Changelog

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Version 2026.3

  • Chat with support

    Send us a message from Help and Support in Settings, and get replies right in the app.

  • Weekly rain target

    Set a weekly rain goal for any saved location and track it on a single bar: rain that has already fallen, plus what is expected over the next 3 days. Available with Ultra.

  • Soil moisture and drought

    The drought view is now Soil, adding local and regional soil moisture and how much rain has fallen since the latest drought map. Available with Ultra.

  • Three days of hourly rain

    The rain chart now shows hour-by-hour rainfall for the past 72 hours, and the rain view leads with your totals.

  • Fully localized

    Everything new is available in all 9 supported languages.

Version 2026.1

  • Rainfall totals

    See how much rain fell at your location over the past day, week, month, and year. Tap the Rain tile on your forecast.

  • Rain calendar

    Every rain day on a monthly calendar. Tap a day to see its rainfall hour by hour.

  • History back to 2020

    Browse past rain for any saved location. Starter includes the past 24 hours, Standard the past 7 days, and Ultra the full archive.

  • Lightning on the radar

    Live lightning strikes on the radar map, updated every minute.

  • Longer radar timeline

    Scrub the radar two hours into the past and two hours ahead.

  • Gauge-checked accuracy

    Rainfall measurements are verified against official rain gauge stations.

Version 1.0.5

  • Smarter location search

    Results appear instantly as you type, with the closest matches first. You can now search full street addresses and ZIP codes, and saved addresses show the street name.

  • Search anywhere on the map

    The radar search now finds any city, ZIP, or address worldwide and takes you straight to conditions at that spot.

  • Faster loading

    Your locations appear immediately when you open them, and the tide, rain, and climate cards load more reliably alongside the rest.

  • Quicker Apple Watch search

    Location search on Apple Watch is faster and more responsive.

  • Fully localized

    Everything new is available in all 9 supported languages.

Version 1.0.4

  • Accurate "Now" Temperature

    The hourly timeline's NOW row always matches the big current temperature — in the app, widgets, and on Apple Watch.

  • Live Rain Countdowns

    Rain countdowns on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and forecast page tick down in real time.

  • Local Time for Saved Places

    Widgets and Apple Watch show saved cities in that city's own time zone.

  • 9 Languages

    GrayCloud is now available in 9 languages.

  • Better Snow Totals

    Expected snowfall amounts are now reported as true snow depth.

  • Cleaner Alerts

    Reissued or duplicate weather alerts no longer show up twice.

Version 1.0.3

  • Climate

    A new Climate view: seasonal normals and monthly charts for temperature, rain, wind, humidity, and sunshine, plus how each place compares.

  • Weather records

    All-time and on-this-day records for any location, with a heads-up when today’s high or low is closing in on breaking one.

  • Cleaner rain charts

    The next-24-hour rain chart now shows bars, matching the past-24-hour view.

  • More reliable

    Correct loading right after launch (no more brief wrong-city weather), radar that recovers on its own, an accurate morning briefing, and a widget fix for triple-digit temperatures.

Version 1.0

  • New Maps Explore & Radar
    For You · Explore · History

    The radar map adds storm-tracking, a weather-events, global explorer, and a personal weather History tab, with a persistent timeline scrubber.

  • 3D city dive and basemap picker on the map
    Apple-Maps-style flyover

    Selecting a place flies in to 3D city view; a new basemap picker switches between map, satellite, and hybrid.

  • Tap anywhere on the map for weather at that point

    Dropping a pin opens a weather-at-point card with reverse-geocoded location, a next-24h rain chart, observed past-24h total, and local climate facts.

  • Redesigned location-detail card
    Adaptive rain card + skeleton loading

    The map location detail now adapts to live conditions (raining / storm approaching / recently rained / dry) with relevant charts.

  • Personal weather records with a Top-5 ladder
    Ranked, with where & when

    New history view tracks your record temps and weather conditions. Mini map > History.

  • Shareable weather moment cards
    Records, storms, rainfall, radar loops

    A unified share system creates polished cards for personal records, storm conditions, rainfall totals, and an animated radar-loop, with direct Instagram Stories / Messages / Photos destinations.

  • Europe radar support
    OPERA composite + forecast tail

    Radar now renders the European OPERA composite (and IMERG globally), including the minute-by-minue Raincast .

  • Faster, more reliable radar map open
    Black-map fix + instant open

    Fixed the first-open black radar map (a compositing race) and pre-warm the full map so tapping the mini-map opens an already-painted view instantly.

  • iPad map drawer and layout polish

    iPad gets a floating overlay map drawer with grab-handle resize and detent haptics, a continuous locations sidebar, and layout parity with iPhone.

  • Smarter weather notifications
    Less spam, better timing

    Stopped duplicate severe-thunderstorm-watch alerts, and day-ahead forecast notifications now wait for the morning briefing instead of firing after midnight.

  • Tide card
    Coastal locations

    A new tide card shows the next high/low and countdown, with a detail view carrying the current height, a 24-hour tide curve, an upcoming highs/lows table, and station attribution.

  • Fresher home-screen widgets

    Widget data refreshes more reliably with smarter stale-fetch handling, reload batching, and honest timestamps.

