Drive Weather: Road Conditions Negative Reviews

Drive Weather: Road Conditions App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Drive Weather: Road Conditions app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Drive Weather: Road Conditions? Can you share your negative thoughts about drive weather: road conditions?

Drive Weather: Road Conditions for Negative User Reviews

✓ Went From Effective To Where’s Waldo Madhouse Map AppUpdate:This is clearly a developer more interested in giving attitude & obnoxious responses to people calling the clunky app getting worse. Check the negative reviews & see the developer response too. Original: I paid to subscribe and initially found the app a bit clunky but usable for some estimated driving weather. After a few weeks of not using it, I launched it to be horrified by a garbage UX and nightmare results. Going from Tampa Bay FL home to East Patchogue NY home 1100 miles away - with a couple of rest stops and one hotel night in 3 cities along I-95 - provided me with a 3700 miles route …. LITERALLY through KANSAS. I deleted a couple of the stops… to be given a new route …. From Florida to BOSTON to Long Island NY. Just went from 4-Stars to 1-Star Is Too Much. The UX is not even worth wasting time writing about..IMRAN.TVVersion: 7.7.4

✓ Don’t bother unless you want to pay for a subscription to ProFree version only nominally functional. The worst part is before I could even really get a feel for this app, a persistent add came on the screen insisting I install Chrome. That is when I deleted the app from my phone. Note to creator: I do NOT use Chrome. I do NOT use Google Maps. I do NOT use google search engine. I do NOT use anything Google. I strongly resent Google forcing itself onto my phone. I purchased an iphone, not whatever piece of spy junk google sells. Google has NO RIGHT to muscle into my digital world. If this app has some sort of relationship with google which allows google to try to invade my space that should be prominently noted before people install this junk on their devices..CroixmomVersion: 7.7.2

✓ Scam! They tried to charge my account!Apple sent me 3 notifications after I downloaded this useless app and gave them my Apple Card info. Apparently this app tried to charge me $49 three times, even though I didn’t sign up for any paid features. Absolute scammers!! Avoid! EDIT: the response from the developer is baloney. There was no third party. I downloaded the app from here. And it DID ask me for credit card information claiming they want charge it unless I sign up for services. But as soon as I gave them my Apple Card information, I immediately got charged $49 x3 from strange websites. That literally never happened to me and I’ve been using Apple Card for a long time. So that was most definitely connected with this fraudulent app. Avoid!.NickKhVersion: 8.16.3

✓ TerribleI purchased this app for a trip back in February. I was doing a trip from Phoenix to Chicago, a very important necessary trip. I was watching national weather and several apps which were free. I paid the 10$ for this one assuming it would be extremely accurate. We finally left based on the app info which said clear but cold, no problem I thought. Well leaving Phoenix at 10pm I hit Gallop NM and was socked in with snow fog and ice all the way almost to Albuquerque NM. Approaching Albuquerque it was snowing slightly by the time we hit I 40 and I25 it was a white out, 1 lane down the middle of the interstate. All the exit ramps for a hundred miles where blocked by semi’s, no way to get off. I white knuckled it for many hours at extremely slow speeds. The weather was bad all the way to Oklahoma. This app failed me..AZanjpVersion: 4.8.4

✓ Pro version problemI like this app. I bought the pro version and really liked it at first. It worked just fine for a few hours, then last night I started looking at it again and it would only let me go out a day and a half instead of a week. I can still use it, but I would like to have the version I paid for instead of this one..Vegan VickiVersion: 8.0.7

✓ Almost…We did a cross-country driving trip in February, and I tried out and bought the app then. It was useful for the first few days, and we managed to plan when to leave based on the displayed weather for a four-day itinerary that I input. It worked well. After that, putting in the evening stops individually just took too much time to do. There has to be maybe a default day length because inputting that you want to stop the drive at 4pm and restart at 9am next day for each day is just too hard. We ended up watching tv weather every day instead..CeratopsisVersion: 8.4.2

✓ Never works properlyI paid for the full subscription. It never lets me type in the address like it’s suppose to with the subscription service. Then every other week I was having to “restore” my subscription in order to see the weather for the week when looking up my route. Now for the past couple weeks it’s not showing the route I’m even on. I’m currently in McClean, TX headed to Nashville, TN. It’s showing me the weather for a route that goes through Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky before dipping down into Tennessee. It’s nowhere near where I’m at! Useless app..JoeJoesaurusVersion: 7.3.2

