RADAR Pro App Reviews

I am not getting real time radar reports as they are over 30 minutes behind "real time". Otherwise I like it

Whether you are tracking that supercell across the Texas Panhandle or the or just wanting to see if your kid’s soccer practice is going to get rained out – this app is for you. If you are a weather professional, enthusiast, or just curious about the weather you should consider purchasing this application. This application’s sole focus is Weather RADAR. If you are interested in forecasts, temperatures, wind speeds, etc. this app isn’t for you. It’s priced well below similar applications with pretty much the same functionality. Which makes it a GREAT CHOICE and you get a lot of bang for your buck. This application is all about precipitation and atmospheric movement. It processes data that can be displayed in a mosaic map, which shows patterns of precipitation and its movement. RADAR Selection: It’s a snap to move from radar site to radar site. With one click you are there. Couldn’t be easier. The radar list is sorted by state in one continuous list, which I think is fine. Other users may not like this approach, but it’s simple and you can quickly get to the radar site you want. RADAR/Map Display: The radar display is gorgeous and the map is fast and accurate. From what I can tell any town/city over 1,000 in population is displayed. The application also displays counties and major highways – which can be turned on or off. There’s no radar scale legend (dBZ) on the main display, but there is one in the help file. Usually not a big deal, but some people like to see it on the main display. One neat thing that I like is that the app remembers where you were looking the last time you closed the app and brings you right back to that view when you bring the app up again. There is no favorites system implemented, but not sure how many people use that anyway. RADAR Products: You can select from 4 Reflectivity Tilts. Which is enough for most users, but would like to see other products such as the Base Velocity, Vertically Integrated Liquid, and Storm Tracks, etc. Timely Severe Weather Information: Every severe warning in the United States – including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico is available. With one click you can get the details of the warning and with just one more click the map view moves to the warning location and automatically selects the closest radar – very nice and easy to do. RADAR Status Information: Easily check the last reported Radar Status Message. This is great for seeing any operational notes or messages about your local radar or radar clear across the country. Animation: With one click you can easily load the last 10 radar images and begin a radar image loop. It’s only limited to the last 10 frames and there’s no way to control the animation speed, but the basic functionality is there. If you need to step through each frame you can do that too by pausing the animation and selecting the arrows either side of the animation controls to step forward or backward in the sequence. There’s a nice countdown timer in the bottom left corner to see exactly when the application is going to retrieve the next set of radar data. Our Own Weather RADAR Command Center: This app really shines during severe weather! We bring the app up on our Mac Mini Media Center 52” TV and it looks gorgeous. The whole family gets the complete weather picture. We know exactly what is coming our way! The warnings are updated every 90 seconds, and they have displayed on the screen before the tornado sirens in our community! I could see this app being used at kiosks or large wall displays at airports to display the local radar. Weather RADAR Command Center – Minivan Version: A cool thing we do with this app is when we travel in our minivan. Using a 3G mobile hotspot with our MacBook Air, the family radar command center goes mobile. Very nice indeed – yeah we are nerds. Developer Support: I’ve e-mailed the developer a couple of times with various questions and the response was immediate and on target! It doesn’t get much better than that. I’ve told him about things I’d like to see in future release and he’s looking at implementing them all! Here’s a list of features that would be great.: Storm Tracks Range Rings Distance Measuring Tool The developer said all of those things were in the works – that’s listening to your customers! All in all, this app is a no-brainer for anyone wanting a great RADAR app for the Mac. Yeah, there are others out there for more money, but you won’t get any more functionality with those over priced apps! I saw another reviewer recommend the weatherunderground website over this app -- you have to be kidding! This app is hands down better than that website and doesnt have advertisments covering half the screen like the weatherunderground. If you want to see ads for refinancing your mortgage go to that site. If you are serious about weather use this app! I highly recommend this app – 5 STARS!

Good App but the data doesnt refresh as I went to work this morning and came home in the eve and it was still looping from this morning. Also smoothing and storm tracks hopefully on the next update.

Certainly a work in progress but the developer seems committed to making this the best OSX radar app on the market. He has responded quickly to any questions I have had. Great Product and Awesome developmental direction...

