Privacy respecting weather app for Android

134 点作者 BurungHantu超过 2 年前

25 条评论

jonas-w超过 2 年前

The developers [0] of this app have a whole series of different Privacy Friendly Apps, if you search for "org.secuso" on f-droid you can see them all.[0] <a href="https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/index.php" rel="nofollow">https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/index.php</a>

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ttctciyf超过 2 年前

Is any substantial store of endorsements / comments for f-droid apps to be found?I guess the absence of a "like" or review function in the f-droid app is a deliberate choice, but I'd love to see user feedback at a central, or at least easily discoverable, place.This has been discussed [1],[2], and looks like it won't happen "officially", but a third-party site utilising the API and possibly organised like nexusmods, with posts and endorsements, say, would be nice to see!1: <a href="https://forum.f-droid.org/t/reviews-feature-for-f-droid/11975/2" rel="nofollow">https://forum.f-droid.org/t/reviews-feature-for-f-droid/1197...</a>2: <a href="https://forum.f-droid.org/t/discussion-thread-for-each-app-in-f-droid/16489" rel="nofollow">https://forum.f-droid.org/t/discussion-thread-for-each-app-i...</a>

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BurungHantu超过 2 年前

Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More info can be found on <a href="https://secuso.org/pfa" rel="nofollow">https://secuso.org/pfa</a>

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autoexec超过 2 年前

It seems like a privacy respecting app shouldn't leave your privacy dependent on the ongoing and unwavering benevolence of the developer or the services their app uses. For a weather app that would mean not sending my location data anywhere, but also not sending the locations I want the weather for anywhere either since if you know that most of the time you'll be able to tell where I am or where I will be.The ideal privacy respecting weather app would download and update a local copy of every location's weather, and any requests you made would never leave your own device. I'm not sure how realistic that is, but as long you trust the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the government they operate under, and that the data being sent to OpenWeather is non-identifying or that they too can be trusted with your data, then this is probably the closest we're going to get.

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deng超过 2 年前

Used it for a while, but unfortunately, the data at Openweathermap was just way off for my location (Germany). Switched to FOSS Weather (<a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.baumann.weather/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.baumann.weather/</a>), which is a wrapper around wetterdienst.de. Unfortunately, this app is no longer maintained, but it still works perfectly fine.

IG_Semmelweiss超过 2 年前

I have used the app. Its Ok but of limited use - and has no widget.At some point I had to use a china-based app (that i would normally not touch with a 10 foot pole) despite privacy considerationsWhy? Because they had a widget that did the trick.I could see forecast by the hour on the widget, including % rain by the hour and wind.A user needs to be able to plan his day (or week) out with a mere glance. If I have to tap more than once foe this information, thats a problem.Is it going to rain at the time im scheduling this lunch meeting? Will it pour during my daughter's little League game? Will the mild cold going to be frigid because of severe wind gusts?Those are answers i need on my home screen, viewable at.all.times.I commend weather app for their privacy considerations but its too basic to be useable in most use cases except for generic 'just give me temp and precip '

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Markoff超过 2 年前

What's the point of Weather app respecting privacy if its data source (OpenWeatherMap) has horribly inaccurate data?I use Weawow and Today Weather, none of them have access to Location, actually both of them have no permissions granted at all and works fine. I don't use apps which don't allow manually selecting Location.

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kennydude超过 2 年前

Some of the color choices look a little ugly, at least by the screenshots.Also, kinda surprisingly, Android has the capability to allow for different sources of data through different apps providing it. So they could have allowed for choice of weather service through other "apps" (even if those other apps provided no user interface). It's kinda sad how under-used Android can be tbh,

prego_xo超过 2 年前

I use Geometric Weather. It's also on F-Droid, has widgets, material design, and a GPL3 license. You can choose the source for your weather, and it has just about any feature you'd ever need (wind speed, barometric pressure, weekly, daily, and hourly forecasts). It's very pretty, too.