  • Clearer 'is today normal?' climate card

    The climate card leads with a plain-language verdict (Normal / Cooler / Much cooler) on a five-level band and compares against the full-day high.

  • Subscription & paywall groundwork (dormant)
    Internal — gated off

    Redesigned paywall, founder pricing, staged-rollout and Founding Member scaffolding, and free-tier detail gating. All behind the master gate, which stays OFF for this build.

  • Cross-surface maps analytics + daily config snapshot
    Internal

    Added the anonymous map_* event family and a daily configuration snapshot for product analytics. No new identifiers.

Version 1.0

  • Sun & Moon cards stay put

    When the Sun and Moon are shown as separate cards, the Moon card no longer disappears during the day.

  • Faster Climate card

    The Climate card now appears the instant the app opens instead of a moment later.

Version 1.0

  • Reorder Grid Cards

    In Settings → Customize → Grid, press and drag cards to reorder them on iPhone.

Version 1.0

  • Moon

    New moon card with an interactive 3D moon and time scrubber. - Tap for moonrise/moonset, illumination, distance, and next full/new moon - Appears automatically in the evening

  • Customize your cards

    - Reorder, show, or hide data cards (Settings > Customize > Grid) - New optional combined Sun & Moon card switches automatically day to night

  • Sky conditions

    - Added a "Mostly Clear" tier so lightly cloudy skies read correctly - Fixed mismatched sky icons and labels

  • Rain modal

    Past-24-hour chart now shows the current hour as a live bar during active rain

  • Apple Watch

    Fixed the complication showing a stale temperature

  • Fixes & polish

    - Dew point colors clearer (Oppressive now distinct from Sticky) - Full-screen radar now extends edge to edge

Version 1.0

  • Forecast grid & detail

    - Past 7-day and 30-day rainfall charts now shown inline in the Rain modal - Rain tile shows 0% instead of a dash when the forecast is dry

  • Mini-map
    New setting

    - Added Auto and Hidden options (Settings > Customize > Map > Default View)

  • Modal height

    - Customize height modal cards open. (Settings > Customize > Details Card)

  • Climate card

    Added new climate data card + detail modal

Version 1.0

  • Set Real Feel Temp as Displayed Temp

    New Settings > Customize picker to select Actual or Real Feel for headline temp display

  • Quick Scroll

    Quickly scroll through locations by swiping your finger across the bottom tab bar

Version 1.0

  • iPad App

    Improved user interface and cleaned up small bugs

  • Mac App

    Now available!

Version 1.0

  • Dew Data

    Dew point comfort scale fixes

Version 1.0

  • Widget Update

    Optimized refresh rate

  • Global Rain Forecast

    Improved rain model for non-US locations

  • Alert Fix

    Fixed first freeze / first 90 degree day bug

  • Mac App
    Waiting on Apple review

    Mac app testflight

Version 1.0

  • Map Settings

    Adjust settings for each map layer

  • Grid Card Details

    Upgraded info on data detail views

  • Button Settings

    Customize left, right and top buttons

  • Updated iPad App

    Native UI

  • iPad App

    Build proper iPad app

Version 1.0

  • Dew Point
    Data Option

    Add Dew point as data option

  • Rain Data
    Add modal details

    Add historical data to detail view for rain / precipitation

  • Moon Phase
    Data Option

    Add Moon Phase as data option

  • Map Settings
    Add customizations

    Add ability to set custom opacity level for individual map layers

Version 1.0

  • Location settings

    You can now manage location permission in the app: Settings > Data > Location

  • Forecast summaries

    Improved accuracy of current and extended forecast text summary

  • Correct units

    All widgets and notifications now use proper units (ie. celsius, fahrenheit, in, mm, etc)

  • Theme settings

    Fixed a bug where the mini radar map for current location did not update to theme until app closed and reopened

Version 1.0

  • Live Activities

    Only display for current location

  • Default Units

    Added system defaults for temp, wind, rainfall, time system

  • Truncated Labels

    Time labels and data labels for wind, etc display without abbreviation

  • Theme

    On initial install, app defaults to system theme, instead of light mode

  • Unit Labels

    All copy respects active unit setting

Version 1.0

  • Small Fixes
    Testflight Feedback - Batch 2

    - (Fix) Labels should display properly on all screen sizes - Add 24h time option - Add System defaults for temp, rainfall, time, wind - Default to System theme on initial install - (Fix) Notifications now show correct unit

Version 1.0

  • Some Non-US Forecasts Inaccurate
    Bug fix

Recently shipped

  • Radar Unavailable
    Bug fix · build 62

    - [ ] Fix intermittent “Radar unavailable” issue

  • Website Revamp
    graycloud.app
  • Upgrade International Radar
    EU + Canada
  • Radar
    Storm, Temperature, Cloud Coverage

    For CONUS

  • Widgets
    Home screen & lock screen
  • Small Fixes
    Testflight Feedback

    - [x] wind speed uses global units setting - [x] all rain units respect global units setting - [x] updated onboarding flow

  • User Feedback
  • Full Metric Unit Support
  • Alerts
  • Live Activities
  • watchOS app
  • Web app
  • NWS Alerts
  • macOS app