IoT gadget agency AcuRite delays compelled app migration as a result of new app’s “shortfalls”

Smart weather-monitoring system vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to power customers onto a brand new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which AcuRite beforehand set for May 30, “has raised serious questions and concerns among many long-time users,” AcuRite’s VP of product growth, Jeff Bovee, informed Ars Technica.

AcuRite, whose gadgets embrace climate stations, rain gauges, and indoor thermometers, informed clients that it will shut down My AcuRite on the finish of May. Devices house owners must use AcuRite NOW, an iOS and Android app launched in June 2025, to manage their devices as a substitute.

Some long-time customers lamented being compelled to new software program when the present software program labored tremendous, if not higher, than the brand new app. When Ars first reported on AcuRite in May, AcuRite NOW lacked some options of My AcuRite, together with the power to rename a number of temperature sensors, report temperatures in non-integers, in addition to a web-based dashboard possibility. Users have additionally highlighted issues importing knowledge to climate websites and a poor structure with wasted area.

Speaking with Ars this week, AcuRite’s Bovee confirmed the delayed shutdown of My AcuRite. Before shuttering the app, AcuRite is making an attempt to enhance AcuRite NOW’s “account setup, device onboarding, station connectivity, data visibility, app usability, notifications, and the overall reliability of the connected experience,” he mentioned.

Bovee famous that “many customers” have identified AcuRite NOW’s “shortfalls compared to” My AcuRite.

Bovee beforehand informed Ars that the transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW was obligatory. My AcuRite was “primarily a weather-station cloud dashboard,” and AcuRite NOW is supposed to “be a broader, connected-device platform,” he mentioned final month. The new app helps extra gadgets, together with third-party sensible devices and Tuya’s SmartLife IoT ecosystem.