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TekMol超过 2 年前

Why not a web app instead?Web apps are nicely sandboxed, work on every device and give the user tons of interface features they are used to. Like zoom, copy&paste, bookmark urls (each city could be a url, parameters could be query string parameters) etc.

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throwaway892238超过 2 年前

I really like Rain Alarm (<a href="https://app.rain-alarm.com/" rel="nofollow">https://app.rain-alarm.com/</a>). They do collect data, but they are very explicit about what they collect, how it is treated, and when it is removed. Even if you don't want to use it due to personal reasons, you have to respect them putting this info right at the forefront, as most try to hide it.Also, I didn't even realize until now, but the app's functionality is available via the web (<a href="https://rain-alarm.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rain-alarm.com/</a>).

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jonnycomputer超过 2 年前

Are there no open-source weather apps on Play Store? For US weather at least we have <a href="https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api" rel="nofollow">https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api</a>, so it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to do. Is there something about the Play Store eco-system that makes such a thing not viable or trustworthy? Seems like all you'd need is a minimalist web page doing a single http request to the api

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muppetman超过 2 年前

I've never understood why Weather apps are such a huge thing. I just type into Google "Weather" and it tells me that weather. If I was worried about privacy I'd bookmark the local government weather website.Why the need to install an app for a simple query?People are obsessed with them though, they're massively popular so I'm missing something.

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Sverigevader超过 2 年前

One of the best (well made, great design, functional) Android apps I'm using currently is a weather app. It's made by the Norwegian Public Service Agency, NRK.The app is simply called Yr and they have a website where you can find the apps (bottom)[0][0] <a href="https://www.yr.no/" rel="nofollow">https://www.yr.no/</a>

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darkwater超过 2 年前

I wonder how using an API that is under CC-BY-SA 4.0 [0] is considered an anti-feature. I mean, I understand what they want in f-droid with [1] but there should probably be some middle-ground for cases like this?[0] <a href="https://openweathermap.org/full-price#licenses" rel="nofollow">https://openweathermap.org/full-price#licenses</a>[1] <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#NonFreeNet" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#NonFreeNet</a>

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hnburnsy超过 2 年前

Here is another great choice in the US, sourced directly from the NOAA, I think it used to be in FDroid but now is a direct download.<a href="https://nwsnow.net/" rel="nofollow">https://nwsnow.net/</a>>NWS NOW is a FREE weather application with no advertising, no user tracking using the National Weather Service™ and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration™ public API.

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open-source-ux超过 2 年前

If you're in the UK, the BBC has a ad-free weather app for Android and iOS. It included forecasts for locations worldwide. However, I don't know if it is ad-free for international users. Perhaps someone can confirm?<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bbc.mobile.weather" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bbc.mobile.wea...</a>

JeremyNT超过 2 年前

I've used this app, and it's OK, but for power users in the US, wX weather has a much better feature set:<a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/joshuatee.wx/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/packages/joshuatee.wx/</a><a href="https://gitlab.com/joshua.tee/wx" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/joshua.tee/wx</a>

trabant00超过 2 年前

I've tested <a href="https://openweathermap.org/" rel="nofollow">https://openweathermap.org/</a> multiple times in different places in Europe. The forecasts are far from accurate when compared to weather.com (which is the data source for google weather). Right now for example it show 6 degrees C less than real for my location for the entire week.

DarthNebo超过 2 年前

The fact that it had to be mentioned at all for a weather app is concerning & telling of the state of tech

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ThePowerOfFuet超过 2 年前

Why does this look almost exactly like RadarWeather?<a href="https://f-droid.org/repo/org.woheller69.weather" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/repo/org.woheller69.weather</a>

jacooper超过 2 年前

I find Geometric weather to be better, also on F-droid.

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zikduruqe超过 2 年前

Maybe try <a href="https://www.yr.no/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.yr.no/en</a>

m463超过 2 年前

You can type "weather san francisco" into duck duck go and it will give you detailed weather.

MrksHfmn超过 2 年前

Really like the app with CalyxOS on my Pixel 6

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