TripWeather Reviews

Confusing

Tamaraidic

Wasted $3 on this app...might be really useful were there instructions. Complicated waste of money!

This app is used for motorcycle trips. It really helps with planning for weather. However, placing pins accurately is difficult and rout alternatives are not offered. I still use it and will continue to do so.

Frustrating app

R8EO

I tried planning my trip (WI-Tucson,AZ) on this app. I gave up after 1/2-hr. It's sensitive, erratic, confusing, irrational in its functions and I wasted my time and a measly 0.99USD. Great idea but it doesn't work.

Great app worth the $$ but read these tips.

A._B.

This is a great little app ideal for the sort of trip I'm taking this week along a US interstate highway that runs through varying elevations. 2 fronts 36 hours apart are expected to bring a mix of rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. The times and mix vary all along the route, partially influenced by changes in highway elevation. This app shows the forecast at waypoints 25-50 miles apart all along the way. You can vary start times and put in breaks all along the route to see the best times to travel. You can also tap on the speed limit icon in the map view to vary your speed. Tilt your phone sideways and you get temperature and precipitation graphs plotted together above the times and location as the horizontal axis. Vary the start times to see how all that changes by the hours. It looks like you can forecast using start times up to 48 hours in the future. Try different routes to see which dryer or less icy. I had a question about the app -- the developer got back to me in a few hours. Caveats and tips: 1. I had some difficulty figuring the app out at first. Solution: when you first get it, tap the little info icon ("i" with a circle around it) at the top of the screen. Watch the first 2-minutes of the 3-minute video. Very easy to use after that. 2. There's a negative review from a US motorcyclist who got soaked by unforecast thunderstorms. This app does not pass probabilities -- just the weather service's most likely outcome. Great for most weather but tricky for the isolated, popup thunderstorms of American summers. 3. The icons for winter weather weren't totally clear: sleet and freezing rain are denoted by a cloud showing both snow and rain. It would be useful to have separate icons for these, but if you use the horizontal graph mode (see above), it's color-coded to show freezing temperatures. 4. Like all weather apps, it's only as accurate as the weather service that feeds it. A close comparison with US National Weather Service forecasts over a 48 hour period and a 500 mile route looks almost identical -- maybe the use NWS for the US? I'm a weather app junkie and I've probably used 10-15 over time. This is the only one that reliably does this sort of thing, at least for the US.

Safety!

Scriches

I love this app for planning family trips! We use it most for motorcycle trips where rain, ice or heat can be a hazard. I love the ability to "pause" the trip for lunch, pit stops and other eventualities. The time estimates are very accurate and the weather forecasts have been well within acceptable limits.

TripWeather, for Grade School only

onwillowcreek

This App is so limited don't bother. No excuse for Apple letting this one slip through. Only one possible route, take it or leave it. Void of options and features.

TripWeather

s.averett

Needs ability to store multiple routes.

Useful But Not Polished

Fritz_III

It works fine for the most part, but it won't let you start a trip before the current time. I wanted to chart a trip my brother started two hours ago, but it won't start it then, it started it now. In many cases a couple hours' difference wouldn't matter, but sometimes it could.

Helpful

Ilgllen

It is very good and helpful, specially for me, I use it every time I go on a motorcycle ride. Nothing mayor but it would help if we were able to get the mileage from point to point, but over all I'm happy with it.

Doesn't work

DennisM99

I'm using iOS 8 and the iPhone 6. I tried 2x with s route Watertown NY to Charlotte NC and while the route was good I never could get weather. Just kept seeing the spinning circles. The app is free and starts you off with 15 credits. Seems each route is a credit and possibly other features require credits but I never got that far

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