this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
16 points (94.4% liked)

Asklemmy

44123 readers
580 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I’ve been using the default Apple Weather app since getting my iPhone earlier this year. It’s been fine but over the last few days it seems to be less accurate in general.

I’m in Ireland if that matters.

Edit: Updated the title to include iOS specifically

top 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Breezy Weather

Open source, light and elegant design. Perfect amount of customization.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it’s not available on iOS, I’d love to have tried it though! It looks fantastic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use the default app or the Environment Canada app, which is specific to Canada.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’m personally a fan of Carrot Weather. You can pay for some extra features but in general I like the snarky shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been enjoying Ventusky, see if that works for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.