Sonuby 1.7.1
Sonuby is a different kind of weather app, designed for users who often partake in outdoor activities. For example, if you often snowboard, you can have a weather forecast that places snow conditions front and center. Weather needs can be very individualistic, which is why Sonuby allows you to tailor the app to what you care about.
I like that Sonuby lets you customize the display to choose which data to emphasize. My favorite feature is that you can make collections of locations and then easily switch between locations within one of these subsets. Most other apps offer a flat list that becomes unwieldy or has a limit, so that I have to keep deleting and re-adding locations depending on which are most important at any time.
The data is from a combination of sources provided by meteoblue, which I don’t think I’ve used before, so I don’t know how accurate it is.
The app’s overall design is not really my cup of tea, and I ran into some problems adding locations. Some names that I searched for were not available, and others did show up but were lower in the list of matches—the app prioritized similar names that were thousands of miles away from me.
None of the weather apps I’ve tried, including Sonuby, really offers the kind of workflow I’d like for planning an outdoor activity. It’s not just that I want to know the forecast for a certain location on a certain day. I also want to compare several potential mountains to decide where to go based on the weather. Bonus points if it can also compare multiple weather data providers.
Weathergraph is my preferred app for home, and it lets me switch data providers without having to dig into the settings, but it’s useless for this purpose since it only supports one location. Apple Weather and Mercury Weather require a bunch of taps to switch locations and then get back to the right screen. I wish I could navigate to the display I want—say, precipitation next Saturday—and then swipe to see that exact data but for different locations and data providers. (Or, wild idea, how about showing the same data for multiple locations on the same screen at the same time?)
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