Apple’s native iPhone weather app is simple and fairly minimalistic, like the iPhone itself. That’s fine for some people, but if you want more eye candy from your weather app, you’ll need to look elsewhere. We did just that and we came across the new iPhone weather app Outside. With artsy graphics and detailed weather information, Outside is like a fortune-telling window into your local weather. It’ll even push weather notifications to your iPhone for free for 30 days.
Compared to the iPhone’s weather app, Outside is refreshingly informative. The app literally opens a window into your local weather. The background graphics change based on time of day and weather status. You swipe left or right to switch between weather forecasts for the entire week. Swiping down reveals detailed data like UV index, humidity, cloud cover, wind speed and direction, and sunrise and sunset times.
And, to keep you up-to-the-minute on your weather, push notifications alert you when the weather forecast changes. Outside can be setup to send you push notifications when it sees cold, rainy, high UV , or t-shirt weather in your future. The app comes with a 30-day push notification subscription, and offers additional 90-day subscriptions at $0.99 cents.
Outside costs $2.99, so it’s more for people that are serious about your weather. But, if detailed weather information and a pretty UI make you giddy, you’ll get what you pay for.
Outside ($2.99) [iTunes link]
