Sky photo reader
Skyread.
Photograph the sky and get the name of every cloud in the frame, and whether rain is on the way.
iPhonePaused prototype
Point your phone at the sky.
The idea
Skyread is an iPhone prototype for reading the sky from a photograph. You choose a picture and the app names each cloud type in the frame, says how confident it is and estimates the chance of rain.
The local forecast is brought in separately, so a reading can say whether the forecast agrees with the sky.
What a reading shows
- Cloud type
- The name of the cloud, its abbreviation and a plain description.
- Rain
- A chance of rain for the next two hours, with the reasoning behind it.
- Height
- A chart of where each cloud sits, from its usual base to how high it builds.
- Explanation
- What the cloud is, how to spot it and what it means for the weather.
Screens
Captures of the prototype running its built-in sample reading.
Availability
Skyread is paused. Readings are made by a cloud vision model, so photographs leave the phone. It was not released on the App Store or TestFlight.