Give Weawow a go. There’s a website (https://weawow.com/) or a free (and ad-free) app. It’s gorgeous and pretty accurate (I’m in the UK).
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I like Carrot, but primarily because I like the cheeky quips. That said, it is extremely full-featured and if you pay for a premium version you get a ton of additional features. If you turn off the cheeky quips it really feels like what Dark Sky would've become had Apple not killed it.
I’m loving it for that!
I use the default app or the Environment Canada app, which is specific to Canada.
Same here.
I’m personally a fan of Carrot Weather. You can pay for some extra features but in general I like the snarky shit.
Breezy Weather
Open source, light and elegant design. Perfect amount of customization.
Unfortunately it’s not available on iOS, I’d love to have tried it though! It looks fantastic
Windy.
I've been enjoying Ventusky, see if that works for you.
I’ll give it a shot, thanks!
FlowX
Thanks!
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Carrot has ads? I’ve used it since it came out and the only ads I’m aware of are the fake funny ones you can opt in to
Yes and premium isn’t buying the app, it is subscribing at $40/yr. They do have a standard level of $20/yr.
To hell with all these subscriptions.
I am with you on subscriptions but the free version of Carrot is fully functional with no ads, limitations include things like only one weather data source instead of multiple to choose from, a few seconds of radar rather than a longer animation. All of the things you have to pay for are things that actually cost the developer money. Without paying anything it’s still one of the best Weather apps in my opinion.
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Haha yeah the joke ads are actually optional, I turn them on because they are funny.
I would pay for premium carrot if I wasn’t on a budget…apps like weather underground and weather channel are fucking hideous nowadays with the ads. The dev of carrot is just one guy and pretty cool, always answers tweets snd emails, used to show up on Reddit to chat with people (maybe still does - I will never know). I wouldn’t feel bad giving him a couple bucks a month.
At this point I limit myself to 1 or 2 app subscriptions at most. I paid for Apollo when it was alive…I paid for an annual of Day One this year because journaling helps with my therapy. But what I pay for is going to be very limited to a couple of things I support or have some reason to support the specific service or developer. The tapbot guy who made Tweetie and revolutionized Twitter clients, or the dev of Alien Blue back in the day are more good examples. Just good apps and good people doing good work.
Most of these apps are just trash and the subscriptions HIGHLY outweigh the value of what they offer pretty damn quickly….they cross their fingers and hope people don’t cancel the trial. It’s a crappy way to make money.
MyRadar
OP I noticed and sent a message to a friend about this the other day. Weather on the iOS Weather app said it would be sunny but it was 100% overcast all day. I thought something is or was off with the app too.
Windows has a built-in weather widget that docs in the taskbar. Shows the news when you click on it. Extremely useful.