Living Earth - Weather & Clock App Reviews

This app needs a radar component. It doesn’t have one. If it did have one, I’d have given it 5 stars.

It does NOT provide current conditions for my town. Rather it is taken from a location 60 miles away over a mountain and at a higher elevation. The temperature right now at home is 75° and sunny but SC says it is 52° and foggy. And I don’t think they can nor will try to fix it.

Like the title of this review says: there is no 24 hour clock and the planet graphic cannot be removed. Both options NEED to be included desperately.

Quite a visually stunning app, the fact that it has to be visible on my dock as a dedicated app bothers me, as i got it mainly as a screen saver, i expected it to be an integrated option in the screen saver menu that you would enable and thats it, instead you will have to disable the native screen saver to enable this. Another thing, you cant lock the screen while the app is running, another con for it not being part of the native screen saving and power saving menus, so for you to run this app, you will have to make your mac vulnerable to introdures. As much as i like this app, the mentioned issues cannot make it my daily used screen saver, so i resort to only using it by intentionally loading it and quitting it manually, which kind of defies its purpose. i would appreciate those be considered and fixed, then i would use it as my screen saver for the rest of my life! UPDATE: Ok, so there is an option to have the app run on the menu bar without displaying on the dock, so i can say thats one thing fixed. the rest remains.

$7 is $5 too much for this in my opinion. No control over the task bar view (can’t get rid of clouds or sun and it always has clouds even when sunny in San Diego) and don’t need the screensaver ….. Not impressed for the cost. Would I buy again? Definitely not at this price.

I’m not sure how this screensaver can spike my CPU on a 2.2 GHz quad core i7 Macbook Pro with a 1.5GB graphics card and 16GB of memory. I just turned off the screensaver finally. I also get periodic blips where the app will turn off and display my previous desktop background. When functioning normally this app is cool, but these 2 issues are annoying.

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I love this app. Had it on my ipad first and always loved the detail. One thing I’d like to have in the Mac app is the ability to take a screen shot and post to facebook straight from the app like you can in the ipad version.

I never in my life imagined actually seeking out and paying for a screensaver/desktop wallpaper. But I do not regret buying this app. It looks beautiful and the fact that all the clouds and weather on the globe are updated frequently makes this an absolutely fascinating screen saver to be mesmerized in.

Looks amazing on my desktop. Really uses the resolution. …and they already happen to get their weather from my favotite weather app, WeatherUnderground. Probably also going to grab the ios version now that I know it exists.

The App worked very well up until the latest update. After that one it stopped working, it just wont start! No error messages, no anything… Tried to run it from command line just to catch some error messages. Got Segmentation Fault and that was it. Reported problem, in couple days someone came back to me and suggested to delete stored preferences. Tried that, did not help. No response from support since then.

the earth doesnt rotate like you would imagine. i got it because it did just that, i was wrong. still pretty but no rotation.

The app is beautiful and useful. Definatly worth the seven dollars, however I have one issue. When I’m on Netflix watching something, the screensaver interupts and this is frustrating. For that reason I’m taking one star from the review. Get it together, Radiantlabs.

Well according to Weather Channel it is 75 here and that is closer than the 92 degrees which is what is shown on my desktop? This app has vee radically off. It isn’t even predicted that to be above 82 here today if we get Sun. I keep wondering where they are getting their numbers?

It’s worth more than every penny. Can’t imagine a life without this app! What it does is truly outstanding. I spend a lot of time working with data in Google Earth, and I STILL want to have Living Earth as my desktop and screensaver. I can’t give high enough praise for this app. It’s stunningly beautiful.

Originally this app would barely work for me, but a simple restart ended up fixing all my problems. It’s a very nice app. I would like to see the design updated a little bit. Still has old era gradients and the blue buttons don’t match the app aesthetic.

Since I downloaded latest update, the app will not start at all! No error messages, no nothing! It ran fine before the update! Why dont you techies learn to leave things alone! Dont try to improve something if its fine already or if you dont know what your doing!

As others have said it is stunning and refined. My only wish would be for more realism and have the Sun (with flare) and Moon appear as the Earth rotates around to each of the cities chosen. This app runs smoothly even on a lowly Early 2009 24 inch iMac with a paltry GeForce 9400 256MB graphics card. Well done sirs…well done!

I like this program, and it is great if you want it to be on your desktop regardless of which desktop/expose/space you are using. I however, want to run it on only one of my workspaces. Would be great if it had a windowed mode so that I can put it exactly where I want it.

What made this app so attractive for the iPad is the ability to move the Earth and easily navigate to new cities, but there isn’t an ability to make this iOS app a background, or a home screen. On the iMac, it is a desktop app, but one cannot move the earth, or easily navigate to other cities. I guess it will still be a few more iterations before we get there...