Or use Augmented Reality Mode to bring CARROT right into your living room. Film your own TV-news-style weather report videos. Follow clues to track down 100+ secret locations. Your personal information, including your location data, will never be sold to third parties.Ĭomplete activities to strengthen your relationship with the homicidal A.I. And the easy-to-read details screens are just dripping with with meteorological goodness.
Featured by The New York Times, Good Morning America, CNN, Wired, & more! **Ĭhoose one of five personalities for CARROT, from the straitlaced “professional” to the profanity-laden “overkill.” You’ll actually be looking forward to a torrential downpour just to see what your weather robot has in store for you!ĬARROT’s super accurate weather data gives you lightning-quick access to your current, hourly, and daily forecasts. ** Winner of Apple's App of the Year, Apple Design Award, and App Store Editors' Choice. Maybe in iOS 17.CARROT Weather is a crazy-powerful (and privacy-conscious) weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts. I’ll keep playing with Apple’s Weather app, too-it remains a solid contender, but it still has some work to do. Should I have used this opportunity to try something different, maybe find something better? Perhaps! But I’m a creature of habit, and this creature likes to know what the weather’s going to be like at a glance, without having to work too hard. And, of course, CARROT already provides precipitation alerts, one of Dark Sky’s best features, and even uses the new Live Activities API to put them on your home screen. I was also able to customize it a bit further, adding a summary line to give me the day’s high and low temperatures, as well as including CARROT’s trademark snarky robot for my own amusement. From there you can customize the layout further if you’d like.įor me, the result is close enough: it apes Dark Sky’s easy-to-read vertical chart of the hour-by-hour forecast, including a pop-up menu that lets you choose from temperature, precipitation, UV, and so on. Give it a name-oh, I don’t, know maybe, “Dark Ski”?-and you’re done. To do this for yourself, open up CARROT Weather, go to Settings > Layout > Layout Gallery and choose the Inline style. I think I’m okay without it for the moment. For that, I’d need to pungle up $30 per year, or $50 for the family plan. So, for example, I can still get access to the radar via the toolbar, but I can’t put a little radar widget on my CARROT Weather home screen, à la Dark Sky. 2 While that does get me access to many of the app’s features, some are reserved for the more expensive tiers. I’ve been a CARROT Weather subscriber for many years and am still on one of its older (no longer available) subscription plans. So when I saw my old Macworld colleague Chris Breen 1 point out that you can actually recreate Dark Sky’s interface in CARROT Weather, well, my interest was piqued, to say the least. Dark Sky’s interface, largely recreated in CARROT Weather.ĬARROT Weather has been my other go-to app, thanks largely to its incredible power and versatility. Say what you will about Dark Sky, but its interface was simple and straightforward. Apple’s iOS 16 Weather app is significantly improved on previous versions, though it still seems to prioritize flashy form over function (see “animated weather graphics that take up a big chunk of the screen”). Over the last several years, I’ve downloaded and tried a number competitors and while none had dethroned Dark Sky, there were a couple others in heavy rotation. Opportunity awaits! It’s been a long time since a new contender got a shot at some prime real estate on my iPhone.ĭespite my allegiance to Dark Sky, I’ve stayed in the weather app game. Goodbye, old friend, you will be missed!īut when Apple closes a door, it opens a space on your home screen. January 1st, 2023 has come and gone, and with it the demise of my weather app of choice, Dark Sky. Miss Dark Sky? CARROT Weather has you (cloud) covered
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