It’s functional. Poor interface design. Dated aesthetic but it gives me the weather and also some features that are badly implemented and get in the way of telling me the weather.As someone who actually paid for this app many, many years ago, I’ve come to terms that I now get served ads (although now they’re offering me the option to pay a monthly subscription to not get adds).Who’s advising them? Please, I implore you - get them to think about human centred design - do proper UX research - get them to think who this app is for. It wouldn’t cost much to scrap this mess and start from scratch with an actual strategy ... and give us an app to be proud of. Come on people, if not for me ... then for New Zealand!

Original review: The old app was fantastic. I liked the content, layout and presentation - and the ability to personalise with photos. This new app has a horrible, dated design, causes my phone to freeze, makes it hard to check forecasts in other places and has ads in it. I can't think of anything nice to say about it.Update: since the new app was launched, I have cycled between installing and deleting the app several times. Metservice has great content and while the website is good, an app is my preferred channel, so I’ve given it some more chances. It’s good to see the many improvements that have been made since it was first launched; it’s where it should have been on launch day. I’ll probably end up deleting it again though and sticking with the website because of the little avatar. It’s minor but for me it’s an unnecessary design feature that has bugged me since its inception and now has baggage (and I have asked for it to be removable, at least, previously). I’ll try again in a few months.

I’ve used this app as a widget on my phone for years. In recent times, the weather and location displayed in the widget is increasingly wrongs - probably around 80% of the time these days. It defaults back to a suburb I lived in over 18 months ago and the temperature does not update throughout the day. For example, it will say that I am in this particular suburb and the temperature is 1 degree all day long, even if I have not been in that suburb at all that day and the temperature is now 14 degrees. It shows the correct location and temperature when opening the app, just not in the widget which is very annoying. I have updated the app and no change. Time to remove it from my home screen as it is far too annoying. Hopefully an update will fix this issue. Going by the number of similar complaints there are many others wanting this fix as well.

The ads drown any usefulness that might be hidden in this app. Every time you start the app, you have to wait for a full-screen ad to load, which you then have to close (just to be met by more ads). Because the app is ridiculously slow and outdated, it takes a long time to load the ads and close them, making the experience of checking the weather an ordeal.The worst thing is the makers seem not to care about their work or the users’ experience: there’s no option to pay to remove the ads, and the app hasn’t had any meaningful improvements in years.