36 matches
ForeFlight, LLC · Weather
After a private equity acquisition and layoffs of roughly half the staff, reviews cite rising bugs (download failures, lag, deleted notes, weather loading issues), poor support and unwanted AI features, alongside price hikes and discount cuts. The fall is mainly quality decline mixed with monetization moves. Users can switch to Garmin Pilot or FlightPlan Go.
Impala Studios B.V. · Weather
The dominant complaint is broken data refresh: stale or incorrect temperatures, mismatched cities and a dead widget, with the developer unresponsive. Aggressive ads and forced subscriptions, including failing to honor legacy paid users, add a secondary monetization drag.
Futura Innovation SRL · Weather
iOS users report missed or late alerts, settings that don't stick, a removed USGS feed and long-standing gaps versus Android, all pointing to a neglected iOS port. The true early-warning value rests on a crowdsourced network moat, and iOS background limits also play a part.
BEE LAB JOINT STOCK COMPANY · Weather
Mass launch crashes after v43.0.5, a broken subscription entitlement, inaccurate radar and unanswered support drove the decline. An aggressive $40/yr hard paywall also angers users.
Mosaic S.r.l. · Weather
Two drivers overlap. Steep price hikes ($1.49 → $6.49 → $11.49/mo, plus a $1.99/week tier) and paywalled lightning alerts drive many reviews. Equally, after an ownership change the core alert pipeline broke: missed tornado warnings, empty alert details, broken radar layers, contradictory forecasts and no updates. The neglect of a commodity feature makes this out-buildable.
LW Brands, LLC · Weather
The decline mixes product rot and monetization. Users report very slow image loads, stale or lagging data, outages during major storms and a confusing 2024 redesign. They are also angry about spaghetti models being moved behind a paywall, plus new ads and trials. The core data is free from NHC, so the feature is a commodity and easily replicated.
Windfinder.com · Weather
Recent decline is driven by sleazy ad content in the free tier plus long-running complaints about forecast accuracy, bugs (search freeze, lost favorites, missing waves/tides) and a confusing redesign; no paywall shift is evident, so it reads as neglect and degraded UX on a replaceable weather feature.
xAd, Inc. · Weather
A redesign cut the 10-day forecast to 5 days, broke the lightning map, alerts and settings, and buried the map, alongside a heavy increase in ads; the core feature is replaceable weather.
Condor Digital LLC · Weather
Most complaints are long-running bugs and neglect: Watch app lag and broken complications, freezes, slow loading, Mac crashes, data inaccuracies, and unresponsive support. Secondary monetization friction comes from paywalled widgets and Watch support and a bait-and-switch for lifetime buyers.
BYSS mobile · Weather
Most complaints are about broken radar, poor navigation, slowness and unanswered support; a mandatory annual subscription with no trial amplifies frustration but the core decline is execution quality.
Fox News Network, LLC · Weather
Decline is driven by crashes and load failures, broken deep links from Fox News, unreliable radar, removed radar warning boxes and intrusive ads; weather data and radar are commodities, though the Fox brand and news cross-traffic are hard to replicate.
Andrew Yates · Weather
The dominant complaint over years is that the core sunset-quality prediction is inaccurate and unexplained, with some saying it got worse after recent updates. Buggy notifications, watch complications and location handling add to this, as does an unresponsive developer. Paywall moves (widgets, the 1-day free outlook, tip-jar users losing lifetime Pro) are a secondary irritant.
Weather Underground, LLC · Weather
Reviews are dominated by crashes, freezes, no updates in a year, missing widgets and data fields, and perceived worse forecast accuracy, with aggressive ads adding to it. The core feature, weather forecasts and radar, is a commodity.
Digital Cyclone · Weather
Most reviews cite crashes, freezes, map loading failures, broken filing/briefing, and worsening UX after updates; some monetization gripes and Garmin-avionics lock-in exist, but the alternative (ForeFlight) is entrenched, and avionics integration and chart data make it hard to out-build.
Raindrop Limited Liability Company · Weather
Many reviews complain about free features (second location, history, maps) moved behind a $30–50/yr paywall and about tier reshuffling. Others report rain totals that are inaccurate vs gauges and that degraded recently, plus subscription and login bugs. The paywall shift is the dominant driver, with product rot as a strong secondary factor.
Ambient, LLC · Weather
The sharpest recent anger is over paywalling features that used to be free (historical graphs, rain totals, tile reordering), on top of chronic setup and connectivity problems and a dated UI. Users who own the hardware feel squeezed, but a third-party viewer app could use Ambient's public API.
Electric Dream Machine LLC · Weather
The v4 relaunch moved to a subscription model and paywalled widgets, watch complications, alternate forecast sources and even the classic layout. A disliked redesign and watch and loading bugs made the backlash worse, but the paywall shift is the dominant complaint.
