The weather app that does not want your attention
Weather apps are where calm phones go to fail. Ours has no adverts, no notifications, no account, and nothing to scroll past before you reach the forecast.
Updated 13 October 2026
Why a launcher has a forecast in it
The weather is the most common reason to pick up a phone for one fact. Most weather apps meet that moment with a full-screen advert, a push notification you did not ask for, and a feed underneath. You came for one number and left eleven minutes later.
So QuietOS answers it without handing you back to the attention economy. The temperature sits under the clock on your home screen. Tap it for the whole forecast. That is the entire interaction.
What it shows
Temperature as a line, rainfall as bars. The bar's height is how many millimetres will fall; its shade is how likely that is. One chart answers both "how wet" and "how sure".
Most apps draw an umbrella for a weather code. A code says "drizzle" for a tenth of a millimetre, so a damp day looks like a downpour. QuietOS weighs the amount and the chance, and says which it is.
Wind, gusts, humidity, pressure, visibility, cloud, UV and rainfall. Tap any reading for its own chart, drag across it for the value at that hour.
On the coast: swell height, period and direction, whether the wind is offshore, the water temperature and the wetsuit for it, and a tide curve you can read with a finger.
What it does not do
- No adverts. Not a banner, not an interstitial, not a sponsored tile.
- No notifications. The weather does not need to interrupt you. If you want to know, you look.
- No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to.
- No feed. There is nothing underneath the forecast to scroll into.
What leaves your phone
A pair of coordinates, rounded, sent to Open-Meteo to ask for a forecast. No identifier travels with it, and there is no account to attach it to. The answer is cached on the phone so the page opens before the network replies, and so a walk out of signal still shows you this morning's forecast.
Open-Meteo is an open weather API built on national weather services — the same models the forecasts on your television come from. Marine data for surf and tide comes from the same place.
Honest limits
The surf figures are open-water swell from a model. They are not the height of a wave breaking on one beach: that depends on the shape of the sea bed, which no global model knows. The tide is modelled sea level, not a harbour prediction — useful for a swim, not for navigation. We say so in the app, where it matters, rather than only here.
Beyond about a week, a forecast is a trend rather than a promise. The charts run the full sixteen days the model gives, and stop where the model stops rather than inventing a flat line.
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No account. Nothing leaves your phone. After the trial: £2.99 a month, £19 a year, or £39 once.