“The ad said it was free. It is not. — The ad I saw for this app said it was free. Turns out, it is free to download, but most definitely not free to use. So I will never be able to review its competency as a Weather app, as I am not going…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 384 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★12,644 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
570 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
NOAA Weather Radar Live Map: Weather forecast to protect you against severe weather alerts, storms, and natural disasters
One of the best weather forecast, accurate weather barometer & simple temperature all in one weather app. NOAA Weather Radar Live Map, with accurate weather barometer, provides real-time weather reports, hourly weather, and all-day weather forecast, precipitation, temperature. Detailed current weather conditions, detailed hourly and daily weather forecasts for the whole world, attractive weather maps with many weather layers, weather radar animations, fast location search, that's all that can be said when mentioning our NOAA Weather Radar Live Map.
FEATURES: Exact forecast: Weather maps provide hourly forecasts (24-hour) and forecasts for the coming days (7+-day hourly forecast), helping you predict weather uncertainties.…
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 43.0.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 43.0.5, 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
2 themes 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 3
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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (2.1% of 384 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.6% of 384 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 (2 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.
“False advertisement — It is posted as Free - but it is not Free! Blatant false statement!”
“Bait and switch — You said free. liar”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 43.0.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.