WeatherBug Elite

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1. ★★★★★a forecast that contradicts the sky outside cancels everything else

   Absolute Garbage. It’s ok if you want the current temperature but worthless for everything else. If you want to know if it’s raining, you’re better off looking out the window. There’s a long delay in the radar. I’m listening to a torrential downpour of rain hit my home. The gutters are overflowing it’s raining so hard. But according to the radar it’s not raining at my location at all. Do not depend on this app giving you accurate information. I’ve used this app for years. So disappointed in what it’s become.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   NO RADAR. So the Elite app radar doesn’t work and has been having issues for a while. Please do better.

3. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Down hill. I have used Weather Bug Elite for many moons but the app seems to be languishing and falling behind others. A big benefit has always been the ability to create an account and sync saved locations across multiple devices like iPhone & iPad. With the latest iOS 26 and iPhone 17, the login process is broken. It doesn’t work and locations will not save. I uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. I then noticed that the same problem was duplicated with updated iOS on my iPad. You clearly know about some of these bugs based on other reviews but haven’t updated in weeks. I have had to stop using this app in favor of Apple Weather and AccuWeather. I won’t try your app again until you update the app and fix all the bugs you have especially with logins. Review set at 1 star until then.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   13 years. Supported WeatherBug for 13 years and has no longer been an accurate or a good app anymore to use not reliable gave app developers over two years of them trying to fix it. The biggest snow storm of 2026 not even close with forecast. Deleting was LONG TIME SUPPORTER

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Used to be the best. *** EDIT: We’re now on iOS 26 and watch complications still don’t work, even those it’s advertised as supporting apple watch. *** New iOS 17 came out over a week ago not to mention public test at least a month earlier and still the app is broke. I tweeted the WeatherBug account who told me to email support. Canned response and still the widgets don’t work. The weather data seems to be getting worse and worse as well. I’ve used elite for years and years but I’m going to have to find a new app because it’s just so bad now.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   they don't care it seems. dec 2026. Don't get invested in these guys they don't care anymore. they aren't fixing bugs in the app such as restoring the ability to remove locations. also refused to take good advice and make historcal temperature data available so that traveling users can go back 18 or 24 hours and see if temps have been going upward or downward in their area. This would allow the user to better determine if the roads are wet and slick or just wet.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t set alerts. WeatherBug used to be my go to app, but since upgrading to iPhone 17, I can no longer change any settings or set up any alerts.

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Antiquated. The UI has not had a major design update in probably more than 10 years. This app for sometime no longer displays wind gusts. It displays wind speed only. Winds are a very important part of displaying weather information accurately. For this reason this app is useless. I contacted the developers more than two years ago and they said he fixed was coming. I’m still waiting.

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Air quality is not accurate. Widget problems. Alerts don’t work. Maps don’t always load. Forecast isn’t necessarily accurate. Could be better Your iPhone and iPad widget needs to be fixed! The real feel temperature does not show the real feel temperature that it shows in the app. It shows the temperature as the real feel. No support at all for complications like temp, humidity, rain, air quality, pollen, etc. Currently offers bare bones support for watch complications on a few faces. Be nice if they would use the air quality monitoring system that is actually accurate. Wish they would integrate Purple Air into their system instead of Ambee. None of the weather alerts work. The only way you get an alert is if you open the app. Pointless. You don’t get alerts in the background. Sometimes the maps just shows a blank screen. Also why not make the map animate when opening so I don’t have to click on the play button? The whole point of me looking at the map is to look at the radar. Just make the radar automatically play. Be nice if someone actually did a QA check before publishing updates! Kind of sorry I paid for this…

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App has lots of issues. Needs work.

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Update has ugly icons. The most recent update, May 2025, introduced simplistic, cartoonish, ugly icons for Sun, clouds, rain. PLEASE REVERT to softer icons. We PAID for this app. Subtle is better.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Pollen?. Pollen data suddenly disappeared yesterday. Not there again today. But I got a pollen notification. This is why I’m paying for the app. Please fix, has never been a problem before.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Apple Watch Complications. Despite the description for this $49.99 “elite” app, I see NO Apple Watch complications.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Decreased Features. I have used WeatherBug Elite for quite sometime. Features have decreased. There is no more “Future” choice for radar. The radar viewing time is just one hour. What was once a decent app is now a waste of time.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Pointless current highlights!. Jeez, I thought we had got rid of the pointless and immovable current highlights card that is stuck at the top of the page. If I want to know what the current weather is I can just look out of the window! Please get rid of this stupid card again and make sure it stays removed!

