“Long time user no more — I have had this app for years. Has a spot on my homepage. I’ve recommended it to lots of people and I’ve relied completely on it for my weather needs. I’ve even stood beside it through the pop ups asking me to…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 506 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★76,666 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
442 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Weather Hi-Def Radar Forecast is a simple yet powerful weather radar app that features real-time animated weather radar images in vivid color on a highly-responsive interactive map. View future forecasts and detailed weather information with map layers, including fire & air quality index. See freezing rain on the radar so you can anticipate hazardous road conditions. Stay ahead of the weather with advanced alerts, including lightning & precipitation notifications so you’re always prepared.
Features include:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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 4.6.9 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.6.9, updated 2026-08-18.
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
3 or more 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.
The catch list 1
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.
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Raised by 29 distinct reviewers — 5.7% of the 506 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
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
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 1.99 to USD 49.99 — a 25x spread across 10 items
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: 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 22 distinct reviewers (4.3% of 506 reviews scanned)
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 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 506 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 14 distinct reviewers (2.8% of 506 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“More money — Do not buy this app. I have had this app for over 10 years (paid to get it). It has popups every time you open it (wanting you to pay more) and now wont let you put it in motion unless you pay more”
“Constantly asking to subscribe and now no radar animation — I’ve had this app for a while, but it’s no longer my go-to radar for two reasons. First, every time you open the app, you are greeted with not one, but two, count them two…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.6.9.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$1.99
Highest$49.99
Storm Watch Plus Weekly$3.99
Storm Watch Monthly$5.49
Storm Watch Plus Monthly$6.99
Lightning Notification Monthly$6.99
Storm Watch Monthly$5.99
Show 5 more purchases
Storm Watch Monthly$6.99
Storm Watch Annual$39.99
Storm Watch Plus Annual$49.99
Future Weather$1.99
Lightning Alerts$4.99