CARROT Weather vs. Hello Weather

At a glance

Pulled from the App Store on 2026-09-04. Prices, versions, ratings, install sizes and OS requirements change — check the current App Store listing before relying on any of these values.

Feature comparison

Sources for this section: CARROT Weather App Store listing, CARROT Weather support FAQ, CARROT Weather press kit, Hello Weather App Store listing, and the Hello Weather site. All five were checked on 2026-08-24. Published feature lists change — check the current pages before relying on any row above. A heavier amber rule marks a row where the two apps meaningfully differ.

Where each one fits

CARROT Weather is the larger app in every sense, and it suits someone who wants to configure a weather app rather than simply read one. It lists more forecast sources than Hello Weather once you include the regional providers, adds personal weather station networks, and publishes an unusually detailed map layer and notification list. Two things sit against it. Its capabilities are divided across two paid levels rather than one, so the storm and lightning notifications many people are actually shopping for are on the more expensive tier. And more of what it sells is restricted by country than any other app compared on this site — its FAQ lists notifications and map layers region by region, and several exist only in the United States. Anyone outside the countries on those lists is paying the same subscription for a smaller product. What CARROT Weather costs sets out both tiers, the full regional lists, and where the figures are and are not published.

Hello Weather suits the opposite instinct. It has one paid tier instead of two, so there is no question of which level you need, and its listing states plainly what the free app keeps — something CARROT’s FAQ never does. It offers a wider list of forecast providers on that single tier than CARROT offers on its entry one, and it carries no advertising on the free tier by its own description. Most consequentially, it is the only one of the two you can buy once and own: its in-app-purchase list carries lifetime items for both the individual and family versions, which changes the arithmetic entirely for anyone planning to keep the app for years. Against that, it requires iOS 17.0 where CARROT runs on 15.0, its developer’s site publishes no price of any kind, and it describes nothing equivalent to CARROT’s regional map and notification detail.

Neither developer will tell you the price on its own site, which is a pattern this site has looked at directly in where app developers actually publish their prices. CARROT is also set against an ad-supported rival in CARROT Weather vs. Weather Underground.

What we couldn’t verify

These are questions the published sources do not answer. They are listed here unresolved rather than guessed at.

• What CARROT’s subscriptions currently cost. Its FAQ names no figure, its press kit’s figures are attached to a past release, and its App Store in-app-purchase list carries more figures than either page accounts for
• What CARROT Premium Family costs, or whether it is still sold. It is described on the FAQ and in the App Store description, but no item of that name appears in the App Store in-app-purchase list
• What CARROT does with no subscription at all, which its FAQ does not state
• Whether Hello Weather’s Lifetime purchase covers future data sources and features, or only those present when it is bought, which its listing does not say
• Which of Hello Weather’s data sources support air quality and pollen, which its listing makes conditional without naming them
• Whether either app’s in-app subscription price matches any price on the developer’s own site, which App Store listings do not show
• How the two apps’ forecasts compare in practice, which no published source establishes

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