Forecast Bar Changelog

What's new in Forecast Bar 5.8.8

Mar 13, 2023
  • Removed Dark Sky as provider as the service is being shut down
  • Fixed an issue where app wouldn't appear in other Spaces or in full screen mode

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.7 (Feb 14, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.6 (Feb 13, 2022)

  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.5 (Feb 1, 2022)

  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.4 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • Fix humidity reading in the hour-by-hour timeline

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.3 (Jul 28, 2021)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.2 (Jul 27, 2021)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.8.1 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • Fixes for Radar View
  • Added Muggy/Dry description to Dew Point tile

New in Forecast Bar 5.8 (Apr 28, 2021)

  • Bug fixes and customer requested changes

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.9 (Apr 23, 2021)

  • Fixed "Launch on Startup"

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.8 (Apr 5, 2021)

  • Updates to humidity description
  • Added shortcut to toggle units (Cmd + Opt + U)

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.6 (Feb 15, 2021)

  • Added new 'Radar Provider' option in Settings > General

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.5 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • Bug fixes for Radar view

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.4 (Jan 22, 2021)

  • Premium Users: Recent earthquakes now appear in the Alerts page for each location!
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.3 (Jan 10, 2021)

  • Improvements to Radar View and Pop Out Radar View

New in Forecast Bar 5.7.2 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • Ready for M1 Macs with a native Apple Silicon build!
  • Improvements to humidity readings and severe weather alerts
  • Improvements to MenuBar item position in certain cases.

New in Forecast Bar 5.7 (Dec 29, 2020)

  • Apple Silicon (M1) Native Support
  • Added ability to detach and resize the radar view
  • Adjusted menu bar icon size and font to better match

New in Forecast Bar 5.6.7 (Dec 20, 2020)

  • Added a new slider in Preferences > Appearance to decide how many days of forecast to show
  • Fixes for Radar view
  • Fixes for Data Point view
  • Fixes for Bug Sur

New in Forecast Bar 5.6.5 (Nov 29, 2020)

  • Perfecting a few things for macOS Big Sur
  • Fix for crash while changing locations on macOS Big Sur
  • Fix for incorrect pressure values

New in Forecast Bar 5.6.4 (Nov 29, 2020)

  • Perfecting a few things for macOS Big Sur
  • Fix for crash while changing locations on macOS Big Sur

New in Forecast Bar 5.6.3 (Nov 29, 2020)

  • Fix for inconsistent pressure values

New in Forecast Bar 5.6.2 (Nov 4, 2020)

  • Adding Moonrise and Moonset to data points
  • Better descriptions of humidity and UV in data points
  • Fix for menu bar color on new versions of macOS
  • Fix for Premium subscriptions not being recognized for some users

New in Forecast Bar 5.6.1 (Nov 4, 2020)

  • Adding Pollen and Air Quality (AQI) details in custom summary and forecast details screens (Premium and Weather Company only)
  • Added Sunset Quality to forecast details! This innovative data point will tell you when the sunset will be beautiful to go watch!
  • Added 4 more days to forecast for a full 14 days (Weather Company data only)
  • All-new forecast detail page with re-arrangeable tiles. Simply click on the top part of the forecast with the current temperature to check it out!
  • Added Precipitation Total to custom summary options
  • Fix for tiny icons appearing occasionally
  • Updated app icon!
  • Crash fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.6 (Oct 12, 2020)

  • Adding Pollen and Air Quality (AQI) details in custom summary and forecast details screens (Premium and Weather Company only)
  • Added Sunset Quality to forecast details! This innovative data point will tell you when the sunset will be beautiful to go watch!
  • Added 4 more days to forecast for a full 14 days (Weather Company data only)
  • All-new forecast detail page with re-arrangeable tiles. Simply click on the top part of the forecast with the current temperature to check it out!
  • Added Precipitation Total to custom summary options
  • Fix for tiny icons appearing occasionally
  • Updated app icon!
  • Crash fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.5.2 (Aug 18, 2020)

  • Fix for radar screen

New in Forecast Bar 5.5.1 (Jun 30, 2020)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.5 (Jun 12, 2020)

  • Support for Netatmo personal weather stations! With a free account, you can access thousands of personal weather stations for hyper-local weather or even your own affordable weather station! (for Premium Subscribers) - To get started, press Login with Netatmo in Preferences > General.
  • Fix for highlighted icon when starting on login
  • Crash fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.4.5 (May 20, 2020)

  • Fix for 10.14 theme crash

New in Forecast Bar 5.4.4 (May 19, 2020)

  • Fix for Dark Mode not always enabling automatically

New in Forecast Bar 5.4.3 (Apr 22, 2020)

  • Performance and reliability fixes

New in Forecast Bar 5.4.2 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • Fixes for snow accumulation measurements in Metric units
  • Updated FAQ link
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.4.1 (Feb 14, 2020)

  • Addresses an issue where users are prompted to upgrade erroneously

New in Forecast Bar 5.4 (Oct 2, 2019)

  • Improved support for Dark Mode

New in Forecast Bar 5.3.3 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • Fix for radar not loading

New in Forecast Bar 5.3.2 (Sep 4, 2019)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Forecast Bar 5.3.1 (May 28, 2019)

  • Fix to reduce CPU usage during precipitation
  • Radar window is now scrollable when using custom radar URLs
  • Option to default to 8 hour chart during precipitation
  • Improved automatic recovery in rare cases of issues loading weather
  • Improvements to full screen behavior

New in Forecast Bar 5.3 (Apr 11, 2019)

  • Fix for a potential crash with Time Machine
  • Fix for improved PWS reliability

New in Forecast Bar 5.2.6 (Feb 22, 2019)

  • Automatically resizes the weather panel to fit when it used to overflow past the dock in some cases
  • Fix for (null) showing up in alerts
  • Fixes a scrolling issue leading to overlapping content