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Dark Sky Weather App Hyperlocal Weather Forcast

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Seller: The Dark Sky Company LLC (...) Category: Weather Reviewed Version: 6.8.6
Download: iOS
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Price:
  • Free
  • Paid
Paid Options
The app is not free to download from the app store. The Dark sky app is only available in paid version. Users has to pay $3.99 for one time before accessing the app. The users can  sign up for a free 7-day free trial to test it before paying, which automatically gets converted to a paid version and charges if you don’t cancel it on time


Supported Languages: English
The Dark sky App is number one weather app available for iOS users. The app provides the most accurate source of hyperlocal weather information & down-to-the-minute forecasts. The app literally keeps its users updated about all the weather forecast in details. You can deeply examine weather conditions of your city through this app. 

The app allows you to view conditions in 40 different languages available at up to eight different locations, including all 14-day forecast details. These include high and low temps, current weather conditions, and current, feels like, high, and low temps. You’ll also find cloud conditions and relative humidity. 


App Features and Capabilities
  • Weather widget: The weather widget offers more weather in detail at a glance and one-tap access to the most accurate forecast. The live radar keeps you informed with all the weather patterns minute wise. Storm radar let you track rains and tornados coming in your city. This feature helps you check weather conditions with single glance.  
  • Animations: The app has beautiful weather animations. Unlike any other app, these animations show you the path of the storm, including how it moved up to now and where it’s going next. 
  • Notifications: The app has this feature where you receive minute by minute notifications of weather conditions at your current precise location. This feature lets you create your own custom notifications covering the next 24 hours for things such as temperature, wind, precipitation and more. Dark Sky will tell you what you need to know so that you can receive notifications that are important to you. This helps you plan your outdoor activities accordingly. The app lets you plan what to wear before you step out of the house.
  • Time Machine: The app lets you explore weather in future and past as well. You can choose any date and historical weather data the app will display it for you. The app shows future predictions based on seasonal averages. This app also offers you detailed information on sunset times, allergies and pollen forecast. 
  • Apple watch: You can view all the important details of weather on your wrist now by just wearing Apple watch as Dark sky app is specially built for apple watch. You get real time rain notification on your watch. This feature helps you to get through tornado seasons, rain seasons and extreme weather warnings.   


Pros
  • The app is simple to use. You just have to open the app and all the information is right in front of you. 
  • Just a couple of taps allows you to learn all the important details of current weather. 
  • Time Machine feature allows you to explore weather on any date in the past or future. 
  • Dark sky is Top-rated weather app in iTunes. 
  • The app is easy on battery life, even when running in background. 
  • Weather patterns with live radar keeps you updated about the weather with each minutes updates. 
  • The app offers live alerts so that you can prepared during extreme weather and earthquakes.


Cons
  • Weather app has the limitation of not being able to detect fog. This creates a gap in weather forecasting where an area that is likely to receive fog is not properly profiled.
  • The app is not free. 
  • The app is available only for iOS devices with no Android support. 
  • App must use your location data at all times to send customized notifications and alerts. 
  • The weather analysis done through weather radar is not always instant and therefore the information is not real-time.  
  • The forecast is correct up to some extent but still it’s not 100 percent sure. 


Other Information to Know
This app is owned by The Dark Sky Company LLC. The app has rating of 4.7 stars on app store. The size of the app is 44.2. MB. The app ranks at no. 01 in the category of Weather. The app has been awarded as the world’s most accurate forecast. The app requires iOS 11.0 or later for compatibility. The app is only available for iOS users. 

User reviews

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App Usage:
Likes:
• The app shows high quality of data related to weather forecast for better results.
• It’s quick and easy to access visual representations of the different variables
• The app shows beautiful radar animations about the storms and weather.
• The app gives reliable and accurate forecast about rain and storms.
• The app shows details regarding the structure of storms and its scale.
• The app helps you plan your future activities by giving future forecasts.
• It saves you by informing about the future disasters and severe weather conditions.

Dislikes:
• The app is not available for android users.
• The app is not cyclic specific app in terms of weather reporting
• The current location feature doesn’t show the forecast of exact location. It shows weather of area 20 miles away sometimes.
• The notification feature gets stop working on the app. No matter how many time you try to enable it but it gets stuck in between the app.
Rated App Version: 6.8.6 Phone Used: HUAWEI - reviews
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Country: United States