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Cory Mottice · Weather · Free · v1.7.0

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Review-rating drop
0.67

2025-Q4 4.83 → last 90 days 4.16, text reviews

Peak quarter
4.83

2025-Q4, text reviews

Last 90 days
4.16

text reviews

Store rating
4.83

all 1369 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
0.67

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$135k

#80 top-grossing, Weather

store 4.83 · reviews 4.83 → 4.16 · gap 0.67 store 4.83 reviews 4.16

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 162 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2025-Q1: 4.76★ from 49 reviews 4.76 2025-Q1 2025-Q2: 4.76★ from 17 reviews 2025-Q3: 4.70★ from 10 reviews 2025-Q4: 4.83★ from 12 reviews 4.83 2025-Q4 2026-Q1: 4.61★ from 23 reviews 2026-Q2: 4.69★ from 26 reviews 2026-Q3: 4.43★ from 23 reviews 2026-Q4: 2.50★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2.50 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
2025-Q14.76 49
2025-Q24.76 17
2025-Q34.70 10
2025-Q44.83 12
2026-Q14.61 23
2026-Q24.69 26
2026-Q34.43 23
2026-Q42.50 2

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Garbage.

★ · v1.7.0 · Oct 4, 2026

100% inaccurate. 100% of the time. Uninstalled.

Stopped receiving Severe Weather notifications

★★ · v1.6.0 · Sep 2, 2026

I failed to receive a storm warning last night even though I have all relevant notifications enabled. I could view the warning once I opened the app, but the push notification was not sent. This is a serious issue if it persists.

Incorrect Labels

★ · v1.5.7 · Aug 20, 2026

At times, labels for current weather are completely wrong. For example, all data points show it is currently raining, yet the icon/current weather status will show as cloudy… meanwhile if I check Apple weather app it’ll correctly show that it’s raining…

Always wrong

★ · v1.5.7 · Aug 15, 2026

Forecast is always wrong

Have to trial subscribe just to open the app

★ · v1.4.35 · Jun 1, 2026

Nope not trial subscribing but to open the app App will not open past the give us your money opening part

No radar

★ · v1.4.26 · Mar 26, 2026

Radar does appear on the map.

No Apple Watch Support

★ · v1.4.24 · Mar 15, 2026

Doesn’t support Apple Watch. Have to install another weather app.

Okay until the paywalls, now it’s getting uninstalled

★★ · v1.3.3 · Sep 24, 2025

As with seemingly many (let’s be real, EVERY) app these days. Features are getting paywalled that were once free. Leading to developers driving the fear of missing out on the users. If you want weather data in the USA, just visit the NWS website at this point, as this app used to be a great mobile application UI version of it but now it’s just cluttered, and expensive. All these “subscriptions” add up and if every developer expected every app user to pay to use the basic functions, people would be spending well over the price of rent and utilities per month on all the apps they regularly use. Paywalled = Uninstalled.

Wrong Weather Report

★★ · v1.0.5 · May 7, 2025

App is generally very good but in last 3 days has listed snow or heavy rain for our area. The temp was 68 how can it snow? Today the sun is shining and the app says heavy rain. What's up?

nice, but looks like AccuWeather

★ · v1.01 · Mar 6, 2025

Love the extra NWS stuff but everything else is pretty basic and seems to lean towards AccuWeather‘s design and every other weather app

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