MetService Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience20.1% of reviews
Neutral12.5% of reviews
Negative experience67.4% of reviews

~ Based on 184 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about MetService

Is MetService Safe?

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Is MetService Legit?

MetService appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for MetService is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Janky

The app provides generally accurate weather data at a macro level, but the short‑term precipitation data is extremely poor on both the graph and summary. The interface is dated, clunky, and buggy. Many functions crash the app, panes don’t appear, and settings often don’t work. It’s flooded with ads, making it unusable, and now charges $2 / month to remove them. I'd be happy to pay once it provides reliable predictions, stability, and a modern design.
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App crashing

The app crashes

I paid for this app now I’m subjected to adverts

I paid for this app now I’m subjected to adverts. When you pay for an app you shouldn’t have advertising pop ups. It’s a off

Absolutely useless

Constantly stuck on splash screen with no information
Never has worked properly!! It’s almost as bad as the TVNZ app on Apple

Way too many ads

In disbelief at the amount of ads on this app. Why would I pay when people paid before and then ads got added back

Why are there ads when we previously paid

I can’t understand why this app is covered in ads. MetService used to charge for this app back in the day, updated the app so there are ads (without the consent of the New Zealand tax payer) and now requires a payment to remove them again.

What gives?

Incorrect weather station - Trentham Upper Hutt

Rainfall figures seem linked to Dunedin!!

OK, but annoying

I live a five minute walk from the beach, but I cannot display the tides.

Does a few things

48hr forecast graph is useful. The rest is a UI mess.
I paid for this app years ago for no adds, it has many adds currently. And now they're asking for me to pay again.

Glitch in 10-Day Forecast

Thank you for the app, I love it, however recently it’s had a bit of a glitch when opening up the 10-day forecast. I’m unable to scroll all the way down, it brings me right back up. I’m using an iPhone 13 Pro Max, if that helps? I hope it gets fixed soon.

Easy and amazing!

New Zealand weather is so hard to predict but this oh my days it works so well!!

Not sure it’s ever been right even by coincidence

It’s like it reads the opposite. Tells me 5mm of rain at current time of day, when it’s 15+ and sunny. The last 3 months I’ve almost never seen anything over 8C even when it’s more like 15. Every night it’s -2 to -10 when outside it’s +6. “80% chance of rain. Wear a jacket and 2 layers” but it’s a guesstimated 30 minute 0.5mm rainfall at 12:30 a 1AM. I don’t know if it’s some kinda prediction thing or if they jammed ai trash into it but it’s the most useless weather reading / prediction thing I’ve ever come across unfortunately. But it’s blatantly and massively wrong or massively illogical.
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-0 degrees

Shouldn’t it just say ‘0’

Still my go to

The most reliable weather app for NZ and I use the rain radar a lot to pick walking times between showers. But please make the font sizes bigger eg sun rise/set times. They’re about size 4 on my 15 Pro screen. Yes I’m getting older, yes I have glasses….

Needs work

No amount of updating ever fixes how this site is. The same video add keeps popping up literally every minute while trying to view. It’s outdated to say the least

Useless

It’s often wrong and the icons, measurement droplets and written description are usually mismatched.

Why so much info for hanmer springs

Hardly ever right. Hanmer springs at the moment is not Mackenzie basin or rangitata or porters pass. Only give us info for our area. Nobody wants to know if at 3000 m it’s freezing. It’s not that hard, stop giving us unnecessary info

Seriously comprised

Their desire to monetise this app has led to the app becoming unworkable with really intrusive pop ups. All this from a government department apparently delivering a public good so long as you pay. Deeply shameful

Pop up ads are a hazard

The app now includes pop up ads that take up the entire screen every 15-30s. Essentially unusable unless you pay the monthly subscription.

Pretty concerning that these pop ups also interrupt the CPR instruction page.

No Grandfather option for original paid users.

I previously purchased this app when it was advertised as ad-free. Updates since have added advertisements and now require a subscription to remove them. It feels unfair to existing paid users not to have our original ad-free access honoured.

The new ad placement is intrusive and takes up much of the interface, which wasn't reflected in the App Store screenshots. I'd really appreciate it if the developer could restore ad-free access for prior purchasers.
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