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WeatherBug – Weather Forecast App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ AustraliaWell presented app, easy to read. Weather outlook not in line with Australian weather temperatures. Nearest active fire is 623 miles away in NSW which is not accurate. We live in Victoria and does not reflect any fires near us. Have settings set to °C/kms but fires are still miles..Version: 5.7.1
✓ Needs a little more workGreat free app. Just needs metric support. Also rain map doesn't seem to work in New Zealand.Version: 0
✓ Cool application but no options for CelsiusThis app looks and works really well, but unfortunately there is no option to convert the temperatures into Celsius. If this support was added it would be really really useful..Version: 0
✓ Bug alright!This app pure spyware for data. Beware..Version: 5.67
✓ Needs WorkNeeds to be in Celsius for the majority of the world. Needs metric measurements too. An option for this would be good in the settings..Version: 0
✓ Weather Bug will kidnap Your DeviceWeather bug will completely lock up your devices screen. When you try to open the app you’ll get a pop up giving you two choices 1. Give them permission to track you or 2. Ask them not to track you. Seriously, do you really think they won’t track you or track you less because you clicked ASK NOT TO TRACK. You have to click a choice which I refused. I tried to get out of the app and it had frozen my screen. It would not let me out. Even when I got to my apps to try to uninstall, I had to keep hitting the Home button to get to settings and continue to hit it as I scrolled to the app to attempt to uninstall from there since it wouldn’t allow an uninstall on the main screen. I still couldn’t uninstall it. I had to shut down my device then start it back up, then I was able to uninstall it without opening it and starting the same problem all over again. I understand that these free apps use advertisements to earn money. My issue is that they don’t even offer at least a 10 day trail period in which you could try the app out to see if it’s worth allowing them to track you. I wish these apps would offer an affordable yearly no tracking, no advertising plan. I would be willing to pay $15 to $20 yearly to not be tracked or bothered by annoying advertising. I also don’t appreciate an app that kidnaps my device with no other option but to completely shut down my device to get out of it and delete it. Not Cool Folks!!!!.Version: 5.24
✓ What the heckGreat app but sick of all the advertising saying I have won a prize. We currently have a cyclone here in Queensland, Australia and the map shows clouds only when we have high winds and rain..Version: 5.7.0
✓ Crashed a few times, and no metricCrashed a couple of times when trying to add cities, even though the cities did get added. Inability to display Celsius and km/h means this got instantly deleted..Version: 0
✓ DO NOT INSTALL!!! DANGER!!!I installed this app but later going through their privacy policy, I was concerned, so I uninstalled the app. Days after uninstalling the app, I can still see Weatherbug accessing my location!!! You guys should stop accessing my location, else I might have to take legal action! I wonder why an uninstalled app is still accessing my location services!!!.Version: 5.51.0
✓ USED to be my favorite for years!Something happened a month ago after the app update of version 5.9 was completed. After that, my Weatherbug that would slay all of the other apps that family members had, was useless to me. I would sit there and watch an empty frame of the screen, while my data wildly searched to get SOMETHING on there. Still nothing would show up for a good minute or two. One in a while, 30 seconds. It's showing RIGHT NOW that our wind is blowing here at 6mph, yet for the last several HOURS, we've had damaging winds of over 50 mph continual gusts continue to hammer our area. Same thing happened yesterday as well. 6mph vs 50??? I have furniture MOVED off of my patio outside, pillows and tiki torches blown across the yard. I could have perhaps had fair warning to bring them indoors or had them weighed down, but the main issue in question is what happened a month ago and where did my weather bug go??? Can you bring it back? I've deleted and reinstalled several times hoping it would be a success, but it's the same thing, with my poor wifi JAMMING to try to load it up. Never had an issue before. The app was da bomb. Now it's totally useless..Version: 5.10.0
✓ Weather forecast WAY off baseDownloaded app and checked forecast for my city. Forecast was so ridiculously far off base I deleted the app immediately..Version: 5.35
✓ Stick to your default weather appI work for my city plowing snow, cutting grass etc, so knowing the weather is apart of my job because I need to be prepared for random call ins and so on. This app sent me completely off. All day I’m checking my default weather app, and Weather Bug, and they’re saying two completely different things. My default app is saying snow starting Friday night leading into all day Saturday. Weather Bug is saying an hour of snow at 11pm then more light snow from like 4am to 10 am Saturday morning. I stay up doing some late reading cus I of course want to believe the forecast with less snow. At around 11:30pm I check Weather Bug again, and it’s completely changed to snow all night leading into snow all day Saturday. But get this. It keeps switching back and forth between barely any snow, to snow all day. Had my job called me in overnight I would’ve been completely crap out of luck, and exhausted working through early Saturday morning into Saturday evening. To sum things up, I will definitely stick to my default weather app. It’s not the fanciest, buts it’s been pretty accurate so far. Definitely more reliable than Weather Bug..Version: 5.7.1
