Orbis5.0.1

Like so many other have said, it simply crashes. This is with latest Sierra OS.

Was terrific under Yosemite; won't run under El Capitan.

Like so many crashing upon start on Yosemite. I finally got around to installing it on Mavericks and it works well enough. But it is lacking one of the best features of MenuWeather! Best I can tell Orbis doesn't give hourly breakdowns of forecasts. It's a step back for crying out loud! But worse is the fact the developer has been totally silent while continuing to take folks' money.

Renamed Orbis 5.0 on the app store and I received a free update. Works great on my computers. UI is more in line with Yosemite.

Paid for it then used CleanApp to delete every associated file. Total rubbish. Constant beach ball - not for me and can not recommend it. Well, well. Just dumped this app and installed Seasonality Core. No more spinning beach ball, no more hangs and my computer is flying. Why the hell did I fall for this terrible, awful application. Don't go near this app. It is a CPU hog and a disaster constantly using bandwidth - searching, searching, searching....

prior version was 4 stars. this one 4.2.4 under OS 10.8.2 [app store version] won't start up properly. get spinning thing in menubar. can't kill app because it doesn't show up in startup items. sent note to developer HELP!

This program is a memory hog, using 80 MB of RAM and that when not even looking at maps. This is crazy. I'm not saying it is poorly written because that would require information that i don't have. And of course the trend in all consumer software is to use gobs of RAM. But that doesn't change the fact that this is a memory hog. Otherwise, the program is very nicely laid out, easy to use, and puts up more information than some others. That said, I've switched my "always on" weather program to WeatherSimple which gives me just the information I normally need (current conditions, abbreviated four-day forecast, and two other cities, and uses 1/4 the RAM.

We are experiencing a week of 'once in a decade cyclonic strength storms' at 973 to 985 hp with heavy rain and MenuWeather is characterising the weather outside as Scattered Cloud.

"Removed support for Snow Leopard
". WHY remove functionality? There are a lot of us who don't/won't/can't tun 10.7. Seems like a dumb move to me.

Excellent replacement for the lamentably unviable Weather Dock. Accurate and good range of display options. Also has clean UI and nice icon sets (important when they're going to be visible on your menubar for most of your mac's life). I don't use the More Weather window as I don't need that much detail, but I don't think its as well thought through as the menubar item. Stability has come along way since shaky previous versions, which often stalled and crashed. But it still hangs briefly when leaving preferences after changing, and should really deal with loss of internet connection better. Currently when it can't connect, hovering the mouse over it leads to the spinning wheel of death, which is unnecessarily alarming. Overall though, my favourite menubar app, and hopefully destined to get better.

I'm guessing the free version magically disappeared... Was looking to give this a try after WeatherDock died but if there's no free version ...that's a shame... could at least put a "LITE" version in the store or something... On to other alternatives...

This is an improvement over the previous version. Added air pressure, radar map zoom in and out, better location search and hourly updates. The developer listens to suggestions and has made this app better. I am still unsure of the use of customweather.com instead of weatherchannel.com which is what used to be used.

I find this app very useful and prefer it over WeatherDock simply because its handier being able to access the weather immediately from the menubar. I have the free version 3.12 and don't live in the States, so there's no need for me to upgrade but I'd be quite happy to pay $2.99 if that's what I was charged and the software was as stable as the version I'm currently using.

For $2.99 it's seriously halfassed compared to the FREE Meteorologist, WeatherDock, Weather Vane, Outside and a couple others. Save your money, or at least spend it on things made by people who make an effort. Just don't give it to these greedy, lazy losers.

I'm using the Lite version and am very satisfied. It is working fine. Thanks, Evan :-)

I have given up on this app as well. While the 2.99 is not a problem. having a functioning app is. MeunWeather simply does not work on my MBP. The lite version does. I will remove both, Apple can keep the 2.99 but from now on I will try to find non-App Store versions of apps. Not having a try before you buy option sucks. Thus the following ratings. This applies to the MeunWeather app, not the lite version.

Either Weather Vane or Meteorologist... I have no doubts...

Crikey! I've just discovered that if I look out of the window I can see what the weather is and hazard a guess as to what changes will occur over the next few hours. And it's for free!

Compared to other menubar weather applications this is the cleanest and most modern-looking. It has a nice icon set and is reliable. However, it has a couple of annoying problems: - OSX automatic location detection doesn't work for a lot of people. So it'd be good to have a quick way of switching location from the menu. At the moment you have to go to options/preferences and set a new default. You can't simply choose from the other locations. - As a review on appstorm noted, it's a bit of a waste of space (and confusing) to display 'current conditions' then conditions for the same day underneath. - Would be good to have a preference to specify which conditions you want to see, e.g. I can't imagine everyone would want pressure and visibility cluttering up the menu. Otherwise, a promising app. Hope development continues

Don't understand. If I want to know the weather at my current location, I can just stick my head out the window.

Not working at all. Th eprogram hangs at start and uses up lots of CPU and memory. Tried several times wit the same result. Maybe I'll try again with a later version.

It seems to be working fine now. Only one more feature request: Please include Growl-support. Thanks!

I am still not able to send report from the application. Two days ago it could not find Puerto Penasco, Mexico and it crashed loosing its settings. Yesterday it worked just fine, but for the last 16 hours it has not been able to update Puerto Penasco. Maby it´s your update source since Weather Vane updates fine. I would love to use your app instead!

Yesterday it could not find Puerto Penasco, Mexico and it crashed loosing its settings. Today it works just fine! You asked if i could send report from the app, but it reports: "Error submitting your feedback to the server. Error: The request timed out." I have tried this many times with the same result. It also seems to freeze the OS when it has trouble updating.

