Everything Magic Weather can do.

1 · Install & first launch

Magic Weather is free, has no account, and does not show ads.

iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV

Open the App Store on your device and search for Magic Weather. The Watch and TV apps install alongside iOS automatically — one purchase, four platforms.

Mac

1. Download MagicWeather-4.0.0.dmg.
2. Open the disk image and drag MagicWeather into Applications.
3. First launch may prompt for permission — open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
4. Allow Location Services when asked, or set a place manually in Settings.

2 · Magic Earth — the 3D globe

The Earth tab is a real, photoreal SceneKit globe. It renders high-res satellite tiles, a bundled offline Earth as fallback, global weather overlays and a procedural starfield.

Gestures

• One-finger drag — pan the globe. Horizontal sensitivity is high, vertical is gently inverted so up-flicks tilt north.
• Pinch / scroll wheel — zoom from continent (1.5) to deep space (16.0). Default ≈ 4.8.
• Release — momentum decays at 0.985 and transitions smoothly into a slow idle rotation.

Overlays

The pill row at the bottom switches the active overlay:

• Clouds — live cloud cover
• Precip — current precipitation intensity
• Temp — surface temperature heat-map
• Wind — wind speed bands
• Pressure — sea-level pressure

Day & night

The terminator is computed from the real UTC sun position. The night side reveals city lights (emission map) under a soft shadow gradient. Spin the globe past dawn and you'll watch the lights wink off in real time.

3 · Forecast tab

Right Now

The header shows current temperature, condition, today's high/low, and a "More" disclosure for the long description. Below that:

• Activity tip — a one-line plain-language read on the day ("Great weather for outdoor activities!").
• Dress hint — flagged when the day's range exceeds ~15° ("Big temperature swing — dress in layers").
• AI Summary — Apple Intelligence on iOS 26 / macOS 26 generates a one-sentence read of conditions, temperature, rain, wind, humidity and UV. Fallback summary appears on older OSes.

Hourly chart

A multi-line graph with toggleable layers: Temp · Feels · Wind · Rain · Snow · Clouds. Tap the resize button to enter the immersive landscape view.

10-Day Forecast

Each row shows day name, rain probability chip (when >20%), wind chip (when ≥40 km/h), condition icon, low–high temperature bar (relative to the 10-day range), and a chevron. The day with the best score is outlined in green; the worst in red.

Tap a day to expand

The expanded panel shows a 3-hourly breakdown with a vertical gradient and per-hour metric bars. Switch metrics with the bottom pills:

• Temp — cool blue → warm orange
• Feels Like — same scale as temp
• Rain % — light → deep blue
• Precip — millimeters per hour
• Wind — calm teal → strong orange
• Humidity — dry → humid blue
• Pressure — low purple → high green

4 · Detail cards

Below the 10-day list sits a grid of detail cards. Each shows current value, a category label, a trend arrow (up / down / stable) and a colored progress bar.

• Wind — speed with gust badge and live compass
• Humidity — Dry / Comfortable / Humid / Very Humid
• Visibility — Very Poor → Excellent
• Pressure — hPa, mbar or inHg
• Dew Point — Dry → Very Humid scale
• UV Index — Low → Extreme
• Cloud Cover — Clear → Overcast
• Air Quality — EPA PM2.5 with six-step gauge
• Sunrise & Sunset — animated progress through the day, with countdown
• Weather Analysis — full-width insights panel

5 · Notifications

Magic Weather watches the atmosphere for you and pings you when the sky is about to do something interesting.

Live Activity & Dynamic Island

When precipitation, storms, snow, or fog are detected, a Live Activity appears on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island showing real-time minute-by-minute intensity.

Monitored locations

Toggle which saved locations should produce alerts. By default only Current Location is on — flip extras on for travel.

Government alerts

Official severe-weather warnings — the U.S. national alerts feed and the European continent-wide warning network — are surfaced inside the app and as push notifications when enabled.

Built-in alert types

• Precipitation: rain expected, rain starting/stopping soon, snow expected, snow starting/stopping soon
• Temperature: significant drop, significant rise
• Storms: tropical cyclone form / intensify / category change (East Pacific, Central Pacific)
• Sky phenomena: rainbow watch, stargazing conditions, golden hour, fog bow, aurora watch, static shock risk
• Health & body: pressure-headache warning, heat-index alert
• Travel advisories: opt-in

Custom notifications

Build your own rule — "alert me if humidity stays above 80% for more than 4 hours" — using the custom notification editor.

6 · Themes & app icons

18 themes

Standard: Light, Dark, Daylight, ePaper Light, ePaper Dark.
Color: Ocean, Midnight, Forest, Sunset, Arctic, Space, Nature, AMOLED Black, Skyline, Candy, Aurora, Lavender, Obsidian.

Themes affect every surface — Right Now, Detail cards, Forecast, even the Globe overlay accent. Settings → Theme.

Precipitation colour palette

Independently themed via Settings → Precipitation Colors. Pick the palette you find most readable on the radar overlay.

15 alternate app icons

Default, Dark, Sunset, Aurora, Rose, Minimal, Neon, Golden, Ocean, Space, AMOLED, UFO, Earth, Weather, Magic. Toggle "Show Temperature" to use the icon as a live temperature badge on your home screen.

7 · Widgets & Live Activity

Magic Weather ships eight widget styles:

• Small — current temperature + condition
• Medium — current + 5-hour outlook
• Large — current + 5-hour + 5-day
• Compact Info — minimal text-only readout
• Graph — hourly temp graph
• Intelligence — AI-generated daily blurb
• Interface — quick-access buttons
• Precipitation — minute-by-minute rain bar

Lock Screen

Inline, circular and rectangular variants for the Lock Screen and Always-On Display.

Live Activity

Active during precipitation events. Shows minute-by-minute intensity in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen until the rain stops.

8 · Apple Watch

The Watch app mirrors the four core surfaces:

• Now — current temp, condition, feels-like, today's high/low
• Hourly — line chart with the same toggle layers as iPhone
• 3-Day — three rows with rain chance and dress hint
• Wind Compass — direction and speed

Plus a miniaturized 3D Globe view and complications for every watch face.

9 · Apple TV

Stream Magic Earth from your iPhone or iPad to your TV using AirPlay → Screen Mirroring. The app re-renders the globe at native TV resolution with these presets:

• 720p — lowest power, 24 fps
• 1080p — battery saver, 30 fps, 2× MSAA
• 1440p — balanced, 60 fps, 4× MSAA (default)
• 4K — best quality, 60 fps, 4× MSAA

Use it as a living screensaver — a real planet, with real weather, in your living room.

10 · Mac extras

Menu-bar app

Magic Weather sits in the menu bar with current temperature and condition icon. Click to open a popover with quick actions:

• Open Magic Weather — ⌘O
• Refresh — ⌘R
• Settings… — ⌘,
• Quit — ⌘Q

Window mode

Run the full Forecast and Globe in a resizable window. Drag-to-rearrange detail cards is enabled here too.

11 · Settings reference

• Location — Current Location toggle, plus saved locations search
• Units — Celsius / Fahrenheit · km/h / mph / m/s / kn · hPa / mbar / inHg
• Weather Provider — choose from five forecast engines (including Apple's native one) or Automatic (fallback chain)
• Reorder Detail Widgets — drag to rearrange
• Theme — 18 themes
• App Icon — 15 icons + temperature badge
• Notifications — Live Activity, monitored locations, alerts, custom rules
• Apple Intelligence — on iOS 26 / macOS 26, enables on-device AI summaries
• Force Refresh — clear caches and re-fetch immediately

12 · Keyboard shortcuts (Mac)