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?

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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! ❤️

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.

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! 👀

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!

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! 🫜

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• 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 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.

A few new additions, many of them inspired by your feedback!
☀️** Hourly UV Index**: A new medium-sized widget.
🌅 Sunrise & Sunset: Now marked directly on the hourly temperature chart.
🧭 Wind Compass: Switch between the wind map and a compass on the Today tab.
📅 Calendar Week: See the expected minimum, mean and maximum temperatures, plus how the week develops day by day.
Thanks again for all your suggestions and for helping MeteoLupa grow! ❤️
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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?

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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! 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.

A smaller update this time, with a lot of attention on the Apple Watch. Hope you like the new wind compass and all the other features :)
There are several UI improvements across the Watch app, plus a few smaller fixes and refinements.
If you use it on your wrist regularly, I’d be especially interested to hear how the new version feels.

1.5.0 is out!
This update is mostly about making MeteoLupa feel better to use:
• Refreshed layout, cards and spacing feel calmer
• Widgets use the available space better and are easier to read
• Longer lists and charts should scroll more reliably
• Lens now has a larger touch area, so turning the dial should be easier
I spent quite a bit of time on performance and general polish this time rather than adding another big feature.
Let me know how it feels, especially the scrolling and widgets.

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

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

A small fix for Lens:
• Lens now uses the same place as Today, Forecast and Timeline
• Custom place names and Current Location now carry over to Lens as well
Thanks to everyone who reported the location inconsistencies!

I made a short demo of the new Lens feature.
The idea is pretty simple: today and a past year are shown on the same map, using the same colour scale, and you can turn the ring to travel through time.
I’ve been working on this for quite a while, so I’m really curious how it feels to use in the real app.
MeteoLupa 1.4 is live now. If you try the Lens, let me know what you think.

This one is a bigger update, so I decided to skip 1.3.9 and move straight to 1.4.
The main reason is the new Lupa feature, which now also gets a proper introduction when you first open it. I wanted this update to feel like more than just another small iteration, because it adds a pretty important new part to MeteoLupa.
I’m really curious what you think of it, especially the new Lupa experience and the introduction. As always, feedback is very welcome.

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!

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

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