Sasha Weather Free: Simple is the name of the game

Developer: Sasha Lab

Category: Weather 

Audience: Anyone who goes outside

 

The Beginning

I have reviewed a few Weather apps in the past. Storm and Amber Weather to name a couple. These apps were for the more hardcore weather fans out there. They had many options and settings that could be added or changed. Both are designed well and are really robust!

Sasha Weather Free is not robust.. at all actually. But what it is, is a really good, simple way to see the current temperature and the current 7-day forecast for your current location or a manual location that you pick.

The Middle

Let’s start with the permissions that are needed for this app. First, in order to automatically find the weather where you are, the app needs access to your location. It will work without allowing this but it’s nice to not worry about manually putting in your location every time you want to look at the forecast. The second is to allow the app to access photos,media, and files. This one is a little riskier as I am not sure why the app needs to be able to read and delete things from your phone. So use your own discretion before allowing this. (I did not allow it on my phone)

Location

Media

 

Once we get past the permissions it’s time to dive into the app. Remember this is a really simple app but it gets the job done. The first thing that CATches your eye is the cat theme. (See what I did there?) The first action I took was to change all the settings to things that made sense to me, Frarenhight, MPH, inches, those types of things. Just click the hamburger button on the top left then click units to change these.

Once you come out of the settings pane you will notice the big weather icon in the middle of the screen. This changes depending on the current weather. So if it’s sunny out you will have a big sun shining, at night you get a nice little moon and stars animation, if it’s partly cloudy there is the sun with some clouds over it, I think you get the picture. Scroll down just a little and you see the current temp and a message from Sasha the Cat.

Moving down the page we see today’s high and low, this box is clickable, clicking it give us the most info that we will see about today’s weather. There are the usual things here, hourly forecast, precipitation and some more details about what’s going on outside right now. And finally scrolling to the bottom give us the rest of the 7-day forecast. There is also an ad at the bottom of the page but does not seem to change and is for Sasha Lab’s other app.

The End

Overall this app provides the needed info to know whether you will need your rain coat or snow boots before going outside. It is not as robust as some others but gets the job done and looks pretty good while doing it. Sasha seemed to get my location before even the best apps, the temps seem just as or more accurate than Weather Bug. (which is my main weather app) They also give us two home screen widgets, the first is the Cat theme with all the currents and the second is a more “normal’ widget that gives the current and the rest of the 7-day forecast. It does not use the material design so that takes it down a notch or two in my book. The cat theme is a little strange to me but I won’t hold that against it. If you just need the basics and don’t want to mess with all the bells and whistles of some of the other weather apps out there then you should give Sasha Weather Free a try.

App Link: Sasha Weather Free