MetService User Reviews

MetService
MetService
Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited

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Annoying

Annoying

McDonald’s weather app

What in God’s name is the met office up to? Since this morning, the weather forecast has up to 6 large ads for McDonalds pretend food on each page. A joke!

Still no good

Most unreliable more often than not!!!
Too OFTEN the forecast does not match the hourly graph, which shows no rain when you say rain in forecast and vis versa. Also the wind direction is different on hourly compared to 3 day forecast.
How can anyone prepare when it is wrong more than right.
Doesn’t match the weather on telly either, which is supposed to be the same provider.
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Website is better than the app

No surface pressure under the maps and radar

Frustrating

Not a good as their web site

Constantly spectacularly wrong; ignore all warnings

How you can be so spectacularly wrong so many times and most particularly with your ‘keep the people frightened’ warnings, makes my head spin. Still waiting for the warned heavy rain in Tauranga. Understand temp variations given you take them at the airport, which is so relevant to so few, but inundations that don’t even water the garden… I’ll just keep looking up and watching the wind and clouds.
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Does the job better than most

Has everything you need and a bit more. Easy and logical to navigate and leaves out the fluff other apps think is groovy.

Just Look out the Window - Contradictions and Inaccuracies at every level

One usually looks at the weather for a purpose. Is it possible to complete certain activities that rely on specific conditions? Unfortunately, Metservice only provides consistency in its inability to answer this question. The rain radar and daily weather descriptions are often illustrating opposite accounts of the conditions. While this is acknowledged on the rain radar, nothing is done to rectify the predicament leaving us to take a best guess without any certainty. The daily forecast description and rain radar need to be unified to make this even a passable account of the weather. Even then both systems are often inaccurate. Save yourself the headache and look out the window.
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Excessive advertising

This app would be better without the ads. There should be an option for NZ taxpayers to have an ad free experience.

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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No

I do not like this app and it has way too many ads. Do not recommend.

Bad

Very poor. Sometimes says “current conditions aren’t available right now” for hours. Very annoying ad at the start of the forecast. Best to stick to the Apple Weather app.

Limited data

If it’s not a city or a very major town you don’t even get the current temperature. You likely won’t get any of the other data like humidity, drying time, tides, or wind. Hell, if you’re like Motueka you’ll get some of this extra data but you still can’t get a current temperature!

I hear from people that MetService is much more accurate than apple weather, but I wouldn’t know since I get almost no data for my area despite living a few km away from a weather station and radar!!
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Is Manukau Harbour land or Water?

Why does the rain radar on the app show the glorious Manukau Harbour as land? While every other bit of local water (Kaipara, Tamaki, Firth of Thames) actually look like water. I would also like to see a ‘dot’ to show my current location on the rain radar.

Not good

Too many ads. No im
Not paying for your app either.

Too many ads and stole my $

He tangata as noted below is a very true sentiment.

I like many purchased the app only to have the ad free version pulled and be spammed with ads.

The deal wasn’t too have it for x years to support the development as MetService is claiming in its replies.

“Choose ad free” paid subscription…

The original paid ad free experience was pulled. I’m not paying for this new one. Would rather use a different service.

Still no good

Too OFTEN the forecast does not match the hourly graph, which shows no rain when you say rain in forecast and vis versa. Also the wind direction is different on hourly compared to 3 day forecast.
How can anyone prepare when it is wrong more than right.
Doesn’t match the weather on telly either, which is supposed to be the same provider.
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Bit of a scam

Paid for ad free app years ago. Has ads, now selling monthly non-ad subscription.
Just use the Apple weather app.

Update: The developer is responding to reviews saying ‘but we want more money’. They sold a product to be ad free, then added ads back in, then added another subscription option to remove ads. Doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Again, just use the Apple weather app.
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Paid for app

Paid for this app originally, then along came the ads, now you are trying to charge a fee to go ad free. Was a good app back in the day. Time to move on.