All The Menu Bar Weather Apps for MacOS

I have wanted a menu bar weather app for a long time, and I can’t find any that fit all my criteria. So, off I went looking at all the recommendations for weather apps, and found 17 of them. Yes, SEVENTEEN.

The image shows a collection of weather apps on a screen, including icons for DatWeatherDoe, Weatherly, Mercury, Meteorologist, and others arranged in a grid in Launchpad.

Criteria

The main criteria in my mind are:

Free or cheap one-time purchase (Apparently this is hard because Apple Weather API costs money? What? Why? Apple is retrieving that data anyway, might as well provide a local API?)
Shows feels like temperature
Doesn’t show up in the dock
Allows for switching between a list of cities in the menu bar popup
Shows weather for the week and next few hours
(Extra) Shows sunrise and sunset times
(Extra) Opens on login and has a shortcut to open/close the menu bar dropdown

Things I personally do not care about:

Hyperlocal weather information
Radar maps or any other graphical information
Making weather apps fun
And where the weather information is coming from. Till it is coming from any trusted source, I am happy.
Update time being more frequent than 30 or 60 minutes.
Desktop widgets, or control panel widgets because I never ever open or use those sections.

How hard can it be to find something like this? Apparently, very hard. I was so excited when Apple Weather launched their menu bar option in macOS 15.2, but apparently, it doesn’t show feels like — and only shows temperature for the next few hours. 🤷‍♀️

Apps

Here are some other apps that I have tried grouped as, “Considering” and “Not Considering”. Something to consider is, given that apple now has their menu bar option that would be enough for most people, some apps might stop receiving updates and may not be compatible with future versions of OS.

You can open toggles below to see screenshots of the app in the menu bar and most of the available settings for that app. Captions and alt text generated using GPT-4o.

Considering

Big Weather (

Mac App Store ‎Big Weather): Has everything I need for free, except it doesn’t show feels like temperature in menu bar but does show it in the popup. Also the hourly graph is kinda hard to understand, but I will probably get used to it. Sometimes doesn’t get current location, which is a pain. Some permission toggle switching later, it works, yay!

Left Image: Displays a weather app showing the current temperature and feels-like temperature. It includes details like UV index, wind speed, humidity, and pressure. Forecast charts are shown for different timeframes, along with hourly rain predictions displayed in blue bars.
Right Image: App settings screen with sections for style preferences, including layout options, animations, and background settings. Units for temperature, rain, pressure, and wind can be customized. Menu bar options include warnings and temperature display settings, along with startup and keyboard shortcut settings. — **Left Image:** Displays a weather app showing the current temperature and feels-like temperature. It includes details like UV index, wind speed, humidity, and pressure. Forecast charts are shown for different timeframes, along with hourly rain predictions displayed in blue bars.
**Right Image:** App settings screen with sections for style preferences, including layout options, animations, and background settings. Units for temperature, rain, pressure, and wind can be customized. Menu bar options include warnings and temperature display settings, along with startup and keyboard shortcut settings.

Menu Weather Pro (

Mac App Store ‎Menu Weather Pro): Honestly, the perfect app for me, and the one I used to use, except since macOS 15, the popup opens in bottom left rather than sticking to the menu bar area. I also realized that I remembered incorrectly - even this app doesn’t show feels like in the menu bar icon, I need to open it to see that information. But it has everything I need for free.

Weather Forecast App: Menu Bar (

Mac App Store ‎Weather Forecast App: Menu bar): Costs $10/year. Allows for multiple locations. Shows feels like, UV index and everything else I might need in the popup. The status bar value is the real temperature and there is no option to change that though.

Displays the current weather conditions for the selected location. It shows hourly forecasts for the early morning with cloud and rain icons, and a weekly forecast with expected conditions. Additional details include feels-like temperature, humidity, wind speed, and UV index. Sunrise time is also displayed for the current day.

Weatherly (

Mac App Store ‎Weatherly): Exactly what I need, but is $10/year. It doesn’t show UV data but that is okay, I can see that on mobile when I leave my house, I do not need it on my laptop.

