Radar Live Pro - doppler radar App Reviews

This app is not worth the money. Hardly tells you anything

I liked it a lot! It was very useful and easy to understand.

Nice to have a desktop app but there is better stuff from actual online weather sites. Someone clearly workd hard on this. The layout is nice and clean. Just wish it had some better satilite/radar options.

Not worth $9 for sure. I’ve used free weather apps that work and look better than this one. The radar dosen’t always load right, and the app crashes once in a while.

I should have listened to the reviews that said - Do Not Buy, but I didn’t. The only hope I have is they improve it.

This is a nice app to have around as I live in the Midwest were severe weather is common. I like having an app that is always available in the dock to view radar. That said, there are a couple of bugs/issues that prevent me from giving this app 5 stars: - This app has been crashing several times daily under El Capitan. Was relatively stable under Yosemite. This is the big problem for me. - The ‘regional radar’ window seems to lose focus occasionally. HItting ‘reset’ fixes it. - I’d like more flexibility in the display. The app does offer ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ layout options, but you are forced in include a forecast and national radar in addition to the regional radar. I would like more flexibility here. Let me activate or turn off the various sections of the display. - The ‘regional radar is limited to ONE NEXRAD site at a time, for people like me who live in boundary regions, it would be nice to display just be able to view a few states at once. In essence, it would be nice to be able to zoom in and out, viewing multiple NEXRAD sites at once. Not sure if this is an easy limitation to get around given the radar source, but it would be nice. - Based on the fact they don’t list this software on their website, I strongly suspect it is ABANDONWARE and will not be getting updated. Please prove me wrong guys! Not worth ‘removing stars’, but annoying issues: - I would prefer if it used “normal” windows instead of the non-minimizable ones. This means I can’t full screen it and just leave it running in the normal OSX way. - I would prefer if this could be activated with a menu item AS AN OPTION. Dock is fine too.

My radar needs require me to zoom in tight.. THe pixelation on this is really bad at anything closer than 200 miles side to side. Nice looking skin but otherwise useless I am removing from my collection of weather sites.. Wasted money..

Still lots of bugs. Crashing and main window gets hidden at times.

You seriously do not have the option of removing the giant forecast banner? Why charge nine bucks when you have put NO work into the graphical interface?

Constantly crashing, every time I have it running and leave the computer for some time, I come back and it has crashed.

This seems to be possessed, it closes without warning on my 2015 Imac. Every three or four days, I get a pop up saying it closed and it is notifying Apple. Usually when you open it again it has zoomed way out of your locations and you have to laboriously put it back the way it was. It is more accurate than Weather Live but the radar is not up to the minute. If you are a very busy person who does not want to have to keep reseting this, buy some other app. When it isn’t closing on its own, I do like the weather data which isn’t off by large amounts like other cheaper weather apps. Yes, they feature pretty pictures but their data is always way off. I am a retired social worker so I don’t mind fixing it constantly but you sure might. The radar is accurate for the downpours we get here in Oregon. The color coding of intensity is reliable. Overall, is it the best? No way but far from the worst also. You will be swearing at it often, be warned, when it closes and resets on you.

I purchased the Pro version of this app over a year ago. Every time my computer wakes from sleep,…..I find this app has crashed. This is the ONLY app I am having any trouble with what so ever. It does crash occasionally when the computer has not gone to sleep,…..but that is rarely. I have contacted the seller of this app a dozen or so times. For the most part,…..they respond within a few days. But they really do nothing but tell me over and over again to re-download the app. Which I do,…….and it does NO good. One of their staff told me a new version would be released soon. But that was two months ago. I am running what was the best Mac had to offer in the way of an iMac. And as stated above,…..no other app I have is giving me any issues. AT THIS TIME,…..I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS APP. It is buggy,…..and I suspect the developer is aware,…..or would not have told me a new version would be out soon. I held off rating this,……hoping that the developer would fix this. When it is working,…..it seems to be a decent app. But alas,….it’s been over a year. OS X El Capitan iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch, Late 2014) Processor 4 GHz intel Core i7 Memory 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096MB

Introducing Radar Live - a stunning app which brings the ability to freeze-up all the time to your Mac. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!….. ad infinitem

I have only been using this app 3 weeks but it is perfect. Loads every time with good detail. Hard to figure why others have trouble

I like the design and idea behind the app, but the incessant crashing is ridiculous.

Not very stable and far from what I would expect from something that is offered on the App store. Shame on Apple for allowing this throught without it testing out on their latest software and hardware.

Sure, I wish this App had some options and capabilities it does not. With that said, it loaded easily, runs flawlessly and is proving itself to be highly accurate. Overall, I am very pleased with its performance.

I like the app, but the weather on the map doesn’t seem to move with any kind of motion…?

What I mostly want to see is the rain in my area, and whats coming next. But that takes up only about 25% of the screen. There are large tiles with just a small bit of info in each, and no way to turn them off. Then theres large tile for the entire US, which since Ive already picked my area, I normally dont want. Might be nice once in a while, but not to take up 1/5 of the screen all the time. Ive looked a couple times and dont see any way to turn this stuff off. Its odd, other weather maps also do weird things, trying to be fancy, but that I also dont want and cant turn off. Guys, its fine to add extra features that SOME people might like, and maybe even have them on by default, but some of us just want plain weather radar like they have on TV. Let us turn this other fancy @#$ off.

It does the job but the maps won’t enlarge so it is hard to see exactly what you want to see. I don’t see on my Mac what is shown on the pictures that I should see. That is why I did not give it 5 stars. At least it has a map and a thermometer.