Qwik Weather For Mac

Apple’s Weather app has recently been brought to macOS as well, but it lacks menu bar integration, which most third-party weather apps offer. Because of this, and various other features, alternatives to the built-in app are still in demand.

Qwik Weather displays detailed weather info in the menu bar, with the option to choose exactly which information should be included. It allows you to add up to eight locations to manage.

The app doesn’t detect your location automatically. You’ll have to access it from the menu bar and add one or more locations by entering zip/postal codes, followed by a comma and the country code if you’re not from the US. Any of these can be set as the default.

Initially, the app shows you only the name of the city and temperature. If you go to the preferences, you can choose from multiple other formats if you want to see more information. This can include weather conditions, humidity, temperature, and wind speed, in various orders.

The idea is to have all the necessary information visible in the menu bar, making it unnecessary to open the Weather app. However, if you’re interested in a detailed forecast, you can access it from the menu bar on OpenWeather, in your browser.

There are a few other preferences you can tweak. The refresh interval is customizable, you can set shortcuts for refreshing the data or opening the forecast, and a sound can be played when the weather info is updated.

You can’t add locations without a zip/postal code, and the problem is that some countries don’t use these. If you want to know what the weather is like in Dubai, for instance, there’s no way to add it as a location. And if there is, I wasn’t able to figure it out.

Not to mention that adding cities when you don’t know their zip codes requires you to look up this info. Having the option to provide a city’s name instead would make adding locations a lot easier.

Overall, Qwik Weather is a great weather app for your menu bar, but its use can be limited in countries that don’t use postal codes. If that’s not a problem, however, the app should serve you very well.