Visualize Day

Watch your next 24 hours before they happen.

Keep pulling past refresh and Visualize Day takes over the screen: the coming day as one animated flythrough, the sky, sun, stars, clouds and rain following your forecast hour by hour — then looping. Share any day as a video.

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Free to download; live weather requires a subscription, and every subscription includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.

24hOf forecast in one flythrough
30sOne full day of playback
VideoExport the day and share it
11.4On iOS, iPadOS and macOS

Visualize Day in Forecast Bar, in short

What it is
Visualize Day plays the next 24 hours of your forecast as a full-screen animated flythrough — sky, sun, stars, clouds and precipitation changing hour by hour — then loops.
On iPhone and iPad
Pull down on the main screen, past the point where refresh triggers, and keep pulling — the flythrough takes over the screen.
On Mac
Open it from the weather panel's footer, the menu bar icon's right-click menu, or View › Visualize Day (⌥⌘V).
The window
Always the next 24 hours from the current hour, so you're watching the weather ahead of you rather than replaying the morning.
The sky
The sun rises and sets at your location's real sunrise and sunset times, and the sky's colors turn with them.
Sharing
Any day can be exported as a video and shared straight from the flythrough.
Requires
Forecast Bar 11.4 or later on iOS and macOS. Visualize Day is not on Apple TV or Apple Watch.
Visualize Day on iPhone playing a full day over Mountain View, California — dawn clouds turning to daylight and then a starlit night, with the hour, conditions and temperature at the bottom
Pull, and the day plays

Pull down past refresh, and keep going.

Refresh is the first stop. Pull past it and the main screen gives way to Visualize Day: the coming 24 hours as one continuous flythrough, the scene brightening and darkening as the hours pass, with the time, conditions and temperature playing along the bottom.

  • Sky, sun, stars, clouds and rain follow the forecast hour by hour
  • Starts at the current hour and runs a day forward — forecast, not replay
  • One full day plays in about 30 seconds, then loops
  • Drag the timeline to any hour — sunrise and sunset are marked where they fall
Forecast Bar's main screen on iPhone with an animated city scene of Amsterdam behind the forecast
A sky that keeps real time

The sun rises when your sun rises.

Visualize Day runs on the same solar model as the app's animated backgrounds, rebuilt in 11.4: the sun follows your location's real sunrise and sunset times instead of a fixed six-to-six arc, sets out of frame instead of vanishing at the screen's edge, and the sky and cloud colors turn at the day's actual sunrise and sunset.

  • Sunrise and sunset come from the forecast for your exact location
  • Sky and cloud colors shift continuously, not in steps
  • Stars come out at night, and the moon shows its current phase
  • The same sky animates the main screen behind your forecast
Forecast Bar menu bar popover on macOS showing current conditions and forecast
On the Mac, and out of the app

The same day on your Mac — and exported as video.

On macOS, Visualize Day opens in its own window — from the weather panel's footer, the menu bar icon's right-click menu, or View › Visualize Day. And on both platforms the day you just watched can leave the app: export it as a video, ready to send or post.

  • Its own window on the Mac, opened with ⌥⌘V from anywhere in the app
  • Export renders the full day offline — higher quality than a screen recording
  • The standard share sheet on iOS, the share picker on macOS
  • A condition icon beside the temperature is one switch away in Settings

An honest note: it's a visualization, not a camera.

The scenery is artwork — a scene matched to your location, or one of Forecast Bar's downloadable City Packs when your city has one. What's real is the forecast driving it: every hour's light, cloud, rain and temperature come from the actual hourly forecast for where you are.

When a generic scene is standing in for your city, a Request a City Pack button appears right inside Visualize Day — Gold subscribers can ask for artwork of their own city to be created. Visualize Day itself isn't tied to a tier; that one button is.

FAQ

Questions about Visualize Day

What is Visualize Day in Forecast Bar?
It's a full-screen animated flythrough of your next 24 hours of weather. The sky, sun, stars, clouds and precipitation follow the hourly forecast for your location, a full day plays in about 30 seconds, and then it loops. It arrived in Forecast Bar 11.4 on iOS and macOS.
How do I open Visualize Day?
On iPhone and iPad, pull down on the main screen past the point where refresh triggers and keep pulling. On Mac, open it from the weather panel's footer, the menu bar icon's right-click menu, or View › Visualize Day (⌥⌘V).
Can I save or share the flythrough as a video?
Yes. Tap the share button in Visualize Day and the day is rendered to a video — an offline render rather than a screen recording, so it comes out smooth — then handed to the standard share sheet on iOS or the share picker on macOS.
Which devices have Visualize Day?
iPhone, iPad and Mac, in Forecast Bar 11.4 or later. It isn't on Apple TV or Apple Watch.
Why doesn't pulling down open Visualize Day?
Three usual reasons. It needs the Animated Weather background style, which is the default but can be changed; the pull gesture has its own switch in Settings › Data & Layout › Visualize Day; and it needs at least six hours of hourly forecast ahead to have something worth playing.
Does Visualize Day need a subscription?
No. Visualize Day isn't part of any paid tier — it ships with the app on iOS and macOS. The one gated element is the Request a City Pack button that appears inside it when a generic scene is standing in for your city; filing those requests is part of Forecast Bar Gold. Compare plans for what each tier includes.
How much does Forecast Bar cost?
Forecast Bar is free to download, and live weather requires a subscription. Every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, so you can try everything your plan includes before you're charged. Current pricing is shown in the App Store. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS. See Compare Plans for what each tier includes.
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Watch tomorrow before it gets here.

Visualize Day is included with every plan — and every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial.

Download on theApp Store Download on theMac App Store

Free to download; live weather requires a subscription, and every subscription includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.

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