# Northern Light Aurora Forecast — user reviews > 184 indexed App Store user reviews of Northern Light Aurora Forecast by Letovaltsev Maxim, rated 2.70/5 from 208 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/northern-light-aurora-forecast/id1092949787/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/northern-light-aurora-forecast/id1092949787.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 60 · 4★ 21 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 29 · 1★ 83 ## What do users think of Northern Light Aurora Forecast? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Detailed information - 👍 User-friendly interface - 💡 Customizable alerts - 🔍 Accurate forecasting **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🔁 Inconsistent/unreliable updates - 💰 Paid features required - 📍 Location-specific issues **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch - Restore purchases not working - Alerts not triggering correctly - Long-term forecast not loading **Most requested features** - Improved tutorial/documentation - Ability to manually set location - Sortable saved locations list - Explanation of data metrics ## Newest reviews (12 of 184) ### 3/5 — Вылетает приложение *2026-08-20* Приложение стало вылетать. Обновлений нет. Удалить невозможно. Раньше было хорошим приложением ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-06-07* It used to be great, now it crashes as soon as it opens. ### 2/5 — EXTREMELY inaccurate *2026-05-16* This app used to be pretty accurate and was great. The past 6 months or so it has become extremely inaccurate. Currently shows my cloud cover 10% but it is 85-90%. Horizon 32% but absolutely nothing. Everything is extremely off. This app needs seriously worked on or it’s going to lose most of its users. I’ll check back occasionally to see if the issues are corrected because I used to love the app. However, in its current state, I’ll be using a different northern lights app. ### 3/5 — Bugs, bugs, and more bugs *2026-04-03* The KP rating is almost always at zero ever when I'm looking at the lights. The horizon/above probability is actually pretty accurate but the cloud cover is always wrong. At it's core it's a actually good app but it's covered up with a buggy software surrounded by microtrasactions. But you don't have to get them if you don't want alerts but the app is literally called AuroraAlerts. Overall not terrible but definitely could use some fixing up ### 1/5 — Charged *2026-02-01, version 1.4.20* No forecast ### 2/5 — Not user friendly *2025-11-17, version 1.4.20* The information listed is very informative but if you don’t understand what the data means it doesn’t really help you understand what you’re looking at. ### 1/5 — Poor updates/refreshing *2025-11-13, version 1.4.20* I can never get the app to update to reflect real time. So for short forecast I am stuck with information from an hour ago and it won’t refresh. ### 1/5 — Harumph *2025-11-09, version 1.4.20* App works only for current location. ### 2/5 — Location location location *2025-09-01* This app makes it really hard to set your location. ### 1/5 — Outdated updates *2025-06-09, version 1.4.20* Not subscribing until this app is updated ### 2/5 — Needs updating, not accurate *2025-04-15* The app has not been updated in over an entire year, which makes it very outdated. The % on the top of the app for your chances of seeing the aurora are extremely inaccurate. The long term forecast does not predict accurate predictions. This app has the right idea, but desperately needs an update, better design and far better accuracy, even if that means a pay to use subscription service. ### 1/5 — Inconsistent sister app *2025-03-22, version 1.4.20* Intermittent problem with the “Northern Lights” app. The application won’t stay open. It closes immediately. I’ve tried to delete & reinstall the app & unfortunately, it still isn’t functioning. Very disappointing. