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Windy Weather World Inc · Weather · Free · v15.8.4

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Review-rating drop
0.46

2026-Q4 4.69 → last 90 days 4.23, text reviews

Peak quarter
4.69

2026-Q4, text reviews

Last 90 days
4.23

text reviews

Store rating
4.69

all 73146 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
0.46

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$1.3M

#4 top-grossing, Weather

store 4.69 · reviews 4.69 → 4.23 · gap 0.46 store 4.69 reviews 4.23

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★ 2024-Q2: 3.00★ from 38 reviews 3.00 2024-Q2 2024-Q3: 2.37★ from 62 reviews 2024-Q4: 2.15★ from 41 reviews 2025-Q1: 2.51★ from 35 reviews 2025-Q2: 2.29★ from 45 reviews 2025-Q3: 3.41★ from 69 reviews 2025-Q4: 2.72★ from 29 reviews 2026-Q1: 3.11★ from 19 reviews 2026-Q2: 2.36★ from 25 reviews 2026-Q3: 4.02★ from 111 reviews 2026-Q4: 4.69★ from 26 reviews 4.69 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
2024-Q23.00 38
2024-Q32.37 62
2024-Q42.15 41
2025-Q12.51 35
2025-Q22.29 45
2025-Q33.41 69
2025-Q42.72 29
2026-Q13.11 19
2026-Q22.36 25
2026-Q34.02 111
2026-Q44.69 26

Recent 1–2 star reviews

NO WIND speed or WIND on windy!!?! Dumb! Why?

★ · v15.8.3 · Oct 7, 2026

It is very windy outside. Wind should be listed and it’s NOT!! Had to look at it multiple times just to make sure I wasn’t going crazy. Deleting. Windy without winds listed!

Way less accurate than Apple weather

★ · v15.8.3 · Oct 6, 2026

This was my go to app. I’m not sure what they changed but it has been off for a while now when it used to be spot on. My Apple app has been way more accurate. I won’t be renewing it at this point.

Terrible

★ · v15.8.1 · Sep 23, 2026

Completely useless on my phone. EVERY click is just trying to get you to subscribe paragraph on my desktop. I can see a map… On my phone. It is a useless nightmare. I don’t exaggerate, literally a useless nightmare. If I hadn’t seen a function on the desktop I would think it was garbage.

Sneaky Subscription Renewal

★ · v15.8.0 · Sep 14, 2026

When starting a trial subscription to tryout the app, it says they will remind you a day before the annual subscription is started. Then they don’t send a reminder but do charge you for a year’s subscription.

Scam

★ · v15.7.9 · Sep 11, 2026

I used it once and I deleted it but I got charged $175 for yearly subscription

Vice President

★ · v15.7.9 · Sep 10, 2026

To difficult to figure out

Poor customer service

★ · v15.7.8 · Sep 2, 2026

They make this app in such a way that if you don’t pay attention you click on the buy button all the time. After that is impossible to get your money back. I’ve been with customer service for 5 days and no refund yet.

Scammy

★ · v15.7.8 · Aug 30, 2026

Tried a free trial but it just charged me for a whole year automatically instantly. No three days nothing just charged me. I emailed them about it with no reply.

Close Discount Deals repeatedly

★★ · v15.7.8 · Aug 30, 2026

It is getting annoyed than before.

Inaccurate weather

★ · v15.7.8 · Aug 29, 2026

Winds were either much stronger or less strong than quoted. Not reliable.

Not happy

★ · v15.7.8 · Aug 27, 2026

Paid for the app however Much a year it is for fishing. Tell you after you join it’s an extra $50 a year for the fishing part. Is there a 10-30 day period to get a refund on the purchase of the app?

Difficult to use

★ · v15.7.7 · Aug 22, 2026

Not a helpful app and consistently not accurate.

Caution

★ · v15.7.7 · Aug 20, 2026

Was charged a 1 year subscription for $165.54 without my consent. Be careful with this app

lying piece of

★ · v15.7.6 · Aug 20, 2026

so you pay for it and then you stop paying for it and it lies to you so much that why would you pay for it again? What is your seriously what are you thinking?

Does not remember settings

★ · v15.7.6 · Aug 17, 2026

Used to love this app but, I have to reset the settings every single time I open my app now.

Why so many questions?

★ · v15.7.6 · Aug 16, 2026

Why do I have to answer a ton of questions about myself just to use a wind forecast app? It’s none of your business what I do.

Amazing app deceptive sales

★★ · v15.7.6 · Aug 16, 2026

This app looks like it could be amazing. However, the advertisement that you click to get to it first says there is an option for monthly payment. There is not. There is only a yearly payment. Also, they advertise it as a fishing app, which is what I wanted. However, once you get into it, you have to pay an additional $50 a year to get the fishing portion of the app. That's a total of $200 a year with no other options. I wish they would be upfront at the beginning so I did not have to waste my time downloading. Again, it looks like it could be amazing, but not everybody can spend $200 a year to try out an app.

Terrible for salmon, fishing or steelhead on the Comby River

★ · v15.7.6 · Aug 16, 2026

Every time I try to login, I have to go fix my settings. It doesn’t even have salmon or steelhead listed. I forgot to shut off the seven day trial when I decided I didn’t like it and got charged $40! I’ll never use the app it doesn’t even work. I can’t figure out how to get my money back.

Spammy and inaccurate

★ · v15.7.5 · Aug 14, 2026

Do you want an app that bombards you with upsells and is right about 50% of the time? Boy do I have the app for you.

Typical pop ups

★★ · v15.7.5 · Aug 7, 2026

Does what I want, but super annoying pop ups. Every single time I use the app it asks if I want to upgrade. Then I have to stop what I’m doing and select “no.” Then it pops up with “are you sure you want to decline?” It is so annoying. I’ve been using other applications that are less absurd because of how this one operates. Everyone hates the subscription model. It is so dumb. The constant pop ups to try and make you subscribe are such a turn off. I’d consider a one time purchase, but the move to every single app being a subscription is so cringe. I know they’ll say, “app development costs money.” BS, but I guess people fall for that.

Low Accuracy is NOT EVEN CLOSE Accurate

★★ · v15.7.3 · Aug 3, 2026

I thought I loved Wendy until today. I figured out when they say low accuracy mode what they really mean is is they giving you bad information that you really do need so when I checked tides today it showed a low tide of close to 3 feet at 8 AM but the truth was it was only a foot at 8 AM. I see them not being very accurate but then to just basically give you horribly bad information that makes it dangerous. I do not understand.

Not what you think

★ · v15.7.3 · Jul 26, 2026

This is such a con, when you get the app and pay for it you’ll find it has a lot more hidden charges. Make sure you look at the fine print. DONT BUY IT

Needs work

★★ · v15.7.2 · Jul 19, 2026

Shows fishing spots, weather and activity times but the fish library never works.

Rip off

★ · v15.7.2 · Jul 19, 2026

Cancelled during the free trial. They charged me $49.99 so I cancelled in Apple Subscriptions and Windy managed to charge me another $164.99 for an annual subscription. BEWARE

Unbelievable and not in the good way

★ · v15.7.2 · Jul 16, 2026

This app is deceiving. I signed up for it because everything that was being presented on Facebook showed them to be a fishing app. I signed up for the app which costs approximately $50 per year and downloaded it. During setup it has you tell them all about how you fish and what you’re fishing for and makes you think that you are getting a fishing app however, as soon as you login, they hit you for another $65 per year to access the fishing portion of the app. This is not a fishing app primarily, it is a very expensive weather app with a costly fishing add-on.

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