✓ Missing a couple thingsWeatherBug does everything well, especially getting you your notifications, except one thing: notifying and informing you about special weather statements. These are kind of like miscellaneous statements the weather offices put out that contain information they think you need to know, but don’t qualify as a watch or a warning. They’re valuable, but WeatherBug doesn’t notify me when one is issued and they don’t show up anywhere in the app at all. For example, we have a special weather statement informing us that there’s a hard frost coming our way for the first time this season, but WeatherBug seems oblivious. I have to find out things like this from other sources, and I’m really surprised WeatherBug doesn’t include it. I’m writing this review just to ask if you would please fix this, give alerts for all weather notifications, and show them on the map. It would easily be a 5-star app otherwise. The only other thing I’d like to see is an option for the 10-day forecast to be displayed as a continuous graph, with lines through the days going up/down for various things like rain chances, temperature, wind, etc..Version: 5.15.1
✓ Celcius PLEASE!!Good app but completely useless until it supports celcius. I emailed the developers who replied saying it was coming soon, so 5 stars is hopefully only just around the corner.Version: 0
✓ Killing My BatteryNot sure what happened, but my battery has been draining very quickly the past few weeks. When I checked my battery usage by app, WeatherBug is showing usage far above any other app. I’ve turned off location services for the app, and battery life seems to be back to normal. Not sure what the most recent update accomplished, but it drains the battery quickly..Version: 5.57.1
✓ Lates update 💥crashesThe lates update crashes every time plus is draining my battery when I keep it on, in the back round to have my weather update, if next update won’t fix this I’ll be deleting the app.Version: 5.53
✓ Guys... this was ridiculous.As many of you know, and clearly this app was aware, there was a hurricane that affected the Carolinas etc. Once upon a time I loved this app, but since this hurricane hit, I cannot believe how repetitive and unhelpful this app was. I got CONSTANT notifications about extended hurricane statements, flash flood statements, and tornado statements. Those are all well and good THE FIRST TIME THEY ARE ISSUED. I had 15+ notifications while trying to conserve phone battery, I eventually turned them off. They also arrived 10+ mins later than TWC (which could be service provider related but not the point of this rant). What would have been most helpful Weatherbug, would have been actual storm updates. We had no power, no radio (our own fault) and couldn’t load a single app to see the radar, but thank god notifications came through.... giving us location/wind speed/ANYTHING useful would have been better. Don’t get rid of the statement updates completely.. maybe just start them as indefinite when there is a hurricane present. LASTLY, the notification that said: “Florence made landfall Friday in North Carolina! Watch the latest footage of the storm on weatherbug.” FORGET YOU. I LIVED THROUGH IT, had a tree fall on the roof while I was trying to sleep I KNOW A HURRICANE CAME THROUGH THATS INSENSITIVE AND UNFREAKINGHELPFUL. I have screen shots to prove all of this..Version: 5.5.0
✓ ContradictingLike the ap but too many times the daily and the hourly do not match. Now for example, daily says 50% chance of rain, check hourly to see when and all times listed for next day and a half say 0% chance. Happens all the time like they have no way to keep up with the hourly. I wrote this some time ago. Same issue today. 50% chance of rain on the daily, 0% chance anywhere on the hourly. Makes the program unusable. Have to go to another program to see if it will rain or not. Evidently they cannot fix this as it has been this way forever. I received a response from the company but it did not address the issue. I don’t see how this app rates almost 5 stars when one of the 3 areas, hourly - (hourly, maps, daily) - is useless on many days where rain is forecast on the daily. I am trying to make a decision today about lawn care tomorrow. Daily says 30%. Looking at hourly to see when the best chance of rain would be, all times are zero. I look at another app and all times have a percent showing. Until this is fixed, this app should be no more than a 3 star..Version: 5.21.3
