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Alternatives to Carrot Weather
19 weather & environment tools sit alongside Carrot Weather in this directory. Below is what separates each from Carrot Weather on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 19
- With a free tier
- 9
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Carrot Weather starts at
- Free
Why people look past Carrot Weather
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Carrot Weather has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
World's largest air quality information platform
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Carrot Weather does not.
- 2 tiers to Carrot Weather's 3.
Official U.S. government air quality information
Priced and rated the same as Carrot Weather on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Simple beautiful weather with multiple sources
- 2 tiers to Carrot Weather's 3.
Superior accuracy with proprietary RealFeel technology
- Publishes an entry price of $1.99/month, where Carrot Weather does not.
Connect your weather station to the cloud
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Carrot Weather does not.
- 1 tier to Carrot Weather's 3.
Digital agriculture platform for data-driven farming
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Carrot Weather does not.
Every Carrot Weather alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrot Weather (this page) | Free | - | 3 | |
| AirVisual | Free | Freemium | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| EPA AirNow | Free | - | - | vs Carrot Weather |
| Hello Weather | Free | - | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| AccuWeather | Free, then $1.99/month | - | 3 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Ambient Weather Network | Free | Free | 1 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Climate FieldView | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Foreca | Free | - | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Aeris Weather | Free | Freemium | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Apple Weather (Dark Sky) | Free | Free | 1 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Gro Intelligence | $29/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| BreezoMeter | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Carrot Weather |
| ClearAg | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Awair | $149/one-time | One-time | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| DTN Weather | On request | Quote | - | vs Carrot Weather |
| Atmotube | $179/one-time | One-time | 1 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Airveda | 7999/one-time | One-time | 2 | vs Carrot Weather |
| IQAir | $399/one-time | - | 4 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Baron Weather | Free | Quote | 1 | vs Carrot Weather |
| Clime: NOAA Weather Radar | On request | - | - | vs Carrot Weather |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Carrot Weather badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (9)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- AirVisual , Free
- EPA AirNow , Free
- Hello Weather , Free
- AccuWeather , Free, then $1.99/month
- Ambient Weather Network , Free
- Climate FieldView , Free
- Foreca , Free
- Aeris Weather , Free
What you would be giving up
Carrot Weather is most often brought in for checking current, hourly, and daily weather forecasts with a humorous ai personality, viewing radar, storm cell, and weather alert maps, receiving push notifications for rain, lightning, or storm cells (premium), tracking historical weather data (up to 70 years back) or long-range forecasts via the 'weather time machine' feature, using apple watch complications/widgets for at-a-glance forecasts. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Carrot Weather is broadly right and the question is cost, the Carrot Weather pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Weather & Environment category lists everything the directory holds, and best weather & environment tools ranks them.
Carrot Weather runs on ios, android, macos. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Carrot Weather alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Carrot Weather?
- 19 other weather & environment tools are listed in this directory, led by AirVisual, EPA AirNow, Hello Weather, AccuWeather. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Carrot Weather?
- 9 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: AirVisual, EPA AirNow, Hello Weather, AccuWeather, Ambient Weather Network.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Carrot Weather?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Carrot Weather has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Carrot Weather?
- Carrot Weather is most often brought in for checking current, hourly, and daily weather forecasts with a humorous ai personality, viewing radar, storm cell, and weather alert maps, receiving push notifications for rain, lightning, or storm cells (premium), tracking historical weather data (up to 70 years back) or long-range forecasts via the 'weather time machine' feature, using apple watch complications/widgets for at-a-glance forecasts. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Carrot Weather?
- None of the weather & environment tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Carrot Weather alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Weather & Environment, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored slot runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Carrot Weather against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Carrot Weather covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every weather & environment tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Weather & Environment category, 19 tools beside Carrot Weather. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.