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Service appears to have ceased. Nothing available in app
Looks pretty but
Lots of bugs. Most importantly, information doesn’t dynamically update: woke up this morning and the hourly forecast was still “11pm” next - I have to change location and change back to refresh (and I have all the right app settings).
App will regularly freeze and be entirely unresponsive and require a full restart.
And because I have the gall to use a mail app other than Apple’s, I can’t submit a bug report.
Shame. Have a yearly subscription. Won’t be renewing.
App will regularly freeze and be entirely unresponsive and require a full restart.
And because I have the gall to use a mail app other than Apple’s, I can’t submit a bug report.
Shame. Have a yearly subscription. Won’t be renewing.
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Beautiful app with some bugs
I really love the UI and UX of this app. It really feels nice and clean, there are just two big things for me on why I knocked off 2 stars
Firstly: imo Lifetime is absurdly expensive. I love paying for lifetime for apps, and I'm always down to pay extra because of it but $130($160 with family sharing) is absurdly high, and I def couldn't be able to stomach that. If it was close to $50-75, I would, but not that much)
Secondly: there's a bug that if you're on the radar globe page, if you have the details for the weather out, the globe is really laggy whenever it moves with your finger as you scroll. It's really annoying and there's not really a fix unfortunately
Otherwise, I really like the app pay for it, but not at its current pricing
Firstly: imo Lifetime is absurdly expensive. I love paying for lifetime for apps, and I'm always down to pay extra because of it but $130($160 with family sharing) is absurdly high, and I def couldn't be able to stomach that. If it was close to $50-75, I would, but not that much)
Secondly: there's a bug that if you're on the radar globe page, if you have the details for the weather out, the globe is really laggy whenever it moves with your finger as you scroll. It's really annoying and there's not really a fix unfortunately
Otherwise, I really like the app pay for it, but not at its current pricing
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I tried feedback but it didn’t work
This is a BEAUTIFUL app. I mean, you can tell they spent loads of time making this thing pretty.
But oh my goodness, it is buggy. It might be the most buggy paid app I’ve used. From freezing when it opens, glitchy touch points, unresponsive menus, to overheating my battery and completing freezing to where it never recovers.
I want this to be Darksky so badly that I wanted to give feedback (which I never do), but the feedback form was bugged. After 3 attempts, I finally got it pop-up a message saying I don’t have email set up on my phone. So, here I am putting in a review hoping that the developer reads this.
Heck, if you want to open source it or bring on contributors, let me know.. because I want to see something beautiful deliver great weather content.
But oh my goodness, it is buggy. It might be the most buggy paid app I’ve used. From freezing when it opens, glitchy touch points, unresponsive menus, to overheating my battery and completing freezing to where it never recovers.
I want this to be Darksky so badly that I wanted to give feedback (which I never do), but the feedback form was bugged. After 3 attempts, I finally got it pop-up a message saying I don’t have email set up on my phone. So, here I am putting in a review hoping that the developer reads this.
Heck, if you want to open source it or bring on contributors, let me know.. because I want to see something beautiful deliver great weather content.
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Nothing you can’t get for free
I tried it for a year. Totally not worth paying for. I get better information from free apps
Didn’t even use for a whole minute
Soon as I say I don’t want to sub I get a full screen ad that I have to stare at for 30 seconds…..
Listen, when absolutely perfect apps like Carrot Weather can be used for free with the loss of only a few features, count me out of this one. Ads only encourage a delete, not a purchase.
Listen, when absolutely perfect apps like Carrot Weather can be used for free with the loss of only a few features, count me out of this one. Ads only encourage a delete, not a purchase.
Not Dark Sky lol
To compare your self to the greatest weather app of all time is egregious when your features are your shortcomings.
The app takes entirely too long to load on start. Slow to open then incredibly slow to fetch data. Weather is a quick look and the sluggishness of the fancy UI is an utter failure.
The UI also takes entirely too many clicks to get anywhere of interest. Swiping, dragging and clicking is too much when the native iOS weather app just shows you literally everything this app does upfront on open without delay.
Over the trial there were 4 weather events in my area and I received 0 notifications.
Hard pass.
The app takes entirely too long to load on start. Slow to open then incredibly slow to fetch data. Weather is a quick look and the sluggishness of the fancy UI is an utter failure.
The UI also takes entirely too many clicks to get anywhere of interest. Swiping, dragging and clicking is too much when the native iOS weather app just shows you literally everything this app does upfront on open without delay.
Over the trial there were 4 weather events in my area and I received 0 notifications.
Hard pass.
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Promising but often unusably slow
I WANT to love this app. Great interface and nicely customizable. But especially after the last update, it’s soooooo slow loading weather info after opening that it’s basically unusable. Sticking with it in the hopes it’s improved, but at the moment can’t realistically recommend.
Not impressed
Don’t see what makes it so special and worth any money
$20 a month beware
All iOS apps should disclose how much they cost on the front end before you actually download the app.
I’m sick of seeing “free to download” only to find out if you want to use the app in any capacity you need to pay a fee. DELETED FASTER THAN DOWNLADED. BYE
I’m sick of seeing “free to download” only to find out if you want to use the app in any capacity you need to pay a fee. DELETED FASTER THAN DOWNLADED. BYE
First Impressions Ruined by Immediate Subscription Prompt
The moment I opened the app, before I even had a chance to explore the interface or see what it actually offers, I was immediately greeted with a subscription screen. I haven’t even experienced the app yet, but I’m already being pressured to sign up for a paid plan. This constant push toward memberships and subscriptions in every app is getting exhausting.
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Faulty Notifications
I keep getting notifications for fog and frost when it’s over 50 degrees F here. No fog and certainly no frost at that temperature. I double checked my location and it’s correct.
