# Backyard Weather Station

> Live, hyperlocal conditions

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6781912225](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6781912225)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6781912225`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ryan Vanbelkum
- **Category:** Weather
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-30
- **First published:** 2026-06-30
- **Size:** 2.10 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/backyard-weather-station/id6781912225)
- **Website:** [https://ryanvanbelkum.github.io/backyard-weather-station/](https://ryanvanbelkum.github.io/backyard-weather-station/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://ryanvanbelkum.github.io/backyard-weather-station/privacy.html](https://ryanvanbelkum.github.io/backyard-weather-station/privacy.html)

## Description

A fast, beautiful home for your Ambient Weather station — live conditions, trends, a barometric outlook, sunrise & moon, and a home-screen widget.

Backyard Weather Station is a fast, beautiful native home for your personal Ambient Weather station. It talks directly to the Ambient Weather service with your own API keys — no extra account, no middleman — and shows your hyperlocal conditions far more clearly than the stock app.

LIVE DASHBOARD
• Big, glanceable current temperature with “feels like”
• Plain-language conditions summary and a backdrop that shifts with the weather
• Trend arrows showing how each reading is moving over the last hour
• Wind compass with gusts and the day’s peak
• Humidity, dew point, pressure, UV, solar, rainfall, indoor, and lightning tiles
• Rearrange the tiles to put what matters first

GO DEEPER
• Tap any reading for 24-hour and 7-day history charts
• Records screen: highs and lows for every metric, with when they happened
• Comfort metrics: heat index, wind chill, cloud base, and frost alerts

KNOW WHAT’S COMING
• A barometric (Zambretti) 24-hour outlook derived from your pressure trend
• Sunrise and sunset with the sun’s live position on a daylight arc
• Current moon phase and illumination

ON YOUR HOME SCREEN
• Small and medium widgets with current conditions and a last-updated time
• Share a clean conditions card to Messages, social, anywhere

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Your API keys are stored only in the iOS Keychain on your device
• No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, no data sent to us

Backyard Weather Station requires an Ambient Weather station and a free API key + application key from your Ambient Weather account (ambientweather.net/account).

## Rankings

- #1,611,969 — Overall

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6781912225)