# SpotAzores — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of SpotAzores by Sinonimo Radical, Lda, rated 1.90/5 from 14 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spotazores/id1083559349/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spotazores/id1083559349.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 10 ## Newest reviews (13 of 39) ### 2/5 — What happened? *2025-03-04, version 2.0.3* Edited to add: Has this app been abandoned? My husband and I have used this app for several years and have been very happy with it. We use it continuously whether we’re here in the Azores or at home in Canada. Since your upgrade, the app doesn’t work and we get nothing but an error message. Will this be fixed, or should we just cancel our subscription? ### 2/5 — Why not working in 2025??? *2025-02-17, version 2.0.3* I have been using this App for the past few years while being very satisfied, but since we arrived in January 2025 it’s not functioning… WHY? ### 1/5 — Nothing seems to work *2025-02-07, version 2.0.3* Cannot access any spots, throws up errors on and island selected. Using latest IOS. ### 1/5 — Not working *2025-01-30, version 2.0.3* The new updated app does not work. Gives me an error ### 1/5 — App seems broken *2025-01-24, version 2.0.3* App hasn’t been updated in 4 years. No longer working. Cams are stuck with an error. Fix or take down the app. ### 1/5 — Not working *2022-08-02, version 2.0.3* Have been trying to use it for 1 Week and keep getting an app error. ### 2/5 — My thoughts after the July 2020 update. *2020-07-30, version 2.0.0* While it does have some nice new features, in my opinion there are 7 things that could be fixed/corrected/added to make it a much better app. 1. I had a paid subscription from before the app was updated in July 2020. My previous subscription removed all the annoying banners/ads from the old app. After using the “restore previous subscription purchase” option after updating the app recently, and it saying that my subscription was restored, and all the ads would now be removed from the app there are STILL annoying google ads. I tried turning off/on my iPhone and iPad to see it that would reset things, and I also tried forcefully closing the app and restarting it, but the ads keep showing up. It worked before the update in the old version of the app, but it’s “broken” now. After having to pay again for a subscription ($3.49/yr), which is more than the price I originally paid (which was only $1.99/yr), the ads now seem to be gone. I shouldn’t of had to pay again for something I had already paid for previously. 2. Some of the cameras are not pointed that well. Some have more sky in it than actual ground area. Please review the camera views and try to get some of them moved/pointed lower to show more of what’s happening on the ground/beach/towns. 3. The wide angle Ponta Delgada city view is now gone. The only one left is the one facing west towards the cruise ship dock area. The old one that faced east from the city gates area (located high on the arcade building), was a much better camera location, because evening sunsets didn’t really affect the camera’s lens, and allowed for a nice clear wider angle view of the downtown marina area as it got darker later at night. 4. Come on Spot Açores, it’s 2020, and we need real streaming videos of these locations (at least from some of more popular/busy locations). Having only still images, or “one still image every 5 seconds” is not good enough. Please updated the stream so it’s continuous like other camera’s around the world. Small outdoor HD webcams have become very affordable, so please use them. 5. Some of the camera locations are placed so they are pointing westward. While this helps in the morning as the sun comes up in the east... it can become really bad in the afternoon as the sun starts to set in the west. The camera’s lens gets affected by the sun as it gets lower in the sky, making it harder and harder to actually see what the camera is pointed at. Lowering the camera’s lens angle a bit more, adding a polarizing filter to the lens, or simply adding a sun shield/cover to the front of the camera to help shade their lens from the sun, are all things that would help in reducing annoying lens flare. 6. In my humble opinion, the most popular location in all of the islands, is the main city gates on Ponta Delgada (the Portas da Cidade). Everyone that visits that island wants to see it and take a picture standing in front of them. It would be nice to have a wide angle view of that downtown area. Placing a webcam high on a pole or light post, south of the city gates (near the Avenida/water), would be an ideal spot to view what’s happing around the downtown core. It would also look nice when the downtown core is lit up at night. Please consider adding this wide angle camera view location, because it will be a very popular one to look at. 7. And finally, please add the ability to “send/cast” the webcam’s video to a regular tv screen, by adding a “screencast” button to each webcam window. While the video size is ok on a 10” iPad, it would look much nicer on a huge 50”+ sized tv so that more people can watch it. These are some of the things I’ve found that could be improved/corrected. If I find anything else that could be improved, I’ll be sure to come back here to update my review and rating. Kinda regards, The Azorean in Canada ### 2/5 — Ads too frequent *2019-07-04, version 1.3* This would be a useful app except that ads pop up every 10-20 seconds. It’s practically unusable. I would be happy to have the ads if the frequency was increased between showing them. As soon as I close one, I only have time to look at maybe one camera before another opens. Very annoying. ### 1/5 — Nicht wirklich nutzbar *2019-02-09* Die Werbung ist mega nervig! Leider sind die Webcams auch nicht wirklich so aufschlussreich, sodass man die Surfbedingungen nicht wirklich erkennen kann...! Naja vielleicht auch besser so...! