Who runs Weather Meter
Weather Meter is developed and published by Abokado Labs, a small dev shop. Contact: [email protected].
Location
Current location. If you choose to use your current location as a forecast, Weather Meter reads it through macOS Location Services. This is opt-in — if you don't grant the permission, you can still add and search for any location by name, and everything else works.
How location is used. To produce a forecast for a place, Weather Meter sends that place's coordinates to the weather services you have enabled, because that is how a forecast is requested. The request goes directly from the app to those services over HTTPS; it does not pass through any Abokado server. Each enabled provider sees the coordinates you are asking the weather for, the same way it would for any app querying that provider.
Weather providers
Weather Meter can read from Apple WeatherKit, OpenWeather, Open-Meteo, MET Norway, and Tomorrow.io. You choose which services participate. Apple WeatherKit and the free open services work without setup. OpenWeather and Tomorrow.io are optional and require your own API keys. Each provider's use of the request it receives is governed by that provider's own privacy policy.
Your API keys
If you add OpenWeather or Tomorrow.io API keys, they are stored in your macOS Keychain and marked synchronizable so they are available to your own apps signed into the same Apple ID. They are never sent to a server operated by Abokado Labs. They are only used to authenticate your requests to those providers.
Saved locations and settings
Saved locations and preferences are stored locally on your device. If you enable sync, Weather Meter uses your private iCloud key-value store to keep them consistent across your own devices — the same iCloud you already use, scoped to your Apple ID. Nothing about where you check the weather is sent to Abokado Labs.
Cached snapshots
Forecast results are cached locally so the app, and (on iPhone and Apple Watch) its widgets and complications, can show a recent reading without each one making its own provider request. The cache lives in the app group container on your device and is not uploaded anywhere.
Severe weather alerts
When a weather service includes official alerts, Weather Meter passes them through with their source attribution and details intact. It does not rewrite an alert into something that loses the issuing agency's original wording.
What Weather Meter does not do
- It does not use an Abokado Labs account or backend.
- It does not include any analytics SDKs, crash reporters that phone home, or telemetry of any kind.
- It does not transmit your saved locations, settings, or API keys to Abokado Labs.
- It does not sell, share, or broker your location to anyone; the only parties that receive a location are the weather services you choose to enable, as needed to answer a forecast request.
Update checks
The macOS app uses Sparkle, an open-source macOS update framework, to check for new versions. The app periodically fetches https://abokadolabs.com/weather-meter/appcast.xml over HTTPS. The standard web-server log entry that creates (IP address, timestamp, user agent) is the only record kept on our side, and it is used solely to operate the website. Updates are signed with an EdDSA key whose public half is built into the app; the private half is held by Abokado Labs and never leaves a developer machine. You can disable update checks in the app's settings.
Children
Weather Meter is a general-purpose utility. It is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect any data, from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Material changes will be announced in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions or concerns: [email protected].
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple, OpenWeather, Open-Meteo, MET Norway, Tomorrow.io, or any weather service Weather Meter reads from.