Grain

Pierre Drap

About this app

The weather is the most ordinary subject there is. We use it to say
nothing, to fill a silence, to approach a stranger. It has also always
been one of literature's great subjects: there is hardly a book in which
no weather happens.

Grain joins the two. It looks at the sky above you, and goes searching in
books for someone who has already written it. A day of fine drizzle brings
back a sentence of fine drizzle. A clearing sky, a clearing sky.

The excerpts are chosen one by one, from works in the public domain. They
are not illustrations: they describe the weather, and nothing else. It is
a corpus, not a quotation database.

Grain keeps nothing. The name of the city you look up is sent to
Open-Meteo, a European forecasting service, only to fetch the weather. No
account, no advertising, no notification, no history.

Grain requests no special permission, creates no account, shows no
advertising and sends no notification. The only piece of data that leaves
your phone is the name of the city whose weather you ask for.

An IMAGE4D application.

What’s new

First release.