Best iPhone Apps

Utilities

The Weather Channel, Free

We’ve combed through every free weather app out there, and this one takes the cake for usability. A simple interface makes it so painless to view the current, hourly, 36-hour or 10-day forecast in a hurry, that we usually dig out the iPhone to do it, even when we’re in front of a computer. You can even view accurate weather maps superimposed over the Google Maps interface, zoom in as far as you care to, and animate the radar data. Ads do provide a bit of clutter, but that’s the cost of free.