Weather Radar - NOAA + Channel 4+

Great for wind speed, temp & rain more than just by hour

LOVE & USE DAILY! Continuous line graphs of wind speed (mainly what I bought it for) plus rain & temperatures too also continuously displayed shows at a glance how conditions will be all day much faster than reconstructing from hourly blocks in a chart! Drag finger over lines shows you exactly the temp/ windowed/ precipitation / pressure or air quality. The trends are really clear! I love being able to tell from the diagram without having read more than a few numbers on a chart - saves me time as I am busy. I chose it from almost 10 I tried before. I highly recommend!

Bad business model

DON’T PAY FOR THIS! I had a paid subscription for NOAA Radar Pro, which I loved until it stopped functioning. The app store sent me to this. As soon as you download, before you see the app, it immediately hounds you to pay and offers a “discount” if you do it immediately. Thinking this was the same as my old app, I paid $9.99 for a year. Once I opened it, I found out that it’s not even close. The user interface is clunky and confusing. The weather map is very imprecise. The “forecast” provides less information than Alexa does. The supposed storm tracking tells you there are storms “somewhere in the world”, but you can’t click an icon and see them. So, absolutely useless for tracking developing storms and hurricanes. No options as to what you want alerts for. It’s all or nothing. I tried their other “Free Radar Live” app, which is really much nicer and includes useful information like dew points and “feels like” temperatures with a much nicer interface and more customizable options. Of course, I’d have to pay ANOTHER subscription fee to keep premium features. This developer is ripping people off. Why not do as in the past and make a decent free and a great premium app that does everything? Also, the widget is ugly and doesn’t seem to update. DON’T BUY THIS APP! If you’re going to buy one from this developer, get the much nicer one. If you want free with ads, look somewhere else completely.

Developer Response ,

Hi Cat Dumas! Thank you so much for sharing your valuable feedback with us. We are sorry to hear that our app didn't live up to your expectations. We always do our best to listen to you, and we will make sure to share your experience with the responsible team to improve your experience in the future. Moreover, we also recommend requesting a refund of your purchase by contacting the Apple support team as the product didn't match the quality standards that you wanted. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at support@impalastudios.com.

Very disappointed with subscription

This app used to be amazingly accurate. Now, not so much -- when it's warm and sunny outside, it says it's overcast and 50 degrees in my location, etc. To make matters worse, it continuously stops recognizing my paid subscription status with every update. This time, it won't even restore my purchase AND they're showing ads when I paid for a full year without ads back in January. When I looked at the ad-free options, my subscription no longer covered an ad-free experience. So I opted to "go premium" but it still wouldn't take away the ads until my subscription renews in January. B.S.! I have done all the reporting bugs and dealing with payment issues I can handle with this app. I don't have these issues with other apps that I pay for, and when I pay for an app, I expect to get what I pay for. The price on this keeps going up while the quality of the app's function continues to decline. Not worth it, in my opinion.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for contacting us! We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience. Fortunately, we have released an updated version which should solve the issue of the subscription not being recognised. Please update in the App Store to the newest version. If the issue persists, please contact us at support@impalastudios.com so that we can assist you further! We are sorry to hear that our app failed to predict the weather correctly. For our weather report, we are relying on an external source that sends us their data. Sometimes this data is incorrect, which is something we can’t do anything about. Sometimes things go wrong in retrieving the data, which is where our weather service comes into play. This is a large system that handles the weather retrieval and updates of multiple apps. If you could send us the details of your bad forecast, then we are going to check your weather problem with our weather service and see if we can find and solve it!