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Weather
Every App Comrade review tagged Weather, across every platform.
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.
MAY 11, 2026
NOAA Marine Forecast & Weather is a competent NOAA data wrapper, not a NOAA app.
A third-party iOS client that pulls public marine forecasts from the National Weather Service. Useful at the dock, easy to mistake for official.
MAY 11, 2026
AccuWeather on iPhone is the version the company quietly got right.
A 4.59 App Store rating against 3.51 on Play tells the story — the iOS build keeps the 90-day forecast and MinuteCast, and lets the Widget Suite carry the day.
MAY 11, 2026
Tides Near Me turns NOAA's data dump into something you can read on a dock.
A free, ad-light tide chart that surfaces the right station and the right twelve hours without making you log in or pick a subscription tier.
MAY 11, 2026
Dont Forget The Weather is a one-screen hourly forecast with a typo for a name.
An indie Android weather app from Ten Digit Grid that strips the category back to nine hourly variables, scrolls them sideways, and asks nothing else of you.
MAY 11, 2026
1Weather has spent a decade being the friendly weather app on Android, and it shows in both directions.
A 4.33 Play Store rating across 274,000+ users says the long-running Handmark app still earns its keep — even as a 2012-era information architecture quietly competes with a Pro tier that exists mostly to hide the ads.
MAY 11, 2026
Erie News Now on LG webOS is competent local TV news, on the couch.
The WICU/WSEE joint newsroom's webOS app brings Erie, Pennsylvania local news, weather, and severe-weather alerts to the living-room TV. Useful for the regional audience it exists to serve.
MAY 11, 2026
WOWK+ is the Tri-State newsroom Roku owners actually use.
Nexstar's CBS affiliate for Huntington and Charleston ports its newscasts and weather radar to Roku with the same template the chain ships everywhere — which is fine, until the storm cell crosses the Big Sandy.
MAY 11, 2026
WBOY+ is a competent local-news app for a market that needed one.
Clarksburg's NBC affiliate puts its newscasts, weather radar, and high-school sports on Roku without overreaching. The result is unremarkable in the way local TV apps should be.
MAY 11, 2026
WCBD News 2 turns the Charleston NBC affiliate into a competent Roku habit.
Nexstar's Lowcountry station ships the standard local-news Roku template — live stream, on-demand clips, weather radar — and the local reporting carries it further than the channel does.
MAY 11, 2026
WJTV+ is a competent Jackson news feed living inside Nexstar's template.
The CBS affiliate for Mississippi's capital ships a Roku channel that does the basics — live newscasts, on-demand clips, weather — and almost nothing beyond what Nexstar's group framework provides every sister station.
MAY 11, 2026
Mississippi Live Weather is a single-state radar feed on the TV.
A free indie Roku channel built for households in Mississippi who want the local forecast on the big screen — no subscription, no ads, no account.
MAY 11, 2026
WBBJ Jackson on Roku puts West Tennessee's ABC affiliate on the big screen.
The Bahakel-owned ABC 7 channel brings Jackson, TN local news, weather, and sports to Roku — free, ad-supported, and tightly scoped to the West Tennessee viewing area it actually serves.
MAY 11, 2026
WJBF6+ brings Augusta's ABC affiliate to the living-room screen.
Nexstar's Tizen channel for WJBF-TV — the ABC affiliate covering Augusta, Aiken, and the wider CSRA — delivers local newscasts and a rotating slate of FAST channels to Samsung TV owners who used to reach for the antenna.
MAY 11, 2026
WDTN+ brings Dayton's NBC affiliate to the living-room TV.
Nexstar's local-news streaming app for Samsung Tizen delivers WDTN Channel 2 newscasts, weather updates, and 24/7 streams to the Miami Valley audience with the kind of competent, no-surprises build that defines the broadcaster's TV-app fleet.
MAY 11, 2026
WHNT19+ brings Huntsville's CBS affiliate to the Samsung TV — competently, narrowly.
Nexstar's local-news streaming app for WHNT-TV, Huntsville's longtime CBS affiliate, delivers North Alabama newscasts and weather on demand to Tizen. It does exactly what local TV apps are supposed to do, and nothing more.
MAY 11, 2026
RochesterFirst on Tizen is a competent Nexstar local-news app for the Rochester market.
WROC-TV's Tizen client delivers Rochester NY local news, weather, and live streams from the CBS affiliate, with the standard Nexstar template lightly skinned for a Samsung remote.
MAY 11, 2026
WTRF+ brings Wheeling's CBS affiliate to the Samsung TV with respectable polish.
Nexstar's Tizen build of WTRF 7News delivers local Ohio Valley newscasts, regional weather, and CBS-network filler on demand — useful inside its DMA, irrelevant outside it.
MAY 11, 2026
WCBD+ on Samsung Tizen is the Charleston NBC affiliate's FAST-channel pitch.
Nexstar's Lowcountry station ships a Tizen build that leans on the 24/7 News2+ FAST channel more than the Roku sibling does, with Bixby voice search wired in and the same shallow on-demand library underneath.
MAY 11, 2026
WFRV+ brings the Green Bay CBS affiliate to Samsung TVs with workmanlike polish.
Nexstar's free local-news streamer for WFRV Channel 5 covers Northeast Wisconsin with 24/7 newscasts, weather, and Storm Team coverage. The Tizen build is exactly what a small-market affiliate app should be — and not a frame more.
MAY 11, 2026
The Weather Channel on Fire is competent, cluttered, and exactly what you'd expect.
On Amazon's Fire tablets, the long-running forecaster delivers accurate hyperlocal data and aggressive ad density in roughly equal measure. The bones are good. The ride is bumpy.
