Weather NOW Forecast & Widgets Reviews

by Dmelichar

December 20, 2018 I was forced to download the new ad driven Weathernow app. Like a lot of folks we have family in numerous locations across the country and we like to watch the weather in those locations. When attempting to add these locations I was forced to watch an ad each time. Additionally, the new app does not include all the cities and towns included in the old app. Once a city is selected or your location is determined by WeatherNOWForecastWidgets editing cities is not allowed. More advertising less usable information not a winning combination at least for us.

by Campssite

If you want money, try being straight forward and honest. Instead you are forcing previously satisfied users to accept your “new and improved product” with NO opportunity to REGET it. Even worse, you lock out your former, very satisfying app. The net result: both app’s, new and old are closed and deleted, now and forever. Why do I give you one star; so I can write this and warn everyone else who should be smart enough to review my honest, true and factual experience, provided of course, that you’ve got the integrity to print this ! ! !

Additional Thoughts:
After being contacted by the Developer for a second opinion, I restored WeatherNOWForecastWidgets, and found it was even worse than I originally stated. Each step and each page during sign up, leave you NO OPTION except to accept the offering, page by page in order to finally get the “new” App. But the “new” app has locked you out from keeping the “old” app. You can’t keep the old app even if you want it. Nor can you restore any prior settings . Additionally, you have to agree to a release to accept and provide your locations, addresses, usage, etc. I have family in two countries in the far east, five countries in Europe, along with ten states. Your previous app kept me informed. I don’t want to expose any one to you or your income producing advertisers. Maybe NOW you’ll get the message ! ! !

by Petenbama

Lots of pretty colors and gimmicky graphics such as the large earth globe on the main page which does not help anyone but sure does look pretty. Weather radar is very important to me and the very first thing I notice is how the radar map display only uses about half the screen real estate and that is a big strike for me. Another big strike is that the temperature was off a full 7° for my location. It says 61° when my other three weather app which use the National Weather Service feed All day 68°. Believe me I can tell the difference between 61° and 68° and I just verified as I walked outside. I rarely ever give one star reviews sorry but delete city.

by Steve91519

Great app...with one glaring flaw: the temperature on the globe screen --which is beautiful, and the major reason I bought WeatherNOWForecastWidgets --is often wildly inaccurate, by as much as 20 degrees! (Not only with respect to other apps, but with its other screen!)
The main reason I used it was, when I wake in the night, to not only check the time, but get a quick read on the weather --but when it gives an obviously wrong temperature reading, it's useless! If it can't be fixed, I'd like my money back.
Too bad: a reasonably accurate temperature would seem to be an essential requirement in a weather app. Beauty only goes so far.

by EonweGilthoniel

I want to like WeatherNOWForecastWidgets but there’s a problem. There’s a pale third line indicating a temperature on the daily and hourly graphs but I don’t know what it is. This is my only recourse to get support. When attempting to access support on the website I’m prompted login. Since I don’t have an account I tried to create one. I was prompted for a user name and email address only, no password. I verified that I’m not a robot and the data was accepted. When prompted to login I’m asked for a login and password. I was never prompted for a password when creating the account. So what gives? I can’t be the only person who’s encountered this. I’m using an iPhone 6. Other than this snafu I’m pleased with WeatherNOWForecastWidgets but I want to be able to read it properly and the user support has proven useless. Is this a bug in the developers’ latest update? Or is WeatherNOWForecastWidgets just data-mining for email addresses? I’m hoping it’s the former, it’ll be rectified soon and I’ll be notified within a few days. If not, I’ll contact Apple to let them know about this.

by Kimmy11kay

I first heard about the WEATHER NOW app through an email which offered free apps for a short period of time. I downloaded WeatherNOWForecastWidgets and instantly loved it. I had always been fascinated with the appearance of earth from space.

Recently, I received an notification about a new app, the WEATHER NOW X app. This is a newer version. I downloaded WeatherNOWForecastWidgets and the graphics are excellent!

With that being said, there are two reasons why I rated this new version THREE STARS instead of the FIVE-STAR rating I gave for the original version.

I dropped one star from the rating, because of the constant annoyance of having to look at advertisements EVERY TIME I wished to add a city to my geographic location list. This feature was a real sleeper to me.

I dropped another star from the rating, because of the ten-city limit on the geographic location list. When I had the original version of WEATHER NOW, I was able to put about seventy different cities (and more if I wanted to) on my list. I liked to see the temperatures of various cities around the world. The new version has a limit of up to ten cities. I learned that I would have to upgrade to the PREMIUM version in order to add more cities and I feel that this is a way to get more money out of people.

