MetService

Name: MetService
Rating: 2.4 (1074 reviews)
Author: MetService

Weather

Free · In-App Purchases

1.1K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Weather
Developer

MetService
Language

EN
English
Size

193.4
MB

MetService NZ Weather Features include: - Morning, afternoon, evening and overnight icons, set by our meteorologists, to help you plan your day - Severe Weather Warnings and Watches for your location - Automatically see the forecast and observations that are most relevant to you, by enabling location services or choosing your suburb, town or city - Customise your weather dashboard, your shortcuts bar, and the order of forecast modules - Real-time, zoomable Rain Radar for your area, with quick link - 48 hour forecast graphs - Interactive national temperature map - Handy ratings and indexes, such as the laundry drying forecast, UV index, fire rating and pet walking forecasts - MetService TV updates - 3 day, zoomable Rain Forecast maps - Live Traffic Cameras for urban locations - Home screen, lock screen and notification centre widgets available Please see the EULA here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Ratings & Reviews

2.4

out of 5

1.1K Ratings

A functional mess
13 July

Manfred Kerber
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!
A functional mess
13 July

Manfred Kerber

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!
Update to review
29/10/2017

Disgruntled of Wellington
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.
Update to review
29/10/2017

Disgruntled of Wellington

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.
Widget displays incorrect information
16/09/2022

tobeyguac
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.
Widget displays incorrect information
16/09/2022

tobeyguac

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.
Dreadful experience
23/08/2023

entactix
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.
Dreadful experience
23/08/2023

entactix

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.

We've made behind-the-scenes improvements to the way notifications are delivered. No visible changes in the app, but this update helps strengthen our notification system and overall service.