CARROT Weather, the popular app featuring a robot assistant with a personality and attitude,is now available on the Mac. Like its iOS counterpart, sadistic robots in CARROT Weather’s Mac app will taunt you when it’s going to rain while offering some hilariously twisted weather forecasts based on Forecast.io’s accurate weather data.
In addition to the new Mac app, CARROT Weather for iOS has been updated with a bevy of new features such as notification forwarding from the Mac app to your iPhone or Apple Watch when you’re away from your desk, new radar and satellite maps and a Time Machine feature which lets you check out the weather for any location up to 70 years in the past, or ten years in the future.
“CARROT Weather for Mac is an eerily accurate weather app with hilariously twisted forecasts,” teases the blurb. “There are secret locations to unlock. A time machine. And also evil penguins.”
The minimalist weather app provides short-term, 24-hour and 7-day forecasts, daily notifications for precipitation and severe weather, a mini window sitting in the menu bar providing fast access to the weather and more.
CARROT Weather in action
CARROT Weather takes advantage of the latest OS X technologies.
For example, the app offers a Today widget for the Mac’s Notification Center and supports Handoff technology for transferring tasks between devices with ease. And like its updated iOS counterpart, the Mac app launches with a new Time Machine feature for viewing the weather for any location up to 70 years in the past or ten years in the future.
Check out the launch trailer below.
All told, the Mac app includes more than two-thousand lines of spoken dialogue, more than a hundred animated scenes, a bunch of secret locations to unlock and many different themes for every possible weather condition.
Mac app features
Release notes offer the following highlights:
Some of the data points offered by CARROT Weather for Mac include your “Feels like” temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, visibility, barometric pressure, Dew point, UV index, sunrise and sunset times, Moon phases, snow amounts and more.
CARROT Weather for iOS gains new features, too
To celebrate the launch of the Mac app, developers have updated their existing iPhone and iPad application with more than a dozen new features and enhancements.
If you own the Mac app, notifications for precipitation or severe weather will be forwarded to the iOS and Apple Watch app when you’re away from your Mac.
Other changes include:
Finally, they added a Time Machine feature to the iOS app, radar maps (U.S. only) satellite views for the rest of the world, with the map now showing points of interest.
Availability
CARROT Weather is now available across OS X, watchOS and iOS platforms.
The $3.99 iPhone and iPad applicationrequires iOS 8.0 or later, is optimized for native display resolution of the iPhone 5/5s/5c, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and features a WatchKit component with a glance and an Apple Watch app.
CARROT Weather for Mac requires an Intel-based Mac with OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later and is available with a 25 percent discount during its launch week.
Grab CARROT Weather in the Mac App Store for $9.99.
