FOX 5 Washington DC User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.4% of reviews
Neutral11.4% of reviews
Negative experience57.1% of reviews

~ Based on 70 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is FOX 5 Washington DC Safe?

FOX 5 Washington DC: Weather has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for FOX 5 Washington DC is 65/100.

This assessment is based on 99 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.2/5.

Safety Analysis

48.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
40.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 99 App Store ratings for FOX 5 Washington DC.

Is FOX 5 Washington DC Legit?

FOX 5 Washington DC: Weather appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for FOX 5 Washington DC is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Not what it used to be

I’m disappointed in the direction this app has gone. I used to love it and use it several times a day. Now there’s too many ads that get in your face right when you open it. Currently that ad is a picture of an elderly person that frankly is grotesque. Being old myself, I want to find another app just for that reason alone.

Where did the past radar views go? I can’t find them and believe they are gone. It’s more informative to see the progression from the past and then look at the future.
On the daily view, today opens up automatically when you go there, limiting the view of the rest of the week. Liked it before when all the days were closed and you could see the whole week and then pick the days of importance to view details. Sounds silly, but it’s really annoying when something works the way you want and expect, only to see it changed without warning just for the sake of change. I could go on, but it’s not that important. There are many other apps out there. I’ll just have to go find one that isn’t annoying….until they change it. Then I’ll move on again…
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Love this app!

It works really well for me on iPhone. I’ve had none of the issues other people described. Maybe it’s because I’m on iPhone, but it’s the best weather app.

OK

It was great for a few years. Now it hangs up constantly particularly during the 24 hour radar loop. I have deleted it.

Radar not useful

I used to really like this app and find it to be the most correct source of weather information in my area, but lately the radar has been COMPLETELY inaccurate. It looks like what it’s showing is what was predicted at the beginning of the day, but not actually what is occurring at the time I check. I’m not sure what use of radar is if it’s not showing accurate information.

I hate using the Apple Weather app, but it’s more accurate lately than this one.
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I used to love this app

A Tornado was coming through my area and this app never alerted me, not even after the fact. Very disappointing. I thought I could rely on it. All alerts for every weather event has always been set to on.

Radar is hallucinating to the point of being dangerous

The radar view use to be decent but has declined to the point of pure fantasy. It has no grounding in reality.

Always goes to commercial

Randomly goes on commercial while in the middle of feeling the weather /story. Then sometimes will freeze even tho it’s up to date

Issues w/v 5.4.940 that need to be addressed

Don’t you hate when you update an app & the old version was MORE functional? Programmers need to take the watch/warning/advisory overlay OFF of the main map & go back to making that an OPTION you can add in the drop-down menu if you like. Why? Because the watch/warning-advisory overlays are COLOR CODED & interfere with other map functionalities like the 24hr snowfall overlay, which is ALSO color coded. Please fix this!
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Like it

I like the alerts and especially like the radar because you can zoom in or zoom out and see what’s coming. I appreciate being able to go to the most recent weather broadcast from the channel as well as being able to go anywhere in the world on the radar. I’ve loved it but occasionally the radar blanks out but that was only recently perhaps the latest update will adjust that
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Needs More Weather Maps

The app is great so far but it needs more weather maps. I would like to see the dew points and the water temperatures. I also would like to see Wind Gusts on the map.

Won’t let me delete

Won’t let me remove locations

Garbage

Worked flawlessly until they put out an update. Radar is completely inaccurate. Shows area is experiencing rain and there is no rain. App notifications woke me with a jarring alert at 3 am for flash flood warning and minimal rain came. Flash flood alerts came every hour another time and there was zero rain that day. Forecasts are inaccurate. This app is now more of an annoyance than a help.
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Useless

I work outside a good weather app is important and this one stinks! Today alone was suppose to be cloudy all day yet here I am baking in the sun! Inaccurate and unreliable forecasting at its best!

App constantly freezes at home screen

The app is great when it works constantly freezes on home screen and won’t load very unfortunate as this this best layout for local weather app without a bunch of distracting ads. Deleting and reinstalled three times with no fixing

Doesn’t work most of the time

Even after restarting my phone, this app just freezes up most of the time.

Could be the best

This could be the best weather app ... if it worked. The information is arranged to quickly and easily see temperatures hourly and daily without a lot of swiping as other apps require. HOWEVER, it is o longer reliable. Most of the time when I try to use it, the app is frozen.
Would not recommend until the bugs are fixed.
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Won’t open

This app was great for a lot of reasons for me personally! Lately I haven’t been able to open it and when it does it’s in the afternoon. Please fix this. I use to love this app, lately I haven’t!!!

No More Updates Please

Worked much better until latest update and redesign. <Sigh>. It wasn’t broken. Unreliable now.

Bad update

Loved it before the latest update. The radar map is awful.

Not Buggy Dont Update

This App ran great until I did the update with ‘bug fixes’ for crashes and load issues. What I didnt have before is now a problem. Crash after crash, Load issues, gps location are all problematic now. Lightning data works very rarely.
Its really to bad there is not an ‘Undo Update’ option for All Apps. Ban the term ‘bug fixes’.
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