Hi all — developer here. Pine is a free weather app I built for my
own family, and I'd love this forum's feedback on it.
The origin story: every school morning started with "what should I
wear today?", so Pine's first answer is an outfit rather than a
radar map — parka and mittens at −15°C, a hoodie when it's cool but
warming up, with flags for the tricky transition days ("cold this
morning, but leave the jacket at school"). There's a Kid mode that
dresses protectively and an Adult mode with realistic layering.
Around that it grew into the app I'd missed since Dark Sky shut
down:
• Minute-by-minute rain — "starting in about 15 min" — on a fixed
light/heavy intensity scale, worldwide
• Feels-like that matches official heat warnings (on-device humidex,
so the number agrees with the warning on the radio)
• Severe weather alerts for the US, Canada, and ~39 European
countries
• Air quality on the scale your local authority actually uses —
AQHI in Canada, European AQI in Europe, US AQI elsewhere — plus
wildfire-detection and satellite layers on the map
• A stargazing tab: moon, planets, ISS passes, meteor showers,
eclipses, and an aurora forecast that uses geomagnetic (not
geographic) latitude — the reason most apps told southern Ontario
it couldn't see the 2024 storms it was watching
• Optional notifications — rain starting soon, a morning summary, a
rainbow-conditions nudge — all scheduled locally on the device
And the part I'm proudest of: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no
crash reporting, no backend. The app calls public weather services
directly, sending nothing but coordinates, and the App Privacy label
reads "Data Not Collected." Free with no in-app purchases.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pine-weather-what-to-wear/id6767958414
Site + press kit (screenshots there too): https://pine.uhuru.ca
I ship updates roughly weekly and I'll keep this thread posted on
what's new. Feedback very welcome — especially where the outfit
advice gets your city wrong.
own family, and I'd love this forum's feedback on it.
The origin story: every school morning started with "what should I
wear today?", so Pine's first answer is an outfit rather than a
radar map — parka and mittens at −15°C, a hoodie when it's cool but
warming up, with flags for the tricky transition days ("cold this
morning, but leave the jacket at school"). There's a Kid mode that
dresses protectively and an Adult mode with realistic layering.
Around that it grew into the app I'd missed since Dark Sky shut
down:
• Minute-by-minute rain — "starting in about 15 min" — on a fixed
light/heavy intensity scale, worldwide
• Feels-like that matches official heat warnings (on-device humidex,
so the number agrees with the warning on the radio)
• Severe weather alerts for the US, Canada, and ~39 European
countries
• Air quality on the scale your local authority actually uses —
AQHI in Canada, European AQI in Europe, US AQI elsewhere — plus
wildfire-detection and satellite layers on the map
• A stargazing tab: moon, planets, ISS passes, meteor showers,
eclipses, and an aurora forecast that uses geomagnetic (not
geographic) latitude — the reason most apps told southern Ontario
it couldn't see the 2024 storms it was watching
• Optional notifications — rain starting soon, a morning summary, a
rainbow-conditions nudge — all scheduled locally on the device
And the part I'm proudest of: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no
crash reporting, no backend. The app calls public weather services
directly, sending nothing but coordinates, and the App Privacy label
reads "Data Not Collected." Free with no in-app purchases.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pine-weather-what-to-wear/id6767958414
Site + press kit (screenshots there too): https://pine.uhuru.ca
I ship updates roughly weekly and I'll keep this thread posted on
what's new. Feedback very welcome — especially where the outfit
advice gets your city wrong.