Left Panel: Shows general settings for the app. Users can toggle options like units (Celsius or Fahrenheit), startup preferences, and display options for the menu bar, including current conditions, feels-like temperature, and humidity. Additional settings include wind speed units, time format, and the option to display dates in daily forecasts.
Right Panel: Displays the weather menu with current conditions, including temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind details, sunrise, and sunset times. It also provides an hourly weather forecast for the night and early morning, along with a weekly forecast showing weather conditions for upcoming days. — **Left Panel:** Shows general settings for the app. Users can toggle options like units (Celsius or Fahrenheit), startup preferences, and display options for the menu bar, including current conditions, feels-like temperature, and humidity. Additional settings include wind speed units, time format, and the option to display dates in daily forecasts.
**Right Panel:** Displays the weather menu with current conditions, including temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind details, sunrise, and sunset times. It also provides an hourly weather forecast for the night and early morning, along with a weekly forecast showing weather conditions for upcoming days.

Not Considering

I don’t like UI/UX

Meteorologist (

SourceForge Meteorologist): This is known as the most powerful app and it definitely looks that way. But I do not really like the submenu deign which requires me to hover over stuff to understand the weather. It is too text heavy for me, similar to Forecast Bar, and I am not a fan of that, even though I know some people might be.

Top Panel: Displays a weather menu showing current conditions such as temperature, humidity, dew point, visibility, pressure, wind speed, location coordinates, and sunrise/sunset times. The menu includes options for the radar, hourly forecast, extended forecast, and controls.
Bottom Panel: Shows the app’s preferences window with customization options. Sections include settings for menu bar font, update frequency, and forecast limits. Users can toggle features such as weather icons, humidity, radar, feels-like temperature, extended forecasts, and hourly forecast options. The interface also allows enabling alerts, 24-hour time format, and access to location-based weather. — **Top Panel:** Displays a weather menu showing current conditions such as temperature, humidity, dew point, visibility, pressure, wind speed, location coordinates, and sunrise/sunset times. The menu includes options for the radar, hourly forecast, extended forecast, and controls.
**Bottom Panel:** Shows the app’s preferences window with customization options. Sections include settings for menu bar font, update frequency, and forecast limits. Users can toggle features such as weather icons, humidity, radar, feels-like temperature, extended forecasts, and hourly forecast options. The interface also allows enabling alerts, 24-hour time format, and access to location-based weather.

Forecast Bar (

Mac App Store ‎Forecast Bar - Weather + Radar): Something about this app is too hard for me to understand and it also requires a subscription, thought that is cheaper at $5/year. It does have location switching, weather forecast etc., it also shows feels like temperature on popup — I am unsure if it can show feels like temperature in the menu bar because currently it just shows the app icon.

Left Panel: Displays the current weather conditions, including temperature, feels-like temperature, and rain forecast. Below, a detailed hourly precipitation graph is shown, followed by a multi-day forecast with weather descriptions, temperature ranges, and precipitation percentages.
Middle Panel: Shows general app settings. Options include startup behavior, keyboard shortcuts, radar provider selection, language preferences, and units of measurement. Additional features like enabling 24-hour time format, data saving, and server-side data management are available.
Right Panel: Focuses on the appearance settings for the app. Users can customize the menu bar style, icons, and text color. It also provides options for forecast summaries, background images, hourly graphs, and touch bar customization. A summary section allows users to include or exclude specific weather details like humidity, wind, and moon phase. — **Left Panel:** Displays the current weather conditions, including temperature, feels-like temperature, and rain forecast. Below, a detailed hourly precipitation graph is shown, followed by a multi-day forecast with weather descriptions, temperature ranges, and precipitation percentages.
**Middle Panel:** Shows general app settings. Options include startup behavior, keyboard shortcuts, radar provider selection, language preferences, and units of measurement. Additional features like enabling 24-hour time format, data saving, and server-side data management are available.
**Right Panel:** Focuses on the appearance settings for the app. Users can customize the menu bar style, icons, and text color. It also provides options for forecast summaries, background images, hourly graphs, and touch bar customization. A summary section allows users to include or exclude specific weather details like humidity, wind, and moon phase.

Doesn’t support multiple locations

Vetero (

Mac App Store ‎Vetero° Weather): Also $10/year for showing feels like temperature, and doesn’t have location switcher.

