SNRKY is a weather app for people who have heard the phrase "partly cloudy with a chance of showers" enough times to consider it a personal affront. It tells you the weather the way your most sarcastic friend would — with real data, actual contempt for the forecast, and zero interest in managing your feelings about it.
This is not a weather app that wants to be your emotional support animal. It is a weather app that will look you in the eye and tell you it's going to be 97 degrees with 80% humidity and somehow make it worse.
SNRKY pulls live weather data from Open-Meteo, a free and open meteorological API that sources from global weather models. You get real conditions, a real hourly forecast, and a real 7-day outlook — the same data a normal weather app would give you, delivered with considerably less dignity.
That forecast data gets handed to a snark engine — a language model that processes the temperature, humidity, wind, UV index, and conditions and generates commentary. Not a summary. Not a description. Commentary. The kind that makes you feel something about the weather, which is either a feature or a bug depending on your disposition.
Sometimes the standard snark isn't the right snark. The Lens system lets SNRKY apply a different flavor to the same forecast — a sports announcer calling the humidity like a fourth-quarter comeback, Shakespeare lamenting the wind chill, a nature documentary narrator treating a light drizzle as an extinction event.
Lenses are activated periodically and rotate out. When one is live, a small indicator appears at the top of the page. You're welcome to ignore it. The snark will be different whether you read the label or not.
The default setting is Snarky — sharp, dry, specific to the actual conditions. If that's too much, there's Mild, which is snarky the way a polite Canadian is passive-aggressive: technically friendly, obviously not. If the default isn't enough, Roast removes most of the restraint. There's a fourth setting. You'll know it when you find it.
Weather apps treat a 40% chance of rain like breaking news. They use push notifications to tell you the sun is rising. They have moods. SNRKY was built for people who just want to know if they need a jacket and would prefer to be mildly insulted in the process rather than gently reassured.
It's free. There are ads. The ads are less snarky than the weather. That's the trade.