“No longer worth it. — This app used to be acceptable. I subscribed to it for 2 years at what is now the monthly rate, then let it lapse as there were better alternatives. I got a new iPhone and loaded it, and get bombarded with often…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 384 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★18,929 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
98 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Live weather radar powered by official NOAA data. See storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes the instant they form — with the same data sources trusted by professional meteorologists.
From a passing thunderstorm to a multi-day hurricane, Weather NOW gives you live Doppler radar, pinpoint hourly forecasts, and an interactive 3D Earth that turns weather into something you can actually see and trust.
Plan smarter. Travel safer. Stay ahead of every storm.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 2.13.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.13.5, updated 2026-09-04.
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
Says 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 2
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 11 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 384 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (7 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Downfall — Used to be a good reliable app, now it’s very inaccurate and FULL of ads. Will be deleting, there’s better free apps without 15-20 secs ads on every step”
“Way to many ads it’s just redundant — To annoying with all the non stop ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.13.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$4.99
Highest$70.00
Monthly Premium Weather Now$9.99
Premium 1 Month$9.99
Annual Subscription. Premium.$19.99
1 Year Premium$19.99
Annual Subscription$49.99
Show 4 more purchases
Annual Premium Subscription$29.99
Lifetime access. Weather Now.$70.00
3 Days$4.99
Premium Meteo Features $39.99