Sunbeam Reviews

Published by Richard Jones on 2025-01-10

🏷️ About: Sunbeam is a UV Index forecast app available for iPhone and Apple Watch. It provides accurate and up-to-date weather data to help users protect themselves from the sun. The app offers a range of features, including current and 24-hour forecasts, home screen widgets, and Apple Watch complications. Sunbeam also respects user privacy and does not sell information to third parties or use it for targeted ads. Users can access additional features with a Sunbeam Pro subscription, including personalized vitamin D and sunburn estimates, sunburn and vitamin D exposure timers, and worldwide UV forecasts for up to seven favorite places.

Rating 4.7/5

Safety Score: 31.4/100

Legitimacy Score: 45/100

Overall Customer Experience 😎

🤬 Negative experience

60.4%

😎 Positive experience

27.7%

🫥 Neutral

12.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 1,163 combined software reviews.

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Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

Pros

- Well designed app

- Not too simple and not too cluttered

- Useful widget

- Privacy policy is excellent

- Allows to see hourly UV index information

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4.7 out of 5

Can’t find my location..

by HOTSHOT88

I want Sunbeam to work but it can’t find my location..

Neutered by paywall

by Rdesermia

Awesome app until they started nickel and diming for “pro” features

No longer free

by AveGamer

FYI - App used to provide 7-day forecast free, but now is pay. 2.01 was a downgrade. Too bad. Was a nice simple app before. Should have gone ad based instead.

Update

by Lex2098

the new update (4-26-20) makes you pay to see more than one days worth of UV information. that’s crazy because I can go to any other app and it would be free. this app has just lost a user.

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Doesn’t do what I want it to do??

by Wfvjetevbskisbwb

I love the look and purpose of Sunbeam but when I try to click the little heart or sun burn icons with play buttons - assuming you measure your time in the sun - it doesn’t do anything. This feature would be sooo nice if it worked. Any advise?? Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Also I would love a implementation with the Apple Health app.

Will not let you enter location, requires location access

by Wampa007

I don’t want to be tracked, very easy to allow user to enter location, especially if they want to monitor more than one place!

Works Good; Simple

by Vidioteic

As the FTR stated, exactly what I wanted. Simple and with a widget. Just installed, so can’t compare the UV forecast to other sources. Would like to see a sunscreen reminder as other apps have.
I like that this is just an app- no data mining or ads. (At least that’s what the developer states!). Anxious to see how the developer improves.

Great widget

by TheFascination

I use this app for the widget and find it very helpful. I would like to see an option for the widget to display 12-hour time (AM/PM) instead of 24-hour time.

EDIT: Thanks to the developer for addressing this! I’ve updated my review to 5 stars :)

Well designed. Respects privacy.

by Jefff S

Well designed app. Not too simple and not too cluttered. Useful widget. Privacy policy is excellent — the only data that’s collected is location, which is necessary to give a local forecast.

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Exactly what I was looking for!!

by Lindzoppotamus

I wanted an app that allowed me to see hourly UV index information. This is the only app I found that would show up to 24 hours of UV index info at a time. Love it!

Great content

by Gymnast263

it tells you what the UV is on the hour and it gives you helpful information about the suns rays.

Exactly what I was looking for

by FransvanGosliga

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Best UV app

by Laurakake

Easily see day/week highs. Makes tanning easy :)

Is Sunbeam Safe? 🙏

Yes. Sunbeam: UV Index is quiet safe to use but use with caution. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 1,163 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.7/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Sunbeam Is 31.4/100.

Safety Analysis

82.5% of users say app is Safe 👍

82.5%

13.2% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️

13.2%

4.3% of users say app is Risky 🚨

4.3%

Is Sunbeam Legit? 💯

Yes. Sunbeam: UV Index is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 1,163 Sunbeam: UV Index User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Sunbeam Is 45/100..