Your animal, today's weather.
Everyone already has a weather app. Nobody has one that tells you whether to put the blanket on tonight — and shows you your kind of animal, in today's real conditions, every morning.
Free. No account. Not yet released — we’ll email you once, when it is.
The question behind the question
You never wanted the temperature.
You wanted to know whether the 200 gram is too much tonight. Whether the ground has dried enough to school on. Whether the pavement will burn his feet at four. A forecast makes you do that arithmetic yourself, every day, in your head, usually while holding something.
Before you are upright
“Strip by 10 — high 58.” You know you have to text the barn before you have found your boots.
In the car
“Best ride: 4–6 p.m. · Good.” And under it, the part nobody else tells you: Footing: soft.
Deciding about the walk
“Pavement ~132°F until 6 p.m.” Not a warning about heat in general. A time to leave.
One question at first run
Which animal is yours?
The whole app reshapes around the answer. A cat owner never sees a blanket call; a horse owner gets four of them plus river crossings. Nobody is shown an empty card for a feature their animal does not need.
Horse
The deepest path. Blanket call, strip-by, ride window, footing and water watch, each computed against this horse’s own profile.
Dog
Walk window, coat call, pavement temperature, and an explicit note for flat-faced breeds — who tolerate heat far worse.
Cat
Sunbeam tells you where the sun will land, hour by hour — east room until 11, then the couch until 3. Plus a comfort watch, a knock-on-the-bonnet warning on the first frost, and a shedding forecast three weeks early.
Small animals
Rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, birds, reptiles, tortoises, chickens, mini pigs. A comfort band and a warning before the day breaches it.
The calls
Answers, not readings.
Every one of these is computed on your device from a cached forecast, against your animal’s own profile. None of them is a lookup table.
Blanket Call · horse
It knows which rugs you own.
Not “medium weight.” Your green 200 gram, because you told it what is in the trunk. Adjusted for clip, coat condition, age, body condition, whether they are acclimated, and what hours they are actually outside.
And then strip-by — the hour a warming day will cook a horse in a rug they were right to be wearing at dawn. Over-blanketing is the more common and more damaging mistake, and it is the one a forecast can actually prevent.
Activity window · every species
Rated by its worst hour, not its average.
A window is only as good as the hour you are actually out in. A stretch averaging “good” with one vicious hour inside it is not a good window, and this one will not call it one.
It looks for a stretch as long as you actually ride or walk — not the single best hour — and names what is holding it back: Gusts to 34 mph. Footing: deep. Pavement ~132°F. When nothing clears the bar in seven days, it says so and tells you why.
Sunbeam · cat
Where the sun will be, hour by hour.
Tell it which way your windows face, once. After that it can say east room until 11, then the couch until 3 — because the sun’s position is arithmetic, not a forecast. It works offline, in the dark, a week ahead.
The same sum does serious work. Sun through glass on a shut-up house is hotter than the air outside it, so on a hot day it names the hours that patch stops being a kindness — and where, rather than a general caution about sunny windows.
Ground you can trust
Modelled from what has actually fallen and actually dried since, against your arena’s drainage — not guessed from today’s sky. A new location is capped and labelled “still learning” rather than reported as perfect.
Hours, not warnings
Asphalt surface temperature estimated from air temperature, sun angle and cloud — then the hours to avoid it, and the hour it becomes fine. Flat-faced breeds get their own heat note.
A range, never a number
Intake as a range, because the model is an estimate and a false precision on a hot day is how an animal ends up under-watered. Plus the hour a trough starts to freeze.
“Don’t ride” is not a low score
Lightning, ice, freezing rain, damaging wind, an official warning, a creek running high. These render as a refusal, never as a number you might talk yourself past.
What you should wear
Working in it is warmer than standing in it, and the shoulder layer for grooming and cooling out is the one everyone forgets.
Official, unmodified
Warnings from your national weather service are pinned above everything, shown in full, with the issuing agency named and their own link intact.
The picture
Correct sky. Correct rain. Correct time of day.
Every morning you get your kind of animal in the weather that is actually happening — a horse tail-to-the-weather in real rain, a labrador in snow, a cat under a porch roof while it clears.
