“Glitchy app — Glitchy app that keeps forcing you to watch videos and ads”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 230 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★14,845 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
297 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
The best weather app in the Tennessee Valley gets even better!
You spoke, and we've listened. Local 3 knows that weather plays an important role in your life. It determines the route you take to work, how you make plans for the weekend and if the kids will have soccer practice. We've worked closely with our app development team to re-vamp the Local 3 Weather app. Current conditions, with information generated by the Local 3 Storm Alert Team, gives you a quick glimpse into what's going on outside right now. By scrolling down you can find conditions for the week ahead, our Live Stream, School Closings and new Traffic/Road Conditions. The new, high-resolution radar now has Storm Tracks, so you can tell if the storm is headed your way, and what areas around you may be affected. Be sure to turn on Alerts and enable Locations to be warned of dangerous weather in your locations.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 6.2.703 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.2.703, updated 2026-09-30.
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 fewer than 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.
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 5 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 230 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ads interfering with live forecast — I understand ads pay the bills but when dangerous weather is around. I get about 20-30 seconds of the live forecast. Then ad after ad. Missing big chunks of the live forecast. I have no problem with…”
“Ads — I have been using this app for a while and have been happy with it. But now I can’t open it without some stupid ad taking over my screen. I absolutely despise ads and I will be finding another weather app. I flat refuse to have ads…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.2.703.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.