“I gave this app 2 stars 3 years ago, mostly for the endless ads. Skip forward to today, 01/2025. Still two stars. They tell you there are no ads with the paid version. There are ads. Click on any video and wait 30-60 seconds while an ad…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 812 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★372,441 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
212 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Download FOX Weather to get the updates you need, straight from America’s Weather team. Forecast ten days or ten months in advance, customize your locations, and chase the storm with 3D radar tracking.
FOX Weather is ready for whatever the weather brings—rain or shine. Live stream news, get severe weather alerts or track local conditions, including UV index, sunset/sunrise times, and feels-like temp. How?
3D Radar • Go inside the eye of the storm with our exclusive 3D mobile radar, including both national and local high-resolution views. • Zoom, tilt, or swipe to look at the storm from any angle you choose and switch between 3D and 2D maps.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 3.13.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.13.0, updated 2026-09-11.
Google Play
We cannot tell which version of the app this analysis describes. It was run 2026-10-04 , and the app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version VARY, updated 2026-09-15.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 24 distinct reviewers (5.9% of 404 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I wish the radar had a dot showing my location. Also, when I get a notification for a story, I click to read it and almost immediately get a pop-up ad that is most often a blank page. When I hit the back button, it brings me to the home…”
“Uninstalled it immediately. Far to many adds. Not worth the wait. When will they learn enough is enough.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.13.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.