which do you use and prefer? also which has the more detailed complications? and do any feature sunrise sunset in complications?
Regards
Regards
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apps CARROT Weather vs Dark Sky Weather
- Thread starter frazerbraley
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I definitely prefer CARROT Weather to Dark Sky for Apple watch. http://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/img/Apple Watch.png
He is very active in updating and adding new features: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/carrot-weathers-customizable-complications.1933213/
He is very active in updating and adding new features: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/carrot-weathers-customizable-complications.1933213/
I use Carrot weather on my watch and iPhone. Works really well - I opted for the ultra premium membership so I could get Weather Underground data. The WU app has gone to absolute **** over the last year. They must have gotten rid of the cool devs that made it what it was because I miss those awesome release notes. But WU is terrible - I won't be paying for it again.
CARROT weather is pretty good. I definitely recommend it - it costs a little bit but its worth every penny vs every other weather app out there that pops up "DO YOU WANT FREE WALLPAPERS?" every time you try to view the weather. How 179,000 users use that is beyond me.
Carrot is SUPER customizable on the watch too - see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/carrot-weathers-customizable-complications.1933213/ and my post https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...e-complications.1933213/page-48#post-25804551
The developer is REALLY responsive and does a good job fixing bugs. Nothing is bug free though. I gladly paid and would again - and recommend it.
CARROT weather is pretty good. I definitely recommend it - it costs a little bit but its worth every penny vs every other weather app out there that pops up "DO YOU WANT FREE WALLPAPERS?" every time you try to view the weather. How 179,000 users use that is beyond me.
Carrot is SUPER customizable on the watch too - see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/carrot-weathers-customizable-complications.1933213/ and my post https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...e-complications.1933213/page-48#post-25804551
The developer is REALLY responsive and does a good job fixing bugs. Nothing is bug free though. I gladly paid and would again - and recommend it.
Thanks for the info. Really want to try it now.
So $4.99 for the app. So what's the ultra-mega-premium cost?
See: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...e-complications.1933213/page-48#post-25804163
From CARROT itself:
"Premium Club adds a number of Apple Watch features, including background updates, complication/app customization, and notifications. Ultrapremium Club includes all the Premium Club features, plus it unlocks the Weather Underground data source and animated radar on the Watch. (Note: radar on the watch is US only.) The two prices for each are the monthly and yearly prices.
The reason the subscription is necessary is because of the Apple Watch complication, which updates automatically in the background every 30 minutes. Unfortunately, my weather data provider charges a small amount for each weather data request - and this quickly adds up when the Apple Watch complication is requesting 48 updates per day. (For comparison’s sake, a user who doesn’t have a complication installed typically uses only 1 or 2 update requests per day.) Without charging extra for the subscription, in just 1 year it would cost me more to supply you the weather data than you paid for the app. So I either had to offer a subscription or not make an Apple Watch app at all!"
---------------------------------------------
I get the ultrapremium because I like Weather Underground as a source (their app has taken a huge downhill tumble recently).
Cool - hope you like it. I bought it about a month ago and I'm still loving it. I spent about an hour going over the latest weather apps and I couldn't believe how horrible they were (accuweather, the weather channel, etc...) - popup ads every time I opened it, ads every 2 inches, etc.
I'm sticking with this one for awhile.
So far it's working great. And the super-mega-premium subscription unlocked everything.
Yep, I've been using BeWeather Pro for a while and the watch app has just been getting goat boinked in more recent times. The developer blew off my support requests (that's two tickets in the last year that have gone ignored) as well, so no soup for him anymore. I wish I could get a refund, then send him a moon shot of me and say this is my forecast of the week, you ninny doodle brain.
As a last gasp effort I went back to using Dark Sky since I paid for that as well, and I got three different forecasts: my watch said one thing, the iPhone said another, and I use iStats Menu with a weather plugin pulling weather data from Dark Sky that gave yet another forecast. I give up.
So you find sourcing weather data from WU is still worth it even though their apps aren't?
Yeah, I found Dark Sky's data to be very inconsistent (reading your post - looks like you've confirmed that too). WU's data seems to be working for me - I shelled out the extra to use it in CARROT too.