Left Panel: Displays current weather details such as temperature, feels-like temperature, wind speed, pressure, UV level, humidity, and condition. An hourly forecast for the next few hours is shown, with an option to unlock additional features through “Vetero Plus.”
Middle Panel (Weather Settings): Allows users to customize weather display options. Settings include toggles for wind, pressure, UV, humidity, and hourly weather. Users can control refresh intervals and enable premium features like additional hourly forecasts.
Bottom Panel (General Settings): Offers options for units (System, Imperial, Metric) and status bar display. Users can enable weather symbols, temperature, and feels-like temperature for quick access.
Right Panel (Subscription): Promotes the “Vetero Plus” subscription, offering more frequent updates and extra features. Options include monthly and yearly plans, supporting app development while unlocking premium features. — **Left Panel:** Displays current weather details such as temperature, feels-like temperature, wind speed, pressure, UV level, humidity, and condition. An hourly forecast for the next few hours is shown, with an option to unlock additional features through “Vetero Plus.”
**Middle Panel (Weather Settings):** Allows users to customize weather display options. Settings include toggles for wind, pressure, UV, humidity, and hourly weather. Users can control refresh intervals and enable premium features like additional hourly forecasts.
**Bottom Panel (General Settings):** Offers options for units (System, Imperial, Metric) and status bar display. Users can enable weather symbols, temperature, and feels-like temperature for quick access.
**Right Panel (Subscription):** Promotes the “Vetero Plus” subscription, offering more frequent updates and extra features. Options include monthly and yearly plans, supporting app development while unlocking premium features.

Weather Dock (

Mac App Store ‎Weather Dock): Fixed to a single location. You can type another location in, but there isn’t a list you can switch between. You can show feels like temperature in the menu bar. Also costs $10/year.

Left Panel: Displays the current weather with details such as temperature, weather condition (light rain), humidity, wind speed, pressure, and air quality index. It includes an hourly forecast for the day with precipitation percentages and a weekly forecast for upcoming days.
Middle Panel (General Settings): Allows customization of units of measurement (metric/imperial), pressure units, and weather icon styles. Options for hourly and daily data settings are also shown, with premium features like additional data display available.
Right Panel (Menu Bar Settings): Enables customization of the menu bar button to display specific weather information. Options include feels-like temperature, temperature unit, air quality index, short weather descriptions, and city names. Premium features such as humidity, wind, pressure, and visibility are locked behind a subscription. — **Left Panel:** Displays the current weather with details such as temperature, weather condition (light rain), humidity, wind speed, pressure, and air quality index. It includes an hourly forecast for the day with precipitation percentages and a weekly forecast for upcoming days.
**Middle Panel (General Settings):** Allows customization of units of measurement (metric/imperial), pressure units, and weather icon styles. Options for hourly and daily data settings are also shown, with premium features like additional data display available.
**Right Panel (Menu Bar Settings):** Enables customization of the menu bar button to display specific weather information. Options include feels-like temperature, temperature unit, air quality index, short weather descriptions, and city names. Premium features such as humidity, wind, pressure, and visibility are locked behind a subscription.

DatWeatherDoe: Free, shows UV index, allows only for one location and doesn’t show feels like temperature.

The image shows a weather menu displaying current weather conditions, including temperature, light rain, sunrise and sunset times, wind speed and direction, UV index, and air quality index (AQI). Below this, settings allow customization of the display. Options include selecting units (metric), weather source, and adjusting the refresh interval. Toggles are available to show or hide the weather icon, humidity, UV index, and unit symbols. Additional options include rounding off data, customizing text display, and positioning weather condition information. A refresh button and “See Full Weather” option are also visible.

Sparrow Weather (

Mac App Store ‎Sparrow Weather): Shows colorful today and tomorrow’s weather at current location. Is free, but doesn’t support multiple locations, and doesn’t show feels like temperature.

The image shows a weather menu for the current location with a detailed hourly forecast. Each hour is displayed with a temperature value and corresponding weather icon. Key details include sunrise and sunset times, which are highlighted in gray. One of the selected time slots, 9 AM, shows additional weather information in a pop-out box, including drizzle conditions, feels-like temperature, humidity, dew point, UV index, cloudiness, wind speed, wind direction, and gust speed. Below the hourly forecast, there are options for Tomorrow’s weather, Settings, and general app information like Help & FAQ and Weather. A Quit button is located at the bottom of the menu.

Weather Graph (

App Store ‎Weathergraph weather widget): It is $24/year, so already more expensive than the apps that do what I need to. It doesn’t support multiple locations even in the paid plan. This is pretty, has loads of options to customize but none of the things I need.

