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Weather Radar・RainViewer App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Apparently it’s always rainingI got this hoping it would be a more accurate predictor of rain starting and stopping than the apple weather app. When I first got it, my area was having lots of rain and it seemed pretty good. But I keep getting notifications of it raining about 1-5 times a day WHEN THERES NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY. Maybe it just got lucky at first bc of the season I downloaded it in. Became so annoying I deleted it..Version: 2.20.5
✓ What happened??My phone recently upgraded to the newest version and it’s awful! This used to be my go-to app that i had previously given 5 stars and shared with everyone for all weather but after the update we’ve rendered it useless. The timing is off by an hour or more. It never fully loads so i can see the weather from 2 hours ago but not at present. And it’s choppy. The smooth animation is gone on what I CAN see. I’ve deleted it and reinstalled to no avail. My husband, kids, and friends are having the same issue with theirs. So sadly we’ve all had to switch. Please bring back the old!.Version: 2.0.1
✓ Sorry!I’m deleting this App . Sick and tired of all the interruptions and Ads . I don’t even get one full radar scan before the Ads arrive and the soft porn that arrived today was the last straw . Totally unsuitable . Lots of excellent free competition available ..Version: 2.20
✓ Rain Viewer 2.0 reviewThe app recently upgraded to version 2.0. Up until the upgrade it was worth 5 stars +! Useful, good user interface, and quite accurate given it is using third party data. However, since the upgrade the radar overlay is terrible. I don’t know if it is a glitch or bug but it just shows the same grid in a large pixelated format that just increases as you zoom out. Totally impossible to see what the radar situation is like. Have the developers not seen the results on screen? This is on an iPhone 6 running iOS 12.4 so fulfills the criteria to use it. So disappointed as it was a great app. Update: 5 stars! So within a few days of posting my review, the developer mailed to say the above mentioned issue was fixed and would be solved by upgrading to the new version. Did that and all previous issues were resolved. Thanks Oleksii. Keep up the good work!.Version: 2.0.1
✓ Disappointed with the 2.9 upgradeI absolutely loved the app for quite some time (5 stars all the way), it was by far the best radar app on the market specifically because of the Worldwide coverage, HOWEVER, after I upgraded the app to 2.0 version for some reason the quality of the radar animations is WAY WORSE than in the previous version. It’s not nearly as smooth as it was before - lots of squares as if watching an old Atari game - it hurts my eyes. Why is it?? I was so disappointed that I spent last hour researching how to downgrade the app (no luck unfortunately). Hopefully it will get improved soon....Version: 2.0
✓ Waaay too many adsI like everything about the app other than the excessive ads while viewing the live radar..Version: 3.7.3
✓ Needs WorkSeems like a reasonable idea, but the app is not useful as correctly configured. By way of example, a few moments ago I was informed that it would begin raining in about 20 minutes. It’s been actively raining for an hour, and there has been a storm with some level of precipitation for 24 hours . Clicking over to the app the radar shows that we are squarely in a heavy rain zone. But the app wants to be sure I know that it really won’t start raining until 20 minutes from now — that was standing it’s on radar map, and the wet stuff falling on my head. Oops. Couple that with the fact that the app is just overburdened with pop-up ads and begs to install other apps, and it’s not worth the trouble..Version: 2.13.4
✓ Battery drain!This app was responsible for a horrific amount of battery drain that I've been tracking down for a while. It was responsible for 25% of my battery drain while running screen off! This is according to battery app from iOS. Deleted it and my battery now lasts a full day again..Version: 2.19.2
✓ Extremely disappointed with Version 2It was a great app, until V2 came along. I can’t take GIFs of Radar animations or anything like that, nor can I go full screen. Also, even with radar smoothing on, the radar data is extremely pixelated. Please revert back to Version 1!!!.Version: 2.0
✓ Very disappointingThe app shows the rain, then resets, and resets and rests, so is never really showing you anything..Version: 1.11.4
✓ Isaac EmilianiBroome Australia.Version: 2.2.5
✓ App not openingI Purchased Premium Service on this App for one year thinking it was great. I cannot believe how many bugs this App has. It has reached the point where I don't even bother using it anymore..Version: 3.0.4
✓ Disappointing experience after the newer version( This review is for the iPad version of the app) I have been using RainViewer for years now, I was once a subscriber during its old new to the stage era, but lately, with the new versions of this app, my experience has been disappointing, to say the least. While the app provided me with a fast and easy user experience, it has since become glitchy and unresponsive. One of the main issues I've encountered is that the app often freezes and takes a long time to load. This can be frustrating when I need to quickly check the radar. Additionally, the app sometimes restarts every preset or setting that I saved before. Another problem I've noticed is that changing layers doesn't work very smoothly, it takes ages to load satellite images on 1 Gb of internet speed. Furthermore, the app's user interface is not very intuitive and looks bad. Especially, the city's hourly & daily weather information page. Overall, While it may have been useful in the past, the glitches and problems I've experienced make it too unreliable to rely on for accurate weather information. I hope everything gets addressed and fixed soon, to bring this app back to its former glory..Version: 3.0.2