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Weather Radar. I can't get your application to work, please fix!

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App started crashing today. App will not open as of today. It just crashes. What is going on?

18. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Now more buggy than every. Support can’t seem to understand map layer problems on IPhone. Radar screen always come up with wind apps map layer! “ We need more scree shots” experts say! Outstanding update!

19. ★★★★★alerts fail both ways - silent on a real threat, screaming over nothing - so the user mutes…

    Horrible. Today ai woke up to see the app, the widget and the observations all being 2-3 degrees different for the same location. Customer service and engineers refuse to help fix. It has been a nightmare for months now. Missing tornado warnings, temperatures out of whack and just wrong weather. If you want half a**ed weather info…download this app. Otherwise, RUN! This app is going to get someone hurt by not relaying weather warnings properly and advertising that it does.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Hourly forecast. I’ve used this app for years lately the forecast is off on wind speed and direction! I’m a fishing guide I have to have accurate information please fix it

21. ★★★★★alerts fail both ways - silent on a real threat, screaming over nothing - so the user mutes…

    Not reliable. This used to be a great app, but it has become extremely unreliable. The information is often just plain wrong. For example, the last few days have been rather windy but the hourly forecast has never showed winds over 3 mph, which is clearly wrong. (Oddly the daily forecasts have shown correct wind speeds.) The current temperature is often wrong, sometimes by as much as 20 degrees. (Location is set correctly and other data are updating, but the app seems to randomly fail to update current temp.) There are other problems too. The weather alerts map is so bad it is actually dangerous. It uses a color scheme that can make it impossible to see the most severe warnings. For example, a large solid block of color for a flood watch might completely obscure a faint outline of a tornado WARNING. It makes it very difficult to see what alerts are actually active to the point of making the map almost useless (or worse).

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Is anybody at the wheel?. I’m looking at today’s forecast. The current conditions tab indicates that it is now 18 degrees. The hourly forecast tab indicates that it is now 28 degrees. The overview indicates that today’s high will be 40 degrees. The detailed forecast shows highs in the mid-forties. Obviously a human never looks at the data to note inconsistencies, but can they not program a function that would easily detect such garbage?

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bring back cameras. Can you please bring back the cameras for Waterloo Iowa and decorah Iowa please. Looks like the only way to make a possible request. Thanks

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Definitely WAS the Best Weather App. This has been my favorite weather app for 10 years. The new maps have destroyed it. It’s terrible. Go back to the old maps. Otherwise I’m deleting this app. Very worst ever since the update.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Horrible update. Latest map is an abomination. Will be finding another one weather app.

26. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Wildly inaccurate. In the middle of a tropical storm warning and every other weather app has the precipitation probability above 90%, not this app, 30-40%. This has been an issue with this app for years. Not reliable, not accurate, a lot better choices

27. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Dangerously inaccurate. Once again, air quality info is inaccurate. In Phila, Canadian fires causing a code red (and rising). Last month, we went to code purple, the most dangerous level, and WeatherBug was saying code orange. This could have been highly dangerous for any person using WeatherBug as a guide. (Spark lightening function is useful and accurate, though)

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Why no Complications for Apple Watch?. Have a subscription paid and discovered no Complications for my Apple Watch. Disappointed, why state something that isn’t available.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Temp. The temperature is always wrong. Right now it is 85 and this app says 55.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    The worst forecast I have. This app used to be great and I like the layout but in the past couple of years it has become my worst forecast anywhere. The forecasts are in totally different days of what it should be. It’s ridiculous when the NWS right now has a winter weather advisory for tomorrow, yet this app shows the same time as sunny and calm and the winter weather not arriving for 24 hours later. Worthless