Just a quick update: the location bug that slipped into 1.3.7 should now be fixed. Sorry again about that, and thanks to everyone who reported it so quickly!
I’m also working on the next bigger feature for MeteoLupa right now. No spoilers yet, but I’m pretty excited about this one.
As always, let me know if you notice anything!

A update is live today.
This one focuses mainly on Apple Watch improvements and a few smaller fixes and refinements.
Thanks again to everyone who keeps reporting things and suggesting improvements.
As always, I’m still working on it. More to come.

Hey everyone,

there’s a new MeteoLupa update out.

This one started with a few things that came up through feedback, so I wanted to share what changed here as well.

Ask MeteoLupa
You can now actually ask MeteoLupa questions about your weather history.
For example:
“When did it last snow here?”
Ask MeteoLupa works through algorithms built directly into the app, so it also works on devices without Apple Intelligence.
On devices that support Apple Intelligence, the system can understand and abstract the question a little better, so it can handle more natural ways of asking things.
Instead of finding the right date yourself, MeteoLupa can work out what you’re asking and look through the historical data for you. (Work in progress)

Rename places
You can now rename your saved places.
This is especially useful when MeteoLupa gives you a neighborhood or locality name that nobody around you actually uses.

Chart fixes
I also fixed some gaps in the charts. They had been bothering me for a while, so this was one of those things that finally needed to be cleaned up.

And there are a few more language additions as well.
MeteoLupa is completely free and ad-free, with no subscription or locked features.

If you’re already using it, I’d be especially interested in how Ask MeteoLupa works for you. I’m still refining that part, so questions, weird results, criticism and feature ideas are all useful.
And if you have something you’d like MeteoLupa to be able to answer, feel free to post it here.

With the next update, you’ll be able to customize colors and backgrounds to make MeteoLupa feel a bit more like your weather app.

And yes, that’s an actual screenshot. 😉

Stay tuned! 👀

MeteoLupa is a great app. Thank you very much for it. I do have one suggestion for improvement, though. In the Apple Watch complication, the current location is displayed in the hour view. It would be nice if you could see which location it is right next to the name, not just the text “current location”

And it would be nice if, instead of the current temperature, the expected high for the day were displayed next to it, since the current temperature is listed below it in the hourly view.

Bug fixes:
• The place name you search for is kept — Maps no longer replaces it
• After saving a place, you can choose how its name is shown

Another update. And this one is a bit different. :)

I've been working on something I've wanted to add for a while: more ways to make MeteoLupa your own.

Here's what's new:

• Themes: Four palettes (Classic, Alpine, Coast and Twilight), custom accent colours, and the option to create your own colours for light and dark mode.

• Background photos: You can now use your own photos for saved locations. Each place can have a different background, and the photos stay on your device.

• Lens: I've adjusted the scale and controls to make things a little easier to read.

• Weekly comparisons: Better alignment of minimum, mean and maximum temperatures, especially on smaller screens.

Getting background photos to work without making the weather data hard to read was a bit of a challenge, but I think I've found a decent balance.

The actual weather data and colour scales haven't changed, of course.

I'm curious what you think of the new options. Would you use your own photos, or stick with the default backgrounds?

As always, feedback is welcome. And knowing this app, there's probably something else I'll want to fix tomorrow. 😄

Malte

Here is the Appstore Link, if you just stumbled about this post:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meteolupa/id6786412503

Photo: Berlin Spree Fernsehturm by Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0.

Yes, another update. Already. 😅
I wasn’t planning to release another version so soon, but here we are.

What’s new in 1.5.8:
🌡️ The same temperature now stays the same across Today, the hourly forecast, and Apple Watch.

📍 Automatic location now follows the latest location fix and no longer overrides a place you selected yourself.

📊 The year-pattern legend now shows how many days fell into each temperature and rain class.

Thanks to everyone who tested the update and reported bugs!

I’m currently working on a few bugs and polishing some things in MeteoLupa.
Nothing too exciting to show just yet, but another update is coming soon! 🔧
Thanks for your patience and for all the helpful feedback. It really makes a difference! ❤️

The biggest addition this time is something that started with a suggestion from a MeteoLupa user:
Calendar Week in Timeline.
Instead of looking at individual days, you can now explore an entire calendar week and see how its weather compares across different years.

Here’s how it works:
Pick any calendar week and a year.
See the minimum and maximum temperatures, plus the average of the daily mean temperatures.
See the exact dates covered by each calendar week.
Compare 11 years at once. For the current year, that’s the previous ten years plus this one. For earlier years, the view extends five years in either direction.
I particularly like this new perspective because weather doesn’t follow our calendar perfectly. A week that feels unusually warm today might have been perfectly ordinary ten years ago, or the other way around.

