“[edit: this morning I clicked on the widget to check the week's forecast and it told me I have to go download the app. WT----?? If there's an update, just tell me there's an update. ] My fave of all the weather apps. All the info I want…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 454 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-07.
Transparent clock and weather
MACHAPP Software LtdGet accurate, live weather updates and beautiful widgets - all in one free app.
4.2 ★981,464 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Get accurate, live weather updates and beautiful widgets - all in one free app. Transparent Clock & Weather gives you live radar, storm alerts, and hourly weather forecasts you can trust. 🌦 Live Weather Radar & Forecasts Track changing conditions in real time with our interactive weather radar map. View rain, snow, and storm activity anywhere in the world with precise live weather data. Check temperature, humidity, UV index, pressure, and wind speed - all from one easy screen. Our weather forecasts combine real-time live data, local weather analysis, and reliable meteo sources to deliver accurate forecasts every day. 📡 Storm Radar, Rain & Live Weather Tracking Follow storms using detailed storm radar and advanced weather radar layers. Track rain clouds and severe weather systems with live radar updates. See how rain and storms move across regions using our powerful live weather…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 9.17.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.17.0, updated 2026-09-29.
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 at least 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 9.17.0, scanned 2026-10-07.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 10 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 6 more
Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch ad to unlock"
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: The 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
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.
In the app's own text: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: The app requests QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, which lets the app enumerate every other app installed on the device.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“pop up ads that you can't X out of. So i have to get out of the app an start over every single time just to use this weather app. i don't mind ads sometimes, but there's no way to get out of them! an they take up the entire page an they…”
“Too many ads. Removed the ad laden app.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 9.17.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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