It holds steady through the day rather than flickering with every refresh, and it will not repeat what you saw the last few days. Before you read a single number you can tell from across the room what kind of day it is.
Built for where animals live
Barns have bad signal.
So offline is not a fallback here. It is the normal case, designed for first.
Everything but the fetch
Every advisory, every setting, the full picture library, sunrise, sunset, twilight and moon phase all work with no connection at all. Only the forecast itself needs one.
Search in Airplane Mode
Airport code, ZIP or city — the airport, postal and city data ship inside the app. No geocoding service is ever contacted, by anyone, for any reason.
A failure never blanks the screen
Lost connection mid-refresh? You keep the last good forecast, with its age shown plainly. No error dialog, no empty state, no spinner that outlives the request.
Your animal, your numbers
Every constant is visible. And editable.
Behind every recommendation is a number — the degrees a full clip is worth, the wind speed that starts deducting, the heat index that stops a session. All of them are listed, each with the reasoning for the value it has.
The app ships with defensible defaults drawn from published husbandry guidance, and then gets out of the way. Disagree? Change it. This horse runs cold whatever the chart says? Set it for that horse alone, and leave the rest of the yard as it was.
Privacy
Three things leave your device. Here they are.
Not a summary. The complete list.
A rounded coordinate
Rounded to about a kilometre before it leaves, to fetch a forecast. Precise location is never requested from the operating system in the first place.
A public gauge number
Only if you pin a river crossing. A gauge identifier is a public landmark, not a location — it is the same number printed on the government’s own page.
A species and an image id
To fetch artwork beyond the set already in the app. Nothing accompanies it.
There is no fourth item. No name, no email, no account, no device identifier, no advertising identifier, no analytics, no crash-reporting service, no ad SDK, and no tracker of any kind is in the binary. Your animals, your places, your thresholds and your history never leave the phone at all. Read the full policy.
Plainly
What this is not.
A weather app that keeps animals alive should be clear about the edges of what it does. These are in the app too, on the screen where each recommendation is made — not buried in a settings page.
Not a severe-weather warning service. It does not detect lightning and it does not issue warnings. Official alerts from your national meteorological agency always take precedence, and the app shows them unmodified with the agency named.
Not veterinary advice. These are general husbandry rules of thumb applied to a forecast. They do not know your animal’s health conditions, medications or history. An animal that is ill, injured, very young, very old, pregnant, lactating, metabolic or recovering needs a vet’s judgement, not an app’s.
Not a flood authority. River crossings restate public gauge readings and official forecast stages against levels you supplied. A gauge can fail and a forecast can miss. It buys lead time; it does not make the decision.
Forecasts are wrong sometimes, and a stale forecast is wrong more often. That is why the age of the data is on the screen at all times rather than hidden.
Questions
Reasonable things to ask
What does it cost?
Nothing. No subscription, no in-app purchase, no advertising. If that ever changes, it will never gate a safety-relevant advisory, an official alert, or your ability to read, export or delete your own data.
Where does the weather come from?
Apple’s weather service, on both platforms — which means an advisory behaves identically on Android and iOS rather than quietly differing because the data did.
Do I need an account?
No, and there isn’t one to make. Nothing to sign up to, nothing to sign in to, no password to lose. Your data lives on your phone.
Does it work without location permission?
Fully. Add your barn, your house or a trailhead by searching for it — which works with no signal — or enter coordinates directly. Location is offered once, never nagged, and no feature is locked behind it.
I have four horses at two barns.
Add them all. Each animal carries its own profile and its own numbers; each place carries its own drainage, shelter, arena and water source. One animal and one place are marked primary, and those are what the quick surfaces answer for.
My horse isn’t like the chart.
Then change the chart. Every constant is editable, and you can set one for a single animal without touching the rest. The default is a starting point drawn from published guidance, not a verdict.
Is my animal’s data used to train anything?
No. It never leaves your device, so there is nothing to train on. See the three-item list above — it is exhaustive.
When can I have it?
It is in development and not yet in either store. Leave your email below and we will write once, on the day it is available. That is the only thing the list will ever be used for.
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