✓ OkI have a report that when I updated the app it tried to take me out of the app so many times and it is ridiculous could you please have your reason why this is happening because it started raining and I wondered how long is it going to last but when I got out of the radar section it took me back to the Home Screen with new bugs and it didn’t help at all Live Activities were the best as it came in my Dynamic Island.Version: 3.8
✓ Ｉhave to buy it twiceIn the past, it was necessary to remove the advertisement and spent money to buy it, now there is a need to buy a subscription again, unscrupulous merchant，Thank u，I find this button..Version: 2.0
✓ Some widgets not workingThe medium size widgets are not working. Saying location is unavailable, to add a location and enable it in the widget settings. But there is no way to do this in the app..Version: 3.3
✓ Does not work willIt gives fake information.Version: 2.20.5
✓ Updated. Stopped working.Updated today and stopped working. Yet another app gone down the subscription route for any extra features. I don’t mind paying a one off fee, especially if it gets rid of the intrusive adverts as well, but all these subscriptions work out expensive. Have to be selective on what is worth the continuous payment. For me RV is not. So bye RainViewer. App deleted. UPDATE. The developer responded promptly to my complaints. Thank you for that. Might I suggest that you introduce if possible another payment option with one off payment to remove adverts. Many other developers do this..Version: 2.10.1
✓ Difficult to useAlso doesn’t provide enough information- I couldn’t tell in a given day, whether or not it was going to rain. I want to know the likelihood, not just a rain symbol. I’m kicking myself for paying $10 for this app when the free Weather Channel app provides much more information. Wish I could get my $ back..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Charged full amount and not the sale price for the yearly subscriptionWhy was I charged $25 when it said I could have it for $15 for the year? What happened to the 30% off???.Version: 3.0
✓ Lost money!I bought the full version for a month to try the application, and based on the experience of use, I subscribed for a full year. But there is a problem after payment, which is that the application is still the free version, and I cannot benefit from the paid features. I hope to solve the problem, !.Version: 2.20.2
✓ Awesome App!! A few features lackingThis app is awesome!! There are a few features lacking however. Please fix this,,, there is a few radar stations that are offline in Canada. One of the radar sites specifically CXWL is offline however , it was replaced by a new radar band the station name is CASWL which now replaces the old CXWL station. Is there a way you could find a way to add this station to the map ??? Storm season is coming soon, also some suggestions can you find a way to add lightning and storm tracking symbols to your maps ??? Please let me know. Thank you!!.Version: 2.2.6
✓ App update = subscription onlyAnother decent weather app that went the way of subscriptions. Not sure where the “recurring expenses” that many apps claim are coming from. Didn’t give a second thought to deleting this one!.Version: 2.0
✓ Subscription nagging screenI bought the original premium version and was really happy with the app. Then they introduced a v2 premium version which is now subscription. I’m happy with just the features I bought and paid for, but now I have to be nagged to subscribe every time I open the app! Just as annoying as the ads that I paid to have removed..Version: 3.0
✓ Fatal flawThis app has one fatal flaw that kept me from keeping a subscription: every time I opened the app, I had to tell it that I wanted the forecast for my current location. Why isn’t this the default? It seems to be the default on every single other weather app I’ve tried. This is annoying, and there doesn’t seem to be any setting to change it. Also, a giant “NO” on my Apple watch face isn’t something I want to see. Why not just a 0% if there’s no chance of rain? I look forward to the developers response, since he seems to have responded to every other review. Maybe some of that time could be used to make your current location the default, or at least include a setting for it..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Aggressive demand for subscriptionFull-page banner, offering only 2 options: subscribe (1 month) and subscribe (1 year). This is not fair.Version: 2.15.2
✓ What dose a weather app have to do with this hate happening with UkraineI don’t understand why should apps be connected to support any country, I live in Belarus and work here and the app since that Ukraine and Russia thing the app stoped working in Belarus why???? What dose rain and weather update have to do with what’s happening, sanctions on weather apps will make them die because they can’t view the weather updates. Seriously.Version: 2.18.2
✓ Upgrade uselessThis app was amazing. Since the upgrade it is unusable! Don’t bother downloading..Version: 2.0.1
✓ Too many ads and pop upsWay too many ads and pop-up advertisements on the free version to the point where it’s not usable. The radar also never works. I got it to work like once. Too glitchy!.Version: 3.2.6
✓ Very disappointed with the surprise 2.0 upgradeI wasn’t aware there were major changes from version 1 to 2. I purchased version 1 because I could save animations to gif and various video formats. Version 2 no longer appears to have these features and the new radar map is like looking through a kaleidoscope which is basically useless to me. I reached out to support but they have not responded. I wish they would put version 1 back out on the App Store as version 2 seems like it should still be in development. Thank you for responding! Aug 10, 2020 Severe weather this evening and all weather stations nationwide are offline. Not reliable! Can’t believe I paid for this. Aug 11, 2020 Appears to have been resolved quickly. Sept 8,2020 Weather rolling in and not getting radar updates in a timely manner. I can get the same service through other apps for free. This will be my last review update. Thanks for the ride with a horrible ending. Don’t waste your money..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Always flawsThis app is imbedded into out local news station and it never works right. Whether stopping in the middle of the radar progression or always zooming back into where I don’t want, this needs to be redesigned to be more flexible, reliable and user friendly.Version: 2.16.1
