and functionality.  

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Pros
  • Clean design and look - feels at home on iOS 7
  • Accurate weather info from NOAA sources
  • Wealth of information easily accessible
  • Custom views allows more or less  viewable information
  • Weather alerts
Cons
  • Font choice make information difficult to see on white background
  • NOAA data source makes it only useful in the USA
  • Not Universal, iPhone Only
Contrast web site 

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3 Comments
App developers link
6/21/2014 03:38:17 pm

The information displayed on each card can also be customized by a press and hold on the tab "carat" which when dragged with your finger will collapse and expand the data sections accordion style to show as much information you care to see.

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App companies link
6/25/2014 11:57:40 pm

This is ripe for the retail world - imagine seeing 'inside' stores and retaurants to identify products, promotions, user rated and available inventory to help drive purchase decisions.

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resumesservicesreview.com link
3/18/2018 05:05:48 pm

In my own opinion, I believe that the app has been serving me right. whenever I would want to know the weather for today and for the days that are coming ahead, I'll just open the app. The said phone application is 95% reliable and has provided me right information just when I needed it. Contrast Software must be commended for this great invention. When we went to South Korea and Thailand last year, I know what should be my outfit for the day simply because I know how the day will start and end at the same time!

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