UpCanyon
iOS and Android · Fort Collins, Colorado
Weather you can look at.
UpCanyon puts a live camera on your home screen and backs it with the nearest weather station, radar, snowpack and river gauges. 30,000+ public cameras in all 50 states. Free, with no ads.
Home
Your home screen is a camera near you.
Open the app and you see the sky from a real camera close to where you are. The card under it reads the nearest weather station, often a backyard one a few blocks away, and tells you what is coming and when: “rain reaches you around 3:40,” or “dry for the next hour.”
Type in your address, call it Home or Cabin or whatever you want, and switch between there and where you are standing with one tap.
Radar
Radar you can scrub.
Drag the slider back to see where the storm came from and forward to see where it is going. The next hour comes from the radar too, so the home card can say “rain starts in 20 minutes” instead of “60% chance today.”
The same map carries cameras, weather stations, snow depth at SNOTEL sites and river flow at USGS gauges. Turn cameras on over the radar and tap one under the storm to see what is falling.
Lists
The pass, the trailhead and your parents’ town, in one list.
Each list shows a live camera, the current reading and an alert when something changes. Make one for the drive to the cabin and another for the places you climb.
Sign in with Apple or Google and your lists come with you to a new phone. Signing in is optional. The app works the same without it.
iPhone Duo · coming in an update
Opens up on iPhone Duo.
Unfold the phone and the camera gets a whole pane. Conditions, the next hours and the map sit beside it instead of under it, and you can put two cameras side by side: the pass and the town. Fold it and the same screen is back in your pocket.
Pricing
Free covers the whole app for three places.
Every camera, every station, the radar and the forecast are free. Free gives you three live pins and three alerts. Pro is for people who keep track of more places than that.
Free
$0
- 30,000+ live cameras in all 50 states
- Weather stations, radar, snowpack and river gauges
- Forecast, air quality and UV
- 3 live pins and 3 alerts
- One saved place, plus wherever you are
- Sign in to keep your pins on every phone
Pro
$4.99 a month
$44.99 a year, or $99.99 once for life
- Unlimited pins and lists
- Unlimited alerts, aimed at the exact station or gauge
- Years of history on every station, gauge and snow site
- Compare any station with where you are
- More saved places
- All eight themes
Your first 7 days are Pro. No card, and nothing renews on its own. When the week ends you are on Free, and your extra pins stay saved.
Questions, ideas, a camera we’re missing?
hello@upcanyon.app goes to the person who builds the app.
Made in Fort Collins, Colorado, by one person. The app reads NOAA and the National Weather Service, USGS river gauges, USDA SNOTEL, EPA AirNow and state DOT cameras, and shows where every number came from. Your location fetches your weather and nothing else.