# KATU Weather — user reviews

> 9 indexed App Store user reviews of KATU Weather by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, rated 2.30/5 from 14 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/katu-weather/id863172114/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/katu-weather/id863172114.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 6

## Most critical reviews (9 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — What?

*2018-02-25*

Weather app is vague. Hit an icon for “Breaking News” and it was news from March. When I hit the menu button it only offered me “Breaking News” & “Conservative News” — basically Faux News. No thanks.

### 1/5 — Not user friendly

*2016-11-19*

As another reviewer wrote, I also had trouble getting out of the "enter location" page. I managed to stumble out to the home page but still don't know how I did it. If the app has an hour-by-hour forecast anywhere I can't find it.
Apps for mobile devices should be easy and intuitive, especially those that might be used for quick checks for busy people. This one isn't.
I went back to my previous app. It doesn't look as slick, but it has hour-by-hour and long term forecasts besides radar and health alerts. And it's intuitive.

### 1/5 — Didn't work...

*2016-04-01*

Would have been nice for it to function but it kept giving the same message: "error getting data". Wasn't fixed by deleting and reinstalling the app. Darn.

### 1/5 — Not as good as I expected

*2014-07-13*

I downloaded this app hoping to get a reliable local weather app, but the "current weather" part took way too long to update and show any current conditions (assuming it EVER updated). I finally deleted the app and will keep looking.

### 2/5 — Latest iteration needs work

*2022-10-13*

Fails to honor my landscape orientation, forces portrait mode. Huge accessibility issue.

### 2/5 — Radar map doesn’t advance

*2019-05-18*

The animated radar map won’t display any precipitation once started. Extremely disappointing. I’ll need to use another local station’s app for weather. Can’t rely on this one.

### 3/5 — Love the modern look but...

*2018-12-24*

Most everything works but can’t seem to get animated radar map.  It does not display any radar until I zoom in map and only then a static radar image appears over the map. Not more useful thAn the KATU app at least animated radar works there.

### 3/5 — Ditch the Twitter

*2017-09-21*

The app itself works rather well. It sends me to Twitter when I open it and tap on the forecast. Bugs the snot out of me. If I want to go to Twitter I’ll go myself.

### 3/5 — Appears very useful for US locations

*2014-06-05*

This app has nice graphics and appears very handy, as long as you only want US locations. So far it doesn't support international locations.

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*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 2026-08-14.*