What's the best alternative to Dark Sky iPhone weather app? - ZDNet

Apple Weather vs Carrot Weather -- which is the champion replacement for Dark Sky?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET

Dark Sky -- the well-loved upwind app for the iPhone arsenic iPad -- closed astatine the extremity of 2022 aft the institution was bought by Apple and the upwind prediction technologies integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

With this end, users are looking for alternatives that connection the powerfulness and flexibility of Dark Sky, letting them cognize if they request an umbrella oregon sunscreen, and notifying them erstwhile rainfall is astir to begin.

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I person a batch of upwind apps. I walk rather a spot of clip outdoors, shooting a batch of photos and videos and flying drones, truthful I request close upwind predictions. I utilized to beryllium a large Dark Sky fan, but arsenic soon arsenic it was wide its clip was limited, I began searching for alternatives.

And I recovered 2 upwind services that are a worthy replacement for Dark Sky, and 1 mightiness astonishment you. 

Why? 

Because 1 of them is the Apple Weather app bundled with iPhones and iPads. The different is Carrot Weather, a ace almighty -- and amusive -- upwind app.

Specification

You should usage the built-in Weather app if...

Apple Weather app

Apple App Store

1. You don't privation to pay

It's free. Or, much accurately, you paid for it erstwhile you bought your iPhone oregon iPad.

2. You similar Apple's apps 

People liked the Dark Sky upwind app due to the fact that it combined powerfulness with easiness of use. Well, erstwhile Apple purchased Dark Sky and begun to integrate it into iOS and iPadOS, it brought a batch of this powerfulness and easiness of usage to the Weather app. If you've been putting disconnected utilizing the built-in Weather app due to the fact that you retrieve backmost erstwhile it was ace basal and poor, cheque it retired again due to the fact that it's improved a lot.

3. You similar simplicity 

There's small to acceptable up -- the app conscionable needs to cognize wherever you are and whether you privation to person upwind notifications. That's it. It's ace casual to use.

4. You similar reliability

I've tested this app successful a fig of countries implicit the past twelvemonth and recovered it to beryllium close and reliable, connected par with the services you wage for. 

You should usage the Carrot Weather app if ...

Carrot Weather

Apple App Store

1. You privation much features

Carrot Weather is packed with chill features, from beautifully animated maps to the quality to prime from antithetic upwind sources. You tin customise antithetic information layouts to suit what you privation from your upwind app. 

2. You privation almighty Live Activities

With Carrot Weather you tin way the commencement *and* halt of rainfall and storms from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, giving you an at-a-glance presumption of the weather.

3. You privation large Apple Watch integrations

I emotion the beauteous complications for the Apple Watch. They look acold nicer than the ones that Apple person for the Weather app, and the app offers much successful the mode of features. 

4. You similar your apps to person personalities

Carrot Weather is fun. You tin acceptable it to beryllium ace serious, oregon you tin take a fun, affable personality, a snarky one, and adjacent "homicidal" oregon "profanity-ladened" personalities. They definite brighten up upwind forecasting!

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