ForeLight reads the sun, the sky, the tide and the wind for every shoot on your calendar, and tells you how the light will be before you leave the house.
Every shoot gets a score out of ten for its window, with the reason in plain English. Sam and Priya's proposal at Bixby Bridge: 8.3, the sky reads premium, a marine layer is sitting on the coast.
Drag the time ring and the whole brief moves with it. The tide comes in, the sun swings around Bixby Bridge, the temperature climbs and drops, the moon sets. Check sunrise, golden hour or the minute you'll arrive.
ForeLight finds the shoots on your calendar, from a beach engagement to a five-hour wedding to a twilight listing, and keeps each forecast ready. Roll the date barrel to move between them.
Satellite pictures of the actual clouds over your location, refreshed through the day and checked against three forecasts. Scrub back through the day to watch the marine layer move and see when the sky opens up.
Squares, wide or tall: arrange the tiles in the order you check them. Every one of them is live, from the rain and wind to the tide, the sun, the moon and your drive.
Turn your iPhone, or open an iPhone Duo, and ForeLight spreads out: the date barrel on one side, the time ring on the other, and the whole brief in between.
Flip the PRO switch off and ForeLight becomes a clean weather app for wherever you are: the same satellite, tide and wind, without the shoot planning.
Drive time to the shoot with today's traffic, and a Leave By time that opens straight into Apple Maps.
The tide curve for your window, and a tide lane on beach shoots so you know if the sand will be there.
No shoot booked yet? Pick any spot and see its conditions and its best hour for any day.
Light, sky, wind, temperature and rain each get a lane across the day, so you can see the hour things come good and what's holding the score back.
A proposal, a family, a twilight listing and a night-sky session each want different light, and each is scored for what it needs.
No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no ForeLight servers. ForeLight reads the shoots you pick on your phone and sends only a location to the weather services to get a forecast.
Any calendar on your iPhone: iCloud, Google, Outlook or work. You choose which events are shoots, and ForeLight only reads them. It never writes to your calendar.
No. Turn the PRO switch off for Basic mode: the forecast, satellite, tide and wind for wherever you are, without the shoot planning.
Several sources checked against each other: Apple Weather, the National Weather Service and Open-Meteo for the forecast, NOAA stations for tides, and NASA's GOES-West satellite for the clouds. When they disagree, ForeLight tells you.
The forecast works anywhere. Tides come from NOAA stations, so they cover US coasts, and the satellite view covers the Americas and the Pacific. It was built and tested on the California coast.
Yes. Open an iPhone Duo, or turn any iPhone sideways, and ForeLight spreads out with the date barrel and the time ring on either side of the brief.
ForeLight is in beta on TestFlight and free while it is. It is coming to the App Store.
ForeLight is in beta on TestFlight. Join, take it to your next shoot, and tell me what it got right.