The radar update needs to be faster then 300 seconds and also when you use the app at 10pm the radar says time will be 9:15pm.

I downloaded this app and didnt even have it installed for 5 minutes. There are many better websites out there that are free ! Dont waste your money. You cant even input your address like you can on FREE websites !

The warnings need to get fixed, they are not even there when try to see them. Needs to update quicker too... I hope in the next couple updates that it will get all the problems fixed.

The reason I am giving it 2 out of 5 is because its name is a bit misleading. I would expect any "Pro" RADAR program that can download NEXRAD level 3 data to render ALL the NEXRAD products. Every other one I have used does, and I unfortunately assumed this one would. This one ONLY renders precipitation. You will NOT get velocity data, which is one of the things I am interested in. If all you want is precip, this program will probably be fine for you. But if you want the full NEXRAD data, DONT BUY THIS PROGRAM.

This app updates terribly slowly (300 seconds) and does not display as much data as iPad apps like RadarNow. I was expecting at least the same level of services, RadarNow is free, and this app is sadly lacking. A poor value for $10 or $1.

Maybe I had high expectations for this app considering its price, but this is the second storm thats come across the Oklahoma area and I go to open the app and it has crashed repeatedly.

This is a useless app. I cannot pinpoint my location or any other location. I dont see whats so "Pro" about it. If I could get my $9.99 back I would.

this app really doesnt even help. i have a free radar app on my iphone that is seriously so much more useful. it is so hard to maneuver across the map. very unstable too. loaded the radar for charleston because i am by myrtle. tried loading the cleveland radar to see what was going on back at home and it just froze. this app is a waste of money. now i get to see if i get a refund.

Click on the menu option "Map View" and get… nothing. Black screen. $9.99 down the tubes. Look at the radar loop for your area. Weird little concentric circles of squares. Yikes, Apple. Can you do better selecting software providers?

I expected much more for $9.95. Less expensive options on iPad and iPhone offer detailed road / satellite / hybrid maps, smoothed radar (which seems pretty accurate based on storms I’ve observed in Albuquerque and northern New Mexico), temperatures, and 5-day weather forecasts. I wanted a weather radar app for MacBook Air / OS X 10.9 that compared to those I have on iPad. Instead, I got fleeced. Don’t repeat my mistake until the publisher of this incredibly marginal piece of software gets features worthy of the name ‘Pro’.

Does not do anything helpful at all. The tilt levels show nothing on the screen. I cant find the highways that it says it is supposed to show. The display photos are fine and some activity can be detected on tilt 1 but definitely not worth the money. I also cant zoom out on the entire US and even if I could there would be no radar images sufficient to provide any information. I am better off just going to google and going straight to weather channel.

I noticed that some of the radars that say they are in one location are in another. the Philadelphia radar is actually titled (KDIX) which is Joint Base MDL in NJ. Not terribly far away, bu still not PHL radar. The people complaining about the tilts and all of the stuff, if you dont know what they are, look them up. Not all storms produce a return on all tilts. Theyre used to determine storm structure, among onther things. How to select a specific radar was kind of hard to figure out at first, and in my opinion, the radar image could be smoothed out a bit. Not a bad app, its still in the works, and has a great potential. Cant wait to see what the next update brings.

I wished I could get a refund junk 9.99 is ridiculous for a app like this dont waste you time or money.

No detail. City names obscure the radar sweep and cannot be turned off. Stay away! A complete piece of junk.

I see this is another “app" the internet trolls are doing their dirty deeds on!! I have long had and relied on RADAR PRO on my iPhone, iPad. Recently I added it to my MAC BOOK AIR! Does it work on the “Air” as well as the other devices? YES, once one configures it properly!! That did take a “little” figuring out,…but most apps are that way to make them work properly. As a pilot, I heavily rely on accurate information! RADAR PRO gives that to me, albeit a little differently on the “AIR” than the iPhone & iPad. I decided to put this app on the ”AIR” despite the awful reviews by “some!” I’m glad I disregarded “the trolls!”