Living Earth - Clock & Weather 4+

update.... (was: did this app bite the dust?)

UPDATE: Turns out they took away the hamburger clues in “Edit” mode, but if you happen to accidentally tap and hold in the exact precise correct spot, then you can still rearrange cities. I’m not psychic and hate guessing-games with apps, but at least I can still do what I need to. So up to four stars again now, but sadly, down from five.

PREVIOUS REVIEW: Wow, this was such a great app. It was one of the very few apps I used every day, for years, on my old iPad. I had many, many cities. And I could rearrange them any way I wanted in “Edit”mode. Unfortunately, on my new iPad running iOS 14, I can’t rearrange my cities in a useful order. Now, I only have five or six cities because I can’t arrange them at all. They are in the order added, and that is not the order I want. I can’t use the app in a way that is meaningful unless they fix this. Here’s hoping I don’t have to update this review to say that I deleted it. Will hope for an update soon. P.S. for the developer - I made no attempt to sync the old machine with the new. I simply downloaded this app from the App Store to this new machine, and started fresh by adding a few cities. That’s how I found out that the cities are now glued to the list at the point when I added them, and cannot be rearrranged.

Very Nearly PERFECT...

I love this app. It gives so much information about the world: it gives worldwide weather conditions & temperatures, and mean temperatures; developing storms can be pinpointed (you can also keep track of storms as they grow into hurricanes or typhoons, or sputter out); population centers are indicated by concentrated areas of light (but only on the dark half); the app can easily be set to show specific cities that you program in; cities are marked by a small, round “light,” (though they’re unnamed!?), and more.

There are features that I would love to see added, though. I’d love to have the option to use the globe for geography AND weather, plus a view showing BOTH together. For that, they would have to add a view with nations, cities, & land and water features marked. It’s the same with other views; high/low, and median high & low temps, for example, would be even better if a view showing the exact places - the names of nations, cities, mountain ranges and rivers, etc. were added.

Maybe these things are available on PAID versions of this app, but I haven’t looked yet; besides, I think they should appear on the free one. I’m going to go check out the paid version[s]! But even as it is, for free... I love this app!

GREAT APP!!

This is the 3rd review I have done for this app. The last one being in October of 2017. I was miffed because several locations I had programmed, namely, McMurdo Station, Antartica, Vostok Station and a few others at the bottom of the earth were no longer available. I left those locations programmed in my phone, and lo and behold, one day, several months ago, I started getting the weather in those locations again... YEA!!!! This is my go-to app for weather! It the most accurate and user friendly weather app I have (and I have several on my phone). I have had this app for several years (since it was first introduced). I was fortunate to have gotten it for free when they first started out, however, if you’re looking for a great weather app, the $2.99 they charge now for it is still a good deal! You can’t go wrong with this app. You won’t be disappointed with it at all.

Developer Response ,

Try out those locations in Antarctica, the last few months we now provide conditions and forecasts there again. Send us an email at support@radiantlabs.io if you see any issues. Thanks!