# VNL Weather — user reviews > 89 indexed App Store user reviews of VNL Weather by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.57/5 from 8,671 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vnl-weather/id414272558/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vnl-weather/id414272558.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,301 · 4★ 1,432 · 3★ 455 · 2★ 159 · 1★ 220 ## What do users think of VNL Weather? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Necessary for storms and floods and hurricanes - 👍 Excellent - 👍 Everything is very accurate - 👍 Great - 👍 Awesome - 👍 Great weather app! - 👍 Best of the best - 👍 Great app - 👍 Love it - 👍 Storm search weather - 👍 Love this App - 👍 VNL - 👍 Informative - 👍 Best Weather App Ever!!! **Cons** - 🐛 Notifications - 🐛 Weather radar - 🐛 Don't doomsday weather and app ad me - 🔋 Too many ads - 🐛 VNL weather tracker - 🐛 Great app but too many notifications - 🐛 Won't stop notifying me - 🐛 Not accurate! - 🐛 Radar - 🐛 Like it except during storms… - 🐛 NEEDS FIXING ASAP - 🐛 Slow loading or no loading - 🐛 Not reliable - 🐛 Poor app performance - 🐛 to view is very hard - 🐛 App won't load - 🐛 Updates - 🐛 Junk - 🐛 New version is way TOO BUSY! - 🐛 Weather App - 🐛 Was a five star app - 🐛 I do not like the changes you made to your apt. - 🐛 Garbage - 🐛 Super disappointed - 🐛 Recent update: Do not like! - 🐛 Alerts - 🐛 Weather alerts - 🐛 Too many ads and notifications - 🐛 Videos - 🐛 Too many text updates!!! - 🐛 Radar - 🐛 Used to love it now it's all adds - 🐛 Review - 🐛 Temp - 🐛 Slow loading **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices - Radar doesn't update - Radar twitches and scrolling malfunctions **Most requested features** - Localize the weather alerts - More details on daily like rain amount - Dark mode option - Advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (14 of 89) ### 4/5 — Solid except… *2026-04-04, version 6.1.601* Great app. I don’t understand why I need 5-10 notifications/day for the same event. Winter storm advisory. Message received, already. Good god… ### 3/5 — Notifications *2025-08-17, version 5.17.706* I continue to get “new weather alerts” from areas that are 3 to 6 hours away. I wished there was a way to localize the alerts. ### 3/5 — Weather radar. *2025-05-14, version 5.17.509* Just about radar in general. Years ago I could zoom in on my section of land and see real time rain where it was happening. Now the lag time is so significant that trying to see real time weather is impossible. On a related subject, no one I know wants to see the weatherman come on 5 times during a half hour newscast, only to repeat themselves. Super frustrating ### 4/5 — Awesome *2025-03-01* Everything is very accurate but the low on display means the overnight low which is kind of confusing, I am used to the low meaning the same days lowest temperature in the early morning. ### 4/5 — Awesome *2025-01-12* Everything is very accurate but the low on display means the overnight low which is kind of confusing. I suggest put more details on daily like rain amount. ### 3/5 — Weather *2024-12-28, version 5.17.509* I used to be a fan, but too many ads now. It’s too hard to focus on what I’m reading with all the extra ads. ### 4/5 — Awesome *2024-11-14* Everything is very accurate but the low on display for example it says the low is 57 and its not talking about the lowest temperature that day its talking about the next day ### 2/5 — VNL weather tracker *2024-08-15, version 5.15.411* It’s very hard to navigate on an IPhone. Far too much data to run at the same time ### 4/5 — Great app but too many notifications *2024-01-13, version 5.12.701* I get wanting to keep viewers informed but every time there’s bad weather they send at least 4 notifications every 5 minutes. I want to stay informed so I don’t want to turn off the notifications but they’re making my devices with the app installed unusable. ### 4/5 — Like it except during storms… *2023-08-01, version 5.10.500* I check the radar often (when a storm is coming especially), but I wish that the app would open more quickly. I have no patience for ads and the logo page when I want to see the radar. Just a thought… ### 2/5 — NEEDS FIXING ASAP *2023-07-15, version 5.10.500* Your radar is beyond inaccurate. Tonight driving home we hit a major storm. Pulled off on exit. Got on the app it shows absolutely nothing where I