Living Earth - Weather & Clock App Reviews

I have used different weather apps and this is by far the most accurate and reliable of them all. It adds the storm tracker which I find facinating and have learned to predict when storms will impact see by watching the current abd direction of the global wind currents. Very addictive and fun.

I’m hooked on the iOS version I have on my iPhone and iPad where I can control the motion, rotation, zoom angles. With the OS X version it doesnt seem to. (at least I have found it yet) where you can swipe across in any direction for which way you want rotation. I don’t like the momentary zoom in that it does is all. The iOS version will perpetually rotate for as long as you want. Hope you can add that or tell me how if it can already do that.

Overall I like this app and especially being able to display as a desktop. I would suggest better resolution , and more data, there’s an option for windspeed, but windspeed does not display, how about illumanation values for night, more weather data would be awesome.

This remains my favorite weather app. The three things I look for are a clean interface, a stated and trusted weather data source (Weather Underground), and Mac OS - iOS cross-device functionality (including iCloud Sync). This is the only current weather app I’ve been able to find that checks all three. I would like to see an update to the Mac OS version of the app - even a paid one - to optionally access the app via a Notification Center widget. Unfortunately, the developer doesn’t answer support e-mails, so it’s unknown when (or even *if*) this will happen.

The low resolution of the Earth Desktop doesn’t make it particulary useful for anything. When you add your city, the Earth rotates to a point where you might expect the city to be, but there’s no indication where it’s actually located. If there’s radar for the rain, I haven’t seen it. It’s pretty, but serves merely as a pretty desktop, not even a gimmick. The UI isn’t particularly intuitive, but once learned, it’s— ok. One problem that cost a star all on its own is the inablilty to read the hours in the hourly view. For some reason the developer has taken Apple’s implementation of illegibly low contrast text to heart in only one area, those hours. It’s easy to see sunrise and sunset times. Anything in between is a guess at best, unless you crank up the brightness to 11. Then they become - fairly - legible, but the rest of the display is blindingly bright. Who can live like that? For me, the hours of bright sunshine is very useful information for planning my day, and I don’t understand why the Dev mad them so hard to read. It was a choice, and not a good one. Given the expense of the app, I’m particularly disappointed. That cost another star.

I like where this is going! Please keep pulling in more data! Do you have a beta/open source program?