The image shows a weather menu displaying the current temperature, condition, and feels-like temperature in the menu bar. Details include light rain forecasts, humidity, wind speed, UV index, and sunrise time. The weather data is provided by Open-Meteo. — The image shows a weather menu displaying the current temperature, condition, and **feels-like temperature** in the menu bar. Details include light rain forecasts, humidity, wind speed, UV index, and sunrise time. The weather data is provided by Open-Meteo.

The image shows the full weather app interface with a detailed hourly and daily forecast. The current temperature and “feels like” value are prominently displayed at the top, with a summary of current conditions (“Overcast now, then light rain”).
The main section features an hourly timeline with temperature trends and weather conditions, displayed as a graph and list. Additional details include upcoming rain (drizzle at 3:10 AM), total precipitation, wind speed, humidity, and UV index. A daily forecast is also shown at the bottom with temperature ranges and icons for weather conditions.
The app design is clean and modern, and the display format can likely be customized based on user preferences.

The image shows the preferences screen for a weather app with a dark theme. The interface displays various customization options organized into sections: Location and forecast settings are at the top, including options for weather source and alerts. System settings follow, with toggles for launch at login and menu bar icon display. The central section shows extensive graph customization options, including vertical and horizontal layouts, with sample weather visualizations showing temperature and conditions over time. Users can choose between different view styles like hourly graph, dual view, and vertical layout. The bottom portion contains detailed settings for data display, including options for sun glow, cloud style, temperature units, wind display, humidity metrics, and UV index. The interface ends with data privacy information and debug details.

Menubar Weather (

Mac App Store ‎MenuBar Weather): It is a location permission issue — similar issue to BigWeather, so I needed to toggle permission on and off multiple times to get it to work. It is pretty good, has option to show feels like temperature, just doesn’t have a location switcher. Free if you use your own API (though I couldn’t get that to work) or pay $10/year for apple weather.
Uses own API key, and I even when I provided that, I couldn’t get it to work. Also, the screenshots on App Store do not show an option to use feels like or switch locations. I even tried the trial option that remains stuck on the two seconds screen too.

When it works, it works pretty well. This is all the information I need for a given city at any point, especially in a dropdown. This includes current temperature, feels like, nowcast, forecast for 7 days, UV index, dew point, humidity, sunrise and sunset.

The image displays a weather app loading screen. The text reads “Two seconds…” followed by “We’re fetching your current weather”, with a loading spinner icon below.

Looks Like Rain (

App Store ‎Looks Like Rain): This is a really pretty app with a location switcher and feels like temperature in the menu bar and costs $10/year. Also, it has an option to click on a day and see predictions for that day. But, it doesn't show the actual weather in the menu bar without clicking, which is a sad choice. If it showed the current temperature on the menu bar, it would be my preferred weather app.

Dear Sun (

Mac App Store ‎Dear Sun): Doesn’t show feels like temperature. Costs $10/year. Everything else is perfect. I wish it had the feels like view though. I really wish this showed the feels like temperature, I would grab it in a second over Weather Forecast App or Weatherly.

Left Panel: Displays current weather conditions for New York, including temperature, UV index, wind speed, and precipitation. It shows hourly and weekly forecasts with weather icons, temperatures, and precipitation percentages. However, the “feels like” temperature is not included .
Middle Panel (General Settings): Provides options to edit the display in the status bar and menu. Users can configure the unit system , number rounding, data sources, and the refresh rate. A toggle for launching the app on login is also available.
Top Right Panel: Customizes what appears in the menu display , enabling options like Nowcast, hourly forecast, and daily forecast.
Bottom Right Panel: Allows customization of the status bar display , enabling icons and temperatures while keeping options like UV index, wind speed, and humidity disabled. — **Left Panel:** Displays current weather conditions for New York, including temperature, UV index, wind speed, and precipitation. It shows hourly and weekly forecasts with weather icons, temperatures, and precipitation percentages. However, the “feels like” temperature is **not included**.
**Middle Panel (General Settings):** Provides options to edit the display in the status bar and menu. Users can configure the **unit system**, number rounding, data sources, and the refresh rate. A toggle for launching the app on login is also available.
**Top Right Panel:** Customizes what appears in the **menu display**, enabling options like Nowcast, hourly forecast, and daily forecast.
**Bottom Right Panel:** Allows customization of the **status bar display**, enabling icons and temperatures while keeping options like UV index, wind speed, and humidity disabled.

