“TERRIBLE. — Weather inaccurate. And, it is constantly asking me to upgrade to a different version. Worst app I’ve seen, weather or otherwise. 0 stars. Do not bother with this junk.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 150 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.4 ★75,945 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
233 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
The NOAA Radar and Weather Forecast app offers you the best radar map available on the store with more than 35 real-time and hyper accurate weather layers to choose from in order to plan your perfect day, week or vacation. There is no reason for the weather to surprise you anymore, with up to 12 hours of weather layers forecast.
Use weather layers that come in high resolution and color such as:
- Tropical cyclones (hurricanes)
- Storm cells
- Lightning strikes
- Fire observations
- Air quality
- Wave heights
- Drought monitor
- Atmospheric pressure
- Humidity
- 14 days of temperature and precipitation forecasts
More incredible features:
- Real-time radar map updates whenever and wherever you need them…
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.
This analysis describes version 73.11 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 73.11, updated 2024-12-03.
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
65–79% 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 2
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: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (4.0% of 150 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Site not user friendly — I keep downloading the FREE NOAA and it keeps asking me to do a 3 day trial and then I have to pay!! And it doesn’t allow me to hit a button that says no! So I guess I will keep my WeatherBug”
“Unfortunate greed — I have had this app for years and subscribed to premium for features I found valuable. Recently, the developers decided to charge an exorbitant amount for these features which has prompted me to delete the app in…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 73.11.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$0.99
Highest$9.99
Premium Weekly With Trial$5.49
Premium Weekly$7.49
Premium Weekly$5.99
Weather Premium$9.99
Weather Premium$6.99
Show 4 more purchases
Radar Premium$3.99
Premium Special Offer$2.49
Premium Special Offer$0.99
Premium Special Offer$3.99