WeatherMin - Desktop Weather! App Reviews

I bought it on sale for $0.99 and I wanted to use it in my menubar. But the menubar icons are not that pretty so I disabled this option and left the desktop option on. I would rather not have it on my desktop, and when I was first time it out, there was no way to disable the desktop option. =( Not only this..but.. wrong temperature? Very sad )=

Overall a nice app. The app is using NWS gridded forecasts. I work for the NWS and this app needs to use the one hour gridded forecasts. This app is using the 3 hour grids, so for example the temperature at 6 pm will be the same for the 7 pm forecast and 8 pm forecast, before changing for the 9 pm forecast. If they use the 1 hour grids, the temperature forecast would change every hour, not every 3 hours.

Beautiful, simple icon and interface, so its a shame it always says its in the 40s F in Los Angeles. A fix or a refund, please -- this is overpriced to begin with and at $4.99 it shouldnt be off by 10-20 degrees! *updated to 2 stars, I thought this was fixed but it still is not. get Farensius instead - same functionality, the temp is accurate though -- and its free).*

This product would be useful if it worked. However, the current temperature keeps showing -0 degrees. The actual temperature is 70 degrees. Sometimes it views properly, but not consistently. I find I just shut down the app becuase its of no use if its not displaying the correct temperature.

I am a sucker for weather apps, but most hog resources. This one does not and I love the clean interface. The one thing that keeps this app from being great is that it currently updates every hour- it should be able to be set to at least update every 15 minutes and it would be great!! Right now, it lags behind when storms come in.

Would like to be able to display high/low temp and weather at the same time

So I have been using Weather Min for about two months so I feel I have a decent feel for the app. I prefer to have a more robust forecast then just the current temp. What makes this app shine is its ability to sit quietly on my desktop. I used to use GeekTool for this same effect, but eventually gave up on it. WeatherMin lets me use a cool wallpaper like Kuvva and still be able to click the WeatherMin and relocate the data out from over the randomly changing pictures of Kuvva. The people over there have delivered us a solid little app. I highly recommend it to anyone, even the minimalist.

Please remove the degrees from the icon, as its so confusing to see in the notification center every time theres an update its confusing. User experience first. Design second.

This app does exactly what it says it will do. It does not try to be fancy and give the user things the user does not want or appreciate. I love it!

Does just what it says simply and elegantly. The desktop overlay with the current conditions is great. I love this app!

Uses just 43MB of memory with great functionality. Highly reccomend.

The right numbers in the right place (meaning where I want it…). Simple -- refreshingly without the overreach too often found with weather apps.

Ive been using it for a while, and I absolutely love putting its info directly on the desktop, without a "window". I love the weather "icon-like" indicator that shows when it is going to rain, but that is only available without the days High & Low weather indicators. I wish there was a way of putting High & Low with something to say "Its going to rain today", but you cant do both. If it did that, I would give it 5 stars. After all, it might reach 75-80 degrees in So. Cal, but still rain in the same day. If you live in a part of the world where it is either warm, or it rains, maybe that is not a big feature for you. Lastly, it took a while to figure out how to disable Notifications, which I found useless. It would notifiy me constantly, as the weather went from "Cloudy" to "Partly Cloudy", to "Some Clouds", etc. 20-30 notifications in a day, and changing the nofication setting, both in Growl and Notification Center did nothing to stop it until I discovered the applications preferences overide Growl and Notifications setting. Very annoying… Still, well worth the price, although Ive lost all hope for any changes in the application to enhance it.

Come on guys! Did you know that a lot of people do travel outside the US??? Its just a matter of plugins… plugin in to an international weather platform; not only NOAA. For the moment I call this App pure garbage… I hope youll fix it.

Wont startup automatically, despite settings. Futhermore, it freezes routinely and wont even respond to manual refresh. Im running this on a Macbook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8 installed and 16gb of RAM, so I doubt it is a hardware issue. Wish I could get a refund.

this app does what a lot apps say they will, but dont. I just wish I could customize things more; I have it installed on a desktop computer, so I dont really need to know my location (if I end up in a new town with this computer, its because I moved, or drank wayyyy too much last night). Be nice if we could interchange whether to show location, weather via icon or text, high/low, etc.

after trying out a bunch of desktop weather apps this was the most unintrusive and elegantly designed one that i found. it has a lot of little nice design touches, one of my favorites being that the desktop widget will lay itself out differently depending on where on the screen it is dragged to (if its on the left side, the text will be left aligned and as you drag it to the right side of the screen the text will switch to be right aligned). highly recommend!

It works great in my area alway correct temperature

nifty app. its nice seeing the local wether on the desktop and menubar.

Still waiting for the international update and the promised larger selection of styles.