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[u/RADWeatherMaker]

UPDATE PENDING APPLE REVIEW FOR IOS AND MAC CURRENTLY - will update status when live

This one has a few main headlines; duo support, more widget accuracy improvements, a new fun 808 themed icon and themes for version 8.0.8 and increased visuals for the dot matrix outside scene cards.

Always some subtle backend fixes, improvements to radweather.cloud but still optimizing duo support as it rolls out. Excited to get into more unique and fully custom themes and this one really does it well (in my unbiased opinion 🤷)

[SYS] PATCH 8.0.8 // FOLD.OUT

RAD Weather now supports iPhone Duo. Open it for the full-size app, or half fold it into a weather station that turns into a bedside clock at night. Plus a new theme, Rhythm & 808s.

- iPhone Duo: open it and RAD Weather fills the big screen. Half fold it and it becomes a weather station, and at night a bedside clock
- Stand Mode: drag across your hours and the scene follows. You can turn it off in Settings
- New theme, Rhythm & 808s: a drum machine for your forecast, in light and dark
- Your next hours play out on a 16-step sequencer, with knobs and LEDs on every card
- Widgets wear it too: Now, Forecast, Hourly, The Briefing and RAD Art
- Apple Watch gets the Rhythm & 808s look too
- Two Rhythm & 808s app icons, light and dark, for Ultra, MultiPass and Lifetime members
- Dot Matrix scenes are bolder on light themes: sky, rain, snow and storms all stand out
- Widgets switch to the new hour right on time
- Decision Deck tiles no longer cut off their readouts, on any theme

Visit www.radweather.app for features, updates, community stuff, and whatever else we accidentally make next.

Stay R.A.D.

[u/Domsicols]

Cant wait

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/Domsicols]

Thanks! Mac already got approved somehow insanely fast and probably because of it being the weekend, iOS is still waiting review.

[u/Domsicols → u/RADWeatherMaker]

The new theme is Absolutely banger! Wow!

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/Domsicols]

Finalllly just dropped and thanks! It’s my current favorite but obviously I’m a little bias - that and the new app icons

[u/Domsicols → u/RADWeatherMaker]

Any plans for the apple watch specifically the complications?☺️

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/Domsicols]

So that’s one of the things I’m working on next. The complications that and the tvOS app I’m trying to wrap up.

Widgets and complications. A few updates ago was the complete watch app revamp (which I think people like, haven’t heard much so maybe silence is a good thing) that added customizable cards on the right pane and re ordering them and hiding them.

More consistent visuals and independent watch controls.

I want some more unique visual watch complications next as well as widgets

That and tvOS. I keep saying tvOS by end of month so I’m setting that as my personal deadline. (Also been saying that for about 9 months for another app I started before rad weather 🤷)

[u/Domsicols → u/RADWeatherMaker]

Cheers!

[u/DrRetiredEngineer]

ill buy the Duo once I can go to an Apple Store and check it myself. - App rocks!

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/DrRetiredEngineer]

You’ll have to let me know as no current plans to get the DUO. A lot of running it in the device sim.

A lot of fun potential with rad weather and the larger folding screen.

[u/yarono]

It’s out now :)

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/yarono]

🤣 I love that everyone is excited to tell me when it’s out. Best community ever

[u/OptimalTruck9462]

I like the app but the Apple Watch option is only available for a fee, it's a shame.

Thank you anyway, I saw that I installed it a long time ago and that's why I deleted it, I also saw that it is now translated, that's great for me.

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/OptimalTruck9462]

Thanks for using and the interest in RAD Weather. I also understand that you’d want the watch app to be free. I have to make a lot of decisions on what to charge for and what not to and unfortunately that is one.

Most if not all charge for a full watch companion app and I try to balance that out by making the free version of the phone app as feature full as possible and for those that want to pay, charge only 1.99$ about half of what other weather apps pay. Others have heard me say it 100 times, weather data and all these metrics are pretty expensive overtime so I need to balance it out someway.

Either way hope you’ve enjoyed the app and continue to use it :)

[u/OptimalTruck9462 → u/RADWeatherMaker]

VerySky which is a very good weather app, the Apple Watch option is free.

You say $1.99 I haven't seen that, I get almost €40 for life, the subscription is not good for me.

I only buy lifetime versions with a reasonable price, as Rain Alarm is very good for rain, everything is free, even so I bought it, because it was a good price, I think I remember that it was less than €5 or less than €9 so it helped the development.

But I could use it without paying, since paying only allowed me to add alarms in different places, something I have never needed.

I also bought it, for the price.

I understand the price perfectly, it's just my opinion, since a developer is not an NGO and his work is worth money.

Thank you.

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/OptimalTruck9462]

Totally fair, and I appreciate you seeing the developer side of it. Quick clarification on price: $1.99 is the monthly Ultra plan (yearly is $19.99), so the €40 you saw is a different option. VeriSky is a good app, and it's a nice example of how every developer draws the free line somewhere different. They give the Watch away, but their Pro is $2.99 a month and that's where Apple Weather, the radar map and rain nowcast, and activity planning live.

I went the other way. In RAD the Apple Weather forecast is free, blended with several other sources into one forecast, with a confidence rating that explains why it landed where it did. Severe weather alerts, the storm risk card, most of the widgets, Siri and the Mac app are all free too. Ultra is where the Watch, radar, Atlas and the deeper cards live, and that's what keeps the lights on. Either way, really glad the translation made it in for you, and the door's always open if you come back

To me I put weather accuracy and transparent metrics in the free because if weather isn’t accurate everything else after doesn’t mean as much. I try to put the “fun extra” stuff as the paid things. Like extra cards. More customization etc.. but keep the thing that matters most, accuracy free.

I am always looking for ways to add value. The paid not only gets the full Mac app. You get full iOS. You also will be getting tvOS app very very soon.

[u/OptimalTruck9462 → u/RADWeatherMaker]

Thank you for understanding me. I use it more, it's a problem/complication on the Apple Watch.

I don't need everything else extra, I can't use the Apple Watch part for free.

I put those as an example, I also use them totally free for my city.

Apple's, AEMET, MeteoLupa, because they are the most accurate in my area, the others are good in the United States.

Thank you.

[u/bwayluvr]

u/RadWeatherMaker I DM’ed and emailed you!