Breezy Weather

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To justify the relevance of this article:

• Provide evidence demonstrating how the issue reflects broader consumer exploitation (e.g., systemic patterns, recurring incidents, or related company policies).
• Link the problem to modern forms of consumer protection concerns, such as privacy violations, barriers to repair, or ownership rights.

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Per the Github repository, Breezy Weather is a "feature-rich free and open source Material 3 Expressive weather app with well-though-out visualizations, supporting forecast, observations, nowcasting, air quality, pollen, alerts, from more than 50 weather sources." The application requires internet connectivity but locations can be saved without giving active location permissions to the application. The application allows highly customizable widgets and even a persistent notification that can be tailored to provide hourly or daily forecasts. The application also supports Gadgetbridge integration. This is a privacy respecting application.

Breezy Weather

Basic Information
Release Year	2023
Product Type	Software, Weather
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

The application can be used in place of Pixel Weather, Accuweather, and others which some users may be turned away from due to privacy concerns.

The developers are aware of and has suggested potential workarounds for the impending Play Store verification system (due Sept 2026).

Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Business model

The project is free to users, the application does not provide a means to financially support it. Instead, the developers request that interested parties support Open-Moteo which supports a lot of the backend infrastructure Breezy Weather uses to provide the service.

Incidents

None to report.

See also

• Privacy preserving applications