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Windy.app — Wind, Tides, Radar
Windy Weather World Inc · Utilities

We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High3 signal sources574 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-05
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 15.8.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 15.8.2, updated 2026-09-28.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 5

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
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 5 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 574 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 574 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 574 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 574 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the store privacy disclosure.view evidence
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 (8 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.

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.

Aggressive ad load

Pro subscription so what’s with the ads? — I paid for a subscription so can’t you disable the full screen advertisements for your other products? I know where you live and I know what you have created so please lose the commercials that…

4★ · App Store · 2025-04-11

Too many ads to upgrade — I receive requests multiple times a week to spend dollars to upgrade. The app isn’t that great. I tried to stop my subscription before the annual renewal and was unable to do so. The app makes it very hard to…

1★ · App Store · 2024-12-22

Too many ads to be useful — There are so many advertisements and limitations that the app is effectively unusable. The app is outrageously expensive to rent. There is no option to purchase it. This app should NOT be confused with the…

1★ · App Store · 2024-10-25

Trial converts to a charge

Scammy — Tried a free trial but it just charged me for a whole year automatically instantly. No three days nothing just charged me. I emailed them about it with no reply.

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-30

Charging my account $169.99!!! — Since when does a 7 day free trial equal automatically charging my account almost $170?!?!

1★ · App Store · 2025-12-30

Trash — Trash and charged after cancelling during free trial.

1★ · App Store · 2025-06-29

Hard to cancel

Cancel — You can’t cancel this app!!!

4★ · App Store · 2026-06-12

Beware — Hard to cancel subscription

1★ · App Store · 2025-11-16

👎🏼 — Way too expensive for what you get and Canceling is a nightmare!

1★ · App Store · 2025-09-30

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Deceptive advertising — I saw an ad for the Windy app on social media. The ad was targeted at fishermen and as a visitor to Florida a couple of times a year, I could use some help with species and locations. The ad made it appear this was…

1★ · App Store · 2026-01-26

Does nothing — If you are downloading this for fishing. Don’t waste your time. The ads are completely fake and the app does absolutely nothing of value for fishing. You’re better off using a magic 8 ball.

1★ · App Store · 2025-11-03

App is good but lots of false advertising — I liked the app originally. But recently it send me notifications that I can get the pro version for 60% or 70% off and whenever I try to make a purchase -surprise, surprise- there’s no discount…

1★ · App Store · 2025-09-04

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 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.

Subscriptions2
WINDY PRO access for 1 monthMonthly$9.99
WINDY PRO account - 1 monthMonthly$19.99
Show 6 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

WINDY PRO accountTerm not stated$164.99
WINDY PRO accessTerm not stated$59.99
WINDY PRO accountTerm not stated$59.99
WINDY PRO accountTerm not stated$39.99
Windy.app Fishing ProTerm not stated$49.99
WINDY PRO accountTerm not stated$99.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

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.

 Not yet human-reviewed

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.

 How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-05 Version analyzed: 15.8.23 independent signals574 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.