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Quiet Sky Lifetime is 99% off for 48 hours on Google Play. Get 99% off.

Normal Lifetime price: $59.99

Promotion: 99% off

U.S. price: roughly $0.60

Thursday Aug. 13, 9 AM Pacific → Saturday Aug. 15, 9 AM Pacific

Quiet Sky is an Android privacy-first weather app with:

• sunset forecasts
• live weather radar
• minute-by-minute rain timing where available
• hourly and 10-day forecasts
• air quality forecasts
• weather widgets
• multiple weather providers

Get it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.getquietsky.android

Open the app → select Lifetime → verify the discounted Google Play price → complete the one-time purchase.

Once purchased, Quiet Sky is yours for life.

Learn more about Quiet Sky and why I built it here.

I'm the developer. Let me know what you love and if there's anything else you'd like to make this your preferred weather app.

I shared Quiet Sky here around launch, and I'm back with something different: for the next 48 hours the Lifetime purchase is 99% off as part of an Indie App Santa feature.

I'm the developer of Quiet Sky. I built it because I wanted a polished Android weather app without making the user part of the data pipeline.

It includes live radar, minute rain timing, sunset forecasts, hourly and 10-day forecasts, AQI, widgets, multiple providers, and a Privacy Dashboard showing the requests being protected.

Normal Lifetime price: $59.99

Promotion: 99% off

U.S. price: roughly $0.60

Thursday Aug. 13, 9 AM Pacific → Saturday Aug. 15, 9 AM Pacific

Google Play localizes the actual promotional price by country, so the exact amount may differ outside the U.S.

To claim it:

1. Install/open Quiet Sky from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.getquietsky.android
2. Open the app during the promotion.
3. Choose Lifetime on the launch offer.
4. Make sure Google Play shows the discounted price before confirming.

After that, Quiet Sky is yours for life.

No upvote, review, or comment is required.

And, of course, I'd love feedback on the app. What are you loving? Do you have any feature requests? What would it take for this to be your go to weather app?

I'd love feedback on my weather app from this community. It's called Quiet Sky.

There are lots of weather apps, but I wanted to make one that did two things differently: 1) was truly private, and 2) could predict sunsets (thank you to a friend for this suggestion!)

Privacy

I've been frustrated for years that weather apps silently track you. I went looking for one that actually promised privacy and delivered on it, and I couldn't find one. Even the weather apps that promise privacy are a bit opaque. They say they keep it private, but they don't promise anything about their providers or data partners, and the results is your info and location is bought and sold. Privacy felt like a bad tradeoff for the weather! I was shocked I couldn't really find an Android app that did this.

I won't get into all the details here, but I did the opposite of what most of the weather apps do and took the identity out. Once there's no IP address, no device ID, and no account attached, a coordinate is just a coordinate, so your forecast can stay fully accurate, and there's nothing about you that can be leaked out. I do this through a privacy proxy, and Privacy Dashboard in the app show you each request is private.

Sunsets

I have a friend who is a photographer, and he told me how understanding sunset quality is a significant weather event for photographers, and, of course, is interesting for everyone to understand. So, I added sunset predications to Quiet Sky.

I wanted to answer the question: "Is tonight's sunset worth walking outside for?"

Sunset predictions are based on cloud height, cloud cover at different altitudes, and air clarity a few hours out, and scores how good the color is likely to be. High or mid-level clouds with clear air underneath tend to light up; a flat low overcast doesn't.

The app has the other things you'd expect: minute-by-minute rain predictions globally where available ("Rain in 11 minutes"), live radar, air quality, weather details like wind, dew point, humidity, etc., and hourly and 10 day forecasts.

Questions for the weather nerds:

• Curious if any of you predict sunsets or use sunset predictors?
• What weather signals do you wish an app surfaced that none of them do?
• For minute-by-minute rain, what's your experience with nowcast accuracy where you live? I'm finding Foreca is very good at nowcast predictions, and Rainbow.ai is lightly better at when rain might stop.

Blunt feedback welcome. Happy to explain the data pipeline behind any of it.

Android today, but I should have an iOS app very soon. https://getquietsky.app/

I launched a private weather app on Google Play a few days ago and I'm trying to be disciplined about ASO. Would appreciate a sanity check from people who do this for real.

Probably like most, I'm struggling to get the initial traffic.

What I've done so far:

• Title carries the primary keyword ("... : Private Weather")
• Reworked the short description after Play flagged "no ads" as a price/promotion keyword (switched to "no tracking")
• Built three keyword-targeted custom store listings: privacy intent, rain/radar intent, sunset intent
• Ran a Play autocomplete pass: "rain radar" was the one seed that returned real suggestions (rain radar uk, rain radar australia, live map, app), while "private weather" and "sunset forecast" returned almost nothing. I still think intent might be good for the other keywords, so I'm treating this as query-language evidence only

My approach is to first get coverage: as a brand-new app with very few installs I have near-zero coverage on competitive head terms, so I'm targeting the long-tail (country-qualified rain radar, sunset terms) and hoping to get installs through a launch to so I can determine signal better.

