Good for spotter reports – TornadoSpy+ Review

I wanted to like this app. I really did. The spotter-sightings map is good, although I would have liked to be able to drop pins for the locations that I want to get alerts for instead of the current set up. You have to align your phone screen over the area on a map that you want to be alerted. The entire part of the map that you've zoomed in on your phone screen is set as the area for alerts and you can only set one of these such areas. For me, pins (and multiple ones) would be a much better and more streamlined setup. What I'm really here to bring to light, though, is that you pay $2.99 for this app and then you have to pay a dollar extra for every add-on you want (except for basic radar, and the spotter map of course). If you want to be a part of a spotter network, by all means get this app. But don't expect much more than a spotter network. If you want weather radio (and an all around better and more complete app), get Red Cross' Tornado. Luckily, I'm an amateur spotter and consider myself pretty radar savvy, so I won't need to rely upon this one app for weather info. But most people are just looking for timely, streamlined information in an emergency-- and this app, unless you want spotter reports, is not the best choice. I know that I'd raise my rating to 5 stars if they changed it so that the radio and other add-ons were just a part of the $2.99 you pay for this app. Also, if they streamlined the alert settings, I'd be a very happy customer. For me, however, since I've already bought the app, I might as well keep it solely for the awesome-factor of being able to report severe weather to a network of spotters.
Review by Tutus2MuckBoots on TornadoSpy+.