✓ DisappointedDownloaded to plan my drive at the time of Storm Eunice and was initially happy that I could see wind speeds on route according to time of departure. Then later the facility of setting different times of departure vanished and only left me with the option of the current hour. This really diminishes the usefulness of the App. A further frustration is the App doesn’t recognise Uk postcodes - and only allows town name destinations . Planning a trip to London - shows a route into the city which is not necessarily the one you want to be taking.FromclaphamjunctionVersion: 5.1.2

✓ Hit and missI loved this app when I first got it last year. It was a life saver as I was traveling back and forth from Iowa to Minnesota every weekend. But the last two months I have found that it takes forever to give me the details. And more often it just keeps spinning and spinning never giving me my data. Even after the update I’m still having issues with it just spinning/calculating. Sad as I relied on this a lot for timing my trips..PaulamhVersion: 8.16.8

✓ Ads cover important toolsApp was working great and was impressed with free version until the ad banner started completely covering up the “to” and “from” waypoints and they literally can’t be moved so the app is useless. It has to be fully closed and reopened and that it glitchy and takes time. Wish I could upload an image to show it..Party OnVersion: 8.2.5

✓ No weather information available for 5 days on our tripFrom the first use before we went on our trip, the information sites have remained black It appears that it may not work on the iPad which is what I use for my travels ???.Awning persnicketyVersion: 8.14.0

✓ Weather is useful but travel time way offI couldn’t figure out why I have a huge 2nd day of driving ahead of me, and why I’m so late in arriving at my overnight stop. So I used this app and then Google maps to compare. For the same route, this app gives a 7 hr 45 min trip from my current location , while Google maps says it’ll take 11 hours. I am a frequent x country driver and have always found Google maps accurate. This is my first time relying o this app , and I am WAY off the mark (or more specifically, still on a dark highway in New Mexico). Perplexed..DuftyrVersion: 4.18.0

✓ InconsistentThis app has such promise, but certain aspects don’t perform consistently or at all which makes it extremely frustrating to use. The time slider doesn’t ever appear when you add a waypoint. To set the time, then, you have to go back and edit the default which is 1:00. This requires tapping twice, but the time slider rarely appears regardless. So, I can only plan for the first day of a multi day trip rendering the app useless. When I shared my route with Waze, the precipitation forecast didn’t appear. I thought it would, but sharing the route with Waze, Apple Maps or Google Maps was never addressed in the instructions (nor was history or how to set favorites), so I have no way of knowing. I emailed the developer twice, but never received a response. Great potential, but app needs some work..Marker inboundVersion: 8.16.12

✓ Major GlitchesI am so anxious to find an app that does what this app claims to do, but this one isn’t there. After several times, deleting and reconfiguring a road trip I have already planned on another app, I am not going to waste any more time on this. Each time I tried, stop number 4 could not get the times right, and therefore threw off the entire trip beyond that. I can’t possibly leave a stop at 6AM, make another stop, 50 miles away, and stay there 4 hrs (leave here at 10:48AM), drive another 50 miles, and get to my next stop at 7:58AM. Especially since the route is going east across time zones, not the opposite. I really tried to get that stop fixed, including changing locations, just adding the time there, to the time at the previous stop, and deleting and re adding it multiple times. Each time, the stop 4 made the same timed error. There are other things that make the app not so user friendly, like not having a location for Death Valley, a National Park, and not allowing you to add a waypoint off the designated route. Sometimes diversions are part of a trip, and I am looking for a travel app with weather, that allows you to set your own trip. This is not that. It is a fun app to play with but, it isn’t as functional as I would like when planning a trip across country..Erkitten4Version: 6.0.1

✓ Disgruntled Developer??As I sit in a gas station parking lot in Abilene, TX at dusk while driving cross-country on my way Georgia from California, all of the sudden it becomes extremely windy. The sky turns brown, gray, almost black. I decide to open the Drive Weather app which I downloaded before leaving on this trip. Since the free version only routes trips up to 999 miles, I began to consider paying for the upgraded version. Unable to make up my mind, I thought I’d check out the reviews to help me make an informed decision. NOW - Is this for real? What in the world is wrong with the person (developer or representative of) responding to people’s reviews?? I have NEVER, EVER seen such a shameful, unprofessional, accusatory display of entitlement, defensiveness and lack of accountability from a customer service to customer standpoint. Sorry Concept Elements LLC, You just lost a customer in me. I refuse to pay for a service where the service provider is abusive and berates to their client base, becoming reduced to the emotional intelligence of a two year-old having temper tantrums and slinging insults as a result of not being able to cope with any form of criticism. Reminds me of a former president we once had. FREAKING UNBELIEVABLE!.Pump Up The Volume!Version: 4.21.0

