CARROT is my favorite weather app for Apple Watch

The last couple of weeks have brought about a change in my Apple Watch face configuration, and it’s all been about one feature in particular: weather forecasts. Though, before now, I’d been a longtime user of the iOS Weather application on both my iPhone and Apple Watch, in recent weeks I’ve switched to a different piece of software on both platforms. And I think you should do the same.

CARROT Weather is an Apple Watch app I talked about back in January, and at the time I celebrated the application’s support for Time Travel. This allows users to spin their Digital Crown in order to whizz through forthcoming changes in their local weather. It’s simple but useful, and works great.

More generally, however, there are a number of reasons that have since convinced me to switch my Apple Watch setup and swap the Weather complication for the CARROT complication, instead. For starters, and at the most basic level, the aesthetics of the small CARROT complication are far nicer, in my opinion, compared with the Weather app. Rather than just showing the current temperature, CARROT also provides users with a small graphic representing the current conditions (on the Modular Watch face, which I use, this is colorful and looks great).

Tapping on this complication, however, provides far more information than Apple’s Weather Watch app does. There’s a piece of sarcastic or off-the-wall text (something CARROT users will know and love) describing the current conditions, and a “feels like” reading for the weather. You can also check on a mini graph outlining the current temperature increase and decrease for next few hours. Then underneath, details for the remainder of the week are available.

You can also tap on aspects of CARROT’s interface in order to check on more precise details. Better still, CARROT sources its data from Forecast.io — a Web service I’ve enjoyed using on desktop for years (it’s usually very reliable and accurate).

The bottom line, then, is that CARROT Weather is the weather application for Apple Watch that you should be using — especially if you’re still rocking Apple’s own piece of software.