# Rain Radar New Zealand — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of Rain Radar New Zealand by VERVE TECHNOLOGIES PTY. LTD., rated 4.60/5 from 56 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rain-radar-new-zealand/id1303183605/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rain-radar-new-zealand/id1303183605.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 41 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Rain Radar New Zealand? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Very useful app - 👍 Accurate weather information - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Good map feature - 👍 Helpful for planning outdoor activities - 👍 Real-time updates - 👍 Brilliant forecasting - 👍 Intuitive and handy - 👍 Better than MetService app - 👍 Great for fisher people - 👍 Good indication of when to seek shelter - 👍 Works well - 👍 Accurate real-time data - 👍 Simple menus - 👍 Great app, use it all the time - 👍 Ideal for people who work outside - 👍 Good for seeing if rain is coming - 👍 Provides ideal snapshots - 👍 Useful for pilots - 👍 Can recommend it - 👍 Good for quick reference - 👍 Canterbury radar is back - 👍 Favorite apps - 👍 Mint app, just the best ever - 👍 Great weather app - 👍 Accurate - 👍 Very Handy - 👍 Works good - 👍 Incredibly useful - 👍 Very Useful **Cons** - 😠 Inappropriate and rude ads - 😠 Sexually graphic ad banner - 😠 Ads redirect to Temu - 😠 Tacky porn ad images - 😠 Inaccurate radar - 😠 Radar images too fast - 😠 Radar images with large intervals - 😠 Radar not in real time - 😠 Radar an hour late - 😠 Too many place names - 😠 Hard to see the map - 😠 Radars slow to load - 😠 Too many adds - 🐛 Images no longer load - 🐛 App freezes when loading - 🐛 App not working - 🐛 Doesn't do much - 🐛 No top of the South radar - 🐛 Poor quality radar - 🐛 Radar not detailed - 🐛 Stopped updating - 🐛 Crashes on launch - 🐛 Transition too quick to make sense of - 🐛 Radar not working for Wellington region - 🐛 Place names too close together **Commonly reported bugs** - Blatant AI porn in ads - Rude and sexist ad images - Sexually graphic ad banner - Ad redirects to Temu - Tacky porn ad images popping up - Inappropriate ads - Sexually graphic ad banner at bottom of page - App freezes when loading - Radar not working for Wellington region - Images no longer load following the latest update - App has not been working for 3 days - Doesn't do much - No top of the South - Stopped updating - Crashes on launch - Radar images follow each other up too fast and with too big intervals - Slow loading - Times out - Transition is so quick that it’s hard to make sense of it - Radar in real time like the BOM in Aussie - Hour late radar - Too many place names - Hardly see the actual map - Radars slow to load - Too many adds - New names on maps Masterton missing - Place names are a bit close together - Can hardly see the actual map **Most requested features** - Moderate advertising to be appropriate for a rain radar site - Explain weather systems to a child without blocking the screen - Regulate in-app ads - Bigger timestamp on the page - Pause tab on timestamp - See everyone's feedback - Favorite individual radar views - Read all text for the radar in the bottom status bar on iPad - Add Waikato area - Watch version with 'estimated time to rain arrives at your location' - Slow down and freeze the replay - Add web cams as on 'Windy' - Show what's happening right now and what to expect in the next 2 hours - Add the 120km radars ## Newest reviews (16 of 85) ### 4/5 — It’s a rain radar, not a site for cheap, soft porn *2026-04-01, version 8.0.3* Suggest you moderate your advertising to that appropriate for a rain radar site. We don’t need or want blatant AI porn. Thank you ### 4/5 — Inappropriate Advertising *2026-02-01* Great App except for the sexually graphic ad banner at bottom of page. If you click the cross to close it, it instead redirects you to Temu. It’s a shame you can’t explain the weather systems to a child without blocking the bottom of the screen with your hand. Come on, Developers, regulate your in-app ads. ### 5/5 — Mr Rain chur *2025-04-25, version 8.0.3* mint app just the best ever ### 5/5 — Rain radar *2025-04-19, version 8.0.2* It is good I rely on it mostly it is pretty good ### 5/5 — builder *2025-04-08, version 8.0.2* i need to know when the rains will come especally when i've removed a roof or cladding,so this app is all i need! thanx ### 4/5 — Great weather app *2025-04-02, version 8.0.2* Easy to use, good map feature ### 3/5 — Fantastic for Kiwi’s *2025-03-02, version 8.0.1* Great app. But more importantly the Developer is responsive to design feedback and bug reports. ### 3/5 — Bangladesh *2025-02-07, version 7.24.0* United States ### 5/5 — Rain Radar *2025-02-05, version 7.24.0* Love this new app can recommend it ### 4/5 — Does what it says on the tin *2024-12-26, version 7.24.0* Simple user friendly translation of a difficult to use government provided service. Recommend for easy quivk reference. Shall I wait for the thunder to stop before getting out of the car for a surf? Will my washing dry in the next two hours? ### 5/5 — winner *2024-12-07, version 7.24.0* thanks goodness The Canterbury radar is back! ### 5/5 — Too fast *2024-09-26, version 7.24.0* The transition is so quick that it’s hard to make sense of it . ### 4/5 — Slow loading *2024-09-03, version 7.24.0* Sometimes it is very slow loading and on occasion even times out. I use it a lot for prediction of impending rain and find it really good ### 5/5 — Rain Radar. *2024-08-15, version 7.24.0* Thank you for the app, it’s one of my favourite apps. ### 4/5 — More useful than forecasts *2024-08-15, version 7.24.0* Great for seeing if rain is coming in the next hour before you go out ### 4/5 — Bit more *2024-07-17, version 7.24.0* I love this but I wish that like we could see everyone’s feedback like say I have a friend called Lilly! I wanted to see what she wrote but I can’t cause I can only see like four and those are like the first ones ever. Have good reviews! (Sorry if I was being rude) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — tacky porn ad images popping up *2026-01-15, version 8.0.3* This is inappropriate ### 1/5 — Inappropriate ads *2026-01-14, version 8.0.3* You pay for the app and you get inappropriate ads. ### 1/5 — Shame *2023-12-16, version 6.23.6* So inaccurate- used to be good but now is not even worth looking at ### 1/5 — Rain radar *2022-06-09, version 6.22.3* Doesn’t do much. Waste of time when trying to work out what times of the day it’ll rain. ### 1/5 — No top of the South *2022-06-01, version 6.22.3* Not much good if you live in Nelson/Tasman region!!! ### 1/5 — Rubbish radar *2020-09-27, version 6.20.11* Not much cop showing what you already know, one needs to know what’s coming!! Thank you. ### 2/5 — Ads look rude *2026-03-10, version 8.0.3* Great app BUT the images in ads look rude and sexist ### 2/5 — Rain radar *2024-09-17, version 7.24.0* Why cant we see the radar in real time like the bom in aussie. No good when its an hour late. Should be whats happening in the next 15 30 mins. Does my head in. ### 2/5 — JAG *2023-01-28, version 6.23.6* Doesn’t show times ### 2/5 — Stopped updating *2018-09-08, version 6.4.2* No longer updates. When opened says updating and screen disappears, tho app is still open but can’t be seen. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very Useful *2026-03-01* Probably the most important app in NZ if rain affects what you do. ### 5/5 — Incredibly useful *2026-02-13, version 8.0.3* If you’re ever in the situation where you quickly need to know what is going to happen with the weather - use this. Also, if extreme weather is forecast, use this to check what will happen in the area. ### 5/5 — Works well *2026-02-13, version 8.0.3* Works good ### 5/5 — RRNZ *2025-11-21, version 8.0.3* Great app and accurate. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2025-10-27, version 8.0.3* All the info you need. I use this all the time. ### 5/5 — Very Handy *2025-08-18, version 8.0.3* This app provides ideal snapshots of each province without the need to trawl through websites. A like for me would be if the timestamp on the upper right of the page could be bigger and perhaps a pause tab on it as well. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Masterton *2025-07-30, version 8.0.3* New names on maps Masterton missing but you have Paraparaumu town and beach names on map which are only five kilometres apart doesn’t make sense to me but i still think this is the best app on my iPhone I use it several times a day cheers ps I live in Masterton ps on 300 k map ### 5/5 — Steve *2025-07-02, version 8.0.3* As a Pilot I use Rain Radar a lot to get a very helpful visual picture of where the rain is in real time so I can plan accordingly ### 5/5 — Accurate *2025-06-29, version 8.0.3* I find it interesting . It’s a lovely way to see the weather . Especially the rain ### 5/5 — Weather Radar NZ *2025-05-01, version 8.0.3* Excellent app. --- *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 2026-08-28.*