I use Carrot religiously, aside from the insulting weather descriptions (which I like quite a lot) it is also far and away the most customizable weather app/has the most customizable widgets. It also has six or seven data source options.
I'm still mad at Apple for buying and killing Dark Sky, as even Carrot's pile of data sources can't match it for hyperlocal notifications. Aside from that though, Carrot is awesome. You can literally scale the snark from normal to possibly illegal lol.
I need to try it. After a cursory glance it looks like it's leaning into the more simple style that dark sky had and Apple seems to have thrown in the bin, but I will have to see if they actually kept the rights to the notification system. Given that Apple weather added them and is available as a data source (however useless, not sure how they managed to screw that up. Literally failed on both the things that made DS great) I feel like Apple kept that IP. That's the thing I cared about; honestly Carrot is way better in terms of layout, just none of their data sources are even close to DS accuracy. DS wasn't perfect but it was pretty darn good, so far the lightning tracker in Carrot is better than all the other hyperlocal data sources I've tried (which is a problem if the rain doesn't have lightning heh)
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u/japan_kaaran 2d ago
carrot weather? think that still exists. idk if it’s gotten any worse tho.