Local weather, done right
Current conditions, an hourly forecast, and a 6-day outlook — straight from the National Weather Service.
For iPhone & iPad
Your day, at a glance.
Weather, sky conditions, and the news you actually read — one dashboard, built from your phone's own location straight to the source. No account, no server of ours in the middle, no ads.
Universal app for iPhone & iPad · iOS 17 or later · free to use.
Everything your local forecast should tell you.
Not just today's high and low. Radar, alerts, sky conditions, and news — pulled straight from the source and laid out the way Apple would.
Live radar
An animated NWS radar loop right on the dashboard. Tap it for the full interactive radar.weather.gov viewer.
Alerts that matter
Active NWS weather alerts for exactly where you are, plus nearby earthquake alerts from the USGS.
Sky conditions, at a glance
UV index, air quality, humidity, sunrise & sunset, and moon phase — no digging through separate apps.
Aurora forecast
Real-time Kp index from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, with a plain-language read on your odds of seeing it.
Your news, your feeds
Swipe between your own RSS and Atom feeds plus your local subreddit — configured once, refreshed automatically.
Space & history, daily
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day and Wikipedia's On This Day, right alongside the rest of your dashboard.
More than one place
Save extra cities or zip codes and check their weather on demand — without losing your Home location's full dashboard.
Built for iPad too
A real two-column layout in landscape puts weather and news side by side — not a stretched iPhone screen.
Home Screen widget
Small, medium, and large sizes keep today's temperature, hourly strip, and outlook one glance away.
Syncs with iCloud
Your saved locations and news feed list follow you to every device signed into the same iCloud account.
No account, no ads
Nothing to sign up for and nothing tracking you. Open it and it's already yours.
Standalone by design
ChronicleCast talks directly to NWS, EPA, Open-Meteo, NOAA, and USGS from your phone. There's no server of ours in between.
In-app browser
Tap any article or link and it opens without leaving the app, quietly remembering what you've already read.
Light, Dark, or System
Pick your look in Settings, or let it follow your device automatically — this site does the same, top right.
One dashboard, every data source.
ChronicleCast pulls from the same public sources meteorologists and astronomers use — no middleman API, no rate-limited proxy.
Hourly & 6-Day Forecast
Live Radar
Weather Alerts
UV Index
Air Quality
Aurora (Kp Index)
Sunrise & Sunset
Moon Phase
Nearby Earthquakes
RSS & Atom Feeds
Local Subreddit
On This Day
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Nothing about you sits on our servers.
ChronicleCast has no backend of its own. Your phone resolves your location and calls NWS, EPA, Open-Meteo, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, and the USGS directly — the exact same public APIs, with nothing of ours routing or logging the requests in between.
Save extra locations or add a news feed and those lists sync through your own iCloud account, not ours. There's no sign-up, no analytics SDK, and no advertising SDK anywhere in the app.
Read the full privacy policy →
Available now on the App Store.
ChronicleCast is free to download for iPhone and iPad.
Universal app for iPhone & iPad · iOS 17 or later