Where I'd love input:

1. Is my read right that CSLs lift conversion, not ranking, and that the keyword picker stays thin until I have search traffic?

2. For a brand-new app, is long-tail-first sound, or is there a faster path to coverage I'm missing?

3. "Sunset forecast" looks like an uncontested niche but autocomplete is empty. How would you validate whether it has real volume before investing in it?

Genuinely after the critique, not promoting. Happy to report back what I learn.

Site url: Private Weather App. Quiet Sky — beautiful weather, real privacy. No Ads. No Tracking.

Quiet Sky: a private weather app where the provider never sees your IP or device

Solo dev, just launched Quiet Sky on Google Play. It's a weather app built around one idea: you can have privacy and have beautiful weather.

The provider gets your forecast request, not your identity. Many weather apps and providers sell your location and data, which feeds tracking. That's always bothered me, and I wanted to do something different.

Every request (forecast, radar, map) routes through a proxy that strips your IP and device ID before anything leaves. No account, no trackers in the app. A Privacy Dashboard shows each request in plain language, and the privacy core of the proxy is open source and auditable, so it's not just a marketing line.

Beyond privacy it's a full weather app designed to be beautiful: rain to the minute where available, sunset-quality predictions, hourly and 10-day forecasts, live radar, air quality, detailed charts (wind/UV/pressure/dew point), and home-screen widgets.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.getquietsky.android

Full disclosure: it's a paid app with a free trial. I'd love your thoughts. This is an audience whose opinion I care about, so tell me what's missing or what you'd want before trying or paying.

I've been building Quiet Sky, a weather app for Android, and I just launched it. Solo project, so feedback from this crowd would mean a lot.

Why I built it

I've been frustrated for years that weather apps silently track you. I went looking for one that actually promised privacy and delivered on it, and I couldn't find one. Even the weather apps that promise privacy are a bit opaque. They say they keep it private, but they don't promise anything to providers, and providers might just turn around and sell your info. So I built the app I wanted: a weather app that's genuinely nice to use and structurally can't leak who you are.

The NYT documented this back in 2018. They tested 20 apps and found one weather app alone, WeatherBug, was quietly sending precise location to 40 different companies. This spawned industries of buying and selling our locations, in real time to anyone who wants to buy it.

What it is

Quiet Sky is meant to feel calm and beautiful, not busy. A few things I'm proud of:

• Sunset-quality predictions, so you know which sunsets are actually worth walking outside for
• Minute-by-minute rain nowcasting
• Live radar, hourly and 10-day forecasts, air quality
• Detailed charts for wind, UV, pressure, and dew point, presented quietly
• Home-screen widgets

No account, no ads, no trackers.

The privacy promise, in plain terms

Most "private" weather apps make a claim that they won't use your info, and at best they might blur your GPS location, which, of course, will decrease forecast precision. They still send your identity along to the forecast providers.

I did the opposite and took the identity out. Once there's no IP address, no device ID, and no account attached, a coordinate is just a coordinate, so your forecast can stay fully accurate. I made sure they can't tie it back to you by routing in through a proxy, so all providers ever see is the proxy. A Privacy Dashboard in the app shows each request and confirms your identity stayed hidden.

The technical how (for the curious)

Every request routes through a proxy I run (a Cloudflare Worker) that strips your IP address, device ID, and any identifier before anything reaches a provider. The privacy core of that proxy is open source, Apache-2.0, so you can read exactly where identity gets removed: https://github.com/NW-Hiker-Skier/quietsky-privacy-proxy

The stack is Kotlin on Android, Cloudflare Workers for the proxy, MapLibre for maps, and I self-host the basemap with Protomaps on Cloudflare R2. That last part wasn't really a choice. I started on a hosted tile provider, but their terms around proxying and caching their tiles were restrictive enough to put my privacy approach in a gray area. I didn't want the core guarantee to depend on a vendor's permission, so I self-hosted the basemap instead. It was a slog, but now every map request runs through infrastructure I control.

I built this with heavy AI assistance, directing and reviewing it myself. That's part of why the privacy core is open source. You don't have to trust that the AI got it right, you can read it. I used Claude Design to help with the UX and brand, though I have some experience in this area as well.

The honest part

It's a paid app. No ads, no trackers, no data selling. I'm a solo developer, someone has to pay to run the service, and I'd rather that be users than advertisers. There is a free trial though if you want to check it out. I'd appreciate that!

App website: Quiet Sky — beautiful weather, real privacy
PlayStore Link: Quiet Sky: Private weather - Apps on Google Play

Feedback Appreciated

A few things I'd genuinely like feedback on. Does the "strip identity, not location" approach land, or does it read as hand-waving? And do you believe the privacy claims? That last one is the exact objection I'm trying to answer well. And, is the app delightful and beautiful to use?

For fun, I wrote a weather privacy manifesto. You can see it on the story section of the website.