Leave a Review Rain Viewer
Rain or Not
This is a great app, which would be made so much better, by showing another plot of rain probability along with temperature and cloud cover.
It would then mimic the best weather site, NOAA and make your app the best thing for tablets and smartphones.
Martin HackMartinHHack
Very disappointed with the surprise 2.0 upgrade
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 the App 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.Show lesssandyskink76018
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you so much for your interest in RainViewer. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the implementation of the new app version. The animation sharing option is to be returned in the near future. Regarding the animation "kaleidoscope", please kindly be informed that "pixelization" is possible for the Future part of the progress bar due to the specific of your region. We'll do our best to improve the situation. Meanwhile please try our Smooth Radar option, probably you'll find it to be useful (Menu - Settings - Radar Overlay - Smooth radar). Again, sorry about that, we do try to enhance our product. With kind regardsFatal flaw
This app has one fatal flaw that kept me from keeping a subscription: every time I opened the app, 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.Show lessjustmeeagainn
Developer Response
Accept our gratitude for your interest in RainViewer. You may find it interesting to try the latest RainViewer version. We did a job to improve/fix the list of features there including the work of the Apple Watch version. Hope you'll find this app version to be interesting and useful after all. Kind regardsDifficult to use
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 this app when the free Weather Channel app provides much more information. Wish I could get my $ back.Show lessheynonnynonny
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for being with us. Accept our apologies for any misunderstanding. The main goal of RainViewer is to gather and process weather radars data throughout 80+ countries. Unlike the forecast analytics, this data provides the real current information about precipitation moving tendency and gives the possibility for the accurate short-term predictions. The classic weather forecasts are implemented as an additional option in our app as well. You may choose to monitor the weather in both your current location and the chosen favorite one. To set notification alerts about the precipitations please go to the Menu - Locations (the star icon) - the directory of the location needed. In case you still want to receive your compensation back, you should make a request to the AppStore support directly. Please do not hesitate to write us back in case of any other questions. We do want to assist. With kind regardsGetting worse
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.Show lessgamlet58
Upgrade useless
This app was amazing. Since the upgrade it is unusable! Don’t bother downloading.IRE Mobile
Developer Response
Hi! Accept our gratitude for using RainViewer. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the implementing new app version. We examine each and every suggestion to provide the improvements when it is possible. If you have any ideas on how can we improve the new features please share them with us. With deepest sympathyWhat happened??
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!Show lessEnglew00d
Developer Response
Hi! Accept our gratitude for using RainViewer and sorry for any issues caused by the implementation of the new app version. Thank you for your expertise. We examine each and every suggestion to provide the improvements when it is possible. We'll take your comment into consideration. With deepest sympathyRain Viewer 2.0 review
The app recently upgraded to version 2.0. Up until the upgrade it was worth 5 stars +! Useful, good user interface, and quite accurate given it is using third party data. However, since the upgrade the radar overlay is terrible. I don’t know if it is a glitch or bug but it just shows the same grid in a large pixelated format that just increases as you zoom out. Totally impossible to see what the radar situation is like. Have the developers not seen the results on screen? This is on an iPhone 6 running iOS 12.4 so fulfills the criteria to use it. So disappointed as it was a great app.
Update:
5 stars! So within a few days of posting my review, the developer mailed to say the above mentioned issue was fixed and would be solved by upgrading to the new version. Did that and all previous issues were resolved. Thanks Oleksii. Keep up the good work!Show lessPetz41
Developer Response
Hi! We thank you most warmly for your choice. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by our app. Please try to update RainViewer to the latest version. Some features including the maps were improved there. Hope your problem will be resolved as well. Kind regardsExtremely disappointed with Version 2
It was a great app, until V2 came along. I can’t take GIFs of Radar animations or anything like that, nor can I go full screen. Also, even with radar smoothing on, the radar data is extremely pixelated. Please revert back to Version 1!!!Metorologist eli
Jerky and Missing Data
I was hopeful about this app, because it sources weather radar data from MetService. Sadly, I was very disappointed. I even paid for a month’s subscription to see if that helped with some of the issues.
(1) The weather radar display is very jerky, with blanking between frames, and doesn’t seem to show imagery at 7.5 minute intervals as available from MetService.
(2) By default, the display goes forward an hour from the current time to display extrapolated radar imagery. This seems to work elsewhere in the world (including Australia) but not over NZ, so you sit there and watch an hour of blankness before the animation resumes with past radar. There does not seem to be an option to turn this off.
(3) For most parts of the world, but not the longitudes of NZ, most of Australia, Japan, etc., there is animated satellite imagery. It cuts off west of 180E (or 180W). When I contacted the developers they said this was a problem with Apple maps, but it also looks like they are not using imagery from the Japanese Himawari satellite.
(4) The weather forecast temperatures look wrong to me, compared with other sources ... not enough diurnal variation.
(5) It’s raining outside right now, and there is rain on the radar, but the forecast cheerily told me no rain was expected for the next hour, probably because of a lack of radar extrapolation for NZ.
So I’ve cancelled my subscription. Maybe, if the developer can fix all these faults, I might consider it again.Show lesstehoro
Developer Response
Hi. Accept our sincere gratitude for your detailed comments. As far as we know our experts have already contacted you via email. Again, thanks a lot for your interest in RainViewer. Kind regards
