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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. [R4] 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.
2. [R10] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US ALWAYS WRONG!: The radar map and hourly forecasts are ALWAYS WRONG! You’d think in the year 2025 with the technology we have today that weather forecasts would at least be somewhat accurate. Wrong. A forecast of a 90-100% rain day may not see any rain at all while 30-40% may rain significantly all day. A forecast of light thunderstorms may be tornadoes. This morning for instance the hourly and
3. [R12] First Alert Weather 3/5 · US It will get you by: Not very accurate on forecasting temps compared to national weather service.
4. [R15] First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Wind speed: Why is the app’s wind speed much lower than what is actually occurring? The app reads 5 mph when the actual speed is 15 mph.
5. [R27] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Never correct with forecast !!!!: This is the worst weather app EVER . It very rarely is correct. They put whatever and then it constantly changes. I guess we all should have been weather reporters , you can just say whatever you want and rarely be right , still have a job and still get paid. Would not recommend this app to anyone unless it’s for a joke
6. [R6] First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Weather app: The app has a few issues. First, it plays commercials before showing the 60-second preview of upcoming coverage, which isn’t helpful when a storm is approaching, and quick updates are needed. Second, when the news team is live, clicking to watch within the app redirects to the WLBT 3 website, where the live stream takes too long to load, again, not ideal during severe weather. Could li
7. [R13] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Too much ads.: Barely can see anything with ads everywhere. Feels like a 90s website.
8. [R21] First Alert Weather 2/5 · US Coveage is okay, but the ads are absolutely mind numbing: I’m in the app trying to watch the coverage videos and I get met with a 30 second long ad. Although it’s understandable, you cannot click or close out for a second without it glitching the entire app.
9. [R25] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Don’t have time to watch it anymore! It’s useless: I used to rely heavily on this application for a quick 60 seconds overview of the weather forecast, but recently they’ve added commercials that are LONGER than the 60 seconds weather forecast. I simply don’t have time to sit thru the commercials to get to a 60 seconds weather summary. The application is of no use to me anymore. Last Saturday, a ho
10. [R3] First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Wrong area: My app is set to Atlanta, but keep getting weather reports from Mississippi.
11. [R7] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Weather alerts: Hate yours as you give me alerts for states I do not live in. If it continues I am deleting the app
12. [R18] First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Video Location Wrong: I have a few different cities set but the videos that are linked are all for Mississippi which is none of the cities I have saved.
13. [R31] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Weather predictions and warnings: I wish you would not send out weather warnings for places not even near my location
14. [R1] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Not a Fan of Update: I don’t like how the forecast page defaults by having today automatically expanded. Don’t like how the radar loop doesn’t pause at the end. I hate how there is no option in the app to leave suggestions.
15. [R19] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Radar overlay: Hard to see the rain with the overlays. I have to go to other apps to see where rain or fronts are. Do not waste your time with this app.
16. [R9] First Alert Weather 3/5 · US Quality/Performance is starting to suffer: App used to perform much better; in your attempt to improve and and capabilities your performance is starting to suffer; don't try to excuse this as a network congestion/bandwidth issue; your app is getting bloatwd and performance is suffering; you can't do or be everything to everyone; please focus on providing a high-performing experience with hourly, d
17. [R45] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Slow: Even with perfect cell reception it takes forever for the app to load up. Once loaded app does really well with weather info and layout.
18. [R41] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Contacting app developers: Hi, I was unable to find a way to “contact developer “ and I have a question: do you have widgets for this app for iPhone users? Thanks in advance!
19. [R47] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US No support to contact, not saving settings: I’m having to change the location back constantly to my location, and the app is no longer saving my settings. The support link in the App Store for the page is a 404 as well
20. [R52] The Weather Channel 5/5 · US Wonderful help tool: Helps me make plans... and keep up with family and friends all over the world, as well as Local on the 8’s.
21. [R53] The Weather Channel 3/5 · US To many ads: The whole ad thing started not to long ago. I get it. That’s how you make money. When you go none to some it’s an annoyance.
22. [R56] The Weather Channel 3/5 · US Pop ups: My only complaint is the pop-ups
23. [R58] The Weather Channel 5/5 · US best ever: O keeps me updated every single day and I'm always on point with the weather
24. [R66] NewsBreak 5/5 · US A girl, but I will not say anything else: It is great. I love it and I heard about the crash on the highway. 155 but I ran almost all of it. I am a great reader. It is a great app app app
25. [R68] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Adds are scams: Made two purchases of tools and portable ac both scams. Ac purchase took money and no refund.
26. [R70] NewsBreak 3/5 · US Bugs with update DONT LIKE THE SWIPE BACK FEATURE: The swipe back feature makes it too easy to accidentally swipe out of the comments and lose the content you may have been typing out, it also closes out the article and then an auto scroll forcing you down to the next article is really annoying. Yesterday’s update made it so the gif search shows up no results. In an attempt to solve this I delet
27. [R71] NewsBreak 2/5 · US Pay now: I just updated now my saved won’t return to the app. I have to pay
28. [R79] 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
29. [R80] WBRC First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Wbrc first alert weather: First alert 6 news
30. [R81] 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.
31. [R82] 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.
32. [R93] First Alert 4 Weather 2/5 · US Conflicting information, ad prioritized: Could literally be dangerous in bad weather that the advertising sponsor takes up the entire screen so long. (Duh, just have the ad at the top or bottom of the screen continuously.) And regular future radar and 24-hr radar conflict, even in the supposed current status.
33. [R96] First Alert 4 Weather 1/5 · US Not working: Always shows 77* when it’s at least 90* out. Used to be great but it needs looked at now
34. [R97] 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.
35. [R98] 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.
36. [R108] WWBT First Alert Weather 5/5 · US Your porformance: As always your report was very good!
37. [R109] 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?
38. [R111] WWBT First Alert Weather 5/5 · US First Alert Weather 12: Fast Weather Update any time you need it.
39. [R112] 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
40. [R8] 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