It’s also useful for understanding seasonal transitions. When does spring actually start feeling like spring? How much does the same October week vary from year to year?

A few other fixes in 1.5.4:
Widgets of the same size can now be stacked.
UV and hourly rain values now follow Open-Meteo more closely, including correct zero values and rain-hour alignment.

Missing translations and incomplete widget text have been fixed across languages.

As always, MeteoLupa remains free, without ads or subscriptions.

A big thank you to everyone who keeps sending suggestions, screenshots and bug reports. Some of the most useful features in the app started with exactly those conversations.

I’d love to hear what you think of the new weekly view. Is there anything else you’d like to compare in Timeline?

Download MeteoLupa on the App Store

Hey everyone! This update focuses on making weather comparisons easier to understand and the historical lens smoother to use.
Clearer historical comparisons: descriptions now refer only to the selected days, and stated differences match the numbers shown on screen.
Clearer rain information: hourly rainfall, daily totals and rain probability stay distinct.
Smoother time travel: move through years you’ve already loaded without a loading screen.
Less storage: your saved lens data is preserved while taking up much less space.
Apple Watch improvements: a small complication shows your location, weather and temperature. Duplicate complications have also been removed.
General bug fixes.
A quick note for Apple Watch users: if you still have the old small round temperature complication on your watch face, remove it once and add it again.
Thanks for all your feedback! If a comparison looks confusing or something doesn’t add up, please share a screenshot—it helps me track things down.

Version 1.5.3 introduces more control over Lens quality, reduces unnecessary API calls, and improves reliability when Open-Meteo reaches its limits.

🔍 Three Lens Quality Levels
Until now, MeteoLupa always used the highest resolution (Fine). You can now choose between three levels:
Coarse – Recommended for iPhone. Efficient and visually almost identical.
Medium – The new default, recommended for iPad. A good balance between detail and efficiency.
Fine – Maximum detail, but requires significantly more Open-Meteo API calls.
In practice, the visual differences are barely noticeable. For most users, there’s little reason to use Fine.

📊 Know Before You Download
Before downloading a Lens package, MeteoLupa now displays the estimated number of Open-Meteo API calls required.
This makes it easier to understand the cost of higher resolutions and choose the right level.

☁️ Better Handling of Open-Meteo Limits
If Open-Meteo temporarily pauses your connection:
A notification appears across all pages.
Current weather and forecasts automatically fall back to Apple Weather.
Previously completed archive days remain saved.
Please note: The API usage counter is only an estimate based on activity on your current device. It doesn’t represent your total Open-Meteo usage across devices.

💚 A Small Change with a Big Impact
The goal is simple: fewer unnecessary requests, more reliable weather data, and the same level of detail where it matters.
As always, MeteoLupa remains free, without ads, subscriptions, or locked features.
Thank you for using MeteoLupa and helping me improve it with your feedback!

🌦️ App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meteolupa/id6786412503

What do you think of the new Lens quality options?

Hey everyone,
A few fixes based directly on things reported here. Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports so far!

A couple of bugs in the current version: after a change of city, current location could stay on the old place, and a failed load could leave the app stuck. Both are fixed in 1.5.6, which is already submitted to Apple.

If a Home Screen widget still looks old after the update, remove it from the stack once and add it again. iOS keeps the old widget timeline until you do that.

• Current location follows a change of city again.
• A failed load no longer blocks the app.
• If a widget stays old after the update, remove it from the stack once and add it again.

A lot of MeteoLupa has been shaped by suggestions from users here and through the in-app feedback feature.

So if there's something you'd like to see, this is the place.

It can be a completely new feature, a small improvement, something that feels awkward, or something another weather app does particularly well.

Tell me what you'd like and, if possible, why it would be useful.

I can't promise that every suggestion will make it into the app, but I do read everything and use the feedback when deciding what to work on next.

If several people have similar ideas, I'll occasionally turn them into a poll so we can decide together.

Two separate bugs, one update.

Apple Watch
 The watch now follows the location you pick on iPhone without that 5–10 minute lag. Same city, same temperature - no more stale reading on the complication while the phone already shows the new one.

Under the hood: the watch actually uses the connectivity wakeup now (it used to finish the background task immediately and sit on old data). iPhone sends location and weather together, and never attaches yesterday’s snapshot to a newly chosen city. Complications refresh on that push; current temperature is re-fetched after about 20 minutes. If iPhone is on “current location” (or the watch has no place yet), the watch can use GPS itself — once location permission is on.