MAY 10, 2026
WISH-TV's app is the rare local-news client that earns its install.
Indianapolis viewers rate Circle City Broadcasting's standalone news app well above the local-TV-app average, and the reasons hold up.
MAY 10, 2026
WeatherBug still wins on lightning, even after the screen got noisier.
Spark proximity alerts and a 16-layer interactive map remain the reasons to install. The ad load and the tracking prompt on launch are the reasons people uninstall.
MAY 10, 2026
The Weather Channel app still earns its keep on the radar tab.
Apple Weather absorbed Dark Sky and the default app is now genuinely good — but the legacy network's app is still the one to open when the sky looks wrong.
MAY 10, 2026
AccuWeather's Android app has the data but loses the room to the ads.
A 90-day forecast, MinuteCast precipitation, and a hyperlocal radar — buried under a Play Store rating of 3.51 from 358,000+ users who mostly want to talk about the advertising.
MAY 10, 2026
WeatherBug is the lightning-network weather app worth keeping around.
Earth Networks' consumer face still leans on the asset most rivals don't have — a private mesh of weather stations and a continent-scale lightning-detection network feeding the same forecasts and severe-weather alerts.
MAY 10, 2026
The Weather Channel app is the all-in-one default that keeps earning back its trust.
Version 16.2 leans on a refreshed Storm Radar, an AI-assisted forecast Q&A, and 15-day outlooks. The privacy ledger is the part that still asks you to read the fine print.
MAY 10, 2026
Panhandle Weather turns the living-room TV into a regional radar.
A free indie Roku channel from a single developer, aimed at people who want the local forecast on the big screen without opening a phone or a browser.
MAY 10, 2026
CBS 42+ puts Birmingham's tornado coverage on the right screen.
Nexstar's free Roku channel for WIAT 42 carries the central Alabama CBS newscasts, the Storm Team weather block, and live cut-ins during severe weather. In tornado country, that's not a feature — it's the entire reason to install it.
MAY 10, 2026
WTWO+ turns Terre Haute's NBC 2 into a quiet Roku tile that does its job.
Nexstar's free, ad-supported channel for the Wabash Valley delivers local newscasts, weather, and Storm Tracker radar straight to the TV — no cable login, no fuss.
MAY 10, 2026
OzarksFirst+ brings KOLR's Springfield newscast to the living-room TV.
Nexstar's CBS affiliate in southwest Missouri ships its local news, weather, and sports onto Roku in a free, ad-supported channel. It works the way a local-news channel should work, and not much more than that.
MAY 10, 2026
FOX21+ KXRM gives Colorado Springs a TV-shaped news loop that finally fits the room.
Nexstar's Pikes Peak FOX affiliate ships a free Roku channel that does the local-news job — weather, traffic, the 9pm newscast on replay — without asking you to learn anything new.
MAY 10, 2026
KLST+ delivers San Angelo's CBS newscasts to Roku without asking for a login.
Nexstar's free Roku channel for KLST channel 8 carries live morning, midday and evening newscasts plus on-demand weather and Concho Valley reporting. The bar for local-news streaming apps is low, and KLST+ clears it without distinguishing itself.
MAY 10, 2026
Doug Heady Weather is a hyperlocal channel built for one corner of four states.
A KOAM-TV chief meteorologist's standalone Roku channel, aimed at Southwest Missouri, Northwest Arkansas, Northeast Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas. Outside that footprint there is almost no reason to install it.
MAY 10, 2026
Southern TN Weather is exactly as niche as it sounds, and that is the point.
A hyper-local Roku channel covering seven Middle Tennessee counties with radar, alerts, and a small in-house meteorology team. If you live in Bedford or Coffee County, that is unusually valuable. Anywhere else, it is a curiosity.
MAY 10, 2026
KGET+ brings Bakersfield's NBC newscasts to the Samsung TV without a cable bill.
Nexstar's free ad-supported app for KGET 17 collapses the local-news antenna ritual into a Tizen tile — useful in Kern County, irrelevant outside it, and thin on anything beyond newscasts.
MAY 10, 2026
WMBB+ brings Panama City's ABC affiliate to the Samsung TV home row.
Nexstar's Tizen companion app for WMBB News 13 streams local Panhandle newscasts, weather, and on-demand segments straight to the living-room set — useful in a hurricane season, thin the rest of the year.
MAY 10, 2026
LouisianaFirst+ brings the Nexstar local-news bundle to Samsung TVs.
A free, ad-supported Tizen channel for Louisiana's Nexstar affiliates — live newscasts, weather, sports, and on-demand clips, with no login and no cable subscription.
MAY 10, 2026
WeatherBug on Fire TV is the community-radar app the category quietly needs.
GroundTruth's weather app is built on a network of more than 10,000 community-sourced weather stations. On Fire TV, the hyperlocal angle is the differentiator the rest of the category doesn't have.
MAY 9, 2026
AccuWeather on LG webOS is the minute-by-minute forecast on the living-room TV.
AccuWeather's MinuteCast and hyper-local hourly precipitation forecast are the differentiators against The Weather Channel. The webOS app is a competent display surface for that data.
MAY 9, 2026
The Weather Channel on Tizen is the radar app reframed for Bixby.
Samsung's TV variant of The Weather Channel is the same competent radar-and-forecast surface you'll find on Roku and Apple TV, with one platform-specific addition: Bixby voice queries that resolve directly into the app.
MAY 9, 2026
The Weather Channel on Roku is the radar app on a 65-inch screen.
What worked as a phone-utility is, on a TV, the weather forecast for a household — radar, hourly forecasts, severe-weather alerts. The Roku app is competent, ad-supported, and exactly what most users need.
MAY 8, 2026