✓ Build me up, just to break me downDownloaded WeatherBug app about 2 weeks ago and really liked it and then... the update. Initially, I was quite impressed and pleased with the push notification weather alerts for severe weather. I especially liked that the weather alerts would push to my phone at least 15 minutes before any of my other - even local - weather apps and that they even had a “dangerous storm warning” notification, which was correct each time I received it. The widget worked wonderfully as well and was probably my second favorite feature. Enter the update. Dun dun DUUUNNNN! It completely killed everything I enjoyed and appreciated about the app. I’ve not received a single push notification since nor has the widget been functional despite deleting the app and all its data from both my phone and AppStore account. The widget simply asks that I open the app and agree to TOU and PP, which is not even an option. You agree to the TOU upon initial launch of the app but that does not give the widget functionality. I also dislike that I am unable to remove the township that the app has deemed my home/current location and set it to the correct area as it is mistakenly locating me in another town. Sadly and disappointedly I am deleting the app permanently unless the next version, which seem to be released monthly, remedies these debilitating flaws and restores the app to its previous performance and reliability..Version: 5.4.7
✓ Confusing GUI & not entirely accurate infoSorry, but I’m uninstalling after a few months for various reasons, mainly the two in the title. I’ve updated the app and tried in vain to reorder the “cards” to prioritise rain and wind (I live in Scotland so have no need for hurricane and fire info). The precipitation map isn’t a forecast - it shows the past hour. I already know what the weather was like over the past hour. Also, I don’t find the forecasts particularly accurate for the UK. Maybe this works much better for sporty types in the US. For my purposes there are a few far more useful weather apps out there..Version: 5.46.1
✓ Seems to be US onlyWeatherbug seems to be fine for the minoritory of US based users. In addition to using farenheit the radar images in the screen shot are not an option in the app I DL from the Aussie apps store and the camera images seem static (some place in the States) and can't be modified for locale.Version: 0
✓ Just a little noteIt is ok.Version: 5.10.2
✓ MrGood but needs metric as well.Version: 0
✓ Needs metricNeeds metric support.Version: 0
✓ Lots of information and accurateOne of the best apps for weather. A real annoyance is it constantly logging you out and not letting you know it has. Appears to be a bug that’s gone on for a long time Please fix this logging out issue!!.Version: 5.72.1
✓ Taiwan is not ChinaSo I go to download this app . And I want to see the weather in Taiwan . And the app shows I am in China . Really an app needs to kowtow to China about the weather . Do not use this app Disgusting.Version: 5.28
✓ FailI had tried Weatherbug years ago on my PC but it was so buggy that I deleted it. Then when smartphones came out, I just used the native weather app for several years. Finally I started looking for something that was more accurate, customizable, etc. A friend told me that Weatherbug had an app and assured me that it had none of the problems that plagued the old PC version. So I decided to give it a shot. For the last few years, I’ve been very happy with the app, then the last couple of days was like an unwanted blast from the past. Suddenly my battery was running down in a very short time (I have an iPhone 13 Pro). Just today I noticed that when I opened the Weatherbug app, it wouldn’t close and continued to run in the background so I checked my battery usage and sure enough, the Weatherbug app was the culprit. I don’t know what they did, but someone managed to FUBAR a perfectly good app. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but no dice. I’ll try it again next week, but if it’s still doing the same thing, I’ll delete it for good and never look back..Version: 5.45.0
✓ Overall clean look, but needs workI wanted a weather app that didn’t use up a lot of memory and gave me more information than just the temperature readings. Weather Bug has a clean, well-organized look and feel. I can even organize my home page to show what’s more important to me from top to bottom. Unfortunately, the forecast isn’t the best. We all know weather is moody and changes at the drop of a needle, but it seems as the forecast doesn’t update until a certain time in the morning. So if I’m up in the middle of the night or even just before sun-up, I will get only the current temperature reading and the high/low in the quick view is inaccurate. It will not update until it assumes everyone is awake. Furthermore, the radar only shows you the previous hour’s movement if you select radar, and only one hour future movement if you select future radar. That’s not enough for me. Other apps will show me 3-4 hours in advance of which direction the rain may be moving. In summary, this app could use improvements. It’s just okay..Version: 5.17.4
✓ AwesomeTo makke it measure in Celsius just go to iPod settings and scroll down til' you find the weather bug symbol the change it from farinhight to Celsius This app is great for good info on today weather and even on next weeks weather!!.Version: 0
