Weather Hi-Def Radar Forecast 12+
SkyBuddy: My Live NOAA Channel
Maple Media Apps, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Weather Hi-Def Radar Forecast is a simple yet powerful weather radar app that features real-time animated weather radar images in vivid color on a highly-responsive interactive map. View future forecasts and detailed weather information with map layers, including fire & air quality index. See freezing rain on the radar so you can anticipate hazardous road conditions. Stay ahead of the weather with advanced alerts, including lightning & precipitation notifications so you’re always prepared.
Features include:
• Sharp weather radar imagery display current & future radar images
• View weather map full-screen on your device and hide the app buttons for a crystal clear detailed overview of weather radar activity
• Tap & hold on the map to check current weather conditions and forecasts
• Get real-time push notifications for severe weather conditions including floods, severe storms, temperature advisories, wildfires, snow, high winds, and air quality
• Set multiple locations for fast & easy access to weather forecasts, to view current road conditions, barometric pressure readings, and detailed weather information for all your saved locations
• View your GPS position, direction of travel, and elevation on the map with location enabled
• Monitor local air pollution data with AQI
• Quickly view hourly weather with Lock & Home Screen Widgets
• Use Fire Overlay to monitor active wildfires near & far
Show Weather Layers on the map to see past weather imagery (for U.S. locations & some non-U.S. locations where available)
• Radar layer
• Clouds layer
• Clouds & Radar layer
• Temperature layer
• Water Temperature layer
• Wind Speed layer
• Snowfall layer
• Road Weather layer
Severe Weather Overlays and alerts on the map to see severe weather warning boxes(U.S. locations only):
• Tap alert boxes on the map to view info
• Tornado and Thunderstorm watches and warnings
• Flood watches and warnings
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm forecast tracks
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm watches and warnings
• Storm Tracks showing direction of storm in the next few minutes
• Winter storm watches and warnings
• Marine and coastal alerts
• Earthquakes
• View Lightning strikes on the map
Purchase Storm Watch Plus to unlock the following:
• Future Radar: See predicted radar imagery for the next few hours
• Future Clouds: See predicted cloud imagery for the next few hours.
• Future Clouds & Radar together: See predicted clouds and radar imagery together for the next few hours
• Future Temperatures Map: See predicted future temperatures map
• Future Water Temps Map: See predicted future water temperatures map
• Future Wind Speeds Map: See predicted future wind speeds map
• Lightning Alerts: Be notified when lightning strikes nearby.
• Precipitation Alerts: Get a push notification precipitation is detected up to 10 miles away
• Snow Report: See snow conditions for your saved locations.
Please Note:
• Current Location is not supported by Precipitation Notifications at this time.
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
• Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.
• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
• No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period.
• Privacy Policy: https://maplemedia.io/privacy/
• Terms of Use: https://maplemedia.io/terms-of-service/
• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Email support.weatherhd@maplemedia.io for fast & friendly support.
What’s New
Version 4.4.90
A new version of Weather Hi-Def Radar is here! Here's what's new:
- Weather warnings: view in-depth weather details for current weather advisories, including tips on how to prepare and stay safe
- General optimizations & stability improvements
Thanks for using Weather Hi-Def Radar! Have questions or feedback? Email us at support.weatherhd@maplemedia.io for fast & friendly support.
Ratings and Reviews
Keeps jumping back to my location
Update: I was just reminded of my rating via email because the app developer reached out and wants more information to resolve the issue. I would like to report that this has not happened for a while now and I am happy to give this app a 5 star rating. Thanks for this awesome app!
Original post: I’ve been using this app for a few years now, it’s been nothing short of great. In the last few months, when I open the app and it shows my location, but if I try to move out of my area or zoom out to see where a storm is, it will jump back to my location. The only fix I found was to delete the app and reinstall. I did this one and will try again. This issue is NOT happening on my fiancé’s phone. I’m not sure why it’s happening to me. I will try the same method before and hope that it works again. If there was another radar that was better or equal, I would uninstall it and be done, but this app is superior to all, and I just want it to work correctly. Please advise if there’s something you know of that could be causing this for me when it’s not for others. I want to give this app the 5 stars it deserves.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your detailed feedback and for being a loyal user of our app. We want to know more about the issue you're experiencing with the locations. To help us investigate this further, please reach out to us by navigating to Settings > Contact Us in the app. We're committed to resolving this for you and ensuring the app works as expected.
From bad to worse
Like many, I have had this app for years and still miss the slider. This has been a frustration for years. I have settled that it is gone. Over the last couple years, I have also looked for a replacement app and found none that compared to this app for resolution of radar and speed of loading. I also use RadarScope Pro alongside this app, but it is a more complex app and loads slower. I have liked the speed and resolution of this app.
Until recently, I have been fine running a year old version of the app, concerned that I would not like the updates and I was content with the app as it was. But today, it just hung and hung and would not load any radar imagery. I figured it may be my old version causing a problem, even though it loaded yesterday just fine. So I updated it... wow, what a piece of junk app this has become. It is near exact to storm radar from the weather channel app but you have to pay for future radar also instead of it being included free. The resolution is so bad, so bad, so bad. You should probably change the name of the app away from Hi-Def. I will not continue to use this product anymore. I have rode out the disappointments for years, with it remaining a better option than many, but this latest version is a fatal wound.
Expensive Nagware but better
Update: They have quickly addressed my main concerns. Location icons are smaller. I’ve opened the app several times without being asked to purchase. Thank you!
Original: The radar is great. As of April 2024, recent design change releases are not improvements. I have a lot of saved locations and the icons have become so big that I can’t see the radar map when zoomed out. The now constant nagging for in-app purchases, pretty much every time I open the app, is super frustrating. The growing clutter of unwanted links and feature upgrade buttons on most every menu is getting in the way of checking the weather. Please shrink the location icons or make them disappear when zoomed out and quiet the solicitations. And the new non-weather “discover” tab is just annoying. The developer has gone from one-time purchase to subscription making this purchased app an exercise in frustration without further subscribing at a steep ~$50/year which I have to assume would eliminate the now prominent nagging and make it wonderful. $50/year from even just 20,000 iPhone subscribers would be fantastic if you can get it ($1M/year).
Developer Response ,
Hi there, Thanks for providing your feedback. We'll be sure to share it with the rest of the team. As for the pins being too large for the map, we have released an update that will resolve that. Please update to the newest version of the app. Thanks!
Events
App Privacy
The developer, Maple Media Apps, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Contact Info
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Maple Media Apps, LLC
- Size
- 164.6 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © Maple Media LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Future Weather $0.99
- Storm Watch Monthly $3.99
- Lightning Alerts $0.99
- Storm Watch Annual $39.99
- Lightning Notification Monthly $3.99
- Storm Watch Plus Monthly $6.99
- Storm Watch Plus Annual $49.99
- Storm Watch Monthly $5.99
- Storm Watch Monthly $6.99
- Storm Watch Plus Weekly $3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.