“I've had this app for years, and I've loved it. unfortunately, there's no way to opt out of the new privacy policy and even if you accept it and then turn it off, you'll just be prompted again on next use. I don't see why a weather app…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 509 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
What The Forecast
Affiliated Apps LLCWhat The Forecast Awards and Mentions: What The Forecast won a 2018 People's…
4.8 ★15,709 ratings
5M+Downloads
17+Age rating
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Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
What The Forecast Awards and Mentions:
What The Forecast won a 2018 People's Choice Webby Award in the category of Mobile Sites & Apps - Services & Utilities!! Thank you to everyone who voted and helped make that happen!!
Listed in Google Play's "Best of 2017" as one of the top 5 new apps!!
Welcome to What The Forecast Finally, there is an accurate Android weather app that will explain, in real terms, how nasty it is outside. You will never again wonder if you should just go back to bed (which, of course, you should). Sometimes, it is better to just give up and try again tomorrow.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.97.3.584 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.97.3.584, updated 2026-09-30.
What we measured
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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.
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: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I've used this app for a while and it's been pretty good. But the last two times I've opened it I've gotten a pop-up about accepting the privacy policy that will let them collect and sell my data so I'll probably be uninstalling.”
“Used to be 5 Star and have faithfully used for years. Now, not so sure. i got a popup today for a privCy policy where I was informed various collectors are using QRCode scans, exact location details etc etc abd sell your info around the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.97.3.584.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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