WBRC First Alert Weather alternatives

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R1] WBRC First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Need to learn how to predict weather: Really really need to learn how to predict weather 97 out of 100 times they are wrong. Same as ABC 33/40 and James Spann
2. [R10] WBRC First Alert Weather 2/5 · US Radar: This was previously my go-to app for all things weather given the accuracy and detail of the radar. But, after the latest update, the radar map is subpar, the controls are confusing, and its accuracy is not dependable.
3. [R12] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Accuracy: Your accuracy on radar is not very good. You show rain when sun is out and sunny or cloudy during a storm. I try to use it for planning, but I don’t rely on it.
4. [R18] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Needs work: The notification are off really bad and it seems there only concern is Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. The radar is off it will show clear and there’s rain.
5. [R13] WBRC First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Ads make the videos almost unusable: In the title
6. [R16] WBRC First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Pay walls and Ads: WBRC used to provide minimal ads and paywalls, but now the Birmingham area could be overrun by terrirists while being blown away by a tornado during a minus 100 degree weather system before you can get to the news and weather. I’m done!
7. [R19] WBRC First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Just want the radar !: Stop all the complications and ads. Dang.
8. [R24] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Finicky compared to other weather apps: -weather on radar fails to load sometimes -weather warnings always come late compared to Weather Bug or My Radar -if you want to watch weather updates you have to sit through multiple unskipable window world ads -when the radar does load, it takes forever -ads are in between needed information, such as live radar, hour by hour, and ten day forecast.
9. [R3] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Weather Alert Notifications: Being able to check on the weather when I want to & see the predicted weather is helpful. What isn’t helpful is hearing the loud weather alert notifications at all hours of the day, that I already turned off. The settings are useless. I may just delete the app.
10. [R6] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US “Weather update”Notifications: I am tired , once again, of this app waking me up to tell me that there is a weather update in the app. Geesh, wake me up if a F5 tornado is barreling down on me but I have looked everywhere in the app to find where to turn that annoying announcement off. Can’t find, so I deleted the app this morning.
11. [R32] WBRC First Alert Weather 5/5 · US So many notifications!: I wish I could keep updates on for severe weather purposes, but you guys send me like 10 unimportant notifications per day at least. I had to turn them off :(
12. [R4] WBRC First Alert Weather 2/5 · US Follow Me Not Working Correctly: In Follow Me mode, it shows only partial hours for the current day and then skips an entire day when looking at hourly forecast.
13. [R7] WBRC First Alert Weather 2/5 · US Update: The update to the app makes it less user friendly and not as clear or easy to understand. I wish they would bring back the previous version.
14. [R9] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Update: Do not like this new update , does not zoom in to your location on this update.
15. [R15] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Full forecast: I do not live in the area so watching the live newscast is not an option. It seems there should be an updated full forecast video after each newscast and uploaded in a timely manner.
16. [R25] WBRC First Alert Weather 2/5 · US 🤷🏻‍♀️what’s wrong: Update: The radar is freezing and not showing the 24 hr forecast!! The app has not shown the news on time all week, why? Every since they have changed this app there have been troubles with normal news feeds showing. Hope they fix it cause it was a great local news app.
17. [R30] WBRC First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Watch Live Doesn’t Work: Everything on the app is great but you can’t watch live anymore. It hasn’t worked in weeks. I have an iPhone 11 and since the latest updates, I can’t watch live. I’ve had to switch to another station’s live coverage.
18. [R52] FOX Weather 5/5 · US 🎯: Especially accurate at the Local Level!!!!
19. [R55] FOX Weather 5/5 · US Awesome weather channel: I use this weather app 10-20 a day. I’m a firemen and it give me what I need to stay safe everyday with what I should wear and care as backups!!!!
20. [R60] FOX Weather 5/5 · US Great information: I can always depend on getting timely weather forecasts.
21. [R65] Storm Tracker° 1/5 · US False advertising: It was stating $4.99 a year but when you click on it then it changes to $4.99 a week
22. [R66] Storm Tracker° 5/5 · US Great app for chasing: Very good app i love it besides the 10$ a week
23. [R67] Storm Tracker° 3/5 · US Decent app horrible design: When I first got in the app it showed a black screen 📺 and it wants you to pay for hurricane tracking and wind 🌬️ tracking so it just charges me 29$ a year so I hope you read this thank you!!