While I enjoy the graphics of WeatherNOWForecastWidgets , the annoying ads and the ten-city limit were what caused me to give WeatherNOWForecastWidgets a THREE-STAR rating.

by Justinus Prime

You’re limited in how many cities you can search for. I couldn’t pin point my location in a search and I tried looking for Yellowstone National Park, which every other app gives information on. Closest city is Jackson and that’s about four hours south of the park. Other than limited search abilities WeatherNOWForecastWidgets is on point with everything else.

by TheTitleofAnyTomWaitsSong

There is absolutely no guidance from the developer’s website about how to use WeatherNOWForecastWidgets except if there is a malfunction inside WeatherNOWForecastWidgets . The only access to the developer to ask a question is if a person has already subscribed. Yet that defeats the purpose of exploring WeatherNOWForecastWidgets to decide if to subscribe.

Even for a very simple question - what is the difference between the two forecasts (top and bottom) on the forecast screen?

By every method and search possible - it seems impossible to get an answer to that question without paying money to ask it.

by DIDE2020

Beautiful weather app; the Earth view with it’s radar is breathtaking. The graph style is my favorite weather presentation, customization and UI are all nice. BUT the weather data source is just terrible. That makes me take 2 stars away; at the end of the day, this is a weather app and if the forecast is wrong than WeatherNOWForecastWidgets is no more than google earth (without the street view). It pains me to give such low rating but I can’t rely on WeatherNOWForecastWidgets. If the data source was weather channel, or AccuWeather, or another reliable source, WeatherNOWForecastWidgets would’ve been a 10 star app for me.

by Tranasaurus Rex

The view with today’s weather graph and the upcoming few days is quite nice. At a glance I can easily see the trend for temp. So often these apps just put in the temp with no visual. Helps that I don’t have to scroll and lose what date I’m looking at either.

The radar page is flawed. The animation that plays back the current weather pattern is very choppy. Unusably so. Also, the snow graphic is very hard to see.

Lastly, the graph page is so smooth when animating that it can be addictive just switching locations and watching the graphics morph between readings.

by Guilleshop

Almost perfect but needs some changes please!
1) The daily ios14 widget data is wrong! It loads the data from wrong day compared to WeatherNOWForecastWidgets . App and widget are offset by 1 day. Sunday shows Monday data etc. happens with Weatherbit data only.
2) Please allow iOS 14 widget to display hours in 12 hr format. Not 24hr.
3) Generally the precipitation graph levels should be on a larger scale. Even 100% precipitation is too small of a bar. Larger bars for rain please.
4) Your description says there are 7 widgets but I only see 3. Anyway we need a widget for HOURLY ONLY please! You have daily only but not hourly only.
5) Please consider making the weather icons follow the curvature of the graphs. It’s much easier to read that way.
6) Can you allow to display the “feels like” temperature numbers on the graph instead of the actual temp? Thanks and please fix #1 above!

by Nickname Is Take N

Thank You so much Developer for making WeatherNOWForecastWidgets. I have a girlfriend who lives in the uk and was planing to go over to the uk. If it weren’t for your app I would of never been able deal with the time change. Thank you so much for making this. WeatherNOWForecastWidgets is always on point and accurate. You’re amazing.

by Tjcr250

This is a okay weather app, but I can’t figure it out, how do I get the weather layer’s to show? I bought the $9.99 version. Soooo as for the temp it’s pretty accurate, but for the layers I have to look at another app, because this one doesn’t show them, funny, because in WeatherNOWForecastWidgets Store in the picture’s it shows weather now with weather layers.

by Reveiwblockgame

App has been telling me it can not access the server for several days now. I tried to put in a service ticket and it will not allow me to post a ticket. Say I have restricted access.

Pretty useless app and service desk.

by N1GHT5H1FT

WeatherNOWForecastWidgets will really help. I’ll never have to sit at the tv or try to search unreliable sites for weather again. They should add a gps option to eliminate having to use a different app for that. All in all?.. WeatherNOWForecastWidgets is very beautiful and will make a big difference in my morning routine.

by HardcoreMHH

Tested many weather apps and this is the best one! Great summary graphics. Covers all aspects of weather both locally (NYC) and even an easy preference of choosing other places you regularly want to keep an eye on. WeatherNOWForecastWidgets has performed flawlessly for me for years. It is on my list of the first batch of apps I want downloaded when either resetting or buying a new device!
Love it!

by BobbyF92

The home screen alone is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Showing you how the sun is shining on the earth and where the moon is in relation to everything from like a third person perspective is dope af. I don’t even use it for its weather function so I can’t really speak on that. I just really like the home screen and have been waiting for someone to make that sort thing. Cool app.

by Bsfollis

Thought it would be another same ole board weather app but when I gave it a try I was blown away with it. I use it to have fun with it but what really be nice is to play with the world map and to see what the weather is there in that country other then USA. Maybe in the near future or upgrades that will fix the issue But for now I still enjoy it.

by Oatlandsdingo

I have used it for many years - since it was a totally free app, in fact. It’s lyrical in design and has performed seamlessly across all my devices.

