First Alert Weather vs NewsBreak

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. [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
2. [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
3. [R70] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Horrible Content: Every time you open this app and hope for legit news that matters it’s like reading a garbage magazine instead. It literally makes you hate the country you live in.
4. [R88] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Ads: Cannot watch or read anything without spectrum ad popping up several times. I’m already spectrum customer so I don’t need to be sold over & over again.
5. [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.
6. [R51] 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.
7. [R73] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Hardly ever loads: The information is good, but the app hardly ever loads. Most of the time you just get a blank white screen and it never works when traveling to a different city.
8. [R100] NewsBreak 1/5 · US the ads are out of hand: there’s no reason for there to be a bunch of unstoppable ads and pop-ups getting in the way of critical information
9. [R31] 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
10. [R75] NewsBreak 3/5 · US Informative BUT Slow reporting: Very informative however the news always appears to be days and/or hours behind.
11. [R90] NewsBreak 2/5 · US Bias: No matter what I block no matter what I report this still try’s to shove liberal news down your throat when you just want the news not libs opinions of the news.
12. [R13] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Too much ads.: Barely can see anything with ads everywhere. Feels like a 90s website.
13. [R22] 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.
14. [R110] NewsBreak 1/5 · US The Best, but NOT in a Good way: If you enjoy Spam and Scam Ads that try to sell you wonder goods and treatment, then NewsBreak is the best app for you. But if you don’t like Spam and Scam, you are forced to pay a monthly fee for the ‘Premium’ Plan, which is the only way to block its relentless Spam & Scam Ads. NewsBreak does do a good job consolidating newsworthy articles of interest. Too bad the
15. [R67] NewsBreak 2/5 · US Pay now: I just updated now my saved won’t return to the app. I have to pay
16. [R53] 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
17. [R112] NewsBreak 1/5 · US Forced Ad before Opening: Now must click thru atleast 4 to close opening app ad - removing plus security sites warnings about this app as gateway
18. [R102] NewsBreak 2/5 · US Aps kinda trash: No real live updates and it only selects certain stories and calls . No live scanner and it make you download the crime radar app that is the same thing. Facebook groups have more information in your area.