Show HN: Frej – iOS weather app as analog clocks

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Weather apps nowadays seem to be less and less about data and just about looking nice. I was frustrated by this so I wrote Frej (from the Norse god of fair weather). https://apps.apple.com/se/app/frej/id1566974295?l=en

You can instantly see the weather for the entire day (24h) in two circles of 12h each. A yellow arc shows when the sun is up. A blue arc when present shows rainfall, with a thicker line meaning lots of rain.

Weather data is supplied by Open-Meteo (https://open-meteo.com/) which I found out about via a Show HN.

The source code is on Github: https://github.com/boxed/frej

Nice concept, going to leave it on the phone with the other weather apps and see if I use it.

I guess you tried having just one clock and showing just the coming 12 hours? I'd think they might be even more intuitive for a first display because for a "glance at the upcoming weather" app I personally don't care much for the past weather :-)

Anyways I love apps which does only one thing well, bonus points for being under 1 MB. another favourite weather app is Sataa[1] (means rain in Finnish), which just shows the last hour of radar images for Finland.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/sataa/id1350488142

First version had just a lot of clocks vertically scrolled starting with the current 12h. But that wasn't nearly as nice as one page=one day in practice.

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