Andy Walker / Android authority
People were naturally upset when Google reorganized its meteorological application and removed its adorable meteorological frog. Rain or shine, Froggie was always ready to salute visitors looking for the conditions of the day. However, with the launch of the Pixel 9 and the introduction of Pixel Weather, the frog went to the old meteorological interface accessible via Google Search. Although it is an appropriate house, having to do a search just to see that the frog has become boring for many, including me. Fortunately, there is a third -party application that can help you.
Which weather apps do you use?
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Weather master is an application that I have learned to love in recent weeks, and not only for its pro-fog position. If I could rethink the time of the pixels, it would probably look like this. The application offers a perfect balance between a clean aesthetic, a playful and useful information, creating a successful meteorological application experience. Unlike pixels time, it effectively uses space without sacrificing these values. The use of products without and the design language of Google in the whole application gives the impression that an official Android application, but it gets a lot that the official application of Google does not do so.
A better meteorological application of pixels than pixel time?
Andy Walker / Android authority
To start, Froggie is there, the headliner of an animation which describes the current weather conditions, as well as a large reading of the current temperature and the ups / downs. Below, there is a quick summary section offering a more detailed text perspective, wind speed, wind gusts and cloud cover details. It reminds me of the summary of Pixel Weather’s AI, but it’s much easier to grasp.
For example, today’s prospects for my region can be seen as follows:
In the morning, you will experience a soft bruine, with a light and light rain taking over as the day progresses.
Great! I know he’s likely to rain all day. Now I can plan my schedule, my outfits and my dinner. It is concise, clear and short enough to read in a second or less, making a quick visit to the home screen everything you need to see the day to come.
Below, a small band of information detailing the temperature trend of the week and, more interesting, clothing for clothing and activities for the morning, evening and night. Usually these recommendations are quite similar daily, but it is a feature that I prefer not.
Further on the home screen, you will find more items inspired by pixels and a widget section displaying individual measurements such as humidity, pressure and visibility. I would prefer dedicated cards for each value to see the current and future progression. Pressing certain widgets, such as wind, develops to show the average speeds over a larger period. Although this is sufficient, as I live in a windy region, it could offer more useful information, such as Gust’s strength.
Weather Master is an application that I have learned to love in recent weeks, and not only for its pro-fog position.
In the settings, Weather Master offers users a decent degree of control. Remember when I mentioned that it was suitable for frogs? You will see “descriptions related to frogs” in the Summary Summary section by allowing the Summary of Froggy. It is as adorable as you think, but I prefer the clarity of the standard summary. Users can also deactivate the entire summary section, pushing other precious information above the home page.
Weather Master is free, but the developer provides an surprisingly wide range of models and weather sources. You can keep the best correspondence option by default if you are satisfied with the forecasts, but I appreciate the available personalization level.
It’s good, but not quite big
Andy Walker / Android authority
Weather Master is not yet the complete package, and other weather applications surpass it in certain regions. I would like to see deeper information for other measures. As I mentioned, the tapping on the wind tile develops it, but I do not obtain anything in the gusts. The pressure is another missed opportunity, the application simply displaying the current value, and not if it is increasing or down. This detail is essential to understand how the conditions can change in the coming hours.
The application also has a radar functionality, but it is not as useful as it could be. On the one hand, it does not seem to superimpose data in my region, and where it offers details of rain intensity by 10 -minute increments, it is used to flashing between visual updates. This makes it difficult to monitor the progressive progression of a system. The smallest transitions between data sets would be a huge upgrade.
Despite these shortcomings and in addition to giving Google the homeless of Google a new place to settle, Weather Master is among the most accessible weather applications that I have ever used. As a person who generally loves data charged with data, I always use this application as a first choice. He has some problems and several bugs that have not yet been discussed, but there is no break in agreement here.
Since the arrival of Pixel 9, I did not know if Pixel time is really a most effective Google product. But after using Weather Master, I think the technology giant was again out of a vairon.
