“Too Many Ads — Can’t view the content because I can’t get past the freaking ads.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 185 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★9,242 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
85 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Our free Texas Storm Chasers app includes real-time Texas weather articles, interactive weather radar, live storm chase video, and new features based on follower suggestions. After serving over one half million social media followers we’re excited to announce the introduction of the Texas Storm Chasers app. Our team of vetted weather enthusiasts and storm chasers provide you with up-to-date weather information. Some might say we even do it with a bit of Texas flair.
Our app is designed to work flawlessly with our weather blog. That compatibility ensures we’re able to provide rapid weather updates during high-impact events. Take that a step further with our free interactive weather radar. Previously available only on our website our interactive weather radar has been included within the app itself. Track storms in your neighborhood or across the United States without leaving the app.…
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 3.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.6, updated 2026-08-11.
What we measured
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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 (2.7% of 185 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Home screen ads make it hard to use app — Loved the app until the most recent update - I can’t get past the initial Home Screen (with the ad that takes up the whole screen. The link to go to the storm chaser’s home page is at the top of…”
“Good enough for what I need — I use several weather apps since many of them are reading information from different parts of town. (I don’t stay in one spot. I visit around town.) this app does have a lot of ad’s which can be annoying. Was…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.