First Alert 4 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. [R6] 2/5 · US Slow: While this app provides for accurate weather & the people are great, the app itself is frustratingly slow. You click on the notification & it takes a while for the app to fire up. Then it has to show you a couple of commercials. Then it starts up the video of the weather report that may be recent or maybe 30 minutes old or older. In the mean time I could have clicked on 2 other weather apps
2. [R9] 5/5 · US Info at my fingertips: This is a great app for relevant weather information at my fingertips.
3. [R19] 5/5 · US Good: Vary accurate 🌪️🌩️⛈️🌨️
4. [R29] 5/5 · US Weather app: Excellent and accurate weather app, I watch channel everyday and trust there meteorologist.
5. [R2] 5/5 · US Undisputed: Steve Templeton is the GOAT
6. [R43] 5/5 · US Kristen: Like her forecasts and weather warnings.
7. [R46] 5/5 · US Great Meteorologists: I have enjoyed watching KMOV weather people for many years and the current lineup of talented weather people are the best in the Saint Louis landscape of local tv broadcasting, and unless we move out of this market we’ll always tune into Channel Four news.
8. [R50] 5/5 · US Steve Templeton: Love, Steve Templeton, and his forecast and all the crew he has with them they do an amazing job
9. [R34] 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
10. [R57] 5/5 · US My go-to weather app: This is my favorite go-to weather app for the St. Louis area. I prefer it to any of the national ones. There is just the information I need in short summary of daily, hourly, radar or if you prefer more in depth there are many radar views and sky cams. Even can see the live stream during severe weather. Well done channel 4!
11. [R66] 5/5 · US #1: Best local weather app. TY. & Love the live weather feed!
12. [R72] 5/5 · US Great App: I am currently camping at St. Joe State Park. I was pleasantly surprised and impressed with the “Follow Me” feature. Such a deal! I knew better than to get my off road vehicle out earlier in the week because we had 2 days of rain. Sinking an ORV is a distinct possibility down here and would be a nightmare. Thanks KMOV team; I headed your way in the A.M.
13. [R83] 5/5 · US Recommend Highly: I love that no matter where I travel I can count on my favorite hometown weather team to keep me informed. Hearing Steve Templeton’s voice giving an update on weather conditions near my location whether at home or beyond is very comforting. Thanks for keeping an eye on the sky everywhere!
14. [R1] 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.
15. [R10] 1/5 · US Don’t show ads during tornado coverage: Interrupting Steve and the team with ads in the middle of live coverage of tornadoes rolling through St Louis? Ridiculous, craven, and embarrassing.
16. [R12] 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.
17. [R13] 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
18. [R16] 2/5 · US Buggy: Crashes randomly, radar won’t show up sometimes, videos don’t load half the time, ads on the videos sometimes make the phone crash. I don’t have these problems with any other weather app.
19. [R37] 3/5 · US App breaks every few months: It’s great for trying to keep track of the weather and everything, but every few months the app breaks. It crashes trying to open the daily tracker, the radar, and it won’t load even the temperature.
20. [R44] 3/5 · US Not reliable: Pages/Radar freezes and goes blank on my iPhone at critical times. The previous version never did this. And yes, my updates and iPhone are up to date.
21. [R106] 1/5 · US Don’t like: Nee version does not alway open
22. [R25] 2/5 · US Great Notifications, Horrible Radar: Radar is routinely wrong. Whether it is predictions of the path of weather or what the weather is actively doing, it is wrong more often than it is correct. There have been times it is actively pouring over us and when you check radar, there’s nothing showing up within 5-10 miles of us. That said, love the notifications of warnings and the ability to tune int
23. [R27] 1/5 · US Glitchy at best: Used to love this app, radar feature hasn’t worked since I upgraded my iPhone. It will randomly show blue (snow) on the radar and it’s July.
24. [R8] 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. .
25. [R22] 1/5 · US First alert days: Why do I get an “alert” as in “first alert day” when there is nothing but clear skies and fair weather all day expected? I don’t want to be alerted to “nothing special today”
26. [R24] 2/5 · US Annoying: I have it set up for alerts for emergency weather situations. I get weather pop ups all the time to talk about nice weather. Then you have to watch a video of you click on it. Annoying.
27. [R39] 1/5 · US Too many notifications but won’t go live during severe: I’ve turned off all notifications except severe, but it wakes me to tell me a nice day is ahead. Then, in the middle of tornado warnings, it won’t let me go live.
28. [R4] 2/5 · US No sound: The commercial at the beginning has sound. The weather report doesn’t.
29. [R33] 1/5 · US Review: App doesn't work . Can never get the videos to play. Too many advertisements can't find the forecast
30. [R45] 3/5 · US Video player is bad: Well you certainly make sure the ads play but when it gets to the vid it doesn’t play any sound.
31. [R61] 1/5 · US No captions: No captions available in videos
32. [R17] 1/5 · US What happened?: This use to be my go to weather app, it’s pretty much unusable after the latest update. The overlays are a disaster. I just want to be able to see the radar with overlapping warnings, not a bunch of indicators for lighting. They only clutter the radar. It’s a hot mess.
33. [R18] 1/5 · US terrible info-no info: app is again worthless. we used to be able set defaults on what to show. now you can’t set storm info, like: rain amount, storm info and direction. yes, it can be added, but each time the app is started, you must select that added profile, which at 3am, lights out, and not wanting to wake up my spouse, that can’t be changed without great difficulty. and you still can’t l
34. [R98] 1/5 · US Not happy with the update!: The old one was perfect! It had exactly what I wanted without having to sift through a bunch of clutter and garbage. I’m really sorry I updated it. I going to try channel 5’s app.
35. [R101] 2/5 · US App: Liked the old app better. Easier to find radar.
36. [R62] 2/5 · US Advertisement: Takes too long to get into app To I long for the advertisement Using other app now
37. [R80] 1/5 · US Slow load: Slow to load. Poor content. Why video of everything. Would prefer a 1 paragraph weather statement summary
38. [R161] 1/5 · US Slow: Too many bugs and difficult to access on the go. Definitely not mobile friendly! I’m looking for a new app that can give me up to date weather and traffic on the go in one app and is local. I always watch the KOMV morning news, weather, and traffic before I head out the door. But this app is more trouble than it’s worth.
39. [R3] 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
40. [R26] 5/5 · US Ch. 4 Weather Forecast and WARNINGS: Great to look at; but not so great for ALERTS !!!
41. [R30] 4/5 · US I little hint. Viewers do live South. When you show the locations they are generally central .: Done
42. [R38] 1/5 · US Screen changes: Screen changes while I am reading the data without me doing anything
43. [R14] 2/5 · US No live stream?: Switched to the app since livestream from website no longer works on my phone, and they don’t list any requirements for it. There’s a tornado warning right now, and the latest video on the app is hours old. What’s the point?
44. [R35] 1/5 · US Ads in the middle of tornado sirens: lol so glad I have to watch a 30 second ad to see some info about an ACTIVE TORNADO SIREN. This app is not intuitive- the live feed needs to be accessible - esp when you live in the Midwest and you’re panicking during a tornado siren
45. [R69] 1/5 · US Low accuracy with app: This app is very unreliable. It predicts 90% severe weather and not a drop of rain or other severe issues. It changes dramatically hour to hour as if guessing or reacting. Last weekend, it predicted a small chance of rain and the city got hammered and timing was off by 2 hours. Not sure it is worth using.
46. [R49] 2/5 · US Too many notifications: I turned off all minor updates And still get too many notifications. I had to delete it