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Carrot is a great app. However, it's expensive and massively overkill for people living in the Bay Area. $40 a year for a warning the 10 times a year it rains is a bit much.

Still, until iPadOS 16 brought a native weather app, Carrot was the best alternative for using the same app across all my devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch). I'm glad the built in Weather app is sufficiently good that I can drop that subscription.



I want to like carrot, but agree it’s too expensive. I use apple weather/weather.gov and MyRadar.

MyRadar is the best weather radar app I’ve found and once little league season starts it’s an essential.


I sold so many copies of Dark Sky at Little League games. “Huh, it’s going to rain in 7 minutes.” “LOL, that’s awfully exact!” 6:45 later, it starts to sprinkle. “What was that called again?”

I hope Weather proves to be as reliable.


You made me question myself if we're looking at the same app... in the "Premium Club" section of the Android Carrot app, I'm reading "Three day free trial, 3.89€ per year after that." This unlocks the Widget, the time machine (past weather reports), removes ads, and saves a kitten. All good things!


You have to be on the "Premium Ultra" tier for rain, lightning, and storm notifications: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/




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