am. It was blowing my car sideways raining so hard could not see. Lightning was so dangerous hailing. Closed app went back in shows nothing again. Storm let’s up we leave the exit hit another storm in next town. Says just light rain it was no light rain. We finally get home. Look on app again to see if this storm was coming our way. It shows all red over my house at that second. It’s bone dry and calm here no storm at all but radar shows storm right over my house. How are we to rely on your app for weather when it was so inaccurate. ### 2/5 — Slow loading or no loading *2023-07-11, version 5.10.500* Continuously glitching and slow loading, used to be better but lately I find myself looking on other apps since this one’s been giving me so many problems. I think the app system needs an update bad! ### 2/5 — Not reliable *2023-06-28, version 5.10.400* Radar never works when you need it. Otherwise app is ok. Very poor radar quality, doesn’t update. Have to open & close app to refresh radar. 👎 ### 1/5 — weather app *2023-04-26, version 5.8.410* to view is very hard. 3 different views very small can’t enlarge for a better view. and there shouldn’t be any advertising on it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not a very good app! *2026-06-24, version 6.2.512* The app is constantly locking up ### 1/5 — Ed *2026-06-04, version 6.2.512* To many ads going to delete app ### 1/5 — Left leaning *2026-02-05, version 6.1.302* Why is valley news starting to lean left Stay out of politics just report the news ### 1/5 — Bad videos *2025-12-17, version 5.17.801* They just keep playing the commercials. No weather. ### 1/5 — Don’t doomsday weather and app ad me *2025-04-28, version 5.17.509* Every 5 min it’s get the app and then all the doomsday hail tornadoes inaccurate chicken little things ### 1/5 — hate it *2024-10-12, version 5.16.1703* it’s lagging all the time so i’m done with this app for good ### 1/5 — Won’t stop notifying me *2023-12-25, version 5.12.701* I get about 50 notifications if there’s any type of alert, it’s very annoying. ### 1/5 — Not accurate! *2023-09-23, version 5.11.503* The radar is not even close to accurate. It will be pouring rain yet the radar doesn’t show anything in the radar. The hourly forecast shows it’s even raining but the radar will be empty. I’m tired of canceling plans based on this radar since it’s not accurate. I switched to WDAY storm tracker radar (Fargo), because it’s way more accurate. I also use the Weather Channel app and it will show radar much differently than VNL tracker. Dont waste your time with the inaccurate info on this app. You’ll end up canceling plans due to rain that isn’t actually in the forecast! ### 1/5 — Radar *2023-08-06, version 5.10.500* Need to figure out the problem with the radar, I’d say 80% of the time the precipitation just blinks so you can’t even figure out what way it’s moving or how heavy it is. ### 1/5 — Poor app performance *2023-06-09, version 5.8.501* Terrible app. The old version was much better. Every time I leave the app and come back to check the weather, the app is very glitchy. The radar twitches and scrolling seems to malfunction. Go back to the old version. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — It’s great *2026-08-03, version 6.2.512* I love how it has 24 hours compared to other apps and it’s correct ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-01-05, version 5.17.801* Great weather app ### 5/5 — V *2025-08-15, version 5.17.706* Necessary for storms and floods and hurricanes ### 5/5 — Eagle *2025-06-02, version 5.17.509* Excellent ### 5/5 — Awesome *2024-09-21* Everything is very accurate but it sometimes it says like its 80 degress and feels like 80 but when i went outside it felt like 82 ### 5/5 — Great *2024-09-18, version 5.15.411* Great. Get it. ### 5/5 — Weather very informative alerts wonderful staff thanks for all your hard work! *2023-03-01, version 5.7.301* Good job! ### 5/5 — Best of the best *2022-07-23, version 5.4.933* The weather team at valley news live is extremely knowledgeable as well as the most accurate meteorological team I’ve ever watched! ### 5/5 — Weather app *2022-07-04, version 5.4.933* Great app Wonderful to have to keep up with the latest weather conditions ### 5/5 — Owner *2022-01-10, version 5.4.933* We like the weather channel soul --- *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 2026-09-02.*