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24 alternatives to Dear Sun

Weather at a peek for Mac

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dear Sun launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Sunrise for Mac▲526
Mac app for the awesome Sunrise calendar
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
2
Weather Status▲80
A super detailed mac weather app
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
3
Forecast Bar for Mac▲68
Live weather and forecasts right in your menu bar or dock.
2019 · forecastbar.com · its alternatives →
4
Mercury Weather▲164
A beautifully designed weather app
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
5
Sunrise▲284
Beautifully designed calendar app
2013 · sunrise.am · its alternatives →
6
Big Weather▲166
Independent software consultancy of Tommi Urtti — software architecture and hands-on senior engineering for cloud, mobile and safety-critical systems.
2025 · urtti.com · its alternatives →
7
Degrees▲218
See the current temperature & weather in your Mac's menu bar
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
Weather Screen▲113
Bring Real-time Weather Effects to your Mac Screen
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
9
Big Weather▲95
Weather at a glance, right in the menubar of your Mac
2022 · pandora88.work · its alternatives →
10
Weather Dock Express▲62
Mac Weather app with Photorealistic animations
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
11
Weather mini for Mac▲160
Meet Weather mini 3, smart weather cards on your wrist.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
12
Sunshine▲152
A simpler, personal, more accurate mobile weather experience
2015 · thesunshine.co · its alternatives →
13
CARROT Weather▲109
An eerily accurate weather app with hilarious forecasts
2015 · meetcarrot.com · its alternatives →
14
Weather Forecast App: Menu bar ▲19
Live weather forecasts right from your Mac menu bar!
2025 · linktr.ee · its alternatives →
15
Sun▲120
Beautiful weather forecast powered by Dark Sky
2016 · its alternatives →
16
Cloudy▲117
Your new favourite weather app for iOS ☀️
2018 · getcloudy.app · its alternatives →
17
Solace▲171
macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…
Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →
18
CARROT Weather for Mac▲109
A smartass weather robot with a personality
2015 · meetcarrot.com · its alternatives →
19
Hey Sunrise for iOS▲70
Sunrise and sunset times with notifications & widgets
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
20
YoWindow Weather▲102
A living landscape that reflects your actual weather outside
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
21
Sparrow▲97
A colorful hourly forecast menubar app
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
22
Forecast Bar for Mac▲6
Accurate live weather and forecasts in your menu bar or dock
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
Forecast Bar▲9
Hyper-local weather reports right in your menu bar
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
24
Tycho Forecast▲130
Turn your weather into a Spotify or Apple Music playlist
2019 · its alternatives →

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