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2018-05-30* Ad after ad. Worst UX ever. Unusable ### 2/5 — FULL OF ADS *2018-04-25, version 1.3* Useful app but be prepared to see video ads pop up every time you select a point of interest. Every time. The same ad, over and over. Ridiculous. ### 2/5 — Helpful, but too much ads *2018-04-18* The app is great to check the weather at the different places of the islands. But every minute an ad is showing up. This is really annoying. The Pro version of the app doesn’t provide enough „killing features“ to actually buy it. Use the website instead of this app. ### 1/5 — Zu viel Werbung *2017-11-26* Zu viele Werbeeinblendungen stören den Gebrauch ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not pleased about this!!! *2025-08-01, version 2.0.3* The app only gives me error messages. It won’t allow favorites, islands or anything else! ### 1/5 — What’s happening? *2025-07-29, version 2.0.3* I have been vacationing in Sao Miguel for the past 8 years and have always relied on this app. This summer, 2025, it’s taking my money and now it does not even work. Someone needs to fix this. What’s happening? ### 1/5 — App *2025-07-12, version 2.0.3* Keep getting an error message now with this app , it used to work just fine but now it doesn’t ### 1/5 — Waiting *2025-07-08, version 2.0.3* Loved the app! But still waiting for app to be operational again. I was told that it would be up and running by the end of June 2025, but no luck as of July 7th, 2025. Update please! Thanks! ### 1/5 — Unresolved error messages *2025-07-07, version 2.0.3* This app was super amazing last year, but it has consistently displayed error messages without resolution. The app has been completely useless for Sao Miguel. ### 1/5 — Zero info *2025-05-09, version 2.0.3* Unusable. Error messages when trying to use app. ### 1/5 — App no longer works *2025-05-04, version 2.0.3* Worked for many years, then one day nothing. App still opens up, but none of the cameras are accessible anymore. Just an error message. Canceled subscription because of this. ### 1/5 — Please fix *2025-04-20, version 2.0.3* I miss the cameras. Please fix the issue. ### 1/5 — Broken app *2025-03-25, version 2.0.3* This webcam app used to work fine but now it just gives error messages. It does not display webcams either or show the islands. I even deleted & re-downloaded the app, no help. Please update the app. ### 1/5 — App Doesn’t Work *2025-03-06, version 2.0.3* Tried the free trial and the paid .99 mthly subscription and neither work on mine or my husbands iPhone. Just get an Unknown Error message trying to display anything at all in the app. Canceled the subscription. Worthless. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good app *2023-07-07, version 2.0.3* It’s useful to see where is sunny so you can go to those places. Apple weather and other weather apps are not specific to towns/lakes ect and you only know the weather for the whole island, spot Azores allows you to see this. ### 5/5 — Recommended by locals *2022-08-29, version 2.0.3* This app was recommended by locals to find sunshine due to the dynamic microclimates of Sao Miguel. Very glad I used it during my stay. ### 5/5 — Indispensable pour un voyage aux Açores *2016-08-21* Un grand merci pour cette idée d'application. La météo est tellement changeante sur les îles que cette application permet de savoir quand aller aux points à visiter au moment où il fait beau, de quelle côté d'une île aller pour avoir le soleil... 1€ pour ne pas être dérangé par là pub est plus que raisonnable. À recommander. ### 5/5 — Nice *2016-06-01* Nice, usefull for surfing ### 4/5 — Great app and very useful when visiting the Azores *2020-08-15, version 2.0.2* This is a great app and I like the new format. ### 3/5 — Used to be my comfort app.. *2025-05-05, version 2.0.3* I keep getting an error message on one of my favorite apps!! I lived in Terceira for a couple years and this app really gave comfort to seeing the weather and waves in real time now that I’m in the desert. For the last month tho it doesn’t work at all :/ please please fix it. I miss seeing my tiny islands. ### 3/5 — Server down *2025-04-01, version 2.0.3* Please fix server as we are not allowed to see anything. ### 3/5 — Ads *2020-05-07, version 1.3* Nice app, but paid for subscription and the ads still pop up. No way to contact anyone for support. ### 3/5 — Aggressive Ad's *2018-02-02, version 1.3* Aggressive and repetitive adverts (one, every 10 seconds) forcing you to pay for the possibility to get rid of it.. well this how people making money nowadays.. Love the app btw. ### 3/5 — Looks really good *2016-07-30, version 1.3* But, I won't give out my credit card information directly, so I can't get the premium. --- *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 2026-06-10.*