WeatherFlow · Weather
The decline is driven mainly by moving previously accessible wind stations behind higher-priced Pro/upgrade tiers, which hit even paying Plus users. A v7 redesign that added crashes and worse graphics, plus forecast accuracy complaints, are secondary factors.
Sportsman Tracker, Inc · Navigation
Most complaints are about paywalling: the free tier was gutted, features keep moving into higher tiers, the price is about $120/yr, and trial/cancel/billing practices look predatory. Secondary product rot shows in stale parcel data, UX regressions in Huntcast and wind maps, and nonexistent support.
MeteoLab Inc. · Weather
Most complaints are about aggressive paywalling of future radar, ads, removed free coverage and subscription-only pricing. Server outages, stale radar, broken alerts, crashes and lost premium status point to product rot alongside the monetization squeeze.
WeatherFront LLC · Weather
Most low-star reviews cite paywalled features (future radar, model products, satellite) and a $9.99/mo or ~$100/yr subscription for publicly available NOAA data; secondary complaints about account bugs, county-line accuracy, usability and accessibility.
Ventusky s.r.o. · Weather
The decline mixes a move from a one-time purchase to a subscription with formerly free layers paywalled, a large price hike, and paid users losing grandfathered access, with widespread premium-entitlement bugs, broken settings, perceived accuracy loss, and clutter.
Base Velocity, LLC · Weather
Most recent low-star reviews attack the $9.99 upfront price combined with Pro subscription tiers gating loop length, composites and warnings; secondary complaints about stale radar updates and UI changes.
Maple Media Apps, LLC · Weather
The decline mixes monetization and product rot. Free radar was delayed or degraded, storm tracker and future radar went behind a paywall, and upsell ads appear on every launch. At the same time, updates brought radar lag, crashes, a black map and billing entitlement bugs. Monetization looks like the main driver, but much of the lag and breakage is fixable product rot.
TITANO DIGITAL TEKNOLOJI LIMITED SIRKETI · Weather
Most complaints are about an aggressive hard paywall, a ~$50 charge on a 'trial', and billing after cancellation. A few onboarding bugs are also reported. The underlying feature (UV index, tan timer, reminders) is a commodity that is easy to replicate.
Surfline/Wavetrak · Weather
Decline is driven mainly by paywalling formerly free live cams, heavy ads, and price hikes after absorbing Magicseaweed, with secondary complaints about forecast accuracy and bugs.
Precipitation Inc. · Weather
Most complaints stem from aggressive free-tier limits (map moves count as lookups, 24h history, 2 locations) and pricey subscriptions, compounded by freezes, permission nags and perceived inaccuracy.
Piotr Knapczyk · Weather
Most of the decline comes from moving radar and multi-day forecasts behind a subscription, constant upsells and trial or billing traps. On top of that are accuracy complaints and navigation and CarPlay bugs. The underlying features are commodity weather-plus-routing.
Not Boring Software LLC · Weather
Most complaints target paywalled widgets, removal of free widgets and an annual subscription seen as overpriced, with secondary complaints about thin weather data and buggy widget unlocks.
Weather Creative Inc. · Weather
Long-time users complain that forecast days, radar and multiple cities were moved behind a subscription, and that aggressive forced ads were added. A secondary complaint is the swap of real cat photos for AI-generated images and captions.
The dominant complaint is the move from free to aggressive tiered paywalls ($45–$180/yr), with ads even for top-tier payers, plus some bugs and UX regressions such as removed charts and broken SST.
Cory Mottice · Weather
Mixed: paywalling of formerly free features and a forced trial prompt drive several complaints, alongside product bugs (missed severe alerts, wrong condition labels, missing radar), with the strongest recent drop tied to accuracy/bug issues.
Windy Weather World Inc · Weather
Most complaints center on aggressive paywalls, constant upsell pop-ups, trial-to-annual charges, a hidden fishing add-on and lifetime features being re-paywalled; some accuracy and settings bugs are secondary.
MOON CALENDAR LTD · Weather
Most complaints are about deceptive subscription upsells, inability to cancel, and a thin free tier. Secondary complaints cover rot: weird notifications, onboarding questionnaires, broken widgets, and removed features. The underlying feature is a trivial commodity.
Cloudnine Weather, Inc. · Weather
The decline is driven mainly by price hikes from about $20 to $49/yr, new Premium tiers above existing paid tiers, a gutted free version and constant upsells, while users still pay. Complaints about forecast accuracy and a cramped redesign are secondary.
Acme Weather Corporation, LLC · Weather
This is a new Dark Sky-successor app, so there was no prior good state to decay from. Low ratings come mainly from the hard $25/year paywall, the lack of a free tier, and no Family Sharing. Complaints about inaccuracy, bugs, and missing radar are also widespread.
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