Scope Nights Astronomy Weather

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1. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

   Save your Money. How about an update?This app hasn't been updated in over 6 years. Also get error messages for all my saved locations every time the app opens or when I change sites. If your charging $5 for an app support it or take it off the App Store.

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

   Would be great if it worked well. The app tells you decently accurate cloud coverage and all that. But consistently state that weather information is unavailable.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Awful want my money back!. This app is awful. It hasn’t worked since I downloaded it and it keeps prompts that you can’t close. Trying to figure out how to get a refund. The worst!

4. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Forecasts are not working. Apparently global forecasts have been broken for more than a year. This causes multiple error messages on every start or change in location. For $5 I would expect an app that works without constant errors. Seems like the developer has abandoned this application - recommend that you not purchase.

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

   too much bugs. too much bugs, repeated sites added

6. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Outdated and broken - do not buy in 2023. Save your money - don’t buy this broken app. Scope Nights received awards years ago. It was once one of the best astronomy forecast apps. However, a global forecasts update broke it over a year and a half ago and it still hasn’t been fixed. You can still use the app for forecasts but if you save any locations as favorites, you’ll receive annoying pop ups that you need to close - for every location, every time you open the app. Even if you don’t save any favorites, this will still happen for your current location. This makes the app very annoying to use - and unusable with many favorites. The fact that the developer is charging $4.99 for this app without even a word on an update in over a year and a half is honestly messed up. I get that it’s just one guy maintaining it in his free time but this app should be free in its current state. Lack of resources doesn’t excuse poor quality.

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Disappointing. Much better applications available , Scope nights is not cheap at nearly $5 and it really does not give any more information than the weather app on my iPhone. Adding to this when I open the app i receive a notification NO global data available for you location. This is repeated for any other stored locations. I would like a refund.

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

   It won’t load forecasts for my locations. Used to work fine, but now it shows error messages when it tries to load my local forecast.

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

   Has the developer abandoned this app?. Has the developer abandoned this app? The promised fixes for the weather data access errors that were promised years ago have never materialized. Now the app won’t fit into Apple iPad screens without clipping heavily at the edges, so it looks like there haven’t been updates in a very long time.

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Doesn’t view properly on my iPad. From the first time I tried to use this app, it did not display properly on my iPad. Also, there appears to be a problem that prevents global forecasts from downloading properly. This app is not worth $4.99. I would not even advise downloading it if it were free. Save your money. BTW, I would like a refund, please.

11. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Scope Nights. I just bought this app and received a message that it is currently not working! Who can provide me help. Days will be fixed later this year????

12. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    No longer works.. Used this app for years, I thought it was fantastic. However, over the last few iOS updates it has stopped working. Always gives me the ai “local forecast unavailable”. Too bad, really.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Seems no fix in sight for some users. I loved this app when I first downloaded it but, since the app developer has not updated the app to download all global weather forecasts, I can’t recommend this app for everyone. In Japan, all of my locations give an error that the information can’t be downloaded. If in the future this issue is resolved, I might reconsider using the app again, but as of now I can’t. In all honesty, I would like a refund for the app, but I doubt that will happen.

14. ★★★★★погода под наблюдение, а не обычный прогноз

    This App Is Broken. I constantly receive dozens of pop up notifications stating “Scope Nights Global Forecast Unavailable For….” basics every location that I have searched. Literally every time I open the app, I have to clear a dozen or so notifications.

15. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Very buggy. Not happy with the app. Very buggy and crashes periodically.

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

    Very poor. The app keeps telling me there are no forecasts for any location i add

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

    Not applicable for where I live just get error messages. Doesn’t work for where I live in Hawaii. I just get codes that say information for my area is unavailable.

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

    No longer load weather data. Used to work great, now it just errors every time I open the app and doesn’t load weather data. Completely deleted and reloaded the app and the same thing happens. Save your money.

19. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Doesn’t work with IOS 14.2 and later. I used to love this app. Unfortunately, it stopped working on all my devices after upgrading them to IOS 14.2. 14.3 didn’t fix it so it must be something in the app. Can’t get past the splash screen. After about 20 seconds, it crashes out completely.

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

    Was great while it lasted.... Sadly, this app no longer works in iOS 14.2

21. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Stopped working. Seems with iOS 14 this app no longer works. It was my go to astronomy weather app. It was so useful. Please update the app to make it useful again.

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

    Total waste. Somewhat less accurate than THE WEATHER CHANNEL & NOTABLY less accurate than local TV weather. Base any plans on information from this app at your own peril! When I first installed it, the app indicated “GOOD” conditions and it was RAINING outside - really inspires confidence.

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

    Nice app full of bugs. The app is good, and there is no alternative in the market. However, the app is full of various bugs which makes it unusable. The search function is very primitive. The favorite site list keeps dropping earlier saved spots. The list keeps going.

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

    Waiting for it to be accurate. So far it says every night will be bad and has made me lose two trips to my dark sky site. Regret having bought it.

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Sites are a pain to delete. The program randomly fills up the site list with everything you click on. Then the sites take forever to delete. Why would it allow you to add the same site more than once? Also, why not have a “clear all” for the sites? It’s a bit frustrating that for the cost, it’s not a bit more functional.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Too many in-app purchases. Great idea, but to get all the features it'll cost you! Wish I would have read the reviews before purchasing. I guess they figure amateur astronomers have money to burn. They nickel and dime you to death. Every time you click on a feature it asks for money. I mean really, should I have to pay for an upgrade to store more an two locations? That is crazy! You at least three purchases to make to get all the features they describe. By the time you're done the app ends up costing many times the initial purchase price. I wish in app purchases would go the way of the dinosaur.

27. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Don't bother with this app. When you buy this app, you do not get any of the advertised features that come with this app, such as the dark sky map, without paying a bunch of money in upgrades. In addition, you can only get the weather at one time from 2 locations without upgrades: Your present location and 1 other. Even the default weather app can beat that. Although their ratings of "good", "poor", and "fair" can be helpful, most people are capable of judging the weather forecast's meaning for astronomy themselves. In addition, it often gives incorrect forecasts that differ significantly from the National Weather Service and other apps' predictions. Don't waste your money on this app. Googling the Clear Dark Sky Chart for your location is much more effective, detailed, and is also free.

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

    Bait and switch!. Agreeing with the other negative reviews. This app not only charges just to download but the functionality requires several additional in app purchases to get what's matched in the description. The developer does a poor job of communicating this in the app description.

29. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Ugh. Should have read the reviews before purchasing. Every one was right about it being horrible. Just wasted $3! Don't bother buying! Doesn't even work!

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Don't buy this app.. This is possibly the worst app that I have ever purchased. The locations listed aren't correct for latitude and longitude. They are also place on the map incorrectly. The help is non-existant even though there is a help button. The app is useless in it's basic version. Once the in-app upgrades are purchased there is some usefulness, however you need to buy both the U.S. upgrade, the Locations upgrade and the Astronomer Weather Settings Upgrade. The last one is an insult as the app is supposed to be an Astronomy upgrade.Totla cost of the thre upgrades is $9.97 above the basic purchase price of $.99. Again, don't buy this app.