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WeatherBug: Weather Forecast

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xAd, Inc. · Weather · Free · v6.9.1

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Review-rating drop
0.73

2026-Q4 3.30 → last 90 days 2.57, text reviews

Peak quarter
3.30

2026-Q4, text reviews

Last 90 days
2.57

text reviews

Store rating
4.78

all 2186500 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
2.21

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$296k

#28 top-grossing, Weather

store 4.78 · reviews 3.30 → 2.57 · gap 2.21 store 4.78 reviews 2.57

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2026-Q3: 2.48★ from 444 reviews 2.48 2026-Q3 2026-Q4: 3.30★ from 56 reviews 3.30 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2026-Q32.48 444
2026-Q43.30 56

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Can’t delete cities

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 13, 2026

Have to save a city to view a city. Then it won’t delete cities even if you have multiples. Solution to delete city is to delete the app.

Loved it until they remodeled

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 12, 2026

This used to be my go-to app until they updated the entire look of it. I used to love it because it was easy to navigate. Now everything blends together. Back to the built in weather app I go

Used to be my favorite

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 11, 2026

I had noticed more and more ads recently and I can let that go. But you’ve kept removing features that once put WeatherBug in a class above the majority. The recent change to remove 10-day forecasts (despite the menu saying it’s 10 days) to just a week was the last straw. See ya later.

Alerts

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 8, 2026

Used to love this app! But then it stopped alerting me. I deleted and redownloaded and still doesn’t work.

Beta layout is trash

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 6, 2026

I’ve previewed the beta layout for the app. The map that used to be front and center on the home page is now hidden behind a “maps” tap. I’ll probably cancel my subscription in favor of the built in weather app.

10 day section

★ · v5.110.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Why is the app showing 5 days and not 10 days weather forecast section? Not good people maybe you need to update this AI thing.

Went down hill

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Christ. Give me the weather not a thousand ads. Way to sell out. Losers.

Too many ads

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Deleted when my 10 days forecast only showed 5 days and the rest was just ads.

Forecast

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Why is there only 5 days instead of 10 on the 10 day forecast?

Only showing a 5 day forecast now

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

The update only shows a 5 day forecast

Used to be good.

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Now the 10-day forecast shows 5 days. Way to screw up a good app.

Latest update

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Apparently WeatherBug has chosen to not allow us to see a 10 day forecast. It only allows us to see a 5 day forecast. Terrible!

Ads have taken over- goodbye

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

Used to be great. Accurate. Now opened up and ads are terrible. 10 day forecast gone, it’s 5 day forecast with pages of ads. Goodbye

This app keeps getting worse

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

“10 Day” forecast tab shows six days. It shows October 3 - October 8 right now. Not that I pay much attention to anything more than three days out, but why is it only showing six days now? Please bring back the old lightning map.

Your weather model is ai & your 5 star reviews are fa ke.

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

I’m in SE Asia and for years relied on WeatherBug’s lightening map. The design was straightforward and easy to read with a dark background. The small red dots showing immediate strikes were consistently accurate. Now? More useless, feature-bloated UX/UI updates. The redesign of the lightening map is garish and amateurish and the red lines bordering around islands and countries are distracting and seemingly useless, and the 10/30/45 radar blocks out map details. Don’t get me started on the tri-color lightening strike animation.

There are so many ads.

★★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 4, 2026

I’ve used this app for years. It’s been reliable and the only weather app I would use. Now I can’t even see a 10 day forecast. There are so many ads. I’m giving it a chance to be fixed but I’ll be looking for another app. The ads are awful 😞

Lightning map does not work

★ · v5.14.1 · Oct 2, 2026

Update: several weeks later and the lightning map STILL does not work. I can’t access it on multiple devices. It gives a “could not load” message. What’s the point of having the app if the ONLY reason I use it doesn’t work? Please message back with someway to fix this issue. ———————— The lightning map has been unusable for several days now. When I click the icon on the Widget forecast it takes me to what looks like a different formatted map with the “Map failed to load. Could not load map” message. It’s like this on multiple devices. I’m going to be honest – the lightning map is the only reason I use this app. I use to see which direction the storm is going or coming. Without it, it’s unfortunately useless.

So bad

★ · v6.9.0 · Oct 1, 2026

They give you no details, it’s what a 4th grader would make.

What are we even doing?

★★ · v6.8.0 · Oct 1, 2026

App looks “pretty” but doesn’t actually provide weather in the desired area. Totally useless

Too many glitches!

★★ · v6.8.0 · Oct 1, 2026

I had used WeatherBug for years & loved it. Recently it’s had repeated annoying glitches. Can’t load preferences, can’t delete one of multiple locations, etc, etc. Uninstalled & reinstalled too many times trying to correct. I’m not wasting my time with it anymore. iPhone 17 Pro. Adios y’all!

Watch, extended radar, Weather Elite

★ · v6.8.0 · Sep 28, 2026

First they remove the Weather Elite app. Then they remove the Watch app, which was already antiquated. They have never extended the future radar beyond 1 hr. There are many other apps that are way better.

Too many ads

★ · v6.8.0 · Sep 28, 2026

Cancelled my subscription that should have lasted till next year. Ads returned the very next day. Tired of subscriptions. Tired of ads everywhere. Found another app with no ads.

Won’t send notifications

★ · v6.8.0 · Sep 27, 2026

I used to get all of the notifications, and one day they stopped. All of my settings are set correctly and, nothing. Reinstalled the app, now when I go to settings, it tells me it fails to load. Going to the Weather channel and MyRadar apps now.

I Want WeatherBug Elite Back

★ · v6.8.0 · Sep 26, 2026

So I had the $50 version of this app. Sad to learn it has been taken off the App Store and will no longer be getting updates. I downloaded the free version and now have to pay a subscription. Hate these greedy companies. They take your $50 only to take the app away and make you pay more with a subscription.

Disappointing

★★ · v6.8.0 · Sep 25, 2026

The new changes to the lightning radar are very disappointing. Why change what worked?

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