WSVN Hurricane Tracker vs My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts
My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts is the better choice for reliable hurricane tracking due to its consistent performance and fewer critical issues compared to WSVN Hurricane Tracker, which suffers from significant recent functionality problems.
WSVN Hurricane Tracker, despite its past reputation, is currently plagued by critical issues like blank screens and excessive ads, making it unreliable. My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts, while also having ad complaints, generally provides more consistent tracking and alerts, making it a more dependable choice for hurricane season.
Head to head
You are looking for an app that historically provided spaghetti models and timely alerts, and you are willing to contend with or hope for fixes to current major functionality issues and intrusive ads R5.
You need a hurricane tracker that is generally reliable for alerts and tracking, offers detailed information like satellite views, and you are prepared to navigate around ads or consider a paid version for an ad-free experience .
Evidence note: Both apps are free to download and rely on ads, leading to significant user frustration regarding ads for both. WSVN Hurricane Tracker has a strong negative skew in recent reviews due to critical functionality failures (blank screens, no graphics) that make it currently unusable for many, despite higher lifetime ratings. My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts has a much larger user base and, while also having ad complaints, its core tracking functionality appears more stable.
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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.
- [R1] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Blank: When I open the app the options for forecast come and forecast models show up blank.
- [R3] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Usable information: These graphs and forests are great, but they do not tell average viewer The Who, what, when or where…..
- [R5] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Very Accurate: This app is very accurate! I love the weather and love looking at this app, sometimes it is slow but other than that ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- [R10] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Blank screens: What happened? I only get a screen of ads and no graphics. Mo cones. No spaghetti models. Nothing but ads. Going back to Max…
- [R6] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Hard to navigate with advertisements everywhere: I’ve had this app for 3 years. I’ve always loved how reliable this app was, but now every time you click on something an add pops up. All I’m trying to do is check to see if I’m getting hit by a hurricane or looking to see the spaghetti models, but it’s hard to do that when adds pop up every 30 seconds.
- [R7] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Not the best: The app is very slow to load.
- [R11] WSVN Hurricane Tracker My “Go-To” Hurricane App!: Very easy to navigate and understand. Loads of information.
- [R28] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Your weather app: This app is extremely hard to follow just give us the basics give us a map of what we want to see. It’s just unrealistic in my opinion thank you
- [R4] WSVN Hurricane Tracker ad driven garbage: horrible app. ads all over the place. i’ll be taking this app out with the rest of the garbage
- [R26] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Too Many Ads: Cannot use over the amount of ads that pop up
- [R67] My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts It’s always the ads: tell me why I just got a full page ad. Farewell from a longtime used
- [R82] My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts I would die due to the amount of ads…: There is no need to have so many ads pop up every time you open up the app, like am I trying to die here? Where’s the storm oh wait here’s 50 ads and especially question ads like I’m trying to focus on my life not some dumb survey. Plus people don’t want to pay for the ad free version when they are just trying to pay attention to the storm
- [R16] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Doesn’t work: Since the late update it won’t show any graphics anymore, the purpose of the app. The cone, the tracks, all stay blank. I would say of all the bugs fixed it created a major one.
- [R18] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Worthless App: The WSVN weather hurricane tracker used to be an excellent app. But now I get alerts and there is NO image and NO spaghetti models, despite the app alerting me to a potential danger. I suggest using Ventusky for watching weather pattern!
- [R65] My Hurricane Tracker & Alerts Great!: Accurate. Used often.
- [R38] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Too many pop-up ads: Every time you exit or enter a new page a pop-up ad comes out.. it’s really annoying and has caused the app to completely freeze and spaz out to the point I have to restart my phone. Ridiculous that you can’t track a hurricane without the stupid ads slowing you and the app down.
- [R52] WSVN Hurricane Tracker Pure Adware Ruining a Decent App: Decent app unfortunately riddled with a constant barrage of full page pop-up ads. It’s one thing to fund development via ad revenue but this implementation renders the app almost unusable.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store