✓ Jerky and Missing DataI was hopeful about this app, because it sources weather radar data from MetService. Sadly, I was very disappointed. I even paid for a month’s subscription to see if that helped with some of the issues. (1) The weather radar display is very jerky, with blanking between frames, and doesn’t seem to show imagery at 7.5 minute intervals as available from MetService. (2) By default, the display goes forward an hour from the current time to display extrapolated radar imagery. This seems to work elsewhere in the world (including Australia) but not over NZ, so you sit there and watch an hour of blankness before the animation resumes with past radar. There does not seem to be an option to turn this off. (3) For most parts of the world, but not the longitudes of NZ, most of Australia, Japan, etc., there is animated satellite imagery. It cuts off west of 180E (or 180W). When I contacted the developers they said this was a problem with Apple maps, but it also looks like they are not using imagery from the Japanese Himawari satellite. (4) The weather forecast temperatures look wrong to me, compared with other sources ... not enough diurnal variation. (5) It’s raining outside right now, and there is rain on the radar, but the forecast cheerily told me no rain was expected for the next hour, probably because of a lack of radar extrapolation for NZ. So I’ve cancelled my subscription. Maybe, if the developer can fix all these faults, I might consider it again..Version: 2.0
✓ Getting worseAlas, I have to say this once excellent app is deteriorating fast. Now the map barely loads, it remains blank for minutes on end, as others have noticed you get jerky, unreadable squares instead of a smooth image - it’s pretty much getting to be unusable now. What a shame. Someone took a great app and turned it into crap. I don’t really understand why..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Ads are overwhelminglyI understand the need and use for ads in applications that are free. However, this application takes it to an all new level. I have never in my life, viewed a radar and been interrupted in the middle of watching a radar animation to have an ad pop-up what's worse is they use the kind of ads used by other applications, like words with friends that make you watch a video. this shows the immaturity of the marketing and development people involved with this app who think that the more ads they throw at you the more it'll motivate you to purchase the ad free version. Problem is the opposite is true better just to leave the ads out altogether, and have the merits of premium featureswarrant and encourage someone to upgrade. This is no better than Clickbait articles that are full of advertisements and pop-ups. There are too many excellent weather applications available today. Maybe they should take some time and learn from those apps..Version: 3.2.6
✓ DisappointedI am in emergency management and need an accurate and trusted weather app on my phone. Unfortunately, this is not it. Even after paying for the premium service, it fell short. The interface is nice and simple to navigate. The radar accurately shows where the precipitation is at, but at the wrong intensity and that is why this app doesn’t work for me. The important part is the data and this is where this app fails. It is important to be able to see the intensity to properly plan for what’s coming, but this app is always showing intensity colors of yellow and red when in actuality it is a light rain. I even changed the minimum level from all to light rain, and I saw no difference. I e played with other settings and still no change. I really wanted to like this app, but I can’t. It is not a good app if you are trying to coordinate severe weather response..Version: 2.20.4
✓ Radar colors are nice but features do not workI paid for this app and have yet to receive even one rain notification. And when I open the app the radar is paused at the end of the loop rather than auto starting like I have selected in the settings. I wish I had my money back..Version: 1.11
✓ Almost great??🖤 it’s simplicity and clean design! Hope they can fix some issues ... for one ... Rain alerts seem Intermittent ... been on off thunderstorms here all day today and yet not one alert .. i have distance set at 30..Version: 1.7.0
✓ You had one jobPast tense, I’ve already deleted the app. Location set to ALWAYS, but the app doesn’t update your location unless you manually tell it to. What use is this? #FAIL Response to developer’s response: no, I’m 1000 miles away meanwhile, it does not give me precipitation notifications for the correct updated location. I’m getting notifications for somewhere else. This app is only relevant to someone who stays in one location..Version: 2.18.16
✓ DisappointingI purchased a year of premium access after my preferred weather app Dark Sky was discontinued. I didn’t think it would be such a high bar to meet, but even after paying the updates have been lacking and sometimes inaccurate. For the first couple of months the radar would show several hours of future forecast in addition to the last few hours. Now there is no future forecast on the radar map. The daily forecasts only give high and low temps. There should be an option to see the hour by hour forecast. The amount of information available is limited when compared to the price of a subscription. I doubt I will renew after this year. Too bad..Version: 3.6.2
✓ OkThe only main problem I have with this app is that when I check the map for rain storms I want to know where it’s at Now to where it’s going...NOT where it’s been & move up till the time it is Now....Version: 1.11.1
✓ Widgets aren’t working!!Hi, none of your widgets aren’t working even that I have premium paid subscription. I’m not gonna continue paying you if they aren’t fixed..Version: 3.8
✓ Not worth the priceI downloaded this app and bought the subscription just to find out it didn’t meet expectations. I requested a refund which was denied twice. I use the app for less than 15 minutes buyer beware. I am now using CARROT which is way more feature rich and less money..Version: 3.7.2
✓ JeKhyyu.Version: 3.0.2
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