WeatherMan Lite App Reviews

I like this app a lot. Nice bells and whistles for free.I Like the icons as well. I give it five stars.

Why is it so freaking hard to make a weather program that works. The App Store has dozens of these things and the several that Ive tried all have some problem or another. This one freezes up every few days and since it doesnt appear in the Force Quit Applications list the next easiest way to kill it is to launch Activity Monitor and kill it there. And when it does run, idles at 0.5% CPU. Dear developer--fix this. Maybe 0.5% doesn seem much to you but this is happening when the program isnt doing anything. I use my computer for heavy duty numerical simulations and I need every cycle that I can get. The reason that I care about this is that the program gives you a _lot_ more information than the others--a LOT. The information is reasonably arranged and doesnt use a lot of flashy graphics that apparently causes lots of RAM usage or something. (One menubar weather program uses 80 MB.) This program is relatively efficient in that regard, "only" about 20 MB. (Why, when I was a kid, we had only 128 KB of RAM and a 400 KB disk and it held the operating system and a Fortran compiler with a very nice IDE. Now get off my lawn.)

Current update consistently reads 5°F/2°C higher than current online National Weather Service temperature. The verbose interface is only as good as the accuracy of its data. If you want precision, this app is a fail.

Running the latest Mountain Lion. Can get Conditions BUT no Forecast or Extended forecasts. Theyre blank!!! Good thing its free….

Love this app. Not quite a replacement for Weather Dock, but more than good enough. I suppose the only feature Id want would be a way to show the weather and forecast as an overlay to my screensaver. Is that even possible? Do not get the low reviews at all. Its great, and its free.

I would not download this app!!! I was not able to change the weather "HOME", if you will. It had it at my home somewhere in Michigan, very far from where I actually live.

A great app that informs and works very well. Its a keeper!

Seems like the New Jersey zip codes are not coming up properly anymore. The data is all over the place, including two-hundred-plus days since last update, 50 mph gusts and other screwiness. I think it might be a NOAA or other weather data-related issue, because anyone who uses the Radar In Motion dashboard widget probably also noticed that the zip code produced an "Invalid location!" notification as well. If it was NOAA/NWS, it seems to me that changing things that werent broken right before the most epic storm of the last century is not exactly useful, logical or thoughtful. This coming from someone who lives in New Jersey and sees firsthand the devastation that is Sandy.

Half the time it just shows a large Question Mark for the location and gives improbable data. Unreliable at best. I know its free so dont waste your time.

I really love this app. For me it has been consistently reliable. I love the level of customization possible. Ive talked to develoeprs of similar apps, and the big problem for them seems to be finding reliable, free sources of weather data. If this free app isnt working for you, then there probably isnt any free weather app that will work.

Its working great for me. There are lots of configuration options, more than the other similar apps out there as far as I could tell. It couldnt figure out how to make it display Celcius only though, but maybe its locale dependent and only gives you that option if youre outside the US. I was able to make it display C and F.

The app lets you choose a city, but lacks major cities. I travel a lot and change the city for the weather, but basic places are missing (i.e., Bangkok, a city of 12 million and the capital of Thailand, is not available). The app also shows incorrect information for places. Its just not very good. I guess since its free, you have nothing to lose trying it. Maybe your city is avaiable and maybe the data will be correct for it.

Not so clean, need more work

For months, Ive been getting a "no network connected" message in the Airport menu. I had to restart each time, but had to force quit Weatherman Lite each time. I finally figured out that Weatherman might be crashing my wifi (after erasing my hard drive and other time-consuming attempts to fix it). I uninstalled and it seems fine now.

The latest version is a big improvement. Grayscale icon is a welcome change, as is the ability to change the font size in the menubar (I think thats new). But, as before, the menu bar icon does freqently become non-responsive -- the fix is to hit command-R to update/refresh. Seems to jog it into becoming responsive again. Kind of lame this hasnt been fixed. If I knew the paid version was better about that Id upgrade.

This feels like a windows app. When it works, it doesnt work well. The app seems to hate Poland for some reason. I deleted and installed meterologist.app which is way simpler and works flawlessly.

Since the last version or two, every time the app updates the menubar icon flashes white. Kind of annoying.

I actually really like this app. I would give it a much higher rating if it didnt freeze in my menu bar several times a day. It wont update, and if I click on it in the menu bar, nothing happens, so I have to force quit it via the Activity Monitor and relaunch it. This put me off completely to buying the paid version. Going to the support page on the website results in an error.

havent had any problems with it at all

so i went on it and BOM there it went from a sun to the moon and plus does not know were Hollywood Californa is mad me mad