24. [R68] Storm Tracker° 1/5 · US Lame: This app costs a fair bit and is worse than free apps that do similar things. I regret wasting my money and assume I misheard the person who recommended it. Even with paying, the radar function does not forecast (eg it stops about 5 ago) and the forecast screen show the same data any free app shows. I really wish I paid weekly so I could have tried it first. You can change temperature f
25. [R83] First Alert 4 Weather 5/5 · US Preferred weather app!!: We used to use a different local station's Weather app, which shall remain anonymous, but it became so unusable by pop-up windows that we decided to try the First Alert 4 Weather app. Bingo! You can actually use the First Alert app without having to wait for the next advertisement to finish its run. We're sticking with this one.
26. [R86] First Alert 4 Weather 4/5 · US Extremely useful but some bugs: I do love that it gives me loud alerts to storms but unfortunately even though I turned off alerts to lightning so I could sleep it still gave me the alerts. Hopefully this bug is fixed quickly. .
27. [R89] First Alert 4 Weather 5/5 · US Info at my fingertips: This is a great app for relevant weather information at my fingertips.
28. [R92] First Alert 4 Weather 5/5 · US Period Weather Watcher: I woke up to scary noise from a storm at 4am and went straight for First Alert 4! I was relieved to see that it was just an Alton storm. Which is not unusual because the thunder here is louder in the valley behind the bluff we live on.
29. [R94] WWBT First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Your porformance: As always your report was very good!
30. [R97] WWBT First Alert Weather 5/5 · US First Alert Weather 12: Fast Weather Update any time you need it.
31. [R100] WWBT First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Grateful for channel 12 First Alert weather app: We have DISH and as of a few days ago, we no longer have channel 12. I am so glad I downloaded the 12/ first weather app. Especially today we were able to stay up on the severe weather updates. Thank you channel 12.
32. [R103] WWBT First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Accurate: Nowhere can I rely on the weather better than on channel 12
33. [R108] First Alert Weather 5/5 · US This is great: Ok so WLBT is awesome ok who cares what the other people rate it there probably not from the south . This app is amazing it gives you videos but no it’s not long at all . The people are just impatient. I was in the march 24 2023 rolling fork tornado and the chief meteorologist Dave Roberts he saved my moms and me life!
34. [R114] First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Weather peace of mind!: You are the best. I have only one other app. You are most dependable & accurate. Thank you
35. [R116] First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Traveling from Ky: Thank you so much for keeping us updated hourly! We downloaded your app on Friday as we traveled into Mississippi from Ky and it’s helped us tremendously to plan when we needed to stop. We travel in a motorhome so the updates have been so helpful!
36. [R120] First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Love this app: Love this app! Thank you for accuracy.
37. [R71] Storm Tracker° 1/5 · US Ads everywhere: Very aggressive ads that make the free version even ridiculous to use. Go with Weather Channels app instead.
38. [R84] First Alert 4 Weather 3/5 · US Bogus: I can never see the video about the weather - there’s always an ad running instead of the storm warning I want/need to see.
39. [R87] First Alert 4 Weather 3/5 · US Ok: When watching live for tornado warnings, it’s not helpful to bring up ads in the middle of watching to see where it’s at. Not happy
40. [R90] First Alert 4 Weather 3/5 · US Live stream: It’s great to have a mobile app that live streams severe weather when you’re in the basement, but putting multiple ads on your live stream every 3-5 minutes is not a great idea. people need to know where and when a tornado is going to hit their town in that moment. And the ads also mess up the live stream causing it to go black, causing me to restart the app repeatedly. I know ads br
41. [R95] WWBT First Alert Weather 3/5 · US My Radar map is having issues…: This app has worked great until recently. Whenever I open the radar screen, if there is precipitation in the area, it “flashes” the image instead of displaying it on the map. Have I done something unintentionally to the setup?
42. [R98] WWBT First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Radar is wildly inaccurate: I’ve use this app for years and like the weather videos they post, as well as the functionality of the app. However, in recent times the radar is just wildly inaccurate. Completely different from other radar systems and just shockingly wrong. As an example, right now the NBC12 app is showing a huge storm cell over our head, yet outside, looking up, not a cloud in the sk
43. [R101] WWBT First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Fair Weather App: My main issue with the weather app is that the radar doesn’t work when there’s an actual event happening. Doesn’t matter the phone, I’ve seen it on several. I’ll try opening it to see what’s going on and the precipitation blinks on the map. I end up closing it and checking another local station’s.
44. [R110] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Crashes constantly!: The app crashes constantly. Specifically when tapping on Daily or Hourly. It will crash several times in a row before it finally loads the data. There is no way to report it when it crashes either. It’s not a user issue- cache cleared, happens during good data or WiFi connection, etc. It’s been going on for quite some time.