CARROT Weather for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By hildiesmom

  Much improved

  When I first bought this, the Windows version lagged so far behind the ios app as to be a real waste. To his credit, the developer has fixed pretty much ALL my complaints--the map can be enlarged (and is now visible) making it actually useful, the sync appears to be improved, and you can actually play the secret locations. HUGE difference, and I can now say as functional as the ios version. I would like to see an independent volume control, but this is night and day different than the previous version. Thumbs up.

  
  
• By The Builder....

  Didn’t Know What I Was Missing

  All this time, I had been seeing Carrot Weather at a distance, seeing what it can do, but I wasn’t impressed at first. But then I finally took the plunge and bought it on the iOS and Windows platforms. Well worth the money!!! This app is WAY better than Forecast (especially on the Microsoft Watch) or even the native Dark Sky app! But, this app has some pretty good humor, and it is definitely a trip to poke the daylights out of the Ocular Sensor every now and then (LOL). The Snarks are awesome, and definitely will get you laughing at least every once in a while. That’s all well and good, but it really does get down to business when it comes to knowing what weather is coming your way, giving detailed analysis of whatever weather conditions are present at any location you desire. And, the Windows app is definitely awesome as well, employing keyboard shortcuts throughout the app. For those of us on the Windows, we know that is something that should be required for every app out here: Keyboard Shortcuts!! Now, if Carrot Weather can improve their Radar app to be on the same level as MyRadar, we will be absolutely golden. And, because of the snarks, I’ll have to make sure now that I don’t inadvertently call someone a meatbag (LOL)….

  
  
• By pbeasi

  I love Carrot Weather, but not this update

  Update 11/22: While the developer did fix the ability to have the app run in the menu bar while being closed, it just doesn't work like it used to. The temperature rarely updates, she never talks, you can't click for the hourly forecast, sometimes you just get a fully black window where it should be that you have to force quit... it's just no longer the app it used to be. Combined with the features I've lost from the previous PAID version (and that's coming from a Level 2 subscriber), I think I am going to just uninstall this app now. I would give anything to have the old app back. Original review: This new version of Carrot Weather is fraught with problems. You can't close the main window and keep it running in the menu bar. This is like 95% how I used it before. I also used to have a "Today" widget which was the other 5% and that seems to be gone now. Smart updating seems to be no more and I have to upgrade to Level 3 (I'm already Level 2) to get more than 30 minute updates. And she talks faster than she used to. It sounds weird. I hope that more testing is done and the app returns to its former glory. This feels like zero testing was done.

  
  
• By Aoi Yuuka

  Like using this app

  It's is hard to find weather that fun and enjoyable to look at it everyday except this app. Actually I first using the ios app for Carrot weather app and bought all carrot series app since it's fun to look at it and like it because it sometime talks ~ : ) , And Yay there is also Windows app for carrot weather app too, Really enjoyable using the app, JUST hope that on next update or sometime on next update, would be more great to have feature like integrate with siri , or summarizing the weather with voice or like some kind of pop up notification , And would be wonderful to have more fun animated weather feature. !

  
  
• By SuperChrisU

  Good App, Needs Full Feature Set

  CARROT Weather is a rather humorous, yet highly useful, weather application. It allows for weather prediction up to 10 years in advance, and can provide minute-by-minute forecasts when needed. It also allows you to check the weather on any day in the last 70-or-so years, find secret locations, and check the radar. These things are good; they do their job quite well. However, this app is sorely lacking in features that the iOS version has which could genuinely make this an even better weather app. When you compare the two side-by-side, there's really no contest; the iOS one has better features for CARROT (such as different personality modes), more secret locations, and the ability to search for them, more detailed forecasts, with hourly ones for the next week, and more. While AR cannot really come to the Windows for obvious reasons, the other features are only missing due to a lack of developer interest. Some of these things genuinely puzzle me. Why, for example, does CARROT not have the full voice set here too? That really shouldn't be hard to port over; once they've done it once, features like that don't need to be completely redone, so porting should be trivial. It's the lack of features, especially for the high price tag, that I'm not a huge fan of. The app's good, but could definitely benefit from even just a little bit more maintenance and updating.

  
  

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