Get your current weather from Outside

Outside [iTunes link] is a new, personal defy app for the iPhone/iPod contact that provides a visual prognosticate with whatever paying options for near notifications. I like the idea of the app; it has whatever pleasant graphics and a firm move to defy information. The interface is supported on a metaphor of looking discover a window: you crapper intend the underway conditions or a five-day forecast, if you poverty to glance into the future. For the relevant stats, like humidity, cloud counterbalance and winds, you just wink up the screen, and it'll verify you everything you requirement to know.

The app also features an interesting clear model: when you acquire the U.S $2.99 app, you intend 30 life of near notifications for free. Then it's $0.99 for the notifications every three months. Notifications allow letting you undergo if fall is in the forecast, the UV finger when it goes above a ordered level, a warning if the temperature goes beneath your preference, and a asking that the defy is OK to wear a T-shirt.

There are a few things that would make this app better. First, it'd be pleasant to reduce the requirement to wink the concealment so often. The five-day prognosticate could be settled on digit page, not five. And the notifications are unique, but a taste strange. I'd much kinda be notified of upcoming storm warnings kinda than T-shirt weather, but there is no much choice -- especially since the notifications are so pricey (getting them for a year costs more than the app itself), it'd be pleasant to hit whatever more options. And if you poverty defy from a assorted location, you hit to start that positioning manually. There is no list of favorites.

I conceive defy junkies would be meliorate off with the Weather Channel app [iTunes link], which is free, Weather Channel Max for $3.99 [iTunes link], or MyWeather [iTunes link] ambulatory which provides very careful content for a one-time $4.99, and includes (free) near notifications for severe weather. There is whatever adroit thinking behind Outside, and it's a firm move to a function that's seen its deal of rainy days. But I wish it had more aggregation on the individualist screens, and it wasn't so pricey to intend notifications.