Forecast Bar for Apple Watch

Weather complications for every watch face.

Put the forecast right on your watch face: hourly charts, corner temperatures, tide gauges, air quality, pressure — over 100 configurations across every complication family.

Download on theApp Store

Free 24-hour access, then optional subscription with 7-day trial. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.

100+Complication configurations
4Watch face families covered
RadarFull radar screen on the watch
4.5★~2,800 US ratings on iOS
Apple Watch face with Forecast Bar complications: wind compass, hourly forecast strip, pressure gauge, UV index, and air quality
Your face, your data

Build a watch face around your weather.

Every slot on this face is Forecast Bar: a wind compass in the corner, today's range and conditions inline, an hourly visual forecast across the middle, and pressure, UV, and air quality gauges along the bottom. Swap any of them for the data you actually check.

  • Hourly and daily visual forecasts with condition icons
  • Corner and circular gauges for wind, UV, pressure, and AQI
  • Inline one-liners: high, low, and what's coming
  • A tides polar gauge for coast and boat days
Analog Apple Watch face ringed with Forecast Bar corner and circular complications for temperature, UV, wind, cloud cover, and visibility
Analog faces too

Corners, dials, and rings that fit analog faces.

Complications shouldn't only work on the grid faces. Forecast Bar's corner gauges and circular dials wrap naturally around analog faces — temperature with today's range, cloud cover, visibility, humidity, and more, each one glanceable at arm's length.

  • Corner gauges show a value in context, not just a number
  • Circular dials for temperature, UV, pressure, and rain
  • Mix Forecast Bar with your other favorite complications
Apple Watch face with a Forecast Bar rectangular temperature graph complication and circular gauges for AQI and visibility
More than icons

Real data graphs, on a watch face.

The rectangular family is big enough for an actual chart. Forecast Bar uses it: a temperature graph for the hours ahead, hourly condition strips, or a compact daily outlook — so a glance tells you the shape of the day, not just the current number.

  • Temperature graph for the next several hours
  • Hourly chart with times, icons, and temps
  • Values advance hour by hour between refreshes
The complication gallery

Every family, covered.

watchOS complications come in four families. Forecast Bar fills all of them, with 100+ configurations in total.

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Circular

Compact dials and gauges: current temperature, precipitation, UV, pressure, air quality — and the tides polar gauge that shows where you are in the cycle.

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Corner

A value plus a curved gauge tucked into the corner of analog faces — temperature with today's range, wind with direction, UV, and more.

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Inline

One line above the time: high and low, current conditions, or what's about to change. The fastest possible glance.

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Rectangular

The big slot, put to work: hourly visual forecasts, daily outlooks, and real data graphs like the temperature curve for the hours ahead.

Setup

Add a complication in under a minute.

1

Install Forecast Bar

Get Forecast Bar for iPhone and the watch app installs alongside it — or install it from the App Store directly on your watch.

2

Edit your watch face

Long-press your watch face, tap Edit, and swipe to the complications screen. (The Watch app on iPhone works too.)

3

Pick your complication

Tap a slot, scroll to Forecast Bar, and choose from the gallery — then repeat for as many slots as you want to fill.

An honest note about refresh timing.

watchOS budgets background updates for every app on your wrist — no complication from any developer can refresh every minute all day, and anyone implying otherwise is overselling.

Forecast Bar is built to do well within that budget: it schedules smart background refreshes, keeps a shared weather cache, and bakes hour-by-hour values into each timeline so complications advance on their own between refreshes. The watch also fetches its own data, so none of this depends on your iPhone being nearby.

FAQ

Questions about watch complications

How do I add a Forecast Bar complication to my watch face?
Install Forecast Bar on iPhone, and the watch app installs alongside it (you can also grab it from the App Store on the watch). Then long-press your watch face, tap Edit, swipe to the complications screen, tap a slot, and scroll to Forecast Bar to pick a complication. You can also do the same thing from the Watch app on your iPhone under Face Gallery or My Faces.
Which complication types does Forecast Bar support?
All of the modern watch face families: circular, corner, inline, and rectangular. Across them Forecast Bar offers 100+ configurations — temperature dials, corner gauges, one-line summaries, hourly and daily visual forecasts, data graphs, a tides polar gauge, air quality, pressure, and more.
How often do Apple Watch complications update?
An honest answer: watchOS budgets background updates for every app, so no complication on any watch can refresh every minute all day. Forecast Bar works with that budget — it schedules smart background refreshes, keeps a shared weather cache, and builds timelines whose values advance hour by hour on their own between refreshes, so the face stays current without burning your battery.
Does Forecast Bar show tides on the watch face?
Yes. There's a dedicated tides polar gauge complication that shows where you are in the tide cycle at a glance, alongside complications for air quality, pressure, UV, wind, and the usual temperature and precipitation data.
Is there weather radar on Apple Watch?
Yes. The Forecast Bar watch app includes a full radar screen, so you can check precipitation on a map right from your wrist — no phone required.
Does the watch app work without my iPhone nearby?
Yes. The watch app fetches its own weather data rather than relying on the phone to push it over, so complications and the app keep updating when your iPhone isn't around.
How much does Forecast Bar cost?
You get free 24-hour access to everything, then an optional subscription with a 7-day trial. Current pricing is shown in the App Store. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS. The watch app comes with the iOS app.
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Download on theApp Store

Free 24-hour access, then optional subscription with 7-day trial. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.

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