Go Daisy — frequently asked questions

Go Daisy is a free weather app organised around the things you want to do, not the weather itself. You tell it which activities you care about — from surfing and hiking to padel, cricket and Sunday pub afternoons — and it reads the forecast to tell you when conditions are right for each one. Less '70% chance of rain at 3pm', more 'great evening for a swim, terrible morning for the bike, classic museum afternoon.'

Over 100, organised into six worlds: active sports (team, individual, water, action), fitness and wellness, outdoor activities (nature, fishing, kicking back), winter sports (snow and ice), creative and arts, and indoor recreation. The full list is on the home page — and you only see the ones you tell us you care about.

Yes — completely. No paywall, no premium tier, no ads, no in-app purchases. Go Daisy is the part of what we do that is for everyone, and we mean to keep it that way.

It does not, directly — and that is the point. Go Daisy is free because it is how people discover what we do. We make our living from deeper specialist apps for people who go further into one thing: Findr for sea anglers, Rise Daisy for fly fishers, and Grow Daisy for serious gardeners. If you discover through Go Daisy that one of those is yours, we hope you will come along. If not, Go Daisy is yours, free, forever — no upsell screens, no premium features kept behind a wall.

No. Go Daisy is independent and not ad-funded. We use your location to fetch weather for it, and we store your activity preferences so the app remembers them. See our privacy policy for full detail.

A small independent team based in the UK and Asturias, Spain. We also make Findr (for sea anglers), Rise Daisy (for fly fishers), and Grow Daisy (for gardeners). All four apps share the same idea: weather should be answered as a question about your life, not as a list of numbers.

Currently over 100 activities across six categories: active sports (water, team, individual, action), fitness and wellness (mindfulness, cardio, strength), outdoor activities (nature, fishing, kicking back), winter sports (snow and ice), creative and arts (visual, music, literature), and indoor recreation (home, social, indoor sports).

Yes — surfing, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) on sea and inland, kayaking and sea kayaking, canoeing, sea swimming, wild swimming, snorkelling, sailing on sea and inland, windsurfing on sea and inland, kitesurfing, jet skiing, scuba diving and sea fishing from shore or boat. We pull wave height, swell period and direction, wind, sea temperature, tides and UV from Stormglass marine services and score each sport on its own terms — because "good for SUP" and "good for kitesurfing" are almost opposite forecasts.

Yes. Wild swimming has its own score, separate from sea swimming and indoor swimming, because the things that make a wild swim safe and pleasant are different: water temperature trend, air temperature for the exit, recent rainfall (for run-off and visibility), and current weather at the spot rather than five miles away.

Yes — football, rugby, cricket, hockey, netball, basketball (outdoor), beach volleyball, American football, baseball, hurling, camogie, Gaelic football and ice hockey. Outdoor team sports are scored on rainfall in the previous 24 hours and the next 6, ground conditions, wind, and visibility. Cricketers in particular get a strict answer because cricket has the strictest weather; GAA fans get proper treatment instead of being a footnote.

Yes — and they are scored properly, not just lumped under "tennis". Padel scores account for wind on the cage and surface drying time; pickleball scores account for wind on the ball, court conditions and the hot-hour curve. Both are also covered in their indoor-court forms where the weather still matters for getting to the court but not for the game itself.

Yes. Hiking and trail running get separate scores from road running because mountain conditions behave differently from valley conditions — we read cloud base, freezing level, wind chill at altitude, and ground saturation where the data supports it. What is comfortable in the car park can be properly nasty on the tops, and Go Daisy tries to tell you that before you set off.

Yes — road cycling, mountain biking, gravel biking, urban cycling for getting about, and motorbike riding. We weight wind direction and gust speed heavily — a calm 15°C morning with a 30 mph crosswind is not the same ride as a calm 15°C morning without one.

