Clear Outside

This is a good app for photographers. Paired with an app like Photo Pills one can get a reasonable estimate of conditions for landscape photography. The problem with the app is that the developer isn’t very responsive. A comment was made a year ago about the inability to change the temperature from Centigrade to Fahrenheit and it hasn’t been implemented. I guess with Brexit they haven’t had the time to make a rather simple improvement. Plus the documentation is totally lacking. I had to read the reviews to finally figure out how to change the default home location from the U.K. To my home in the U.S.

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This forecast app is usually accurate, but it can be difficult to find locations in the US. Since it’s a UK based app, it lists the county in the search function and can be difficult to actually select the right town you’re trying to search for. In addition, I don’t know why they didn’t include the seeing forecast from the Canadian astronomical forecast, which is where this app pulls data from. It would be so easy to implement, but seems like a big oversight. It would be even better if users were able to input their own coordinates of their location. Lastly, it doesn’t let you easily update your home location without deleting it and re-entering it again. If they fix these issues, it would be a much better app.

Just tried it out. Can't believe they didn't test their app. When you go to select a location, it actually selects the one below it. I tried a few different locations and they all did the same thing. So to add a location I have to tap on the one on the list above it. Its location search itself doesn't always work. I looked for Salem and nothing showed up. Then I did a search of "Salem, M" only because I know what county it's in. And it finally brought it up as an option. Buggy app which makes me distrust the weather readings it provides for an area are incorrect.

Get cloud predictions at different altitudes, sky brightness, ISS flyovers etc. Just about any detail that would affect astronomy viewing is listed in a easy to understand format. Selecting a location can be frustrating as there is a bug but it can be overcome by typing enough name detail to eliminate multiple possibilities. Otherwise the app works well.

This app uses the format of the clear skies astronomy calendar to communicate weather information in a compact form. Great idea—but the execution needs some more work. Default for user’s home location seems to always be a site in the U.K. Searches for other locations many times return weird or useless results. Suggestion: provide an option for users to make their current location the default home location.