WSFA First Alert Weather

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R7] 5/5 · US WSFAWEATHER: It’s the best weather app I ever had and it’s never wrong.
2. [R9] 5/5 · US Best Weather App: Best weather app for Troy. Sends accurate weather warnings. Technical support is very helpful and fast at responding if you ever have any issues. They truly care about the people in my area who depend on them.
3. [R15] 5/5 · US Review: The best channel ever they cover the best news in our state and across the world.The weather team are the best they are all right own with the actual events in what is going to happen with the weather, the sports team are right own when it comes to local and all other sports that you may want to know.
4. [R20] 4/5 · US Perfect: They are usually perfectly on point and correct Amazingly accurate 👍👍👍
5. [R4] 5/5 · US Weather: I think WSFA has the best weather report and news!
6. [R10] 5/5 · US Very informative: Your Weather Team is awesome!
7. [R11] 2/5 · US Bugs and adds: I love the Chanel 12 team but this app is terrible.
8. [R23] 5/5 · US Good weather app: It’s a good weather app. My one small issue with it is whenever a watch or warning is issued for my area it always announcers it 3-4 times within seconds of each time when once would suffice.
9. [R24] 5/5 · US Tornado warming timely: First time use, had 20 minutes to get to safe place and four warnings for Tornado, big hail in Voca...... we are in a camper so appreciated very much how accurate the radar is.
10. [R26] 5/5 · US S@m C: Very good keeping you up to date and safe from horrible weather.
11. [R2] 1/5 · US WSFA new weather app is awful: The latest update to the WSFA weather app is terrible! Radar doesn’t work. I am deleting this app because I need a weather app that works.
12. [R5] 3/5 · US 24hr radar: 24hr radar doesn't complete full 24hr cycle. It stops at 12 hours. Sure, I could delete and reinstall, but all my pinned locations would have to be set again. Please fix the best radar available, so I don't have to find another one.
13. [R13] 1/5 · US Can’t watch radar anymore: The app was good until the radar quit working. It only goes about halfway and then it just freezes and you can’t tell where or when the rain’s coming after that or any weather for that matter. My app is up-to-date. It stays up-to-date and this problem persists.
14. [R21] 2/5 · US Radar inaccurate.: The radar is very inaccurate.
15. [R14] 3/5 · US Great Weather - Too Many Ads.!: While the app works well, it takes a mini or more of watching video ads to get to the actual forecast. How about banner ads at the bottom.!
16. [R16] 1/5 · US Too many ads: This app use to be great, but over time it has migrated to being a ad first and weather second. It’s very click baited now.
17. [R18] 3/5 · US I’d give more stars but…: The ads are garbage. I’m honestly surprised to see them on an app for WSFA (& no they aren’t based on my information). The weather is accurate most of the time though so at least there’s that.
18. [R19] 3/5 · US Too much advertising: Too much useless info
19. [R8] 1/5 · US Wsfa weather: I have seen better weather prediction out of a host. Inaccurate, slow to report, and always somehow behind the eight ball. Don't waste your time with this app as long as the same people are forecasting.
20. [R31] 1/5 · US App is always buggy: I hate the application is always buggy. When I try to watch the video and change the screen to landscape view, it freezes and I have to Re-watch the ads. Then when I try to pause the video to zoom in on the times of the storms, the app freezes again, and won’t return to normal view. I have to shut down the app, reopen and Re-watch ads again. The application does not immediate
21. [R17] 2/5 · US Useless notifications: The purpose of this app is to provide lifesaving information to people. If there’s a tornado or hurricane coming, please tell me. If it’s going to hail or if there’s gale force winds, I want to know about it. But don’t send me a push notification saying it’s going to be warm this week and it might rain.
22. [R98] 3/5 · US Great meteorologists, cruddy app: The app has woken me up for two nights in a row... which would be fine if it were for severe weather. I turned off all notifications except the severe weather ones only to be woken up again today due to rain and lightning in my area! Oh no! Rain!?!? How important and severe! We better wake up the whole room including the sleeping infant. Fix the app please
23. [R112] 1/5 · US Sever weather over for some and just starting for others: Is this alert helpful? Really? You lack empathy, compassion, emotional intelligence and commercial acumen. This type of useless hype needs to be silenced permanently. Your responsibility is not to create angst among your subscribers so as to drive traffic to your website and app; but rather to communicate actual risks. For whom is risk
24. [R29] 1/5 · US Poor excuse for a weather app: Using this app is dangerous. You cannot see the warning boxes, there’s a tornado warning right now and you can’t see it on the radar because there’s no contrast on the warning box, it just blends in with the radar scan. The watch boxes make it even harder since they color individual counties vs drawing a see-able box around a section of the state. Can’t watch a 10
25. [R30] 3/5 · US One big problem: It sure seems like my location was a much more visible dot that the dim transparent blue dot that shows on the map. It is hard to see and nearly impossible to see if clouds or rain is covering it.
26. [R100] 4/5 · US iPhone viewing: I love the WSFA weather. I am disappointed that something changed in the way I could view it on my iPhone. I used to be able to turn my phone sideways and I could see a bigger map. The way it is I can hardly see the city names.
27. [R6] 5/5 · US Love WSFA: Great information everyday!