# First Alert 4 Weather — user reviews > 138 indexed App Store user reviews of First Alert 4 Weather by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 24,580 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-alert-4-weather/id447289584/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-alert-4-weather/id447289584.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 19,972 · 4★ 3,089 · 3★ 817 · 2★ 280 · 1★ 422 ## What do users think of First Alert 4 Weather? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Accurate and reliable weather forecasts - 🚀 Real-time weather updates and alerts - 💡 Comprehensive weather information in one app - 👍 Helpful and knowledgeable weather team - 👍 Useful for planning outdoor activities - 👍 Convenient access to weather information **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional issues with live stream and video playback - 🔍 Difficulty navigating the app or finding certain features - 🔔 Too many non-essential notifications - 👀 Visibility issues with weather data visualization **Commonly reported bugs** - Live stream not updating in real-time during storms - Radar images not refreshing quickly enough **Most requested features** - Improve live stream reliability during severe weather - Enhance user interface and navigation - Provide more customization options for notifications - Improve visibility of weather data visualization ## Newest reviews (11 of 138) ### 2/5 — No sound *2026-06-21, version 6.2.510* The commercial at the beginning has sound. The weather report doesn’t. ### 2/5 — Slow *2026-06-10, version 6.2.510* While this app provides for accurate weather & the people are great, the app itself is frustratingly slow. You click on the notification & it takes a while for the app to fire up. Then it has to show you a couple of commercials. Then it starts up the video of the weather report that may be recent or maybe 30 minutes old or older. In the mean time I could have clicked on 2 other weather apps & got a report and full Doppler radar. It’s not like I’m running it on a real old phone (iPhone 16 plus ). ### 2/5 — Weather *2026-06-03, version 6.2.510* Your station does not do a very good job of covering weather unless it is bad. It does not cover news in our area. ### 4/5 — Extremely useful but some bugs *2026-05-05, version 6.2.501* I do love that it gives me loud alerts to storms but unfortunately even though I turned off alerts to lightning so I could sleep it still gave me the alerts. Hopefully this bug is fixed quickly. . ### 3/5 — Allergy Forecast *2026-04-25, version 6.1.601* It would be helpful to include an allergy forecast. ### 3/5 — Bogus *2026-04-16, version 6.1.601* I can never see the video about the weather - there’s always an ad running instead of the storm warning I want/need to see. ### 3/5 — Ok *2026-04-16, version 6.1.601* When watching live for tornado warnings, it’s not helpful to bring up ads in the middle of watching to see where it’s at. Not happy ### 2/5 — No live stream? *2026-04-16, version 6.1.601* Switched to the app since livestream from website no longer works on my phone, and they don’t list any requirements for it. There’s a tornado warning right now, and the latest video on the app is hours old. What’s the point? ### 2/5 — Buggy *2026-03-14, version 6.1.601* Crashes randomly, radar won’t show up sometimes, videos don’t load half the time, ads on the videos sometimes make the phone crash. I don’t have these problems with any other weather app. ### 2/5 — Annoying *2025-08-30, version 5.17.706* I have it set up for alerts for emergency weather situations. I get weather pop ups all the time to talk about nice weather. Then you have to watch a video of you click on it. Annoying. ### 2/5 — Great Notifications, Horrible Radar *2025-07-21, version 5.17.617* Radar is routinely wrong. Whether it is predictions of the path of weather or what the weather is actively doing, it is wrong more often than it is correct. There have been times it is actively pouring over us and when you check radar, there’s nothing showing up within 5-10 miles of us. That said, love the notifications of warnings and the ability to tune into KMOV’s coverage. But until the radar is fixed, app is not up to snuff with others out there. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Conflicting information, ad prioritized *2026-07-22, version 6.2.510* Could literally be dangerous in bad weather that the advertising sponsor takes up the entire screen so long. (Just have the ad at the top or bottom of the screen continuously.) And regular future radar and 24-hr radar conflict, even in the supposed current status. ### 1/5 — Radar *2026-07-16, version 6.2.510* I mean why would a weather app’s radar work? It’s not like you’d ever want to see the radar in stormy days to know when the rain is coming….. Garbage. ### 1/5 — Not working *2026-06-30, version 6.2.510* Always shows 77* when it’s at least 90* out. Used to be great but it needs looked at now ### 1/5 — Don’t show ads during tornado coverage *2026-04-27, version 6.1.709* Interrupting Steve and the team with ads in the middle of live coverage of tornadoes rolling through St Louis? Ridiculous, craven, and embarrassing. ### 1/5 — Sound *2026-04-16, version 6.1.601* The sound rarely works on the app. You can hear the commercials nd when the weather comes on after zero sound. It’s been like that since I got the app. ### 1/5 — What happened? *2026-03-07, version 6.1.601* This use to be my go to weather app, it’s pretty much unusable after the latest update. The overlays are a disaster. I just want to be able to see the radar with overlapping warnings, not a bunch of indicators for lighting. They only clutter the radar. It’s a hot mess. ### 1/5 — terrible info-no info *2026-03-03, version 6.1.302* app is again worthless. we used to be able set defaults on what to show. now you can’t set storm info, like: rain amount, storm info and direction. yes, it can be added, but each time the app is started, you must select that added profile, which at 3am, lights out, and not wanting to wake up my spouse, that can’t be changed without great difficulty. and you still can’t leave the app running because it stops updating. it’s storm season and flash flooding and tornado season, PLEASE FIX THIS. ### 1/5 — First alert days *2025-10-14, version 5.17.706* Why do I get an “alert” as in “first alert day” when there is nothing but clear skies and fair weather all day expected? I don’t want to be alerted to “nothing special today” ### 1/5 — Glitchy at best *2025-07-13, version 5.17.617* Used to love this app, radar feature hasn’t worked since I upgraded my iPhone. It will randomly show blue (snow) on the radar and it’s July. ### 1/5 — Rating *2025-07-08, version 5.17.617* Too many commercials pop up on this app! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Undisputed *2026-07-09, version 6.2.510* Steve Templeton is the GOAT ### 5/5 — Preferred weather app!! *2026-06-13, version 6.2.510* We used to use a different local station's Weather app, which shall remain anonymous, but it became so unusable by pop-up windows that we decided to try the First Alert 4 Weather app. Bingo! You can actually use the First Alert app without having to wait for the next advertisement to finish its run. We're sticking with this one. ### 5/5 — Info at my fingertips *2026-04-28, version 6.1.709* This is a great app for relevant weather information at my fingertips. ### 5/5 — Period Weather Watcher *2026-04-03, version 6.1.601* I woke up to scary noise from a storm at 4am and went straight for First Alert 4! I was relieved to see that it was just an Alton storm. Which is not unusual because the thunder here is louder in the valley behind the bluff we live on. ### 5/5 — Good *2026-02-02, version 6.1.302* Vary accurate 🌪️🌩️⛈️🌨️ ### 5/5 — Great *2026-01-19, version 6.1.302* Weather map ### 5/5 — The Best information *2026-01-19, version 6.1.302* I truly look for what information I get from this thread. I have it set up on my alerts!! So I don’t get caught off guard! Thank you First Alert 4!!! Thanks ### 5/5 — Weather alerts *2025-09-20, version 5.17.706* LOVE THIS, ALWAYS W/ ME ### 5/5 — Ch. 4 Weather Forecast and WARNINGS *2025-07-17, version 5.17.617* Great to look at; but not so great for ALERTS !!! ### 5/5 — Weather app *2025-07-06, version 5.17.617* Excellent and accurate weather app, I watch channel everyday and trust there meteorologist. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*