Rain Viewer: Weather Radar Map Reviews

by Gamlet58

Alas, I have to say this once excellent app is deteriorating fast. Now the map barely loads, it remains blank for minutes on end, as others have noticed you get jerky, unreadable squares instead of a smooth image - it’s pretty much getting to be unusable now. What a shame. Someone took a great app and turned it into crap. I don’t really understand why.

by Justmeeagainn

RainViewer has one fatal flaw that kept me from keeping a subscription: every time I opened RainViewer , I had to tell it that I wanted the forecast for my current location. Why isn’t this the default? It seems to be the default on every single other weather app I’ve tried. This is annoying, and there doesn’t seem to be any setting to change it.

Also, a giant “NO” on my Apple watch face isn’t something I want to see. Why not just a 0% if there’s no chance of rain?

I look forward to the developers response, since he seems to have responded to every other review. Maybe some of that time could be used to make your current location the default, or at least include a setting for it.

by Englew00d

My phone recently upgraded to the newest version and it’s awful! This used to be my go-to app that i had previously given 5 stars and shared with everyone for all weather but after the update we’ve rendered it useless. The timing is off by an hour or more. It never fully loads so i can see the weather from 2 hours ago but not at present. And it’s choppy. The smooth animation is gone on what I CAN see. I’ve deleted it and reinstalled to no avail. My husband, kids, and friends are having the same issue with theirs. So sadly we’ve all had to switch. Please bring back the old!

by Roger, Gone Green

Seems like a reasonable idea, but RainViewer is not useful as correctly configured.

By way of example, a few moments ago I was informed that it would begin raining in about 20 minutes. It’s been actively raining for an hour, and there has been a storm with some level of precipitation for 24 hours . Clicking over to RainViewer the radar shows that we are squarely in a heavy rain zone. But RainViewer wants to be sure I know that it really won’t start raining until 20 minutes from now — that was standing it’s on radar map, and the wet stuff falling on my head.

Oops.

Couple that with the fact that RainViewer is just overburdened with pop-up ads and begs to install other apps, and it’s not worth the trouble.

by Heynonnynonny

Also doesn’t provide enough information- I couldn’t tell in a given day, whether or not it was going to rain. I want to know the likelihood, not just a rain symbol. I’m kicking myself for paying $10 for RainViewer when the free Weather Channel app provides much more information. Wish I could get my $ back.

by Alex7899086

I absolutely loved RainViewer for quite some time (5 stars all the way), it was by far the best radar app on the market specifically because of the Worldwide coverage, HOWEVER, after I upgraded RainViewer to 2.0 version for some reason the quality of the radar animations is WAY WORSE than in the previous version. It’s not nearly as smooth as it was before - lots of squares as if watching an old Atari game - it hurts my eyes. Why is it??
I was so disappointed that I spent last hour researching how to downgrade RainViewer (no luck unfortunately). Hopefully it will get improved soon...

by Sjdwade 123

In the past, it was necessary to remove the advertisement and spent money to buy it, now there is a need to buy a subscription again, unscrupulous merchant，Thank u，I find this button.

by Sandyskink76018

I wasn’t aware there were major changes from version 1 to 2. I purchased version 1 because I could save animations to gif and various video formats. Version 2 no longer appears to have these features and the new radar map is like looking through a kaleidoscope which is basically useless to me. I reached out to support but they have not responded. I wish they would put version 1 back out on RainViewer Store as version 2 seems like it should still be in development.

Thank you for responding!

Aug 10, 2020
Severe weather this evening and all weather stations nationwide are offline. Not reliable! Can’t believe I paid for this.

Aug 11, 2020
Appears to have been resolved quickly.

Sept 8,2020
Weather rolling in and not getting radar updates in a timely manner. I can get the same service through other apps for free. This will be my last review update. Thanks for the ride with a horrible ending. Don’t waste your money.

by Mattwg16

Just moved back from Oklahoma back to Poland and loved RadarScope there. This one is really good and only one so far I found that has radars from Poland. I wish resolution was a little better and option to see velocity.

by Someone1914

hi , before 3 weeks i guess; the clouds radar is glitching or broken in (Saudi Arabia - Jeddah City) there is a long line of clouds and RainViewer keeps sending notifications repeatedly saying there is rain outside , when it’s actually nothing out there.. please fix the problem and i tried to contact through the email but i didn’t get any answer.

again please fix the problem

thank you .

by OneDiscovery

RainViewer truly does what it says it will. The only reasons I’m not giving it 5 stars are that the watchOS app doesn’t have a map feature and there’s no macOS app

by Matt6292

I love RainViewer but the one feature I feel is missing is being able to adjust the reflectivity. That’s the one feature that would help when a tornado is nearby

by Dimple214

Hi
Iam subscribed to the application and my phone is iPhone 6 Plus ISO12
But the application does not work for me and does not detect rain, I do not know what the problem is, I want help

by Airport-Denizen

The only app that really integrates weather radar systems from different countries and actually works, and works really well. If you travel internationally RainViewer is essential.

by Doc Khalid

Whenever I’m planning to trip or on the way RainViewer helps me to see the cloud and possible rain in my way, very informative and expectations are true

by Ershad Kurdi

When I open RainViewer every time the backgroud map reloads when it shouldn't, because it's always the same and reloading uses lots of data. I am using OSM map by the way.

by James-Wolfe

I can confidently say that this app is one of the most accurate rain radar apps. Completely relay on it while travelling with the family or business trips.

by Blackbeard248

Great app; it does so much more with local weather and forecast radar—good developer's response to my problem log-in problem.

by Vasyl St

Thanks for very accurate rain push notifications in main area.

by Sarcote

I said app was not working at all in iPhone 6. But just now this has been FIXED right after an update. So I understand it was my fault (although I think it should keep working until such update). Thanks support for the patience.

by Detla Flight

I like RainViewer except... every time i fast forward the time, it takes like a eternity for it to load up even though i fast forward the time into the future. Also, every time i zoom in a tiny bit to take a closer look, the Weather color DISSAPPEARS!!!!!!!!!! so you have to update RainViewer ASAP!

by Recovering Meteorologist

Paid $2.99 for premium version to get rid of ads - still get full page as well as banner ads! Ridiculous!

by XxX-KAOTIK-XxX

I paid for RainViewer and have yet to receive even one rain notification. And when I open RainViewer the radar is paused at the end of the loop rather than auto starting like I have selected in the settings. I wish I had my money back.

by Disruptd

🖤 it’s simplicity and clean design!

Hope they can fix some issues ... for one ... Rain alerts seem Intermittent ... been on off thunderstorms here all day today and yet not one alert .. i have distance set at 30.

by Zzzoie

The only main problem I have with RainViewer is that when I check the map for rain storms I want to know where it’s at Now to where it’s going...NOT where it’s been & move up till the time it is Now...

by Boyd's Notes

Controls disappear, how about continuing the time line past 3 hours?

by Mahdi-AL-harbi

I would like to add the names of the villages in the maps

by Sha3er2006

I highly recommend it for chasing storms

by Isrobayan

Best app ever to check the weather for rains
And it’s easy to use.

by T-rob676

I use it every day

by Til1p

RainViewer is missing only future forecast; if that is added it will be near perfect!