Clear Day™: Screensaver (Screen Saver) App Reviews

The install was a little sticky but I finally got it going. The app was sort of a disappointment when it first fired up for me. There was no clear day/night line. The iMac I use is a 22 inch. The map is bitty and not defined. The cloud cover was accurate but didn’t show cloud tops or real definition. So, it was boring, just like a soap opera. Perhaps it was worth the small amount of money.

Cool-looking screensaver, but it runs as a menubar app that’s always flagged in OS X Mavericks as an app using significant energy. When the app is running in the menu bar it forces Macbooks to use the discrete GPU rather than integrated. Quitting this app gave back several hours of battery life on my 2013 MBP.

I can not get mine to work since I loaded it. Even the preview will not open goes from loading to nothing.

thought it would do a little more….

Its a cute screensaver, but it does take up a lot of resouces since it has to be on all the time. Not a huge deal. But it is an energy sucker. Its pretty boring when you only have one location in it. Its cooler when you have multiple locations around the world and it rotates from one location to another, but very unnessesary, and a little annoying when you want to check your weather at a glance. Would be cool if they over laid radar on the globe. But I guess you cant expect much for $1.99. Not to mention, from a company that give you ZERO tech support. Since its a piad app, I would expect support to be a little better then absolutely zero. Ive tried contacting them, with no luck at all. Doesnt work well on Mountain Lion, all the important displays like time and forecast are in black, which is impossible to see. But on Mavericks, it works as it should. Dont bother with this app. Unless you are ok with the above. Since I see it maybe for a few seconds a week, Im chalking this up as a stupid impulse buy and moving on.

If you have been having the problem of your login items disappearing after restart and you have this app installed, well, you just found the cause. After many, many hours of troubleshooting, I finally found the cause: Clear Day screensaver. Also, it prevents login via screen sharing.

This is a really nice screen saver and I highly recommend it.

The app is a bit of a letdown from Clear Day itself. I wish it made better use of my 1080p screen resolution, I find the results rather rough and cartoony. I think it should also be highlighting weather alerts for the target cities as well. For the price, it’s a good value.

It’s beautiful, however, it’s actually a stand-alone app that runs "on top of" your current screensaver. (Not sure why the author didn’t write it as a screensaver that lives in the Scrensaver section of System Preferences.) So it’s a little awkward when you press a key to dismiss Clear Day only to see your login box appear with a deferent screensaver selected in System Preferences. I also noticed Clear Day uses a good chunk of CPU while it’s inactive, which is unfortunate for laptop users. Great design, please rewrite it as a real screensaver!

Poppa Oscar Sierra - will not run on my iMac.

The imagery really needs to take the leap from 1992 to 2014 in quality. It doesnt run on both monitors and it runs in the background ontop of your existing screensaver and I foresee stalling issues coming out of sleeping. The app has a lot of potential, but right now they need to step it up a bit.

for $2; it’s crap, the idea is cool, but execution is poor, just get a free one… or pay $2 for one that’s better!

I love this app. Downloaded & installed it just the other day. I did find it odd that I didn’t see it in my list of Screensavers in the Display Preferences but rather, it ran as an app bypassing & apparently circumventing the existing screensaver I had set up (Ken Burns’ pictures). What’s most amazing to me about this SS when it activates is seeing the gigantic world globe with the cities I entered into my list showing as pinpoints, & the pinpoints progressively changing every 5 seconds or so, with the globe, which shows the continents, moving over to the next pinpoint to the next city in my list, showing lots of weather information about each of those cities as they each show up movie-style. So overall, great job, Clear Day devolopers! Beautiful & fascinating visual elements... Now…. Any way you think you could get your screensaver to show up in the Display/Screensaver Preferences window as a strictly Apple-like screensaver, a Quart type I suppose it would have to be? Other than that, I like your app a lot. Very similar to the slightly more visually detailed Windows’ Yowindow but still, beautiful work. Thanks! Kevin Kendall

I’m by no means a Mac expert, but consider myself capable. I guess this is a issue for Apple Tech Support. Like the previous review stated, “I couldn’t even find it for 3-4 months”, I concur. I guess I’m not the only one. The directions need to be more specific.

IN NYC right now we’re experiencing arctic weather. The Lite version in ithe menubar is showing a temp for me of One degree and simultaneously this screensaver is showing 18 degrees. Nothing close to accurate about these programs. As far as display is concerned, I have it set to reveal the weather in several places around the world. When it launches it shows NYC for a split second. Nearly leaves so fast you can’t read it then it heads off to the other locations I have entered. I don’t see controls for making it pause on a specific location or skip to a specific location. After a moment the system switches to the last screensaver I selected in sys prefs. Clear Day isn’t a saver I can select in those prefs so I can’t even figure out how to make it stick as a saver. On El Capitan latest version. Definitely not a fan. Elecont makes eWeather HD for tablets. Its far better. Wish they made a desktop version of their application.

Great graphics, easy to set up and use, very useful information provided.

The weather temp/forcast for my area is generally somewhat incorrect as compared to other providers of weather data compared with my own observation and thermometers. The visual appeal is not good. It has a rather “cartoonish” look on my screen instead of taking advantage of a higher resolution display. It also doesn’t offer the ability to view a snapshot forecast for more than just a very limited amount of time. The concept could be very informative; the execution just doesn’t deliver what I had hoped.

I think I found it, but I’m still unable to get it to work. I’ve followed the directions and nothing happens.