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Forecast Bar for Mac

Accurate, local live weather and forecasts.

Free
In English
3.5
Based on 20 user rates

Forecast Bar overview

Forecast Bar, powered by Forecast.io, offers hyper-accurate, hyper-local live weather and forecasts right in your menu bar. With beautiful background images matching current weather conditions and time of day, along with a simple and clean interface, you will find yourself checking the weather non-stop!

  • Tapping on Forecast Bar opens up a panel full of relevant weather information, including:
    • Current conditions, with current, feels like, high, and low temperatures, as well as relative humidity
    • A succinct description of the weather for the next hour, and next 24 hours
    • Rich, animated charts showing temperature and rain forecasts
    • When rain is detected in the next hour, an animated chart showing rain intensity
    • 5 day forecast, with high and low temperatures and weather conditions
    • Stunning animated icons for each weather condition
    • Full description of all local NWS severe weather alerts (U.S. only), including Notification Center support
  • Tapping again on the forecast displays a rich, animated panel with additional information, including:
    • Current wind conditions with an animated compass
    • Dew point and humidity readings, with a "mugginess" animated gauge
    • Pressure indicator with trend information
    • Sunrise and sunset times for the day
    • Visibility reading
  • Other features:
    • You can also tap on any day's forecast to see a full 24 hour temperature and precipitation chart.
    • Forecast Bar offers full support for light and dark menu bar modes, and carefully conserves your computer's power.
    • Forecast Bar automatically uses your location, or allows you to type in any location to get weather reports.

What’s new in version 5.8.7

  • Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements
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Forecast Bar for Mac

Free
In English
Version 5.8.7

What users say about Forecast Bar

Nicksloan
By Nicksloan on Feb 20 2023 for v.5.8.7

Customer support: 5.0

This app deserves a lot of credit. Of all the menubar/quick access forecast apps I have looked at it has the clearest design (once you have customised it to you taste). So far the accuracy is as good as most of the others as long as you don't take long range forecasts too literally. For me, after a long trawl, it has proved best of class. (For some reason MU requires reviewers to choose something they don't like from a limited range of options; none of those apply but in order to validate the review I have oped for social media integration.)

Other user ratings:

Value | 5.0
Ease of use | 5.0
Features | 4.0
Reliability | 5.0
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What customer like

Customization
Performance
Support

What needs improvements

Social media integration

Forecast Bar qualities

Value
5.0
Ease of use
5.0
Features
4.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
5.0

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3.5

(23 Reviews of Forecast Bar)

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ERNEST UNGUREANU
ERNEST UNGUREANU
Apr 2 2021
5.7.8
0.0
Apr 2 2021
0.0
Version: 5.7.8
Only in english... Pity !
Dgerzeeboy
Dgerzeeboy
Oct 13 2020
5.6
0.0
Oct 13 2020
0.0
Version: 5.6
Please remove the FREE designation from this app. It is not free and you only learn that after it's downloaded and launched by announcing that you have a few days to try, after which the subscription kicks in. No thanks.
hmfwic47
hmfwic47
Oct 12 2020
5.6
5.0
Oct 12 2020
5.0
Version: 5.6
Deleted it after I did an app test.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jul 28 2020
5.5.1
0.0
Jul 28 2020
0.0
Version: 5.5.1
Just by glancing at the pictures with heavy graphics and too much info, it's sure consumes a lot of of memory and cpu.
Multimedia-Pimp
Multimedia-Pimp
Jun 11 2020
5.5
5.0
Jun 11 2020
5.0
Version: 5.5
Excellent weather app. Very aesthetically pleasing. Regularly updated. I have used this for a long time on macOS and it causes me no issues. Recommended.
hmfwic47
hmfwic47
Oct 12 2020
5.0
Oct 12 2020
5.0
Version: null
Multimedia-Pimp
Multimedia-Pimp
Jun 11 2020
5.0
Jun 11 2020
5.0
Version: null
jfor26
jfor26
Oct 2 2019
4.0
Oct 2 2019
4.0
Version: null
Rbatts
Rbatts
May 28 2019
5.0
May 28 2019
5.0
Version: null
dvh
dvh
Dec 13 2018
4.0
Dec 13 2018
4.0
Version: null
Kizur
Kizur
Oct 18 2018
4.0
Oct 18 2018
4.0
Version: null
felipepandermalis
felipepandermalis
Oct 3 2018
4.5
Oct 3 2018
4.5
Version: null
Tlance
Tlance
Apr 28 2017
5.0
Apr 28 2017
5.0
Version: null
elsid
elsid
Sep 24 2016
1.0
Sep 24 2016
1.0
Version: null
Toxicatomicdog
Toxicatomicdog
Jul 3 2016
4.5
Jul 3 2016
4.5
Version: null
Dan-D
Dan-D
Feb 24 2016
0.5
Feb 24 2016
0.5
Version: null
silvio-dante
silvio-dante
Feb 19 2016
0.5
Feb 19 2016
0.5
Version: null
Prince-Isaac
Prince-Isaac
Dec 24 2015
2.5
Dec 24 2015
2.5
Version: null
Tryme
Tryme
Dec 1 2015
0.5
Dec 1 2015
0.5
Version: null
bobembry
bobembry
Nov 17 2015
5.0
Nov 17 2015
5.0
Version: null
Remik_K
Remik_K
Oct 18 2015
5.0
Oct 18 2015
5.0
Version: null
David210
David210
Oct 18 2015
5.0
Oct 18 2015
5.0
Version: null
Rondfranks
Rondfranks
Sep 22 2015
5.0
Sep 22 2015
5.0
Version: null
Big Johnson
Big Johnson
Aug 3 2015
0.5
Aug 3 2015
0.5
Version: null
Sgginc
Sgginc
Jun 18 2015
5.0
Jun 18 2015
5.0
Version: null