✓ This Used to be a Great App...When I first got this app a couple of years ago, it was great. Now, it's so bogged down with animated ads that the forecast either takes forever to load or doesn't load completely - or even, sometimes, at all. I don't open your app to see the ads (or rather, be bombarded by them); I go to see the forecast. The moment I can't do that, or can't do it in a reasonable amount of time because of the stupid ads, the app becomes pretty much useless for what I got it for. You should ease up or you're probably going to lose customers over this. Heads up - sometimes, less is more. More effective, anyway. I give it 3 stars as it stands - not only because of the ridiculous loading issues, but also because the forecast is generally inaccurate, as well. The app sometimes doesn't show that it's supposed to be snowing until 3 hours after it started snowing, and will often show temps that are 20-30 degrees off the mark. The only thing it's actually good for is showing lightning strikes and their distance from you..Version: 5.19.5
✓ Application doesn't work after upgradeThe app doesn't get past the location selection, disappointing as this app was my favourite weather app to date..Version: 3.7
✓ FiresI live near Hepburn and needed to know about the out of control fires and you had no warnings at all, please keep all fires detected on your map.Version: 5.7.3
✓ Hopeless without metricOnly reports speeds in mph and temperatures in fahrenheit. No good to me..Version: 0
✓ Used to LoveI am not writing this review to be vindictive but I thought the developers would be interested in this bug I have with the app. I have been using Weather Bug for about 4 years. I have enjoyed it. Then I got a new iPhone. I have the SE 3. A few months ago I had to delete the app because my phone was getting warm to the touch and my battery was draining quickly. Shocked and worried I went to see what was using my battery. Weather Bug had used 34% of my iPhone’s battery due to “background activity” in about 25-30 minutes. I wasn’t even using my phone. I was on my lunch break and my phone was just sitting on my pillow. Then the same thing happened again, 2 days later. So I deleted the app, hoping it was just that and that there was nothing wrong with my brand new iPhone. It never happened again after I deleted the app. I waited a few MONTHS before reinstalling the app and after about maybe a week or 2 of smooth sailing it happened AGAIN. Please figure out what is causing this bug. I like the app, but I can’t afford to risk my phone’s battery life like that. If you use this app and you have an iPhone SE 3 tread carefully..Version: 5.53
✓ App inoperableLatest update will not progress beyond initial location selection; simply gets stuck in a loop Your "developer website" option to lodge feedback, also has issues and will not accept a submission - claims an error on the page! Altogether pretty poor performance.Version: 3.7
✓ Keeps crashing. Was great.This was my go to weather app because this seemed most accurate. However, for the last few weeks the app has been crashing incessantly. I’ve updated the app several times but it still keeps crashing after 10 seconds or so. I hope they fix this issue soon..Version: 5.50
✓ Used to be betterWhen I first downloaded this app several years ago it used to load information much faster, and more consistently. Now, many years and updates later, it rarely even loads any information when i am connected to wifi. The app will open and load the temperature on the home (default) screen when connected to wifi, but I have to turn off the wifi on my iphone, ensure I am connected to my cellular network, and switch between the “now”, “hourly”, and “10 Day” tabs in order to get the app to load information. It started doing this over a year ago. Initially I thought my Wi-Fi connection at home was just poor, but it turns out that I have the same problem connected to any Wi-Fi signal. I have also had this problem with 2 separate iphones. I occasionally delete the app and redownload it just to see if the problem may be a fluke, but I always end up with the same problem. This used to be my favorite weather app, but now I am exploring other apps because of my frustration with this issue. I still love the weather bug app, and in my opinion it has the very best radar maps of any app available. I just hate having to go through so many steps in order to get this app to function the way it is intended to. Please fix this!!!!!.Version: 5.4.0
✓ All weather apps seem to be inaccurateIs it me, or are others experiencing the same issues of inaccurate, not up-to-date weather no matter what app? It seems they all use the same local stations that must be very delayed in their updates to the various apps. Seriously ALWAYS off several degrees, and as for precipitation percentages, they’re so useless, I have begun to laugh at my own gullibility. A couple of mornings ago was so typical ... I wanted to take a bike ride and began looking at the forecast the prior evening showing ZERO chance of rain the next morning. Re-checked the next morning, and same ZERO % chance so I got dressed for my ride, pumped my tires, raised the garage door, when it began to rain ALL DAY. I re-checked the forecast an hour or so later, and the entire hourly forecast had changed. THE KICKER is that this same app has the audacity to provide a TEN DAY forecast 🤣🤣🤣. And almost as bad ... my gullibility to keep checking 🤔🤔🤔. Anyway, I think I’ll go back to the “stick my head out the door” method ... it’s more predictable. I get a bit of a chuckle when folks compare the presentation of info in reviews ... who cares about presentation if the data is unusable. Again ... this doesn’t seem to be a Weatherbug only issue as I have had the same experience with all four of the apps I’ve tried. It seems that the OLD-fashioned TV weather reports are more accurate the night before than the purported “real-time” weather apps..Version: 5.7.0
