This app just keeps getting better.

Been using this app continuously for years. Long-time fan. I use it as my go-to display on all three of my devices simultaneously, which makes my desk look very cool. Wish I could post a pic here.

I am very pleased with the developer’s responsiveness to our feedback here.

The recent addition of the star field is impressive. Those aren’t just a bunch of random white dots, people ─ they represent the actual stars (and galaxies!) that you’d see behind the Earth from any given angle. (You can actually roll the Earth around on the screen in the iOS verison and use it to explore the universe.)

It would be really nice if we could tweak the appearance a bit more than simply making the clouds brighter at night. Occasionnaly when the app loads up on the iOS version the atmosphereic refraction takes a moment to kick in, an the resultant “atmosphereless" Earth is really quite beautiful. If only there was an option to do this intentionally.

A similar product on the PC platform, Earthview, allows you to fine-tune your view of the planet in nearly every conceivable way, with half a dozen different high-resoultion maps and endless customization options. It’s so flexible that I’ve been able to precisely match the appearance of Living Earth itself, granting a sublime sense of unity between my Synergy-connected Mac and work PC. It would be really lovely to have at least some of that functionality with Living Earth, which in all other ways is already the superior product.

I agree with other posters here that the addition of the Moon (or even Sun!) within the new cosmos layout would be awesome, though I of course have no idea how difficult this might be to implement. Another item on my wish list would be the ability to conceal desktop icons, as many other desktop applications are able to do.

Most importantly to me, however, is when is the desktop itself going to become animated like the screensaver?

Animated desktops are starting to get big now that we have processors that can handle them, and we’ve been able to spin the globe on the iOS version of Living Earth for years. It would be great to replicate that with the OSX version, even if it’s non-interactive.

I’ll pay extra for a new version, I don’t care how much. Just make it spin, baby!

Ben Keller about Living Earth - Weather & Clock