Weather-monitoring business AcuRite is requiring gadget owners to utilize a brand-new buddy app on May 30, irritating some veteran consumers.

AcuRite, which offers gadgets such as weather condition stations, indoor thermometers, and rain determines, started emailing consumers last month that they ‘d quickly need to manage their gadgets with the AcuRite Now iOS and Android app. AcuRite initially introduced the app in June 2025 to manage a brand-new weather condition station, the AcuRite Optimus. Owners of AcuRite gadgets had actually still been able to utilize the My AcuRite app, which introduced in 2016.

Quickly, nevertheless, My AcuRite will no longer be offered, making AcuRite Now the only authorities app for managing AcuRite gadgets. The site for the My AcuRite app presently checks out:

As part of our ongoing financial investment in providing smarter, more linked options, the My AcuRite app will be unwinding. To guarantee continuous access to your weather condition information and to open much more abilities,all users need to shift to AcuRite NOW before May 30th, 2026.

Per the site, AcuRite Now “deals with countless items” in Tuya’s SmartLife IoT community, consisting of third-party fans, thermostats, light bulbs, plugs, cams, and motorized blinds.

“Looks like a bad joke”

Some AcuRite consumers are upset about losing access to My AcuRite due to the fact that they believe AcuRite Now is an inferior app.

Those clients have actually grumbled online about being not able to utilize AcuRite Now to relabel numerous temperature level sensing units, troubles submitting information to weather websites, and the app just reporting temperature levels in entire numbers. An AcuRite assistance page states that AcuRite is “hoping” to include the capability to arrange on-screen sensing units and relabel numerous sensing units to AcuRite Now, in addition to a desktop variation of the app, “quickly.”

One popular function of My AcuRite was the capability to share information from AcuRite gadgets with Weather Underground, a real-time weather condition service. AcuRite Now likewise supports this function, however users need to pay a membership cost that begins at $2 monthly. The membership, called AcuRite Now+, likewise consists of more information storage (365 days of history rather of 30).