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Geometric Weather: a light and powerful weather app (iOS/Mac and Android) that provides you with real-time temperature, air quality, 15-days weather forecast, etc (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] citytree@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to F-Droid:

Anti-Features

This app has features you may not like.

This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service

Why would I use this "Geometric Weather" on Android instead of a completely free weather app such as omWeather?

[–] spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is meant by "non-free network service" in this context? Geometric Weather doesn't charge for anything, nor does it even have in-app purchases.

[–] citytree@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is meant by “non-free network service” in this context?

Geometric Weather gets its weather data from AccuWeather and OpenWeatherMap, which are not open source weather APIs. In contrast, omWeather gets its weather data from Open-Meteo, which is open source.

[–] original_reader@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Breezy Weather also supports OpenMeteo. Can be changed in the settings.

[–] spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Ah interesting, thank you for the clarification!

[–] darkgeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I didn't hear about omWeather before, which is quite good after follow your recommandation.

[–] original_reader@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would I use this "Geometric Weather" on Android instead of a completely free weather app such as omWeather?

Doesn't show as much information (e.g. dew point, daily forecast details).

Doesn't support multiple weather providers, AFAIK.

Doesn't look as nice, if that matters.

Both apps don't track. I would venture a guess and say that Breezy Weather has the warning, because it includes AccuWeather, which can be turned off and changed to OpenMeteo or others.