First Alert 4 Weather vs 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. [R1] 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.
2. [R12] 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
3. [R66] 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
4. [R88] 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
5. [R10] First Alert 4 Weather 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
6. [R24] First Alert 4 Weather 3/5 · US Good app but has some unfriendly behavior: The app content is good but if you leave the app and come back it resets (shows the ad, good back to app Home Screen) do I can’t just go back to where I was. That’s really annoying.
7. [R64] 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.
8. [R111] 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.
9. [R18] First Alert 4 Weather 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.
10. [R22] First Alert 4 Weather 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.
11. [R70] 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
12. [R91] 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
13. [R53] First Alert 4 Weather 1/5 · US ADS. ADS. ADS.: Entirely too many ads to watch just to see a news or weather alert. I understand ad-sponsors but is it necessary to watch a 30-second ad for every 60-second video? It’s too much and a huge turn off. If I have to watch more than one ad to get my information, I will find another source.
14. [R73] First Alert Weather 1/5 · US Too much ads.: Barely can see anything with ads everywhere. Feels like a 90s website.
15. [R15] First Alert 4 Weather 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.
16. [R25] First Alert 4 Weather 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.
17. [R113] 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