KSAT 12 Weather Authority

• Free

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.8 33572 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Best weather app yet

   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.

   Tahitian palm · 31 Jul 2026

2. 2/5In serious need of improvements

   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.

   NattyMcNatt · 30 Aug 2026

3. 2/5This used to be a five star rating

   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.

   ShmRali · 30 Aug 2026

4. 2/5Zero steps forward many steps back

   The redesign of this app seems ill advised as it’s now less intuitive and feels like unnecessary bloat was added. New radar only showing a short past history seems odd, sure some might say why do you need to know what the radar looked like three hours ago but during severe weather events having a history of the track of the storms can be of use to many if not just to see any strengthening or weakening of the system. Possibly the biggest detrimental change was having the written forecasts become a link to the KSAT website itself and no longer imbedded within the app for quick reading. All this is doing is requiring more resources to be used as the app now loads a web browser to show the report which in the end is usually a simple but informative paragraph. Having that on the front “page” of the old app ready to go once it loaded was great for those that just needed to know what the outlook for the day was. Other recent reviewers have said they are switching apps and I don’t blame them for doing so when something as simple as gaining some weather information seems to be less important for a weather app.

   Yushiro · 30 Aug 2026

5. 1/5New Design Is Bug filled Horrible Mess !

   UPDATE: FIRST TIME IN WELL OVER 10 YEARS THIS AP WILL NOT BE ON MY FAMILY & BUISNESS PHONES ! NEW DESIGN IS JUST TOO BUGGY, UNRELIABLE, & STATION OWNERS JUST DONT APPARENTLY CARE. Here are just a few issues with this new design. JUST FIND A DIFFERENT WEATHER SOURCE. THIS ONE IS SPENT ! First design is clunky! Dropped frames latency in apps. emphasis on adds and NOT WEATHER! Loaded with cookies and trackers. In a time where people want more privacy you load it down with cookies and trackers. You no longer allow the addition of “Community’s”. which totally excludes those of us that travel or that do not use the ap IN San Antonio. There are places I travel that I before could get a local report now you have me getting a location and report in a totally different biome over an hour away by plane! You didn't port ANY of our info from the old ap! You added an overlay feature to see power outages?! Nobody asked for that ? People could just got to those sites. These changes are dumb they are bad and need to be rethought ! Your hurricane ap is messed up too now btw. Whoever approved these changes and thought it was a good idea to change what WAS NOT broke really shouldn't be allowed to even go unescorted even to the lavatory ever again!

   SWB1973 · 30 Aug 2026

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