Key Takeaways
- Weather widgets are an essential tool for your home screen and are extremely popular among Android users.
- Depending on where you live, being able to easily check upcoming weather conditions can be a lifesaver.
- Here are some of the best weather widgets currently available on the Google Play Store.
The weather widget is one of the most useful and beloved features of the vast Android ecosystem: as the name suggests, it gives you a quick look at the current weather right from your home screen, and also doubles as a shortcut to access the detailed forecast.
If you live on the East Coast of the United States, you can relate to my experience of never knowing which way the weather is going to turn next. That’s why I think it’s important to have a quality weather widget pinned to the home screen of my Android phone. Here are five widgets that I use every day and love.
1 Overdrop: Today’s Weather, Radar
A popular choice among weather forecasters
Overdrop: Today’s Weather, Radar
A customizable weather app with a powerful widget suite.
Overdrop is a popular third-party weather app that delivers on its main promise of displaying the weather accurately and in a visually appealing way. The same can be said for the app’s widget suite, which is visually stunning and extremely detailed.
I like the default theme of the app, which uses lots of bright blue and white hues, and some of the built-in widgets follow this design as well, which I think makes it even better.
Overdrop is free to download from the Google Play Store, but many of the app’s great widget styles require payment. You can choose a subscription or a lifetime (one-time) payment to unlock all widgets. Subscribing removes all ads and adds a choice of weather providers.
A flexible set of photorealistic widgets
Weather and Widgets – Weawow
A weather app and widget solution that aggregates professional weather photos.
Weawow is another established name in the Android weather app space. Like Overdrop, the app is beautifully crafted and feature-rich. All the important weather indicators are here, including air pressure, humidity, and UV index, and the app’s widget is well-crafted.
A big differentiator for Weawow is that it offers professionally taken photos depicting a variety of weather conditions. These images can be used as backgrounds for many of the widget styles, providing a charm not found in most competing options.
Weawow is free to download directly from the Google Play Store and has no ads within its interface. If you would like to support the app developer’s continued efforts, you can donate through the in-app option.
3 Weather Timeline
A classic and flexible weather solution
Weather Timeline No Ads
A great weather app that offers a highly customizable widget.
Weather Timeline is a weather forecast and widget app that I’ve been using for years. I love minimalism and this software package has the perfect look and feel. I love that it has wallpaper color matching built in, and I’ve never found the widget design unattractive.
Weather Timeline is available for free on the Google Play Store. There was a time when the developer removed the app from the store, but it appears to be back up and running with a rebooted soft release, so you may encounter unexpected bugs that have not yet been ironed out.
Accurate and visually appealing offers
Today’s Weather: Radar and Widget
It is one of the most attractive third-party widget apps available for Android.
Today Weather is another weather option that combines an attractive UI with powerful weather information. It can be hard to balance a ton of data with an interface that’s easy on the eyes, but the developers have found a way to blend the two nicely.
Even for simple presentations, the widget is highly customizable: font and icon size, color, drop shadow, and more can all be easily adjusted from the get-go.
Today Weather is available to download for free from the Google Play Store, with an optional subscription model that offers perks like removing ads, additional icon sets, and additional weather data sources.
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Google used to be far behind its competitors when it came to displaying weather information on Android, but it has recently made great strides in this area. Along with an overhaul of its existing Google widget, Material You, Weather has also been given a makeover that takes advantage of Android 12’s dynamic accent color system.
These revitalized weather efforts introduce uniquely styled widgets with the added benefit of being dynamically resizable directly from your home screen settings.
Google outlined an all-new weather feature exclusive to its latest hardware during the recent Pixel 9 keynote, and other users will still be able to access the updated weather widget through the free Google app on the Play Store.