✓ Needs more options pleaseKph in wind speed also would be better, still there is no weather app that remembers the conditions at last update can't it save it and just have last updated at... Makes it more handy with the touch.Version: 0
✓ Fed up of no radar!!Every update loses radar on the maps. UK seems to be the victim of this. Love this weather app but this aspect lets it down all the time. Eventually radar will reappear. Then a new update and it’s gone 👀 please sort this out. We have storm Chiaran on the way and this part of the app is invaluable.Version: 5.72.1
✓ Ads and Forecaster DiscussionAfter about 9 years of using Weather Bug, I am removing it from my iPad. There are quite a few good features here: navigation is intuitive, the main data points are easily discoverable and notifications by location is a good feature. I have never been able to find the weather forecasters’ discussion, which provides a narrative version of the forecast. It has nuance the cannot be covered by numbers and is, for me, an important part of the overall picture. But it is a recent change in advertising presentation that has me installing a different app. Previous background photos reflected the current conditions and I mostly did not notice them. Sunny day? The background shot is a lady and her dog on a sunny day. Now it’s a full-page ad for a pest control company. Three guys staring at me AND their other ad is down in the corner at the same time. I need my own pest control folks to come get the pest invasion/infestation off my iPad. Or I could just delete the app. With as many ads as I already navigate around, this is a cash grab that is too egregious..Version: 5.64
✓ Accurate & reliable.Always love your great & comprehensive weather information, although after your recent update, and the IOS 15.2 update, the classic widget does not load at all. I'd like to view up to the minute lightening strikes from my lock screen widget, but widget does not load. Needs a new update for my IOS 15.2, IPhone SE 2. Thanks!.Version: 5.33.1
✓ CrashesCrashes as soon as it opens.Version: 5.53
✓ Where's New Zealand?Useless when it can't find your location.Version: 1.6.3
✓ Not accurate at allWeather forecast today for my location: cloudy 0% chance of precipitation for the entire day…. Actual weather - raining. MetOffice tells me the showers today will become more widespread across my region this afternoon and possibly heavy at times. This app gets an extra star as it includes some interesting info such as the lightning and tropical storm trackers, air quality and actual numbers for UV instead of just “H, M, VH” etc but it’s obviously geared to US market as info such as pollen is not available in my location. I was (am) looking for a more accurate weather app than come with the one Apple devices use, but this ain’t it..Version: 5.42.0
✓ Full of bloat & bad uxThe app does what it is supposed to do, but it is full of ads that are prioritized on loading. If you want to quickly check the weather make sure that you wait a few seconds for it to fully load the new data; Ive popped it open to read stale data and closed it many times before I realized it was totally wrong. If you open it up, it takes a long time to load the core of the app but displays ads quickly, which is fun in a hurry. For UX, they pack too much into the buttons and its hard to parse quickly with the eyes. Furthermore, the quick menu button has several mini components that go to different pages on click. You will invariably go to the wrong page (e.g 10 day forecast vs hourly vs time now). Add this to stale data and load times, you get a mess. It is frustrating to use, you have to wait long enough when looking to feel assured the data is trusted. When you click you go to the wrong page, wait for it to load, click the right page, wait for it to load, scroll past ads, find data. Its a silly construct and I’m done with it..Version: 5.10.2
✓ OkayUsing free version Have distance settings on kilometres but still showing miles on fire map Lighting strike function not working in my area Happy to re review and even purchase once these issues are fixed.Version: 5.7.3
✓ I deleted this app the second I read their privacy policy and TOA. One star is too generous.READ THE PRIVACY POLICY AND TOA. It’s lengthy, I know, it’s intentional to dissuade people from reading and understanding it. It’s worth the 5-7 minutes of your life, I promise. Apparently, it’s too much to ask for a simple weather app in 2019 without subjecting yourself to risks known and unknown; all completely out of your control and all so a company can make a profit at the literal expense of its consumers who are the real product. If you have zero concerns with being tracked 24/7 and your precise location being shared; don’t care about your information being monetized and sold to third party sellers whose intentions you know nothing about; unfazed by the strong possibility of your information being leaked and misused; apathetic to your information being sold numerous times a day; or disinterested in the extensive and intrusive methods used in this economic model then, by all means, disregard this review and enjoy your weather app. Personally, I’ll be checking the weather manually from a browser since the weather app industry has proven themselves to be untrustworthy and not at all concerned with consumers (you know, actual human beings) or their privacy. All of this just so people can sell you crap. This truly is the darkest timeline. All I wanted to do is check the weather....Version: 5.14.1
