WeatherLive updated, adds Windows Phone 8 support and a pricing change

WeatherLive was recently updated to version 5.0 to add Windows Phone viii support with includes wide live tiles with radar imagery. The good news is that with the update WeatherLive is now a costless, advertisement-supported app. The bad news is if you want all the features of WeatherLive, y'all'll accept to upgrade within the app.  While the new alive tile feature is prissy, you may desire to hold off on updating though.

The layout on WeatherLive remains basically the same (except for the banner ad) with pages detailing a ten 24-hour interval forecast, charting daily conditions trends, viewing historical graphs, viewing an hourly forecast, viewing a charted temperature trend, animated radar, local webcams, and a moon phase page.

Settings cover managing your locations, choosing a theme (Metro, Metro Minimalist, and Glass), choosing your Live Tile refresh charge per unit, and display options (Celsius vs. Fahrenheit, background images, etc.).  Speaking of the Live Tile, it's a fiddling on the plain side with the moon phase and temperature on ane side and a two day forecast (conditions icon and forecasted temperature) on the flip.

WeatherLive, at least the previous version,is a decent weather app for your Windows Phone but I couldn't help but feel in making the app free, the developer converted it into more or less a trial version. For $.99 you lot remove the ads and have access to all three themes (free version only lets you use the Metro Theme). For $1.49 you lot remove the ads, requite you lot access to all three themes, and open upwardly the option to put radar and satellite images on your Live Tile.

On top of having to end up paying for all the WeatherLive features, the app is a little on the buggy side. With no rhyme or reason the formatting of the pages would get off-center and the power to swipe disappeared. Fixing the performance error was easily done by hitting the back push button and everything returned to normal.

Once again, we found WeatherLive to be a nice weather condition app for our Windows Phone but removing the paid app from the Windows Phone Shop in favor for a limited functioning, advertisement supported, gratis version is a little bit of a head scratcher. A step backwards maybe?  If y'all are already using WeatherLive on your Windows Phone, I would be very hesitant to update to version 5.0.

If you haven't installed WeatherLive and want to give it a attempt, you lot can find WeatherLive here at the Windows Phone Store. Oddly, at the fourth dimension of this post version 5.0 was only available through the Windows Telephone Store app. The older version, version 4.ii is even so being shown through the online Store. It may accept a bit for all the Windows Phone Stores to get on the same folio.

Thanks, Michelle, for the tip!

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/weatherlive-gets-updated-adds-windows-phone-8-support-and-pricing-change

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