Yes. Stargazing gets a clear-sky score combining cloud cover, moon phase, moon illumination, twilight times (civil, nautical, astronomical) and ISS pass-overs. We do not replace star charts like Stellarium — Go Daisy answers the earlier question: is tonight even worth driving out for?

Yes — skiing (alpine), snowboarding, cross-country skiing, ice skating, ice hockey (outdoor and indoor), curling, and ice fishing. We read snow depth and fresh snowfall for alpine sports, wind chill at altitude, and freeze-thaw history for natural ice. Skiing and cross-country do not want the same conditions, and we score them separately.

Yes — fly fishing on freshwater, coarse fishing, sea fishing from the shore, sea fishing from a boat, and ice fishing. Go Daisy gives you the everyday "is this a fishing day?" answer. For deeper specialist work — river gauges and hatch timing for fly fishers, tide-by-tide marks and bait windows for sea anglers — our sister apps Rise Daisy and Findr go several layers deeper than a general activity app reasonably can.

Yes — outdoor gardening is in the everyday list, scored on soil moisture, soil temperature, frost risk, wind, rainfall and UV so you know whether today is a sowing day, a watering day, a mowing day, a frost-cloth day, or none of the above. For dedicated kitchen-garden and allotment planning with a full plant database, our sister app Grow Daisy at grow.godaisy.io is the right home for that.

Yes — and that is where it earns its keep. Go Daisy covers indoor swimming, indoor climbing, indoor tennis, squash, badminton, gym workouts, pilates, yoga, meditation, plus social and home days: pub afternoons, cinema, museums, galleries, bowling, cooking, reading, gaming, crafts, knitting, DIY, making music. When the outdoor scores are bad, the indoor and social activities you have picked get a quiet promotion — so a wet Sunday is not a wasted one.

Yes — all three, in both indoor and outdoor versions. Outdoor yoga, outdoor meditation, and pilates and yoga as indoor practices are scored separately, because what matters for a quiet rooftop yoga session (wind, UV, air quality) does not matter for a studio class.

Yes — outdoor painting (plein air) and photography both get dedicated scores. We read light quality, cloud cover, golden-hour times, wind on the easel, and the seasonal sun-angle changes that matter for both.

The UK and the rest of Europe — that is where our forecast partners give us the best resolution and where we have tuned the activity scoring. The app works further afield, but UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Turkey are the regions where we are confident the predictions are sharp.

English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish and Swedish.

The Android version is built and in closed beta. Google Play asks new apps to put twelve testers through a fortnight of real-world use before launching to the public, and we are recruiting that group now. If you have an Android phone and would like to be one of them, see the Android testers section on the home page. The web app at godaisy.io works in any browser, on any phone, in the meantime.

The general weather apps tell you the weather and trust you to interpret it. Go Daisy tells you whether your thing is on. Windy gives you a beautiful wind map; the Met Office gives you the authoritative UK forecast; AccuWeather gives you the headline numbers. Go Daisy reads the same kinds of data — from OpenWeather, Stormglass and api.met.no — and then applies it to whichever activities you have told us you do, so you do not have to do the mental arithmetic of "is 14 mph from the south-west too much for a paddleboard at my local lake?" every time you open the app.

OpenWeather for general forecasts, Stormglass for marine and wave data, and api.met.no (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute) for high-resolution Northern European forecasting. Tide data and astronomy come from established public ephemerides. We do not run our own weather model — we read the best public and commercial ones and turn the numbers into activity decisions.

We blend the main ingredients of good surf — wave size, period, swell direction, wind, and tide — into a 0–100 score, then map it to a simple colour: green is fun, clean and safe for intermediates; amber is surfable but mixed; red is poor or unsafe for non-experts. We apply strict safety gates so conditions that are too large or powerful for intermediates are always red-flagged. If a beach orientation is unknown, we grade conservatively and note that wind impact is estimated.

Hourly for general conditions and marine data where the underlying provider supports it. Tides and astronomy are calculated continuously. The activity scores recalculate every time you open the app, so the answer is always fresh against the latest forecast.