Mercury Weather (

App Store ‎Mercury Weather): Too expensive for what I need ($14/year), doesn’t have any feature that I want in the menu bar. App of the year though, but doesn’t meet my needs at all.

Left Panel: Displays the main weather dashboard, showing current temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind speed, and flood alerts. The hourly forecast is displayed above, while a daily forecast graph shows temperature trends and weather conditions for the week. A sidebar lists upcoming trips and locations.
Top Right Panel: Shows an hourly weather overview with detailed forecasts for the next hours and days. It includes buttons to toggle the “Show Mercury” feature and quit the app. This is the menu bar dropdown
Middle Right Panel (General Settings): Provides options to configure temperature settings, data sources, hourly chart details, and weather warnings. Users can toggle features like precipitation in charts and hiding alerts.
Far Right Panel (Premium Features): Promotes “Mercury Premium,” offering additional features such as trip forecasts, menu bar integration, more locations, historical weather data, weather widgets, and Apple Watch support. The subscription includes a free 7-day trial and an annual fee. — **Left Panel:** Displays the main weather dashboard, showing current temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind speed, and flood alerts. The hourly forecast is displayed above, while a daily forecast graph shows temperature trends and weather conditions for the week. A sidebar lists upcoming trips and locations.
**Top Right Panel:** Shows an hourly weather overview with detailed forecasts for the next hours and days. It includes buttons to toggle the “Show Mercury” feature and quit the app. This is the menu bar dropdown
**Middle Right Panel (General Settings):** Provides options to configure temperature settings, data sources, hourly chart details, and weather warnings. Users can toggle features like precipitation in charts and hiding alerts.
**Far Right Panel (Premium Features):** Promotes “Mercury Premium,” offering additional features such as trip forecasts, menu bar integration, more locations, historical weather data, weather widgets, and Apple Watch support. The subscription includes a free 7-day trial and an annual fee.

Qwik Weather: Only shows the “nowcast”, aka, the current conditions in a location, and does have a location switcher. Allows to use your own API key, which makes sense given it is free. I want some basic hourly and current week forecast though.

Left Panel: A menu bar dropdown displays the current location (New York, US) with options to switch locations , refresh weather data, manage locations, access Preferences , and quit the app. However, it only displays the nowcast and does not include any forecast information.
Middle Panel (Preferences): The Preferences window allows users to customize weather settings, including measurement units (Celsius), weather refresh intervals, and menu display formats. Users can toggle options like weather icons, AQI data, and color icons, as well as enable GeoIP-based weather updates.
Right Panel: A menu format dropdown shows customizable options for the menu display. It includes variations of weather data such as temperature, cloud conditions, humidity, wind speed, and city names. Despite the display options, the app does not show a forecast beyond the current weather (nowcast). — **Left Panel:** A **menu bar dropdown** displays the current location (New York, US) with options to **switch locations**, refresh weather data, manage locations, access **Preferences**, and quit the app. However, it only displays the **nowcast** and does not include any forecast information.
**Middle Panel (Preferences):** The **Preferences window** allows users to customize weather settings, including measurement units (Celsius), weather refresh intervals, and menu display formats. Users can toggle options like weather icons, AQI data, and color icons, as well as enable GeoIP-based weather updates.
**Right Panel:** A **menu format dropdown** shows customizable options for the menu display. It includes variations of weather data such as temperature, cloud conditions, humidity, wind speed, and city names. Despite the display options, the app does not show a forecast beyond the current weather (nowcast).

Doesn’t work

Tenki (

Mac App Store ‎Tenki): I am unable to get the city to change and there doesn’t seem to be an option for multiple locations.

The image displays a weather app showing the current weather for Hulunbuir, China. The temperature is prominently displayed along with a “feels like” temperature, weather condition (clear sky), humidity, wind speed, air quality index (AQI), and UV index. Below, a daily forecast provides temperature ranges and weather icons for the upcoming week. At the bottom, it mentions the data source as OpenWeather, and options for Settings and Quit are included. The city appears to be stuck in Hulunbuir, China and cannot be changed.

I am going to try both big weather and weather forecast app or hope that menu weather pro fixes itself sometime in the near future, I guess. If there is any information that you want me to add about an app, leave a note on the bluesky thread or giscus and I’ll add that information for the app.