WKYT FirstAlert Weather

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

   Keeps Getting Worse. Just got alert about upcoming forecast at 11:00 am. Turned on the app for 3 minutes of ads prior to 11:00. It’s 11:03 and still in ads/music mode. Just closed the app. Worthless would be giving undo credit.

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

   Ads. So many ads I cannot get to the weather!!

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

   Junk. Nothing to see unless it’s a live schedule viewing. I am fine with watching editions from earlier in the day but using iPhone17 nothing ever plays except for the ads that when done just go to a blank screen. Reminds me of the app on firestick. Something has changed and I can’t watch previous newscasts anymore only small little clips? Who wants to do that day in and out. Lex18 has been more transparent and user friendly on both platforms. Shame as I really enjoy the WKYT folk.

4. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Glitching App. App is pretty much unusable 90% of time. As soon as you click on the app it will open and then glitch and go back to home screen within 5 seconds. My app is updated and actually experiences this glitch on multiple devices. I’ve reached out to WKYT Facebook page a year ago and they said they would pass it along to their IT team but the app is still doing it. I love WKYT weather and would love to be able to utilize their app,

5. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

   Inaccurate Radar. Don’t trust the radar on this one. Very inaccurate in comparison to TWC.

6. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   Don’t rely on this app. This app makes you watch a 20 second ad before you can even watch the alert that was just issued. If someone happened to open it when those 20 seconds mattered I guess WKYT and WYMT wouldn’t mind as long as they get their ad funding!

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

   WKYT weather app. Need some updating. When on wether map screen keeps acting up

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

   Fire the weather people. Weather people are terrible. Never right.

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

   Took many adds. I wish WKYT was more concerned about providing a detailed weather forecast as much as they are filling the page full of advertisements

10. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Disappointed. This app is misleading. It is nationwide and setup to make money for each tv station that uses it. The local stations don’t report the weather on the app. It is coming from some source out side the state. Very misleading. Totally used for making money for the stations and very little concern is given for the weather. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS APP! Unless you don’t mind watching ads. And getting poor weather forecast.

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

    Lousy job. Don’t bother. Other reviewer was right - sound is fine for ads but nonexistent for THE WEATHER!!! Ridiculous. Will delete and find a more reliable app

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

    Stinks. Odd how all the ads play perfect but when you want to actually listen to the weather. The audio cuts in and out. Deleted................................

13. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Inaccurate. I gave it one star because zero stars was not an option. It will show 10% chance of rain on the daily but if you look at the hourly for that day it may show a 90% chance in five hours. Hard to plan on the farm with that kind of lying.

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

    Not a weather app anymore.. I used this app for years. Constant problems now since the last update. Going back to WLEX weather app.

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

    Crashing. I had this app for many years and now it keeps crashing I’ve deleted and re-downloaded it many times and updated it as well but I still can use this app, it won’t even open. I click on it and it takes me to the WKYT blue page them crashes making me go back to my home screen. Finding a new app if problem don’t fix.

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

    No improvement!!!. The previous version was so much better than this "improved" version. Difficult to get the info I want. Whoever made the decision to use this new app is simply mistaken.

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

    Fix This App. Has been my preferred weather app for a long time. However, more than half the time now when I open the app, it says there’s a network connection problem. Only way to clear this erroneous information is to completely shut down the app and then open it again. Same thing happens on both my iPhone and my iPad. VERRRRRY ANOYING! Please fix this so I don’t have to find a different preferred weather app.

18. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Buggy after 4/25/2019 update crashes. Received the update yesterday and all it does is crash. Please fix ASAP

19. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Crashes. The latest update made the app crash. You can not even open it anymore. It crashed a lot before but now the app is useless.

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

    App. It won’t even let me open the app

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

    Disappointed. This app was wonderful in the beginning. Now it crashes often and I just have to delete and re-install it to fix it. The daily forecast is NOTHING like the news! I do like the radar though.

22. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Do Not Waste Your Time With App. Radar does not work. As I type this, it is pouring the rain outside and the radar shows no precipitation. They just updated the app and it does not work anymore. Going to delete and find a new weather app. Don’t waste your time with this one.

23. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Ruined a formerly great app.. This used to be my go-to weather app. Now it’s so slow and cluttered that it’s nearly useless.

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

    Needs home screen work. The home screen should immediately display the temperature without scrolling, like it used to. Now after the most recent update I can’t find the temp at all and I hope when they fix that they revert it to the old home screen style.

25. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Pesky notifications. Ads everywhere, slow to load probably because of all the ads, you get unless notifications at all hours. I guess at least you can look at the radar and get a better idea of what the weather will do than the forecast they give you on TV, it hardly ever does what they are saying will happen at my house

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

    Update. Last update made this app worthless.

27. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Change it back!!. Since the latest update this app is awful. I used this app multiple times a day. But now it takes forever to load and it is completely useless to someone in a hurry.

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

    Horrible Update. The new update is horrible. It takes at least 30-60 seconds for anything to show up when I open it. I can’t even find the “Traffic” option anymore. It’s bombarded with ads. Not a fan.

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

    Junk. It used to be good now it’s junk

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

    Don’t like the update. The ‘Daily’ section is hard to read with the clouds behind it. Overall the changes are awful. Like the old app better.