4.7
out of 5
82K Ratings
Carrot provides the weather with a little more...personality. If you’re OK with sarcasm, political jokes, and the occasional insult, it might be right for you. (That said, you can opt out of Carrot’s snark by disabling its personality in settings.) But how good is it at the weather part? Pretty great. Carrot draws its data from Foreca, one of meteorology’s more accurate forecasting services.
Best weather app I’ve ever used even without paying for the premium membership 👌🏽 One day I’ll be able to afford the premium membership fee so I can access all of the features available, but for now with the features that are free it’s still beats everything else available on the App Store. Excellent work Carrot Weather App developers 😤 The only improvement I can come up with is to lower the premium membership price. You might just get more people that are able to pay for the premium membership if you do so and as a result it would make since that your chances of achieving higher than expected income goals would increase significantly. Of course, this is only one person‘s opinion, but this one opinion is at least based on a carefully assessed probability assessment, which is compared to prior experiences and observations that I have witnessed throughout my life as of the past couple of decades that I have understood he probabilities to be possibilities in multiple scenarios. Either way, thank you for a great app. May the SOURCE be with you 🧖🏽♂️🧝🏼♂️👨🏽🚀🫵🏽🙏🏽👁️🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬☯️☯️☯️☯️☯️☯️☯️☯️☯️💠💠💠💠💠💠💠💠💠♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️🟣🔵🟣🔵🟣🔵🟣🔵🟣⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⛓️💥⏳⌛️⏳⌛️⏳⌛️⏳⌛️⏳🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🌎🪐🌖✨🌙🌞🕊️🦹🏽♂️💆🏽♂️
Always new things, always do layouts, always fun. This is the only app I have found that is both visually appealing, highly customizable and has oodles of info available. There is now a map available with layers that can show features like radar, storms cells and their projected directions, weather fronts (really hard to find apps that show the weather fronts on them!), A feature called cards that you can customize to show additional information that you want to see, and customizable notifications. For example you can set to be notified if there is a lightning strike within X many miles, where X is customizable. You can set the notification for during the day only or overnight. You can have notifications sent to you yes for example snow accumulation will be greater than 2 inches for the day. Just some of the features that Carrot now offers. Love this app. I have had it for five years and have been amazed how much development there has been – especially since it’s the product of one person, not a company. Get the Premium Club, because it’s cheap and really worth it. And every once in a while throw something in the tiptoe jar so that he can keep on developing new looks, etc.
Let’s face it. You’re not here because you want a weather app that’ll tell you the weather and nothing else. No. What you really want is a sadistic computer named after a root vegetable who’ll threaten to strike you dead with lightning like Zeus and explain things about the world you didn’t particularly want to know (“Today is a good day to try to win over your crush by FedExing them one of your body parts,” she may tell you when it’s sunny) all while gathering achievements when you experience a flood or fire warning, hearing the occasional unsolicited political comment (you can turn it off if you want), and playing fun geography puzzles that may or may not be a disguise for the calibrating of a missile targeting system.But if you take yourself a little too seriously, you can always turn off her personality, (which is just cruel when you think about it) or if your feeling especially masochistic, switch it to Overkill Mode, in which she will cuss and threaten and tease and generally take everything you hold sacred and grind it to dust under her cold, metal boot.As you can tell, this app is a great deal of fun and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a hearty laugh in their daily routine. And maybe a little bit of threatening.
I never leave reviews, but I felt compelled to after seeing some folks ripping on the new UI. Sure, it takes a bit of getting used to and can feel a little modern and bright for some, but this is a fun take on weather. If you want a basic weather app, you know where to go. The data isn’t immediately easy to navigate like before because it’s so different, but wow, once you figure out where things are at, it’s far and away the best weather app out there. I found the old version to be a little light on the data I was seeking, and the precipitation forecasts wildly unreliable in my area. It seems they’ve adjusted that algorithm, and we’ll see if it’s improved. For now, the main takeaway here is that they are presenting weather-related data here that we ACTUALLY care about, that other apps aren’t. I’m spending twice as much time on this app now because it’s just fun to use (maybe I’m just a nerd). They even have Wikipedia break downs of wind, precipitation, moon phases, etc! It’s fascinating. The day and hourly breakdowns are really nicely executed as well and I love seeing the temperature graphs. Also, they give you much more in the entry level version than they did prior.Don’t change the layout, it’s fantastic.
Finally! The best weather app I can find that was built for me! (and for a good price too!) I first came across CARROT Weather on the App Store. I thought to myself… It's just another weather app, how would I be too excited about it? But when I got my new Apple Watch, I only care about information on the face, that’s why complications exist. I then look at on watch face from the Apple Watch store page and saw the “Ultimate Weather Station for Nerds” watch face. I downloaded that watch face. But that is when reality hit. I need to pay a subscription for these features. I tried different apps offering watch face complications. But that doesn’t live up to my expectations. So I thought “You know what, $20 a year doesn’t seem like a bad deal” So I bought a year’s subscription for premium. Worth. Every. Penny. Period. Hands down. It had all the features I ever wanted! including a customizable weather screen, a weather map on my Apple Watch, and a snarky sarcastic AI! I liked all the features of the weather app! You, folks, know how to make monitoring environmental conditions fun! Definitely worth buying a subscription again!
