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1. Carrot weather politics update#
2. Carrot weather politics full#
3. Carrot weather politics series#
4. Carrot weather politics free#

With a membership you can select from either Dark Sky or Wunderground for your Data Source, switch over to Dark Mode, get access to alternate app icons, create a daily alert notification (along with a bunch of other notifications), and create customizations for the Apple Watch app (if you go Ultrapremium, you can use Wunderground for the watch app data source). There's a great radar with tons of filters (many unlockable via membership). If you dive deeper into the settings, you can also check out Achievements that reward you for all sorts of dubious accomplishments, go on a global scavenger hunt for interesting locations, and engage in a bit of time travel (to see if it really was warmer/colder/wetter/drier back in your day). Yeah, maybe you don't need it, but you'll be glad it's there. Or, you can make it a foul-mouthed, homicidal computer that despises you just for existing and using the app.

You can tune it to be friendly, where it gives you positive observations about the weather and life in general. You can make it completely professional, where it gives you just the facts and nothing more. How snarky is up to you.ĬARROT Weather can be tailored to your liking. Instead of a line about what the weather's doing, you'll get a snarky message. Where things really get interesting though is when you glance below the standard weather forecast at the top of the app. The majority of the screen is dedicated to the hourly forecast, a clear-cut, at-a-glance visual of how the weather is going to play out for the day. Pressing the 10-day forecast at the bottom of the app switches over to a short description of each day's weather. If rain is eminent, there's a Dark Sky-esque graph. But the combination of great features (including the Dark Sky forecast, which would cost $3.99 on its own), the slick design, and the bonus entertainment actually make it worth the cost of a small coffee.Ĭarrot Weather is available on the App Store for $3.99.Pulling data from either Dark Sky or Weather Underground (you can choose between them with a membership, more on that in a bit), the resultant display is clean and easy to parse.

Carrot weather politics free#

In my brief time playing around with the app, Carrot threatened to send a tornado after me.Ĭarrot costs $3.99, which is obviously more expensive than, say, the free weather app that comes with your phone.

Carrot weather politics full#

The new version of the app also allows users to tweak the friendliness of Carrot, Interstellar-style - ranging from fully professional, which turns Carrot off completely to leave you with a nicely designed weather app, to mildly snarky, to full on homicidal. And there’s a new scavenger hunt mode, which lets you (with Carrot’s grudging help) find various locations around the world.

Carrot weather politics update#

Also added in the update is a new Premium subscription ($2.49 per year, or $0.49 per month), which allows even more granular weather data - like visibility, UV index, and pressure - the use of Weather Underground as forecast source, and a longer hourly forecast. Plus, Carrot pulls data from Dark Sky, one of the most accurate weather apps around, especially when it comes to current local conditions.

The AI’s personality feels like a combination of sci-fi’s best murderous robots - think somewhere been 2001: A Space Odessey’s HAL, Portal’s Glados, and Knight’s of the Old Republic’s HK-47 - and the mocking commentary about the weather I’m suffering was legitimately entertaining to read.Ĭarrot Weather 4.0 beautifully redesigns the appĬarrot Weather 4.0 beautifully redesigns the app, with a far more useful scrolling interface that shows hourly forecast data, complete with small, animated scenes that react in time to the current weather. Users can directly interact with Carrot by swiping down on the screen. Carrot To-Do will judge you as a “lazy meatbag” for leaving tasks unfinished.Ĭarrot Weather - which recently got a brand-new version 4.0 overhaul - takes less advantage of Carrot as a friendly antagonist (since there’s less direct interaction when it comes to checking the weather), but it’s still the most fun I’ve ever had in a weather app. Carrot Fitness, for example, will berate the user for missing workouts and not hitting goals while threatening to destroy mankind. If you’ve never used one of Mueller’s Carrot apps, there’s one core conceit to all of them: each app features an AI character named Carrot who, to put it simply, rather dramatically hates humans.

Carrot weather politics series#

Carrot Weather is part of developer Brian Mueller’s series of useful productivity tool apps.