Here’s my ultimate recommendation, and much of it centers on the fact that the app is not a one-time purchase and that the subscription costs are not cheap. Chances are that the trade-off here in speed for information is worth it for you if you’re someone that truly has a need for all the detailed weather information. Of course, that means you have to do more tapping and scrolling to see it all, as the Apple Watch doesn’t have the biggest of screens. Many apps force you to pick up your phone to get all the details, but not Carrot Weather. Even the watchOS version of the app provides an enormous amount of information, something that cannot be said for other Apple Watch apps. Apple Weather has complications that show all this information, but you cannot combine any of the information in one widget (except for the info modular face large complications).Ĭarrot Weather is without doubt an excellent app that provides all the weather information you could ever need and with a very nice user interface. For this example, there’s absolutely plenty of space to combine this information, and it’s nice to have them together. I’ll throw in a screenshot with this complication below, so you can see what I mean. The best example of this, in my opinion, is the complication that combines the current temperature, the high and low temperature, and the current weather condition. Most of them are very similar to what you get with Apple Weather with some nice tweaks. There are a large number of weather complications available for use on your watch face, and you can even create custom complications. If you have an Apple Watch (which I assume you probably do) and use Carrot Weather with it, there is one more nice feature to the app. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Apple’s acquisition of Dark Sky seriously improved Apple Weather when it comes to precipitation predictions and notifications (among other improvements). As far as I know, just about every weather app has these, including Apple’s free Weather app. If you stick to the free version of the app, you’re really not getting anything that unique. The majority of the notifications are available for free, and I think these are the ones that the majority of users actually need. In order to get the lightning strike, umbrella reminder, and sunscreen reminder, you’ll need to pay for the Premium Ultra subscription tier. You can customize the app to alert you of precipitation, severe weather alerts, hurricane trackers, lightning strikes, umbrella reminders, sunscreen reminders, morning and evening reports, sunrise, sunset, and moon phase. Related to the app’s depth of information, Carrot Weather has the capability of giving you advanced weather notifications. If you want this capability though, you’ll need to pay for at least the Premium subscription tier. Or if you just want to see how much they all agree, you can do that as well. So, if you have one in particular that you trust or like more, you can switch to it. In addition to the vast amount of data and charts that Carrot Weather provides, it also has the ability to display weather information from multiple weather sources. If, on the other hand, you’re someone who’s way of living depends on the weather – maybe you’re in construction or exterior painting – you probably would greatly benefit from having a more granular, hour-by-hour breakdown of the day’s weather. If you’re just a casual weather user who wants a general idea of what the weather is going to be for the day – in other words, do I need to bring an umbrella – something like Apple Weather probably meets all the needs that you have. Just know that some of the information is hidden behind paywalls that require either the Premium or Premium Ultra subscription.Įven with the free version of the app, Carrot Weather features a huge number of graphs and charts that show you an hour-by-hour and day-by-day breakdown of specific weather information such as temperature, the “feels like” temperature, precipitation chance, precipitin amount, wind speed, wind gusts, UV index, humidity, air pressure, cloud cover, and visibility.Ĭontrast this with something like the Apple Weather app, where you’re given more of a high-level snapshot of the weather at this moment (other than an hour-by-hour break down of overall weather conditions and percipiation). The greatest value is in the detail that the app provides, and it can provide an enormous amount of detail on the weather. Keep in mind that you have the same control over the app’s personality with the free version as you do with the paid versions. In my personal opinion, the app personalities are absolutely not a great reason to pay for a weather app, unless you are just massively starved for humor. The personalities can certainly be funny and sometimes even make you laugh out loud, but it’s nothing more than a nice touch to the app.
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