I have evaluated countless weather apps looking for exactly the right combination of accuracy, essential features and visual organization. Carrot comes very close to my ideal. The “snark” factor is amusing and unique and, while others will no-doubt continue to use it, I moved beyond it pretty quickly and just use the “boring” mode! Carrot is extremely well thought out, with current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts arranged in a smart and very readable layout. I love being able to switch between Dark Sky and Wunderground weather sources with a tap, and quick access to the radar map is a real plus. The only other weather app that has this combination of features and design smarts is BeWeather (another excellent weather app), and it’s a real horse race between the two. What disappoints me about Carrot and keeps it from being a 5-Star app is the conspicuous lack of baked-in notifications. To get severe weather alerts on your iPhone, you must purchase a separate app for your Mac and then have the two devices talk to each other via iCloud. Way too many steps and $$ for something that is the de facto standard in most other first-rate weather apps. I really hope the Carrotians will re-consider this approach. That would garner 5 stars from me and a renewal of my subscription.
Notifications are now available to all Premium Club members, no Mac or Apple Watch app required! You can get severe weather alerts and daily summaries of the weather for the upcoming day. Precipitation alerts are currently in beta testing - I want to see how my servers handle the first two types of alerts before overloading them with all that rain data!Love,CARROT
Imagine one day you find yourself walking in Central Park. You come upon an ice cream vendor selling what they advertise as the worlds best ice cream. Clearly you know this to be false as the worlds best ice cream is from your hometown in Akron, OH and not from a mustachioed wizard in skinny jeans and a Sonic Youth tattoo on the back of his hand. Eager to prove his dubious sign wrong, you order a small vanilla cone which is not only the specialty of this cart whose name is apparently “ice creams” (quotes included), but also the only choice on the poorly made menu. The man, seeing the obvious doubt and disdain in your eyes, hands you a long cylindrical shape wrapped in a swath of dirty burlap, and mumbles “no charge”. You carefully unwrap the burlap to find, not a vanilla cone, which you somehow still assumed it would be; but instead you are oddly delighted to find an uncooked hotdog. You glance questioningly at skinny jeans, gesturing towards the hotdog, and without a moment of hesitation, he grabs the wiener from your outstretched hand, flips it over and now somehow, it is not only an ice cream cone, but the absolute best ice cream cone you have ever had in your entire life. That is what using this app is like.
It has not been very accurate when it comes to rain amount or times - one time was predicting less than 10% chance of rain, despite tv weather report to the contrary...downloaded 4 free apps just to compare (weather channel, accuweather, weather bug, weather underground), and Carrot Weather was the anomaly in forecast...and it was incorrect. (Developer response: “Not every weather data source can be accurate in every corner of the world. That’s why I took the trouble to incorporate a bunch of additional weather data sources in the app.” But the issue is that whatever sources in use don’t seem to be connecting to the summary page. Example: today it’s been storming outside. The radar map in the app even shows it, but the chance of precipitation on the summary page at the same time says 0%.)Also don’t like that I paid for this app and I don’t get notifications. Hell, even Candy Crush has notifications. (Revision after developer response - yes, they do have notifications. I stand corrected. But after paying for the app, you’d have to pay more to be a premium member to get the basic function of notifications.)Future radar would be helpful too. Maybe I just don’t understand radar, but I don’t want to see where a storm has been (rather, where it’s anticipated to go and what time the worst part of the storm is expected to pass through).
Not every weather data source can be accurate in every corner of the world. That’s why I took the trouble to incorporate a bunch of additional weather data sources in the app! And of course I have notifications - there’s a big button at the top of my settings screen to get them set up. Love,CARROT
Just starting to get acquainted with the app, but it’s going well so far. It’s highly configurable, which I enjoy and makes a lot of sense because everyone is looking to get something a little different out of a weather app. Trying to please everyone is never a recipe for a great product, but Carrot includes a lot of options and features with a UI that focuses on what’s important. So kudos for that.One of the main things that drew me to this app was the developer’s promise not to sell user data. I live in Oklahoma, so I mainly rely on weather apps from local news stations, since weather is regularly a matter of life and death here and local sources are the most reliable and knowledgeable here. But I’d be shocked if those stations are not tracking users and selling data. I can’t switch entirely to Carrot yet though because the radar resolution in Carrot is terrible. Half the time I can’t even recognize a hook echo that’s clearly visible on News 9’s radar map. It would also be nice if there were more frames in the radar animation, but that’s not a huge deal.So, to the developer, I don’t know if you can get a higher resolution radar source, but that’s going to be a requirement from me before I’ll subscribe, because without it I can’t completely give up other apps.
I like this app but it’s crazy that choosing your weather info provider is a premium feature when the default free service, “foreca” is dangerously bad. I understand locking certain features behind a paywall but not when it comes to information people need for health and safety. The last week I’ve been in an area with a very high AQI (well over 100) without any notification from the app about the poor air quality and no “Air Quality Alert” when I open the app. Now, infuriatingly, I do see there’s an alert today, about a week late, on a day when it’s hovering around an AQI of 55– much safer than it’s been all week. If it wasn’t for checking other weather services I wouldn’t have known how bad the air quality was and I wouldn’t have adjusted my routine to limit my dog’s normally long walks. On the one hand, I shouldn’t have let whatever subscription I had expire. On the other hand it’s insane to normalize the idea that those who aren’t paying for a weather service would be given dangerously inaccurate or inadequate information. Again, paywall additional info, themes, whatever…. but the bare minimum of a weather app should be that it lets you know when it’s actually dangerous outside— crazy that even needs to be said, but here we are.