I love the speed improvement. There is a problem after waking up from sleep though. The app freezes with the spinning beach ball when hovering the icon, and the only way to quit is to kill the process. MenuWeather freezes a second or two after waking up, so I'm even able to open the menu before it hangs.

It can´t find my location (Puerto Peñasco in Sonora, Mexico). If I set up other locations, it works but crashes after a few minutes and looses all settings.

MenuWeather was also using 3+ GB of RAM on my Mac Pro. You all should also check your "~/Library/Application Support/MenuWeather/MenuWeather.log" files. Mine was 1.05GB in size... I've stopped using MenuWeather for now, as these bugs are very troubling.

In my first three hours of testing, the app ended up with 3.5GB of my 18GB real memory. On the plus side, the all black icons are great to look at. I'll try an updated version.

I have been running MenuWeather version 2.3 without apparent problem. Seemed to work as advertised. Today I received an "update available" window/notice on my screen and went ahead and clicked the update and restart button. Not a good outcome. The Spinning Beach-ball of death appeared ... forever. My system slowed to a crawl and I could not get the Menu Weather to quit. I tried restarting, moving it to the trash (which it would not let me do because the program was in use). I tried repairing permissions and resetting crons . . . all the regular attempts to get it to quit. When putting my cursor over the MenuWeather icon the spinning beachball would not let me open it to try to change preferences or quit it. Finally I went into the applications folder, highlighted the MenuWeather icon and opened the "Show Package" option. I one by one started to trash the folders and items in the Package that it would allow me. I emptied the trash and restarted my MacBook Pro. I could now finally go to the program to open the preferences and I was able to uncheck the "Open at startup" option. After another restart I was now able to trash the program. My computer is now back to normal. I have not re-downloaded the update again for trial as I do not want to go through this again. I will now wait to watch the reviews and see if this is unique to my computer or if it is happening to others. Doc G

I downloaded this software looking for an alternative to WeatherDock which seems like it doesn't get updated much anymore. That has been my weather resource since I got my first Mac a few years ago. I've been watching the development on this one from my RSS feed for some time looking for an alternative to WeatherDock that is actively developed. One thing I really like about this software is that it doesn't put an icon in the dock. With WeatherDock it give you the ability to turn the dock icon off but then you can't have the menu bar item. Also the software has the option to auto-detect your location and give you up-to-date weather for where you are. With WeatherDock I always have to find a ZIP code of the nearest city or something and update it myself. Anyhow, I like the customization this software provides. I like that you can change where things appear in the menu and change the type of icons that the weather appears as. I had contacted the developer with my thoughts and suggestions about offering a day and night based forecast like WeatherDock does, and he replied to me a few hours later and explained that MenuWeather uses the Yahoo API and not Weather.com. It would be a nice feature because while I can look at WeatherDock and see without loading a website how the weather will change as the day goes on. This one just gives kinda an average forecast of the day instead. I was happy to receive such a quick and helpful response regarding my suggestion. While it's missing one key feature I would really like to see, I think the benefits of this wonderful piece of software outweigh my one nitpick thing about it. This software will work well enough though for the average person and I'll adopt now and enjoy seeing how this software evolves.

2.2 actually starts up for me and shows the current weather and the forecast. The problem is that a lot of the menu items are grayed out and aren't able to be used. I can't quit the app from the menu, can't update the weather and can't change any preferences. Other than that it works ok.

as of 2.2 this now works for me

I downloaded v2.1.2 and installed it on my Mac Pro (MacPro1,1, Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 6GB RAM). As the previous poster stated, upon launch, the app freezes and there is no way to pull down the menu. Furthermore, Activity Monitor shows 100% CPU use. Horrible.

still having the same problem with version 2.1

The temp doesn't updated automatically. Set my location and changed the interval to 5 mins. Any idea why?

Was impatient to try out this new version. However, when it launches, and after asking me if I allow it to use my current location, it just puts the temperature in the Menubar and hangs, consuming 100% of the CPU, and not giving access to the menu. I tried to delete all the preferences and associated files, but it does not change anything.

For some reason, I can't dismiss the 'Donate' window which appears at startup: Menu Weather just hangs if I try to press the 'Donate' button.

this isn't working for me, app is just non responsive even after deleting preferences

This is a nice, tidy menubar weather app, but not the best by a long shot. I think that has to go to Weather Dock (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16027/weatherdock) which is much more customisable and has a richer feature set, though its interface is more cluttered and ugly. Things that would bring MenuWeather up to speed: - sorting out the annoying freeze that occurs when clicking on anything (is this to do with using apple's locationd?) - make (or at least provide the option) to make the weather symbols in the menu larger - they're far too small - allow manual locations to be saved/favourited and quickly switched between (e.g. so user can quickly check several locations - i find this useful as i travel regularly between a number of cities) - global keyboard shortcut to update the weather - preference to set number of forecasted days shown If all this was added I'd be more than happy to donate £5!

Gives the weather where you are. How about a little thing called "walk outside"? (Provides free updates as often as you care to walk outside.)

This is a great program. Is there any way to set the location manually? It does not determine my city correctly.

Although I'm a devoted fan of Meteorologist, I decided to give this one a look. I must say, it looks like a good start now that a minimal forecast has been added. I'll be very interested to see how this one develops. Although everyone will have their own set of "must-have" features, two major items for me are longer forecasts and weather radar. One very minor nit is the icons are alright for now, but they're not *quite* up to the polish of other programs like Meteo and WeatherPop. Best of luck, and a good start!

Gives nothing but the temperature. Silly. "Meteorologist" gives you complete weather & forecast for any number of cities.

Would be nicer if it gave the forecast rather then just the temperature. Other then this, it works perfectly.