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The Weather Network & MétéoMédiaSerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 8.0.0.12287 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 8.0.0.12287, updated 2026-10-16.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
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From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Paywall is server-configured and A/B tested via RevenueCat Paywalls — the offer shown can differ per user
The app ships a remote paywall-experimentation SDK, so the offer shown is configured server-side and may differ per user — including from anything we or a reviewer saw.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:c760537d1aa25d00a7fbbdbedcdeb0be6d5aa01ba62a6e07bf2390e588d6314dAggressive ad load: raised by 67 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 6 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "One time purchase"
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
sha256:c760537d1aa25d00a7fbbdbedcdeb0be6d5aa01ba62a6e07bf2390e588d6314dThe 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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Cancellation copy routes the user away from a direct control: "Before you cancel, please consider accepting this offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:c760537d1aa25d00a7fbbdbedcdeb0be6d5aa01ba62a6e07bf2390e588d6314dThe app's own text says: "Open ad when you're back online."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:c760537d1aa25d00a7fbbdbedcdeb0be6d5aa01ba62a6e07bf2390e588d6314d400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
The ads are ridiculous. They pop up everywhere, usually after a delay, and they've changed the UX so that if you initiate a drag to scroll on an ad (which may not have been there a fraction of a second ago), it acts as if you've clicked…
Forces Amazon App Open without my consent. I will just be scrolling through then boom Amazon opens in my face. They must have some kind of deal with Amazon. regardless its not acceptable. If I was interested in an AD I would click on it…
Relentless full screen ads popping up at the most inconvenient time
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 8.0.0.12287, scanned 27 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 8.0.0.12287 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 8.0.0.12287, updated 2026-10-16.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
the-weather-networkAssessed 2026-10-27 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.