AcuRite shut down My AcuRite. Your garden weather deserves a better home.
On May 30, AcuRite retired the app and moved your station's data to a new platform, with no open way to get it into the tools you actually use. Siltwell is a fresh start: free garden planning and weather-aware care today, plus a simple, open upgrade path to the per-bed soil and frost intelligence AcuRite never offered.
You bought a weather station. Then they took the app.
"My AcuRite" is gone, replaced by "AcuRite NOW," and there's still no open way to pull your own readings into anything else. If you were using your station to make decisions in the garden, that just got harder. It's a good reminder of why open data matters: your garden shouldn't depend on someone else's app sticking around.
Free · no station
Start with Siltwell today. No station needed.
Siltwell plans your beds, with crop-rotation and companion warnings built in, and tracks your plantings and harvests, and gives weather-aware care from your location's forecast plus a frost-date estimate built from ten years of local history. All free. Install it and you're gardening smarter in minutes, station or not.
- Bed layout with crop-rotation & companion warnings
- Planting & harvest journal, with photos
- 155-plant hand-curated catalog
- Frost-date estimate from ten years of local history
- Works offline in the garden
Honest upgrade path
Want the per-bed magic AcuRite never did? Here's the open path.
The feature AcuRite never offered, per-bed soil moisture that tells you exactly which beds to water and which to skip, needs a station with soil sensors and open data. AcuRite has neither. The fix is refreshingly cheap: an Ecowitt gateway plus a wireless soil probe. Ecowitt has an open API (your data stays yours), modular soil sensors you can add one bed at a time, and Siltwell reads it natively — then calibrates frost warnings to your own backyard.
"Can Siltwell read my AcuRite directly?"
Honestly, no, and not for lack of trying. AcuRite doesn't offer an open API, and it has no soil-moisture sensor. We'd rather tell you straight and show you a path that actually works than pretend otherwise. That's kind of the whole point of Siltwell: no dark patterns, no lock-in, your data is yours.
Why Siltwell
Your data is yours
Delete anytime; we build on open station APIs, not walled gardens.
Honest pricing
$22/year founding price (list $39), 14-day trial, cancel anytime. No “$0.99 that's really $40.”
Works offline
Log in the garden with no signal; it syncs later.
We publish our sources
Even our plant data. Learn more.
Free, forever
Bed layout with rotation & companion warnings, planting & harvest journal, 155-plant catalog, frost-date estimate, offline. No credit card.
Siltwell Pro, was $39, now $22/year
14-day trialFounding price locked for life. Connect your station & soil sensors, per-bed soil-moisture alerts, microclimate-calibrated frost, unlimited history & photos.