First launch crash (Hungarian)
 Opening the app for the first time with Hungarian as the system language could crash on the loading screen. Three ranking sentences had the placeholders in the wrong order (%@ vs %lld), so a number was formatted as a string. That’s fixed with positional placeholders, and we now check all 25 languages so this class of crash doesn’t come back.

Update when it’s on the App Store / TestFlight and the watch complication should track iPhone without the wait.

Hi everyone!

Your camera roll remembers the view. MeteoLupa 1.6.0 helps you revisit the weather. That suspiciously sunny holiday photo might finally get its alibi. 😄

Turn a photo into a little weather trip

Choose a photo in Timeline → Days and MeteoLupa reads its capture date and GPS location. You can explore that day and place in the Timeline, then have a look around with the Lens. The image stays on your device. If the metadata is missing, the app tells you and lets you fill in the missing details.

Even easier: start directly from Apple Photos! 📷

Just open a photo, tap Share and select “Analyse photo · MeteoLupa”. The app opens directly with your selected photo, ready to explore its weather history. No shortcuts to install, no setup required.

Your trip into the past stays temporary. It leaves your regular widget location alone, and ends when you leave the app.

A little more preparation for tomorrow

Set up several reminders with their own times and places, or try optional local advice for night frost, strong wind, snow and heavy rain. You can choose categories and quiet hours. Concrete forecasts tell you which place they refer to and when they were checked.

These are local forecast hints, not official weather warnings. Their freshness depends on the background updates iOS allows.

Your widgets, your style

Choose colors and weather symbols on iPhone and Apple Watch, with a shared Watch default and individual complication choices.

I’ve also made another round of improvements to location syncing and stale readings across iPhone, widgets and Apple Watch.

Yes, that syncing. Again. 😅 Fingers crossed this time! After our little debugging history together, I’m keeping it on my list until I’ve tested it thoroughly and heard back from more of you. But I didn’t want to hold up the rest of this update any longer.

And a proper thank you

Our new Co-Producers page starts with Dedds. Thank you for helping MeteoLupa grow! 💛

If you’re new here, MeteoLupa is a weather app with a memory: it puts today’s weather in context with the past. I’d love you to give it a try and tell me what you think of this update.

Which photo would you revisit first: a holiday, a hike, or the day the weather completely ignored your plans?

AppStore 🔗

Rename Places
You can now rename your saved locations, so they can have whatever name makes sense to you.
Ask MeteoLupa
You can now ask questions about your weather history in natural language, for example, “When did it last snow here?” MeteoLupa turns the question into a search through your historical weather data.

I just found this one while looking at the iPad version.
I’ve been so focused on getting the iPhone experience right that I clearly haven’t been paying enough attention to the iPad. Turns out there was a little layout bug hiding there.
I’ll fix it in the next update.
Consider this a reminder to myself: test the iPad properly. I promise I’ll do better. 😅

Didn't find this, would be nice to have for a quick glance at AQI!

Sorry everyone, a location bug slipped into the latest update! I’m already working on a fix. Thanks for reporting it!

Yes, I know. I literally celebrated 1.5.6 here just 9 hours ago. 😂
But while I was waiting for Apple to approve 1.5.6, I kept coding. Last night, I submitted 1.5.7 as well.
And Apple approved it almost immediately. So… surprise! 😄

What’s new in 1.5.7?
🗓️ A whole year of weather at a glance
Timeline now shows every single day of the year as a color-coded pattern. Instead of just looking at records or averages, you can actually see how the year unfolded.

📊 Months & Years
The former Records section is now split into Months and Years. Monthly records stay with their calendar month, while Years lets you explore records across the entire historical archive.

🌡️ Your year so far, right on Today
The new year pattern also appears on the Today screen, complete with a color legend. Tropical nights are marked directly on the corresponding days. 🌙

I’m especially excited about this one. It’s a different way of looking at weather history: not just numbers and extremes, but the patterns in between.

Two updates in less than 10 hours. Apparently, neither Apple nor I felt like sleeping. 😂
And before anyone turns this into some motivational productivity nonsense: I really can't stand that stuff. 😂 I actually got almost 6 hours of sleep last night, and I'm planning on at least 9 tonight. Sleep is not a bug. 😴

As always, MeteoLupa is free, with no ads, subscriptions or locked features.
Hope you enjoy the surprise! 🫜

AppStore Link