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RadarScope

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Base Velocity, LLC · Weather · $9.99 · v5.7.1

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Review-rating drop
0.89

2024-Q4 4.00 → last 90 days 3.11, text reviews

Peak quarter
4.00

2024-Q4, text reviews

Last 90 days
3.11

text reviews

Store rating
4.16

all 2800 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
1.05

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$558k

#12 top-grossing, Weather

store 4.16 · reviews 4.00 → 3.11 · gap 1.05 store 4.16 reviews 3.11

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★ 2021-Q3: 3.00★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 3.00 2021-Q3 2021-Q4: 3.22★ from 9 reviews 2022-Q1: 2.46★ from 13 reviews 2022-Q2: 3.39★ from 23 reviews 2022-Q3: 3.40★ from 15 reviews 2022-Q4: 3.79★ from 24 reviews 2023-Q1: 3.00★ from 16 reviews 2023-Q2: 3.05★ from 20 reviews 2023-Q3: 2.52★ from 31 reviews 2023-Q4: 2.94★ from 17 reviews 2024-Q1: 2.46★ from 26 reviews 2024-Q2: 2.92★ from 59 reviews 2024-Q3: 2.80★ from 35 reviews 2024-Q4: 4.00★ from 12 reviews 4.00 2024-Q4 2025-Q1: 3.28★ from 18 reviews 2025-Q2: 3.12★ from 59 reviews 2025-Q3: 2.95★ from 22 reviews 2025-Q4: 3.27★ from 11 reviews 2026-Q1: 3.50★ from 18 reviews 2026-Q2: 2.73★ from 26 reviews 2026-Q3: 3.06★ from 36 reviews 2026-Q4: 2.63★ from 8 reviews 2.63 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
2021-Q33.00 2
2021-Q43.22 9
2022-Q12.46 13
2022-Q23.39 23
2022-Q33.40 15
2022-Q43.79 24
2023-Q13.00 16
2023-Q23.05 20
2023-Q32.52 31
2023-Q42.94 17
2024-Q12.46 26
2024-Q22.92 59
2024-Q32.80 35
2024-Q44.00 12
2025-Q13.28 18
2025-Q23.12 59
2025-Q32.95 22
2025-Q43.27 11
2026-Q13.50 18
2026-Q22.73 26
2026-Q33.06 36
2026-Q42.63 8

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Too Many Features Behind Subscription

★ · v5.7.1 · Oct 12, 2026

CAUTION!!! I expected more features to be included with app purchase price. No refund offered even if immediately determined app is not what one is looking for. I would not recommend trying this app.

12 min of loop

★★ · v5.7 · Oct 4, 2026

The duration of radar loop provided in the basic $10 app is 12 minutes - not long enough and not disclosed by number of frames in product description - looking for non subscription based app - already subscribed to death

I PAID $10….

★★ · v5.7 · Oct 4, 2026

And now they want more in yearly or monthly fees, I don’t believe you should have to pay $10 down First. But everybody wants paid more for less! $10 gives you nothing. Keep the 10 bucks. I deleted it.

Don’t Download

★ · v5.7 · Oct 3, 2026

They will charge you without any notice. The app’s quality would only be noteworthy if the year was 1948.

Restore purchases all the time

★ · v5.7 · Oct 1, 2026

I’m getting tired of being asked to restore purchases ALL THE TIME. I have a paid for Pro Tier 2, verified in my Apple subscriptions. Same Apple account for everything. To make matters worse it asks me for my Apple password. How do I know this isn’t the app stealing my password?????

Useless

★ · v5.7 · Sep 27, 2026

Paid $10 and it doesn’t show anything, all features require a subscription upgrade for more money. Do yourself a favor and download windy.

They charge for the app and then expect a subscription

★ · v5.7 · Sep 22, 2026

$10 for the application, then extremely limited without a subscription. I would avoid this. I would understand either charging for the app or for a subscription, but doing both is unreasonable.

Filter Watches and Warnings

★★ · v5.7 · Sep 21, 2026

There should be a way to filter watches and warnings to a particular geographic region. I don’t really care about what’s going on 2,500 miles away.

Gulf of America - really?

★ · v5.6.2 · Sep 15, 2026

I’ve used (and loved) this app for years. I was very disappointed to discover today that the company caved to the nut job in the WH. I won’t be continuing my subscription when it expires.

Garbage

★ · v5.6 · Aug 16, 2026

Everything cool is behind a subscription. Looking for a way to get a refund. There’s better free apps.

Outdated Radar Info

★ · v5.6 · Aug 16, 2026

I loved this app in the past, however, recently I noticed it’s been very unreliable. During critical times, the radar does not update and loops old radar data. I checked the source and it’s up to date on there, but just not on the app. Very disappointing.

Not worth it

★ · v5.5.6 · Aug 12, 2026

App uses free NOAA data to milk people for subscriptions. You’re better off opening the NOAA site on your phone in the US.

Don’t Buy! Feels like a scam

★ · v5.5.6 · Aug 11, 2026

What a waste. Not only do you have to pay 10$ to even download the app, to get any sort of information you have to pay AT MINIMUM another 10$ to actually use the app. It’s an appalling display of greed, to hide potentially life saving information behind two different pay walls.

Won’t open

★ · v5.5.6 · Aug 10, 2026

This was a great app but it won’t open

Really wanted to love this.

★★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 29, 2026

Good features are rendered almost useless as the only way to view more than a ten minute radar loop is to pay for a subscription in addition to the up-front payment. Make the payment upfront of make it all subscription, but the deception feels unkind and unpleasant.

Not very useful

★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 27, 2026

Need to upgrade to pro before it becomes useful

You need to pay and pay again

★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 20, 2026

Bs

Scam

★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 16, 2026

DO NOT BUY. ABSOLUTE SCAM.

Low Quality Graphic Output

★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 13, 2026

The radar was highly detailed and accurate before I purchased the app but once purchased the quality was reduced to junk quality.

Not working

★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 11, 2026

I just renewed and the app doesn’t work anymore. Save your money

Don’t pay unless you want subscription

★ · v5.5.6 · Jul 5, 2026

The paid app sucks, all the functionality requires an additional monthly subscription. If you want to buy all that, it’s great, but they don’t tell you how little you get for the $10 payment. I’m deleting. Wasted my money

Underwhelming

★★ · v5.5.5 · Jun 19, 2026

I thought I was buying an app that was at the very least comparable to the free MyRadar app, and at the very least with resolution quality that looks like their logo. Instead I got a heavily pixelated radar image that is basically useless. Plus there ARE NO FORECAST GRAPHS! I paid $10 for basically nothing. In essence, I got scammed by AI who said this was the best app. What a joke.

Disappointed

★ · v5.5.5 · Jun 18, 2026

Used to be a great app, however they stripped down the basic app (currently sad) and for another price you can upgrade 😞 too a the second or third level…. Lord

Subscription Required

★★ · v5.5.5 · Jun 17, 2026

The app costs $9. All you get with that is radar of your area for the last 10 minutes. If you want the previous 30 minutes you need to upgrade to the “Pro 1” subscription. If you want radar that’s more historical than that you need yo upgrade to “Pro 2.” I’m writing this review as a caution to any of those (like me) that only saw really positive reviews - making no mention of subscriptions.

PLEASE FIX super relativity radar

★ · v5.5.5 · Jun 12, 2026

Subscribed the Pro Version. Usually works great but it hasn’t been working for the past couple of days. Need to fix the super relativity. Only the digital relativity works right now.

The opportunity

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