Acme Weather is an upgraded Dark Sky reboot that knows your weather app sucks, coming to Android

Ben Schoon | Feb 23 2026 - 9:30 am PT

If there’s one thing we all agree on, it’s that weather apps almost universally kind of suck. You’re often stuck choosing between a nice design and an accurate forecast. Now, “Acme Weather” is confirmed for a launch on Android, and it’s a reboot of the popular Dark Sky app that embraces the inherent uncertainty of forecasting.

Acme Weather is a new app from the team that launched Dark Sky – the weather app that everyone loved, but Apple killed to absorb into its own app (which is now notoriously unreliable in some situations). The team left Apple and, now, it’s debuting a whole new weather app which, to a certain extent, feels like a reboot of the Dark Sky we all used to love.

In a blog post announcing the new app, the team explains that its new approach is to embrace the uncertainty of weather forecasting. As we’ve seen with a lot of the recent storms in the US, weather forecasts can be all over the place.

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The team behind Acme Weather explains:

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Our biggest pet peeve with most weather apps is how they deal (or rather, don’t deal) with forecast uncertainty. It is a simple fact that no weather forecast will ever be 100% reliable: the weather is moody, fickle, and chaotic. Forecasts are often wrong.

…Rather than pretending we will always be right, Acme Weather embraces the idea that our forecast will sometimes be wrong.

The first way Acme will show this is in “alternative possible futures.” The app will show a forecast that it claims will be even more reliable than the one used in Dark Sky, but it will also show “alternate predictions” that show the extent to which that forecast might be wrong. Basically, the main forecast is what’s expected, but the other predictions are what’s still possible. In the example below, Acme explains that the “significant spread” in the second forecast shows how the prediction might be unstable, helping the user to know they should check back often for more updates.

*“Low spread”* = *A more reliable forecast*

For improved real-time weather reports, Acme Weather will also support crowdsourced community reporting, showing weather conditions from users of the app based on their location. Acme Weather will also support various map types including “radar and lightning, rain and snow totals, wind, temperature and humidity, cloud cover, hurricane tracks” and others.

The app will also support a “comprehensive set of weather notifications” for rain warnings, severe weather alerts, lightning, as well as “Rainbow alerts” and “beautiful sunsets” in your area.

Acme Weather is available now on iPhone, but the developers have confirmed an Android version is in the works – and they’re looking to hire Android developers too.

The app will cost $25/year after a two-week trial, which is certainly on the pricier end for weather apps, but matches Accuweather’s ad-free subscription, as just one example.