✓ Your appI think any app that requires on going subscription is a rip off and a scam. It seem that so many are willing to pay a unnecessary subscription fee that all apps are going that way. If my only option is on going rip off then I’ll do the old school way and you sell your app to those that choose to be lazy. Aside from that I don’t believe if your sent some unfortunate into a blizzard that you would pay theyre motel fees. But you want them to pay your fees seems a bit scandalous. Keep your app I refuse to pay a subscription, if it were a one time fee that’s one thing. But no you want a payment over and over and over again. I would recommend replying to this because I’m only going cuss you out. Scammers.KsanacreationsVersion: 4.23.0

✓ Contentious Developer/Poor UiAfter watching the video tutorial, I decided the UI was not vetted with any sort of formal usability testing making it difficult to see and use. But, I was still considering purchasing- then read the reviews. The developer seems arrogant and contentious is his responses - and frankly I don’t have time to deal with a prima donna. Sir, even if you are utterly convinced you are right, you will not be successful if you feel you must “win” every interaction with a customer. Some humility and grace will build a customer base as opposed to alienating the very people you need to adopt your app..ChanaBearVersion: 8.16.3

✓ Waste of MoneyI enter my starting point and destination, then scroll to adjust my departure time. The app immediately resets my travel information. Every single time. I tried restarting the app. I restarted my phone. The app does not perform well. It’s a waste of money. I requested a refund within minutes of my purchase and still haven’t received it yet, 3 days later. Update to respond to developer response: The free version doesn’t allow you to see the weather for a trip in the future. You have to pay for that. That is the aspect of the app that does not work. And I did submit a request for a refund almost immediately after purchase. I tried minutes after my purchase, but Apple wouldn’t allow the request to be processed until after money changed hands..Robin LambVersion: 8.0.7

✓ Free is worth FreeThe “free” version of this app is not usable. It’s not even good enough to get me to pay for an upgrade. I’m thinking about deleting the free version. No thanks. PS I did get a response from the developer. The free version gives you “2 days of forecast and one drive”. Testing this app, for me, and the “drive”, is 2 days long, is not enough testing time for me to purchase. I can use many free weather apps for a drive forecast. I deleted the app..Tedd 1Version: 7.5.2

✓ DisappointingI had high hopes for this app but it feels really clunky and outdated on my iPad. Cumbersome interface and only moderately useful to use. Saving routes is not possible manually and to make changes you have to select ‘show in search’ from the history tab lookup. There must be better apps out there….TallguyvrVersion: 8.2.2

✓ Works good . . . SometimesInconsistencies keep me from rating as high as I’d like. When you’re planning a long distance multi-day trip this is genius. In fact I’d pay more if it were consistent and reliable. I understand weather forecast have never been reliable. That understood, I travel enough and use multiple sources to know this app Sometimes misses. Some trips it’s good, some trips it’s been unreliable. And . . . Quirks seem to come and go. You just don’t know when those quirks are going to crop up. But, they do appear to get fixed. Hope they can continue to develop into something I don’t have to double check before setting out. Again, the concept is Genius. UPDATE: biggest and most prominent problem with app is Wind Gusts out beyond 48-60 hrs. App will give constant wind speed days out but not wind gusts. Gusts can be the problem (especially across bridges) and I would like to see improvement there. These guys work hard to provide a very valuable service..VanMan58707758Version: 8.15.0

✓ No sharing of route(s)?Just purchased pro, so we’ll see how this works on upcoming trip. I’d like this app to have the capability to SHARE routes with family/loved ones, so they can see weather conditions too. If this functionality can be added, I’ll update to 5 ⭐️. Otherwise, pretty cool. I’ve already plotted our trip and as expected, it’s going to be nasty drive with the wind and ice. At least we’ll know what to expect driving the route, in real time..1lucydogVersion: 8.16.0

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