Getting Started with GrayCloud

Welcome to GrayCloud! We offer a bunch of customizations to make the app your own.

Choose your theme

You can select between System, Dark, and Light. System follows your phone settings, so if you have light during the day and dark at night, the app will respect that when System is selected. Dark applies a dark theme, and Light applies a light theme.

Switching between the System, Dark, and Light themes.

Customize your buttons

By default, the Settings view is accessed by the button in the top right of the screen, locations by the button in the bottom left, and the data-value toggle by the button in the bottom right.

GrayCloud forecast view with the three default buttons highlighted and labeled: Settings in the top right, Search in the bottom left, and Metric in the bottom right.
The default layout: Settings (top right), Search (bottom left), and Metric (bottom right).

These buttons can be customized to your liking. For example, I prefer a minimal setup with only a single button in the bottom right to access Settings.

Configuring the minimal single-button setup, and how it looks applied.

Your locations are always accessible by swiping in from the left edge of the screen.

Customize your map

You can customize the map base layers — Map, Satellite, and Hybrid — as well as the overlays — Auto, Radar, Temperature, and Cloud Cover.

  • Map is a custom light or dark map (depending on your theme) with place names and territory borders.
  • Satellite is a geographical satellite view.
  • Hybrid combines the satellite base map with place names and territory borders overlaid.

Auto shows radar when it's raining, temperature in extreme heat or cold, and cloud cover when it's overcast.

Switching between the map base layers and overlays.

Customize your data cards

Choose between Rain, Cloud Cover, Sun & Moon, Dew Point, Tides, Wind, Air Quality, UV Index, and Climate data cards. This setting lets you reorder the cards and select which ones show or stay hidden on the main forecast view.

Reordering data cards and choosing which ones appear on the forecast view.