“Too many ads — Cancelled my subscription that should have lasted till next year. Ads returned the very next day. Tired of subscriptions. Tired of ads everywhere. Found another app with no ads.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 654 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.8 ★2,185,728 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
249 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
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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 6.9.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.9.0, updated 2026-10-01.
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
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 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
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 (3.4% of 654 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Great app — I’ve been using this for years. It has an accurate radar, easy to move from current to extended forecast. Shows me what I need without having pop up ads that keep interrupting what I’m trying to read.”
“POS app. Full screen ads and a radar that can’t load storms to save its life — Title says it all”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.9.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.