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does not work *2026-07-12* Until a few Months ago this was working well. Suddenly it stopped giving current data for Bz Kp etc. it is virtually useless. ### 1/5 — Do not pay for this app *2026-06-24* ANOTHER UPDATE: As of Jun 2026 locations no longer work. If you are in the Southern Hemisphere you cannot see data relevant to your location. Whomever owns this app couldn’t give a toss as can be seen by not just the lack of maintenance of the app, but also the lack of interest in responding to users who have left bad reviews because the product doesn’t work. ________________ UPDATE: This app, as of Feb 2025 has become unworthy of a price tag. Notifications literally don’t function in any productive way. Alerts constantly for conditions clearly not conducive to aurora, and then no alert when conditions are right. Handy for the current oval. That’s about it these days. Don’t part with money for this app. ————————— Used to be excellent, but in the past year appears to be no longer maintained. Fully paid but the only alerts I get are random, outside the parameters set, and when there is no chance of aurora. No alert comes anymore when there is aurora. Missed a big one last night. No alert. The map has been stuck on daytime for a few days. The whole thing feels like an abandoned ship really. Not sure if this is still a functional app. ### 1/5 — Unreliable. Keeps crashing and will not get alert when you need it *2026-06-09* This app did not open for more than 5 days when it was a prime time. It doesn’t even give heads up or anything, if this was maintainence outage, to their paid customer. Such an unacceptable service level. WASTE , don’t trust this app for your once in lifetime opportunities to be missed because of their incapability. If there was -ive star I would have given that ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-06-09* I relied on it a lot-until very recently, now it crashes on opening on all my devices . I’ve deleted and reinstalled-doesn’t help. What happened? ### 1/5 — No longer stays open *2026-06-08* The app has stopped staying open and now just crashes ### 1/5 — Funktion der App *2026-06-08* Derzeit lässt sich die App nicht öffnen! (Juni 2026) ### 1/5 — Of late it is problematic *2026-06-08* Problematic & slow to update ### 1/5 — App bugs *2026-06-08* The app has been great but it currently crashes as soon as it’s opened. There’s no other way to get in touch to provide this feedback so I’m using the review option ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-06-07* This was my favorite app. Then yesterday it wouldnt load up propery, just blank for the first couple of days on the extended list so i did the usual cleared my cache, restarted my fone, checked for an app update and nothing worked to improve the problem. So i deleted the app to reinstall it but when i go to reinstall it, instead of “install” it says “open” like its already downloaded on my fone. Its not downloaded because i deleted it. Now it just crashes right away if i tap “open”. I tried to look at it on my ipad and it shows the first main page but when i click for the extended view it crashes. Whatever is going on please fix it! ### 1/5 — Ne fonctionne plus sur IOS 26.6 *2026-06-07* L’appli plante au démarrage depuis l’installation d’IOS 26.6 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Crashed *2026-06-08* App crashes immediately on launch, and the developer website also shows “Error establishing a database connection,” so there is no working support contact. Please update/fix the app. I prefer this app over other aurora apps, but it is currently unusable. ### 5/5 — Top *2025-12-26* J’adore, mêlé en version gratuite. Prévisions fiables et compréhensibles. Conseillée pour tout amateur de tête en l’air ### 5/5 — Best free forecast app *2025-10-04* Best free aurora light forecast app ### 5/5 — Features Removed *2025-05-26* I pay for this app. Will no longer sync to new location. No longer able to add additional locations manually. ### 5/5 — GREAT !! *2025-03-28* This is my go to app to see what the KP index is looking like, Bz… and what the forecast is looking like. The only minor suggestion is the graphs are really hard to pinch and zoom in on because then you can’t see the axis on the left. ### 5/5 — Rating *2025-03-17, version 1.4.20* Great app; unclear what the second page of kp and what the percents mean in this context ### 5/5 — Sprache *2025-03-12* Bitte auf deutsch oder wenigstens englisch. Kyrillisch kann ich nicht 😂 ### 5/5 — Very Helpful *2025-03-09* Not sure why this app has low reviews. It helps get the job done with seeing current aurora activity and when we’re seeing it in our location. ### 5/5 — Давно пользуюсь! Отличное приложение *2025-02-16* Отличное приложение удобно грамотно компактно сделано. Пользуюсь больше восьми лет ### 5/5 — Сияние *2025-01-08* Приложение помогло отследить появление сияния в путешествии в Мурманск и область. Получились чудесные фото и воспоминания! --- *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 2026-09-08.*