Amazon / Weather / WEEWX WEATHER APP
REVIEW
weeWX Weather App is a thin client for a hobbyist server, and proud of it.
A Fire-tablet companion to the open-source weeWX personal-weather-station software. You need your own hardware, your own server, and a tolerance for configuration files — but if you have all three, this is the cheapest way to put your backyard data on a kitchen-counter display.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
weeWX Weather App
ODIOUS APPS
OUR SCORE
6.8
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Most weather apps in 2026 are advertising vehicles dressed up in radar maps. weeWX Weather App is the opposite end of the spectrum — a quiet little viewer for data you have already gone to the trouble of collecting yourself, on a station you bought, processed by software you installed, served from a machine you own.
The weeWX project itself has been the gold standard for personal-weather-station software for over fifteen years. It is what citizen scientists, irrigation hobbyists, and a non-trivial number of small airports use to take raw sensor output and turn it into something readable. This Fire-tablet app is the official mobile face of that project on Amazon’s store, and it makes no attempt to broaden the audience.
That focus is the app’s biggest strength and its commercial weakness. The people it was written for love it. The people who installed it by accident wrote the one-star reviews.
weeWX rewards the people who built the home server. Everyone else will stare at a blank screen and uninstall.
FEATURES
weeWX Weather App is a mobile front-end for the weeWX project — an open-source Python application that has been collecting data from personal weather stations since 2009. The desktop side runs on a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, or a NAS, polling a Davis Vantage, Acu-Rite, Ambient, or any of roughly 90 supported station drivers. This Fire-tablet app simply reads the JSON or HTML output weeWX generates and renders it as dashboards.
The screens are utilitarian: a current-conditions tile (temperature, humidity, wind, barometric pressure, rainfall), 24-hour and weekly trend charts, an extremes table, and a configurable list of sensors. You point the app at the URL of your weeWX install, optionally supply HTTP basic-auth credentials, and pick a refresh interval. Multiple stations can be saved as separate profiles — handy if you run one in the garden and one at the cabin.
There is no forecast, no radar, no severe-weather alerts, no map. The app is deliberately a read-only viewer for data you already own. Settings live in a single screen; there is no account, no telemetry, no subscription.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app does exactly one thing and does it without fuss: it pulls a feed from your weeWX server and renders it cleanly on a Fire tablet. For the people who actually run weeWX — a real community, mostly amateur meteorologists and citizen scientists — that is the entire job. Setup takes about two minutes if your weeWX install is already serving its standard skin.
The price is right. The app is free, no ads, no upsell, no cloud round-trip. Every byte of data stays between your station and your tablet on your own LAN. In a category where the default weather app uploads your location to an ad broker before you finish the install, that restraint is the strongest pitch weeWX has.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The barrier to entry is the entire problem. There is nothing in the app, the store listing, or the first-run screen that explains what weeWX is, where to get it, or how to connect a station. A user who taps install expecting a weather app gets a configuration screen asking for a URL they have never heard of. The one-star reviews on the Amazon listing read like a chorus of confused first-time openers, and the developer's response — fairly — is that this is a companion, not a standalone product.
The visual design is dated. Charts render with default Android line styles, typography is system-default, and the dark mode is a straight inversion rather than a redesign. None of that matters to the target user, but it does mean the app feels like the side project it is rather than something you'd leave running on a kitchen Echo Show.
CONCLUSION
weeWX Weather App is a hobbyist tool published on a consumer store, and the mismatch shows up in every review that complains it doesn't tell you the weather. If you have a weather station in your yard and a Pi serving its data, install this and forget about it. If you don't, the default Amazon Weather app is what you want.