✓ Why bother?No metric units so useless to 90% of the planet. Outside of USA, matches locations to weather stations 100s of kilometers away. I want my bandwidth back..Version: 0
✓ No satellite images for nz, no metricOk but slow and does not have satelite images for all areas. Most the world now uses celcius not f..Version: 0
✓ Attractive App but ...For those of us outside the US, the lack of metric measurements makes this app a novelty only. Pity really as it can access weather from all around the world. Here's hoping for improvements in v2.0!.Version: 0
✓ Support are uselessAnother update and another failure fir me to sign in They haven’t fixed this for months despite me sending constant emails saying so and them saying they’re working on the issue when it’s clearly shows they’re not working on it It is now beyond a joke and seriously can’t see them fixing the issue in the near future as nothing has been done.Version: 5.44.0
✓ They have all the rights.Another Facebook? Terms of service WeatherBug to collect (on behalf of itself and its business partners) certain information regarding your use of the Solution (including, without limitation, certain data regarding your mobile device (e.g., type of device, unique device ID, etc.), operating software, feature utilization, navigation, and personal information (e.g., name, email, etc.)). In particular, if you elect to use certain location-based features or services, WeatherBug may collect your precise location..Version: 5.4.6
✓ 50/50I have pins down to watch the weather where I really need to know due to family locations and myself. Today I received a notification stating lightning within 10 miles of a pin. So I open the app to see what was going on. I then send a text to my daughter and asked her if she was enjoying the rain, cause the pin I’ve placed is within 500 ft of her exact location and because the map showed dead on she was getting rain. She replied back it hasn’t rained all day and sent me a pic of the sun shining and ground/pavement bone dry. I sent her a screenshot and she said I need a new weather app cause it’s not accurate to say the least. I’ve been using weather bug a couple years now and prefer it over others. But I really need a more accurate look at the weather in real time. On of my pins is where I have a storage unit that has high tornado possibilities. I need that so I’ll know when and if my belongings get damaged to file a claim with insurance. But my main concerns are my children, grandchildren and other family members. If their internet goes down I’ll never know until after the fact. Please fix this issue ASAP! Thanks.Version: 5.16.5
✓ Where's new zealandWhere's new zealand.Version: 0
✓ Works but.....Can't switch to display Celcius temp! Apart from the USA not too many other countries use Farenheit. A silly oversight that makes this application useless to a lot in it's current form.. Please bring out an update so the rest of the world can use it!.Version: 0
✓ Lost metric supportThis app was great, but with the current update, although the forecast is changed to metric, the description and feels like are still in imperial.Version: 3.0.1
✓ Not accurateThe only thing that’s correct about this app is your location and data usuage. Don’t use it.Version: 5.4.7
✓ ReviewWeatherBug is okay. The lightning strike map is accurate but the radar map is sometimes not accurate. The storm was here but then it was gone but came back. I would recommend the app to friends and family for the lighting map and sometimes the temperature but I wouldn’t trust the radar sometimes..Version: 5.41
✓ Limited customizationCan only show Fahrenheit and mph. Limited choice of cities, but otherwise has lots of info..Version: 0
✓ Strange behaviourFirstly my location is wrong. It says only Shepway and not Hythe where I actually am. Plus it says Lydd Airport?? Now is this where I’m getting the data from?? As Lydd airport is miles away from me. Secondly I’m infuriated at trying to to get the widget to work on my iPhone 6 the widget is there but says please open the weatherbug app and agree to our latest terms of use and privacy policy. So have gone through these in the app however nothing comes up for me to accept the terms and privacy policy. Was going to buy this. But if it’s not working in the free version how do I know will work in the paid version. Driving me mad..Version: 5.4.7
✓ Appeared on my phoneAppeared on my phone today without permission. I didn’t realise this could happen on Apples ecosystem..Version: 5.14.3
✓ WrongThis app is a bit closer than some of the others . But it still says it’s 6 degrees C cooler than it actually is. This says 28C the actual temp 34C.Version: 5.72.1
