The other thing CARROT nails is that different people care about different things - and that’s both personal and geographic. So while, like I did, it is easy to dismiss the app as a gimmick - it really fucking works. It’s instant and that’s hugely important. Oh, it’s nice, or it’s cold, or it’s nasty. You take one glance at those for just a moment, and you have a pretty good idea of what is going on - in a way which you can’t quite describe, but that you know. Honestly I don’t know what the fuck is going on in most of these little cartoons - but they do convey the basics of the weather to me. They make sense, but only if you just take the mood from them. We are moving through time, not down time - horizontal logically conveys this better.Īnd that’s the thing - the design itself is logical, but the weird nonsensical cartoons are what seals the deal. Weeks too, because that’s how we think about a week.
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Why? Because that’s how we think about the day, not vertically. To be clear, there’s nothing CARROT has which other apps don’t have, but the presentation of that same data is vastly better than any other app. Whether you are looking at the cute art, the top information, the hourly detail view, or the week overview - CARROT nails information density.
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The make it or break it for any weather app is the information density of the app - a good weather app can convey what’s going in a very detailed manner, very quickly. However, I’ve found that it is perhaps the best weather app.
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The thing about CARROT is that the entire aesthetic and tone of the app makes it seem like it’s not a serious app. Then a few months ago, after seeing some new features (at the time) of CARROT Weather, I decided to give the quirky app a try. For a while now I have been bouncing back and forth between using Dark Sky and Hello Weather as my tools of choice.