So hopefully posting in the right thread. I’m new to carrot and bought the ultra premium so I could use WU instead of dark sky as I’ve read about dark sky inconsistencies. However, even though I have WU selected I’m still getting rain alerts when there is no chance of rain. I live in the desert, you can see rain coming from miles away. I have WU app and it does not forecast rain yet Carrot is. What gives? I took a picture of the watch telling me it’s going to rain and that’s the sky in the back ground. The other is the current WU forecast. The only thing I can think of is Carrot is pulling dark sky despite WU being selected.
I was trying to decide between Carrot and Dark Sky at one point. Got Carrot because I misread on the description that it had weather alerts. Turns out you needed a Mac for that. My fault for misreading the description. Emailed the dev and he said he’s working on notifications. Fast forward a little bit and got Dark Sky.
Saw that Carrot now now has notifications!....after you spend $10 a year! Come on...I’ve read he explanation of why he does that. But seriously? You sell tee shirts for $15 a pop. All your other apps are $4 a pop. Little suspicious...
Take a hit and give people who spent $4 on your app the ability to have notifications just like your competitor. Otherwise, you are paying $14 for the same weather info and “snark” (that gets immediately shut off).
Saw that Carrot now now has notifications!....after you spend $10 a year! Come on...I’ve read he explanation of why he does that. But seriously? You sell tee shirts for $15 a pop. All your other apps are $4 a pop. Little suspicious...
Take a hit and give people who spent $4 on your app the ability to have notifications just like your competitor. Otherwise, you are paying $14 for the same weather info and “snark” (that gets immediately shut off).
I live in Mesa and work all over AZ and get the same experience from Dark Sky. I’ve been working in Yuma since January and with nary a cloud in the sky, the Dark Sky part of the app alerts me to incoming rain. I wish I could disable the Dark Sky portion. It’s crap (no fault of the developer). I’ve gone back to just using the stock app for temp and eweather HD for alerts/radarSo hopefully posting in the right thread. I’m new to carrot and bought the ultra premium so I could use WU instead of dark sky as I’ve read about dark sky inconsistencies. However, even though I have WU selected I’m still getting rain alerts when there is no chance of rain. I live in the desert, you can see rain coming from miles away. I have WU app and it does not forecast rain yet Carrot is. What gives? I took a picture of the watch telling me it’s going to rain and that’s the sky in the back ground. The other is the current WU forecast. The only thing I can think of is Carrot is pulling dark sky despite WU being selected.
Carrot is one of my favorite apps on the Apple Watch. The ability to adjust the complications to show me exactly the amount of information I need is great, and I haven't had any issues with the Dark Sky forecasts. I was worried that the apparent focus on "snark" would be a huge turn-off, but the ability to turn it off negates that concern.
I pay for the premium service and don't regret doing so. My view is that I access weather information frequently and expect it to be accurate, up-to-date, and well-presented, so an app that does that is worth paying a bit for.
I pay for the premium service and don't regret doing so. My view is that I access weather information frequently and expect it to be accurate, up-to-date, and well-presented, so an app that does that is worth paying a bit for.
Agree for the most part. I won't renew my ultra-premium because Dark Sky is so bad in Arizona. I got tired of seeing that it was raining (dark sky) while it was 85 and sunny (WU). But as I have noted in this thread and elsewhere, that's not a knock on the developer. The app itself does everything I want it to do. Sadly, it's only as good as the data it gets from Dark Sky, and that makes it a no-go for me.
Oh, I agree. If Dark Sky data isn't doing it for you, then that changes things.
Happily paying the ultra premium sub as CARROT is such a great app and I find the WU source quite reliable but it really needs an alternative to Dark Sky, at least in the UK, as it's now crap.
Agreed about the struggle for a decent weather app in the UK. Have you found a viable solution yet? CARROT looks cool but expensive and really only viable if you are in the US of A.
The Dev says he's looking into alternative sources. At the moment I'm just using the BBC Weather website, it seems as good as any. In a country obsessed with the weather you'd think there'd be an excellent source.
The Met office used to be okay but over recent years has lost granularity of data. The BBC is the beat at the moment but last time I looked their provider did not make it easy to use their data. Dark skies still works for weather alerts for me.