What’s the catch? Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording — reported by 29 users.
Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
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 the analysis found
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.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
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.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
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…
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…
Aggressive ad load
Enough with the subscription pressure! — I can understand the need for a subscription. But, years ago, I paid a one-time fee to use this app. Now, that is gone and the pop-up ad for subscription is relentless. This used to be a useful app…
I was happy with this the first five years but now it’s full of ads. — This app started out to be really well done but with each update the performance quality dropped. Today this app is infested with ads trying to get money for a…
Theft — Paid for app years ago. Became a subscription with no consideration for those that already paid. Now bombarded with all manor of ads for services I don’t want.
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
App works as advertised, but the widgets never give correct information about my local weather — The main app works fine, but their widgets that appear on my locked screen, never are accurate, they are not even close in precipitation…
Used to be good — Now just asks for money all the time — Avoid his app. I paid for this app years ago and enjoyed it. I even signed up for a while to get advanced features. I have stopped because it always asks for more money. There seems…
Just locked me out of viewing forecasts — Unbelievable to use an app for several years only to have them lock up some of the most important functionality for a ransom. Have used this for years with full forecasting function available and…
Paywall blocks the basics
Unsafe 5min Radar Delay — I’ve used Hi-Def Radar for years to monitor potential flooding on burn scars and changing mountain conditions because it’s radar was reliable and timely. Lately, however, the free version only displays radar up…
Hiding features behind paywall — App suddenly stops the loop that showed movement for the last couple hours. Time to delete.
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…
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Show 2 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.