What users hate. Clustered.

1- and 2-star reviews grouped into themes with verbatim examples. Each cluster is a wedge a competitor could exploit.

200 reviews·8 themes

Overwhelming and intrusive full-screen ads
Users report that the app is flooded with full-screen, unskippable, or hard-to-close ads that take over the interface, often requiring app restarts to regain control.
68
reviews
- “The ads are Brutal — The ads ruin this app. Just so unnecessary”
- “I keep getting a glitch when looking at the daily weather. I don’t know why it does this but it’s annoying when I can’t see the weather for the week.”
- “Every time I scroll through the hourly weather an ad is triggered. This is very annoying. I am changing Weather apps as a result.”
Ads with sound and forced interruptions during emergencies
Users are frustrated by loud, unexpected audio ads that play even when the phone is on silent, especially critical during severe weather events.
24
reviews
- “The ads are way too much — I get it. Ads are a thing for free apps. But for Pete’s sake, the long ads are ridiculous. Currently, it takes forever to get through the Royal Kingdom ad and that is IFFFF it doesn’t freeze and crash the app.”
- “Why are there ads on a weather app? I use this at work, and checking that weather an ad pops up full volume. I hate that this app got popup ads at all, but full volume ads are beyond ridiculous.”
- “An alert popped up this am saying that my phone had a virus that was corrupting my phone and that I must click below to avoid further damage to my phone.”
App crashes, freezes, and performance degradation after updates
Multiple users report that recent updates have caused significant instability, including frequent crashes, freezing, slow loading, and constant reloading of content.
51
reviews
- “Used to be good — Used to be a great app, it’s not riddled with forced pop up ads and they paywalled basic features.”
- “The app has become unusable due to ads, and I’m not paying for a weather app when I have a native free one on my phone.”
- “App keeps getting worse and worse! — Way to many adds unless you want to pay for weather forecast that are rarely correct anyway.”
Poor navigation and broken UI after redesigns
Users complain about confusing layouts, hidden buttons, broken tabs, and the removal of beloved features like Retro mode, making core functions difficult to access.
37
reviews
- “What happened to RetroCast? Was it clickbait?? App is totally overbearing with ads.”
- “The new update to this app seems so pointless. The retro mode is kind of idiotic, and then the new commentary when mentioning the weather for the day such as, sunglasses are a must, is presumptuous and bad advice.”
- “PLEASE STOP CHANGING STUFF — The app was working perfectly fine. Now, the most important tabs that I switch through which is the hourly and daily forecast, the buttons are extremely hidden and even sometimes disappear??”
Misleading or irrelevant content and AI-generated commentary
Users find the daily weather summaries overly chatty, unhelpful, and sometimes offensive (e.g., suggesting sunglasses), with AI-generated content lacking credibility.
29
reviews
- “The commentary on daily outlook (catch sun while you can! Put on your sunglasses and get out there!) is … >ugh<. Please go back to basics!”
- “Stupid weather descriptions — Every day, some numbskull writes a description of the weather that includes something about sunglasses.”
- “AI has taken over — It’s only gotten worse. Inaccurate forecasting too”
Paywalls and forced subscriptions for basic features
Users feel misled by the app's shift toward monetization, where essential features like radar access or accurate forecasts are locked behind paywalls.
26
reviews
- “Now, there’s adds, surprise. They have a subscription now(?), pay for more accurate weather forecast? Uh nope.”
- “As someone living near the Georgia wildfires I think it’s kind of crazy you can’t access some of the features that would show the fires and smoke on this app without paying a monthly fee.”
- “Used to be great — This used to be a great app. All the recent updates suck. I don’t like that on the Today tab, that the temperature and precipitation hour by hour is on two separate tabs now.”
Unreliable or inaccurate weather data
Several users report that forecasts frequently change rapidly, fail to predict storms accurately, or display incorrect information, undermining trust in the app.
22
reviews
- “Not the best at predicting forecast. Not a reliable source of weather. Better hang a rock out side that way you know what’s going on.”
- “Last 6 month the weather app has gone down hill. It changes all the time through any given day. Can’t depend on the forecast. Not accurate at all!! Such a shame.”
- “The weather channel often tells me 100% thunderstorms, but nothing happens. It is more likely to rain when it says 50.”
Malicious or scam-like ads and redirects
Users report being redirected to suspicious websites, shown fake security warnings, or exposed to inappropriate content (e.g., rotting feet, decaying mouths) via ads.
18
reviews
- “Scam ads impersonating Apple security – unacceptable — This is completely unacceptable.”
- “Adds are gross — The app itself is fine. It’s the adds that are the problem. I check the weather first thing in the morning and the last thing I want to see is a picture of a rotting foot or inside of a decaying mouth.”
- “Ads — This app keeps redirecting me to suspicious sites”

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