“the old weatherzone+ app was perfect, this is full of ads and hangs in infinite load screens”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 422 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★169,478 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
311 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Hi there, we're Weatherzone. The local weather app helping you plan your daily life, travels, and outdoor adventures. Here's a quick Summer 2026 Outlook from our resident Meteorologist, and check out our app features below:
“A strengthening El Niño will influence weather across the United States this summer, with large parts of the country also entering the season in drought. The Northeast and interior Southwest could see above average precipitation, bringing potential storms and flood risk. Meanwhile, below average precipitation in the Pacific Northwest could enhance drought. It’s looking to be an active fire season for parts of the West and South, particularly the Pacific Northwest where abnormally warm and dry conditions will exacerbate the drought.
Be sure to check your local weather forecasts and warnings to plan ahead, stay safe, and make the most of your summer.”…
Preview
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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 7.6.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.6.1, updated 2026-08-14.
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 a price and a 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.
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.
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 8 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 422 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Your app is flipping out today, refresh logo keeps glitching on the screen... and pages keep creeping... have reinstalled, still the same... Android version. To many ads the problem maybe..?😎”
“it looked free until it wasn't!!! Not ok!!! I had looked for a weather app to give me weather where I live because our weather changes rapidly...and keep track of Earthquake activity...when I got Your app all the sudden I was bombarded by…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.6.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown2
Lowest$3.49
Highest$3.99
Weatherzone PRO Subscription$3.99
Ad-free Weatherzone Subscription$3.49
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.