✓ Miles v kilometresI’m still waiting for the distance parameters to be a choice and not miles like it or not.Version: 5.8.0
✓ Buggy, annoying, now crashesThe widget also appears to be inaccurate compared to other widgets and weather apps. Didn’t get the weather alert the TRUCKERS APP just gave me. Update: Jan 2023 “update” broke the app. Tried rebooting ipad, purging memory key combo, but app tries half a minute to open then crashes shut. For a while there it looked like they fixed it last year, lasted a couple months now this....Version: 5.52.1
✓ Please fix it, the app is broken.So I used to use WeatherBug a lot. But I do have to admit that sometimes the weather isn’t a true match to what’s happening. Granted, I live in Michigan, where one half of your lawn can be bright and sunny and the other half can be down pouring(I’ve personally witnessed it). But that’s besides the point. The data isn’t the same as what my friend gets from our local weather station. And just recently I tried to open the app to check the weather. (Mostly to read the radar. It’s more reliable to read it yourself if there’s rain or in this case, a spontaneous blizzard in the middle of April), when I discovered that the app takes 30 seconds to buffer, then immediately crashes back to my wallpaper. But, when I looked in the running background apps thing, it was there and so I clicked on it. I don’t know if what I was seeing was real or not, but it showed the normal degrees and the little radar thing, but then it froze and crashed again. The app in it's current state is completely unusable. I grew up watching WeatherBug on the tv every day before I left for school. It’s kind of sad that I have to leave and seek out another weather app. Even with all it’s bugs, I still liked this one..Version: 5.9.0
✓ One step up but it still fails the test.Metric is now an option in settings, but when you read an upcoming forcast it gives the forcast only in imperial, AGAIN!! ARRRGGGH!!!!! No radar support, no video support and no camera support. DO NOT BOTHER!!!! I'll stick with the default weather app and BOM radar..Version: 0
✓ Disney?Your app is good but you partnered with a woke company that I can’t support. #leavethekidsalone.Version: 5.79
✓ Latest update discriminates against visual impairment** waited a week, downloaded the Weather Channel app because it has a “Dark” option for its maps. The pin indicator “pops” with a white outline on the black background. Dumping the WeatherBug b/c they refuse to update. This used to be the weather app I used since 2009 but after almost 20 years they recently decided to change the location pins color tones to be the same as the map. That means if you are colorblind, the pins disappear. The older version uses pins with drop-shadows so colorblind people could see the pin. Despite emailing the app developer several times, the location pins remain invisible. None of the other location pins( pollen map, lightening map) have changed - all those maps still use the drop pin designed for colorblind people. Yeah, there is a reason most drop pins have a drop-shadow and are outlined in black/dark gray. Looks like after almost 15 years, I’ll have to switch to another app. I doubt this app developer has many clients that downloaded the app in a year beginning with “0”; they are about to lose one, though..Version: 5.70.1
✓ Metric units are coming!I have contacted the dev team about the lack of a Metric/Celsius option and they informed me that the next release, due in a few weeks, will have this option. Based on this information I award 4 stars..Version: 0
✓ Battery KillerMy phone is just over 2 years old. It’s still perfectly capable of doing just about anything I want it to. In the meantime, Weatherbug has been my go-to weather app. I like the interface, there’s lots of useful information, and it’s lightning tracker is the best of any other app I’ve used that even has one. Unfortunately this app has become a resource hog. I’ve been experiencing a lot of issues with my phone getting very hot and the battery draining very quickly, as much as 50% overnight if I’m not charging it. I’ve been checking the Battery option under settings when this happens, it’s always Weatherbug. I finally disabled background permissions for the app and even reinstalled it and reconfigured all of my settings, and it still hogs my phone. I am no longer of the belief that that turning off background permissions even does anything. I think it just ignores this, because how do I justify that Weatherbug has been using 59% of my battery compared to every other app under 5%? I don’t want/need a new phone, but I think this means it’s time to find another weather app. UPDATE I did exactly what the developers told me to do and turned off precise location. There hasn’t been much improvement and my phone is still getting warm. This morning I woke up to find my battery at 16%. It was at 85% when I went to bed. I checked the battery activity in settings and this app was 62% of my usage and I never opened it yesterday. It has been removed from my phone..Version: 5.56.0
