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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 453 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.

Weather⁺

Impala Studios

NOAA Network & Channel

4.6 ★144,636 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
177 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases

About this app

Weather⁺ is more than just the weather! Experience the weather forecast with beautiful video backgrounds that change along the local weather conditions of your location.

FREE IN WEATHER⁺ • Forecast Daily & 3-Hourly • Humidity, Precipitation, Pressure, Wind direction & speed • Visibility details • Weather Widgets - Weekly Weather (iPhone & iPad) • Changing Video Background along with weather conditions • Personalize your Forecast Layout screen • Animated Flip Clock • Split View for multitasking support • Full Apple Watch support

SUBSCRIPTION TO PREMIUM ACCESS • a 100% Ad Free experience • Full access to all Weather Videos • Premium Customer Support

Subscriptions automatically renew each month 24 hours before the end of the current period and your iTunes account will be charged unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

8 screenshots
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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.

Automated assessment complete

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 4.18.21 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.18.21, updated 2026-09-21.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

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.

Methodology

Context 1

Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.

Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
MeasuredPublished as context — deliberately not a charge · from the store listingview evidence
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 19.99 — a 20x spread across 10 items

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
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 25 distinct reviewers (5.5% of 453 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Aggressive ad load
“Adds — Nothing but adds”
1★ · App Store · 2026-08-04
Aggressive ad load
“All Ads — Impossible sometimes to get past the ads to use the actual app itself. Pretty worthless”
1★ · App Store · 2026-05-02
Aggressive ad load
“Crazy ads — So many ads. Not worth it”
1★ · App Store · 2026-03-07

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 4.18.21.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Items shown9
Lowest$0.99
Highest$19.99
Weekly Premium Access$1.99
Premium Membership Monthly$1.49
Annual Premium Access$14.99
Annual Limited Time Offer$9.99
Annual Premium Access$19.99
Show 4 more purchases
Premium Membership$7.99
Platinum Membership$0.99
Video Pack$0.99
The Full Weather+ Experience$8.49