I love Breezy Weather. I use it with my PineTime to check the weather on my watch 
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Privacy policy could be a little clearer and frankly, better, but I’ve decided to use this one. I haven’t noticed any undesirable connections in DNS logs, and it is open-source.
Mainly, though, I’m using it because I really like the UI. Plus, the frog theme and weather descriptions are too fun to lose. I find myself actually remembering to check the weather now to see them, and it’s saved me from rain once already.
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it’s a shame that there’s no implementation of fuzzy geolocation permissions, which would give out a location within a 20km radius. I’d worry less about sharing location data if that existed.
iOS has something like this built in but I would say a weather app is the one thing where it doesn’t make sense: weather is a highly local event. 
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most weather sites merely choose from a set towns, which means giving them exact info doesn’t change much.
You’re not alone 
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+1 for Breezy weather, the UI is amazing and its opensource.
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If I have time, I should write a PR. Someone remind me in about one week.
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Yes and I just realized that it is not that much of a privacy gain to give the name of your city to check the weather on an app instead of giving your location bc in both cases, the app knows where you live haha…
Edit : I just saw that this is just what @brinerustle said
This doesn’t have to be the case.
Doesn’t require giving your specific location data / location permission at all. You can just set the coordinates of the locations you want Weather from.
This is what I was speaking about: in the end, you end up giving where you live. Not the exact location, but the name of your town.
Sure, if you only check the weather for one location. I have several different locations entered in ranging thousands of miles. That’s also assuming logs of this information is kept for long periods of time.
For example, Open-Mateo only keeps that info for 90 days.
For troubleshooting purposes, we keep webserver log files that may contain sensitive information such as geographical coordinates. We do not share this data with any third party. All log files will be deleted after a period of 90 days.
Granted, I doubt my weather app is going to be the first thing to give up my location when it comes to my phone. So, maybe its moot anyway.
Sadly 3rd party Weather apps are often the worst offenders.
TL;DR: just go with the default built-in app. Even the iOS app have gotten some major improvements recently (and the iPad version looks magnificent on the larger screen).
“In 2017, AccuWeather made the news when a security researcher discovered the app was tracking and sharing user data(even when the user had opted out).”
“In 2018, the New York Times tested many popular apps and tracked their data collection and distribution patterns. Notable to our discussion here about weather apps, the popular weather app WeatherBug was found to be sharing user’s precise location data with 40 different companies.”
“In 2019, it was the Weather Channel app’s turn in the hotseat. The company was sued on the grounds that the app was collecting and selling user data in a way that was not clearly disclosed to the users and a violation of their privacy. They later settled out of court but kept up with the user tracking and data sales, just with an updated privacy policy.“
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Nothing beats breezy weather app
That’s great info! I think its important to look at the privacy policies of the weather app and weather api you use and determin if they are worth it.
I find both Open-Mateo and QuickWeather policies to be acceptable.
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Hello, I’m here to remind you lol. I’d be happy to help if you’re interested.
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Thanks for your work! 
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I’m not really seeing the benefit of an app vs just adding a weather site to your Home Screen. To me that seems like the most private and secure thing to do. A weather app can’t be used offline so I don’t think there’s any benefit to installing an app for it.
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Widget support?
I heavily rely on it, I check weather info so often that it would take me extra 15,20 mins a day if i use browser, even PWA for it.
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