WeatherFast
Version 1.6.0 is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad: choose a city to open to with Open at Launch. Also in your web browser, and on Windows.
A weather application that provides current conditions and detailed forecasts without the clutter and available on multiple platforms.
Get WeatherFast
- Download the WeatherFast installer for Windows (v3.0.2)
- Get WeatherFast for iPhone and iPad from the App Store
- Use WeatherFast in a web browser
- Try the WeatherFast iOS test version through Apple TestFlight
- Read the WeatherFast user guide
- Listen to an audio tour of WeatherFast for Windows with JAWS
- Download Kelly's earlier WeatherFast demo for iPhone, with VoiceOver (MP3, 35 MB)
- Read the transcript of Kelly's earlier WeatherFast demo for iPhone
- All releases on GitHub — WeatherFast
- Track releases for WeatherFast — feed for an RSS reader
- Report a problem or suggest an idea — WeatherFast
Audio tours
Guided tours of WeatherFast by two AI hosts, with real recordings of a screen reader using the app. Every tour is also on the audio tours page.
WeatherFast for Windows tour, with JAWS
A walk through WeatherFast for Windows, a free weather program built to be quick to use with a screen reader. Two AI hosts, River and Maya, explain it, and every demo you hear is the real WeatherFast 3.0.2 (recorded just before its release) running on a Windows test machine with JAWS reading it: JAWS 2026 with its standard Eloquence voice, punctuation set to some, a slightly faster rate, typing echo set to words, and tutor and access key messages turned off. The hosts are AI voices; JAWS is not. A script pressed the keys and JAWS was recorded as it spoke. Afterwards a soft click was added at each key press, the volume was evened out, and long pauses were shortened; JAWS's words were not changed. The weather is live, recorded just after midnight Central on October 28, 2026.
22 minutes, with JAWS, recorded with WeatherFast 3.0.2.
Parts and start times: WeatherFast for Windows tour, with JAWS
- Welcome, at 0:00
- Starting WeatherFast, at 1:15
- Your list of cities, at 2:08
- Full Weather: everything about one place, at 3:25
- Reading a whole alert, at 5:38
- Other days, at 6:53
- Adding a city, at 8:22
- Adding several cities at once, at 9:23
- Units, and what you see, at 11:13
- The Weather menu, at 12:36
- Weather Around Me, at 13:43
- Historical weather, at 15:23
- The moon, at 17:06
- Browsing every alert, at 18:06
- Tidying the list, at 20:13
- Summing up, and where to get WeatherFast, at 21:28
- Download WeatherFast for Windows tour, with JAWS (MP3, 21 MB)
- Read the transcript of WeatherFast for Windows tour, with JAWS
Support
- Email for support — support@theideaplace.net
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