KSAT 12 Weather Authority

This app has been my go-to for local weather for quite some time. However, the revamping of the app several months ago (editing this review as June 4, 2025, though the xperience still remains the same) hasn't made the experience very pleasant. Almost everything about the older format version was much more user-friendly including the various radar maps. For one, the app could be viewed in portrait or landscape mode, which is a big deal when using the app on an iPad, in particular, or tablets in general. This format does not allow this on an iPad. The layout was far more easier to navigate overall and less condensed; live newscast updates and important weather alerts were at the top followed by daily, hourly and weekly forecasts, pollen counts, etc., which were displayed in a way that appeared better organized whereas now everything just seems very compacted, cluttered, and thrown together. With weather updates, the user is practically directed to the website within the app versus providing the updates directly on the app. The older radar maps were simplistic yet functional and very reliable, and less difficult to navigate. This version is just all-around buggy and needs reworking. Another feature that would be extremely useful is the ability to see and toggle on and off any warnings on the radar.

I’ve tried a lot of different weather apps over time and found that this one is one of the best in design and information all around. Perhaps a little biased towards KSAT after living in San Antonio for a couple of years back in the mid 60’s but a resounding yes to this app. It not only provides me with the weather in and around San Antonio but I also added my current location in Michigan as well as that of family and friends. Every feature of the app is well thought out. It works great on my iPhone but also my iPad with only one exception, the inability to change to landscape mode which I am always in on my iPad. Having to turn it in portrait mode is somewhat annoying but I can live with it. Perhaps in the future that feature will be made available like many apps etc. do. Overall it still is the best I’ve used to date. All I can say is get it.

I use this app daily; often several times a day when rain or inclimate weather is headed my way. 90% of that use was to track precipitation and storm activity down to the street level of friends an family across the countr. . The new radar interface has been dumbed down to the point of ridiculous and looks like a child’s radar map. It is drab, no matter how you set it. The location pins are too large and there is no way to set one pin at a time for display. If you have several favorites defined, you have have all of them displayed with their big obtrusive bubbles or none. Although we have a powerful hurricane headed in our direction, you cannot see it reflected on the map unless you have it set to shoe the satellite version, then you only see clouds. If you looked at the radar set on national map in this app, it looks like the Caribbean an the gulf are free of storms. I do love all of Ksats weather folks, and they do a great job, but I don’t have time to sit and listen and watch. I need a robust radar map that I can do a quick check to see what is coming and from where. This new map is useless to me. I will be looking for an alternative.