Recently I upgraded to the premium subscription and find that I am only able to open it fully on one iPad, an iPad Air. On two iPad Pro and a Mini iPad, it shows a prompt to purchase a subscription.

All devices are up to date, running current iOS. Is this user error on my part or am I required to buy a separate subscription for each device?

by Love2kno

WeatherNOWForecastWidgets connects visually with my mind in a way that makes understanding the current and future weather easy and clear. And, it’s layout allows for quickly accessing future weather conditions. I think of it as my favorite app. It far exceeds any of the other weather apps I have used in the past.

by Med74

I had paid for the previous version then all of a sudden I was forced to download the new version (which is really not any different) and now I have to deal with ads (unless I pay again??). Nice way to treat a paying customer!!!
New customers be warned - if they did it once they will do it again. Don’t let pretty graphics lure you in. There are plenty of other weather apps out there with great graphics and better customer service.

by JTMaustin

For years, it was a good app. Now, not so much. I understand “free” doesn’t pay the bills and subscriptions seem like easy money but who really wants to pay to see the weather? There’s only a limited number of subscriptions I’m going to put up with. This one is unnecessary. Requiring acceptance of targeted ads to effectively use WeatherNOWForecastWidgets without a subscription doesn’t feel right to me, so WeatherNOWForecastWidgets gets deleted. It’s not a value proposition.

by MrAssman

The Good: beautiful rendering of earth with real-time sun position, great looking animated temperature and precip graphs, air quality indicator, new widget matches light/dark mode ios13.

The Bad: zooming in on earth brings you into useless satellite view? Location position on earth does not reset when you tap location.. very annoying. Current temp not always accurate. Unnecessary radar screen.. better off without it and using a proper dedicated radar app.

The Terrible: forecast view on widget NOW REQUIRES PREMIUM after update. That was previously the best feature of WeatherNOWForecastWidgets. Unlike every other weather app this one now makes you pay for that essential feature.

Think I’ll have to stick with Hello Weather.

by Ynottmc

I love the graphics quality but am very unhappy with the buffering on putting the radar in motion. In Texas some time you need to tea a quick look at the different storm directions active in your area. I do have cable internet and not concerned with the speed.
The previous HD radar did not have this issue.
I can’t seem to place app on other than the iPad or was purchased on. SADD :(

by A YAHOO! User

I first heard about the WEATHER NOW app through an email which offered free apps for a short period of time. I downloaded WeatherNOWForecastWidgets and instantly loved it. I had always been fascinated with the appearance of earth from space.

Recently, I received an notification about a new app, the WEATHER NOW X app. This is a newer version. I downloaded WeatherNOWForecastWidgets and the graphics are excellent!

With that being said, there are two reasons why I rated this new version THREE STARS instead of the FIVE-STAR rating I gave for the original version.

I dropped one star from the rating, because of the constant annoyance of having to look at advertisements EVERY TIME I wished to add a city to my geographic location list. This feature was a real sleeper to me.

I dropped another star from the rating, because of the ten-city limit on the geographic location list. When I had the original version of WEATHER NOW, I was able to put about seventy different cities (and more if I wanted to) on my list. I liked to see the temperatures of various cities around the world. The new version has a limit of up to ten cities. I learned that I would have to upgrade to the PREMIUM version in order to add more cities and I feel that this is a way to get more money out of people.

While I enjoy the graphics of WeatherNOWForecastWidgets , the annoying ads and the ten-city limit were what caused me to give WeatherNOWForecastWidgets a THREE-STAR rating.

by Rha789

Sorry, but I _really_ dislike the new ‘color scheme’ ... using every color in the Crayola box did nothing to improve WeatherNOWForecastWidgets .

It _used_ to be a 4* app, it did what it was supposed to do. It provided generally accurate weather information in an ‘easy-to-read’ format. Sadly, the old version doesn’t allow multi-city viewing.

by Drone Daddy

Totally enjoy WeatherNOWForecastWidgets as it has so much information to not only see today’s weather but can figure my week ahead as it shows when, where & how to b ready :) Thx so much it’s really cool to click each day & brings everything up about it too:)

by Teryl Hollins

Update: Last night I thought that the cache might needed to be cleared.
I needed to totally shut down my phone. This morning I reinstalled WeatherNOWForecastWidgets and it restored my subscription and works fine. Thanks for your quick response.