UPDATE: First of all, thanks to the developer for responding quickly to my issue! I tried turning off notifications and since I turned them back on the problem seems to have corrected itself. I’m now very happy with the app!
UPDATE: First of all, thanks to the developer for responding quickly to my issue! I tried turning off notifications and since I turned them back on the problem seems to have corrected itself. I’m now very happy with the app!
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I want to love it. BUT…
I love the look and the potential. Living in Florida I love the tropics feature to see the current activity for hurricanes and depressions.
But I also would like accuracy in regards to current conditions and warnings. Most warnings I get delayed but 10 min if not more. The radar seems in accurate. I have two screenshots one from the Apple Weather App and one from Element. It was raining and that was shown in Apple Weather App. Element showed nothing on radar. I hope it gets better but if not I wish I could have gotten money back but I guess they have till my year is up to improve before I cancel.
But I also would like accuracy in regards to current conditions and warnings. Most warnings I get delayed but 10 min if not more. The radar seems in accurate. I have two screenshots one from the Apple Weather App and one from Element. It was raining and that was shown in Apple Weather App. Element showed nothing on radar. I hope it gets better but if not I wish I could have gotten money back but I guess they have till my year is up to improve before I cancel.
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Decent at first — seems broken now
Decent all at first. Didn’t quite feel like dark sky, but as close as I’ve seen. Recently seems something broke within it. Getting spammed with false advisory warnings (air quality, fog, frost, etc). Multiple coming through for different locations almost back to back giving pages of notifications — even clicking them direct brings you to the app with no sign of where that alert even came from. App seems to be running a bit clunky as well. No real benefit over the stock app outside of daily (morning and evening updates).
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Disappointing treatment of loyal premium subscribers
I’m a premium yearly subscriber and have been enjoying the app an its features. However, a recent update has left me feeling undervalued as a loyal customer. The app introduced family sharing which sounds great, but if you previously subscribed on their premium yearly plan, they will charge you $59.99 a year to add this. Existing premium subscribers like myself are essentially being told that our loyalty doesn’t matter and need to pay double to get family sharing.
When I talked with support, they said that it was to cover “data costs.” This reasoning doesn’t hold up. Family sharing doesn’t generate additional data costs per user in any meaningful way that justifies excluding existing premium subscribers. What’s truly disappointing is the principle: when you introduce something new, loyal subscribers should already paid for premium shouldn’t be treated as second-class customers. This feels like a bait and switch tactic by punishing early adopters instead of rewarding them.
If you’re considering this app,be aware that “premium” doesn’t mean you’ll receive future premium features. You’ll most likely be told to pay again. I expected better from a weather app I trusted and supported
When I talked with support, they said that it was to cover “data costs.” This reasoning doesn’t hold up. Family sharing doesn’t generate additional data costs per user in any meaningful way that justifies excluding existing premium subscribers. What’s truly disappointing is the principle: when you introduce something new, loyal subscribers should already paid for premium shouldn’t be treated as second-class customers. This feels like a bait and switch tactic by punishing early adopters instead of rewarding them.
If you’re considering this app,be aware that “premium” doesn’t mean you’ll receive future premium features. You’ll most likely be told to pay again. I expected better from a weather app I trusted and supported
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Deleted within 2 minutes
Within the first 10 seconds of using the app it asks if I’m enjoying the app and for feedback. Clicked on 2 different things trying to learn/navigate the app and it asks again if I’m enjoying the app. No. No I am not. I’ll stick to Radarscope.
Question
Why do I see promos to upgrade to premium? I am already paying for that, right?
Has promise but buggy at heck
Saved locations work sometimes, and other times all the toggles don’t work for saved locations. For $39.99 you could do some QA work and get that right. Really not useful to me if I can’t turn on the features I like. I renewed hoping that had been fixed, but it hasn’t.
Junk…
GUI is clumsy, maps are hard to read. Forget about using this on a desktop. There are better Weather apps out there…
Inferior information density
I expected more customization for visualizations for the daily or weekly views.
In the daily view, you get a single graph line (temperature, precipitation chance, etc) along with cloud cover icons per hour. The view shows 6h on screen (at least on my iPhone 16).
Compare to Carrot, where you see about a 15h window, and you get cloud cover, likely precipitation by hour, and one metric of your choice. In Carrot, can also toggle to report in 2h blocks, doubling your window on screen to 1.5d. This really helps you digest the mid term weather without having to check back.
Also compare to Wunderground daily view, where you get about 4d’s worth of graph on screen, with temp and precipitation both shown as continuous metrics, and by-day summaries for high/low temp, cloud cover, precip chance and amount.
I far prefer the denser information views. I would not consider switching to Element without some improvements to how 12-24h range forecast data is displayed.
The current UX could work for someone who isn’t coming in with specific habits. But the ad I saw mentioned Dark Sky, may it rest in peace, so I had very high expectations.
In the daily view, you get a single graph line (temperature, precipitation chance, etc) along with cloud cover icons per hour. The view shows 6h on screen (at least on my iPhone 16).
Compare to Carrot, where you see about a 15h window, and you get cloud cover, likely precipitation by hour, and one metric of your choice. In Carrot, can also toggle to report in 2h blocks, doubling your window on screen to 1.5d. This really helps you digest the mid term weather without having to check back.
Also compare to Wunderground daily view, where you get about 4d’s worth of graph on screen, with temp and precipitation both shown as continuous metrics, and by-day summaries for high/low temp, cloud cover, precip chance and amount.
I far prefer the denser information views. I would not consider switching to Element without some improvements to how 12-24h range forecast data is displayed.
The current UX could work for someone who isn’t coming in with specific habits. But the ad I saw mentioned Dark Sky, may it rest in peace, so I had very high expectations.
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