✓ Ridiculous “alerts”I have to say, I’ve tried WeatherBug and AccuWeather . I find the WeatherBug interface to work nicely, things are in places that make sense and the information is displayed in a sensible way . What I do not enjoy is the exclamation mark telling me about weather alerts constantly , only to tap and find out it’s just alerting me to the fact that “some roads will be wet” . Of course some roads may be wet, the weather predictions say it’s going to rain! That is not an alert and forces me to just ignore the alert symbol entirely . I would like to be able to disable the commuter alert entirely, it’s pointless. Second, the “daily precip” alert… also pointless. The whole point of the app is to see the weather prediction… I open, check todays prediction hourly or the 10 day … seeing the red exclamation mark again, I check only to see a so called “alert” that just tells me rain is expected and to check the forecast . That is not an alert and completely defeats the point of having an alert show up, it’s basically the boy who cried wolf because it’s almost always displaying one of these “alerts” . Edit: Well, I look stupid. You can just turn the commuter and daily precip alerts off , but it’s per location and I have looked for this option before and either somehow missed it or they have changed it in an update somewhere along the line ..Version: 5.36
✓ There’s no key for the Alerts map layer :(I’ve been using weather bug for several years now and it definitely my favorite (i also have the NOAA Weather app and Dark Sky). however, i something i wish would go back to how it used to be is on the Alerts map layer. i live in the midwest so there are lots of severe thunderstorms and frequent tornado risk, so i really rely on that map layer. when i first got the app, the Alerts layer had a key for what the colors and lines meant (severe thunderstorm alert, flash flood watch, tornado watch, etc.) but for the last year or so it seems, that key disappeared and i don’t know what some of the colors mean. i can usually infer for flash flood or thunderstorm based on the radar, but that’s actually something that’s frustrating, since i don’t know what they all mean. pretty sure the key disappeared for other layers too, but those are less important to know specifically what they mean (id like to know when and where tornado watches are), and are easier to guess about. idk if that’s just an issue on my end (don’t think i changed any settings tho), or if the app actually changed, but if that was fixed or changed back to having the key, this would absolutely be 5 stars, since it’s still my favorite weather app..Version: 5.17.4
✓ Poor coverageNot worth my time - it might be worth your time if you are in a large city..Version: 0
✓ Ditto - Celsius please!!Loading the sat maps seems very slow, even with decent 3G coverage. Overall not a bad effort, but Celsius and kph would make it usable....Version: 0
✓ Would be more useful in metricIt's a great little tool and all but the coders forget that the rest of the world doesn't operate in measurements not updated since the revolution. At least give the option fir the rest of us that live outside the US.Version: 0
✓ Beautiful to Look at, Disappointingly InaccurateI love the UI on this, which is beautifully done. Yet as a cyclist in London I’m reliant on regular updates, and I’ve found consistent inaccuracies with Weatherbug. It’s not just that it hasn’t accurately predicted rain, it’s that it doesn’t update when it is raining. Today it was chucking it down- app indicated cloud... again. Today’s soaking has sent me back to Weather Underground with it’s helpful % chance of rain. A clunkier UI but heaps more accurate, in my experience..Version: 5.3.3
✓ Farenheit onlyDoesn't seem to be a way to change to degrees celcius. Crashed a couple of times as well..Version: 0
✓ Used to be goodI used to love weather bug and found it the best weather app however the radar has stopped working for several months on my iPhone since the phone has gone through it own updates and radar is what I often rely on in a rainy country. I tried deleting and re-downloading to no avail. Disappointing as I now have to search for a new weather app..Version: 5.73.0
✓ Deeply wounded me 🥺This app caused my astraphobia. Now, I was generally afraid of storms already but one day, my good friend used weather bug to check for lightning when we were in the middle of a thunderstorm in the garage once. I asked about whether bug she said it was a great app! So I decided to download it. That was a horrible decision! I’m sorry to the creators of a bug but this app is way too extreme for children!! severe storm watch, life-threatening thunderstorm warning mediately seek shelter life-threatening Lightning and storms. And when I get the more than half the time it’s not evening for where I live!!And it doesn’t update through the day! It was The only resource I trusted. That was a bad decision. you guys don’t update to the day you lie about lightning strikes, and your warnings are way too dramatic and scary!!!!! 😣 This app should be 17+! it scared me so bad!!! Reason I gave this 2 stars is because for a while I loved it and thought I could trust it. But instead it developed my Astraphobia. even though I am getting treatment for it, still I’m always going to have a permanent fear of storms. Thanks to weather bug! (I’m sorry guys weather bug did not cause my astraphobia but it was a ginormous contributing factor).Version: 5.17.4
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