Privacy-Friendly Weather Apps

Weather apps are among the most data-hungry apps on your phone. Many of the apps pre-installed on smartphones constantly collect your location and share it with advertising networks, often without you realising it. Checking the weather shouldn't cost you your privacy.

The alternatives we suggest here use public, open meteorological data without tracking you. Some work without even requiring GPS access: you can enter your city manually and get the forecast. Others are completely open source, which means anyone can verify that nothing suspicious is happening in the background.

The weather data often comes from institutional sources like national meteorological services, so forecast quality is no worse than the more well-known apps. Below you'll find our recommendations.