Zoom Weather Pro App Reviews

UPDATE: Not TAPs fault, but Apple Maps has made the radar useless as the colors that Apple chose are too close to the radar image palette. The app remains solid in functionality, but the color palette issues makes the app no longer usable in a professional environment where precision is a must. App is still recommended for casual use, but until the map / radar palette issue is cared for I have pulled this app from our wx tool box. As a pilot I have been familiar with Weather TAP for some years. I am glad that they migrated to iPhone and even better that they offer an ad free version. A bit pricey, but as a professional emergency manager this is one more tool in my arsenal of weather apps that does what I want it to do without bells and whistles that get in the way.

Update: The colors are wrong. Shows severe weather by coloration when the radar is in clear air mode. I compared their app with several others that I have and their colors are correct. - - - - For the spendy price it needs the ability to step forward and backward through time with the weather maps.

Need a winter screen to separate snow from ice from rain...

Ive downloaded probably 15-20 weather apps over the last several years. For U.S. severe storms, this is a must-have since it shows individual storm cells, detailed severity data, their expected arrival time in each town and their track. See the sample screens in the app description. Most other apps just show you the radar display and the NWS warning areas. When you have 2 hours of multiple angry red radar blobs headed your way, it helps to know whats just heavy rain and whats real trouble. In the most recent outbreak of severe weather, I used this app to track 10+ severe storms and a tornado as they passed through my county in quick succession. I knew when to hide in the basement for the one cell that passed within 2 miles (for 5 minutes) and when to go about my business (the other 2-3 hours). By comparison, my wife was stuck sheltering at work in a hallway for 90-minutes based on a county-wide alert. She did not have access to storm track data other than what I was texting her. That same storm outbreak killed one, injured several and destroyed 100+ homes. I started with the free version, which is very good, then happily parted with $10 for the paid upgrade for additional info while I was hiding in the basement.

I like weather tap, however I was coerced into buying it last night in the middle of a night of storms because I found not get past the pop-up to buy. The not now button would not work. If I wanted to keep track of the storms I had to buy it.

Finally a weather radar with storm tracking. THANK YOU. I dont understand why Mac has the best graphics yet finding a radar program with storm tracking is so hard. My only wish is that the cities were bolder to see and wish I could see the sate boundaries better. I have tried MANY radar programs this is by far the best. If you guys could also add weather radio stations this program would be a one stop shopping experience. I would be will to pay for future upgrades. Again this is a AAA+ program. I love it!

The app has great data, but is useless since every radar location takes 5 minutes or more to load. This is not real time radar.

Early on this was one of the finest weather APPS available. There is a (desktop ) version available, MS not in Apple OS. Touch the premium version to get info you paid for and you get advertisement on web screen for desktop version. I had to go back to APP a dozen times before I gave up. Opened competing APP not as good as WT but it surrendered input without selling upgrade I cannot use even if I wanted.

I have had this app since it came out. It I just horrible In the most important spots. Warning overlays block radar instead of being outlined or shaded behind the data. Color pallets are to vague and are hard to read with the types of background available, needs a black background. Radar returns are a smoothed and very blurry. If you are going to smooth a radar image it has to be smoothed not blurred. Storm tracks are spot on and very nice. Storm reports are great. It does has some nice features but unfortunately without the above this app is unusable. It just needs a complete overhaul.

Total waste of time and money Buy donut and coffee instead

With this app you can have confidence you will know of hail coming your way. You can tap on a storm cell and see the probability of hail, the size of the hail, the direction of the storm, and the speed. I paid for a couple other apps, one costing $9.99 and neither had the hail information this one has. Helps me avoid hail damage to my car. Great app!!

I like the storm tracking of each cell of the storm. But the biggest drawback for me is when I zoom out or try to pan to the left to see how big this storm is, the radar just drops off in a straight line. Please fix this and will give this app 5 stars.

Lousy upgrade, now app is useless. Radar data not loading Paid for premium membership not worth it

Ok guys no radar data coming thru make this pretty worthless ,ok on my iPad Air , but hosed on a iPhone 5s running the latest

I see the new name and icon otherwise looks the same. The reason Im giving this 1 star is not getting any data from any radar site. App is useless if its not going to display anything.

Try again. Please hurry.

Radar is not working, but the storm tracks are. Please fix.

Please fix the radar, this app is useless now.

Storm tracks are there but no radar. Please fix and try again.

The last update broke something with displaying the radar image. Ive figured out 2 workarounds 1) Turn DBz filter to 0 2) Turn off use high contrast. Please fix this app to work properly again. There really is no excuse for letting these bugs go on this long.