KXAN Weather

• Free

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.6 8961 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Ignore the bad reviews

   This is a great app the bad reviews are from old fixed bugs and people that don’t understand how to properly use the app only issue is the ads that sometimes play during severe warnings which for me is whatever I have dozens of other apps, but it’s a bit annoying for people that are trying to get quick information on a storm headed their way. Another thing I will say is that y’all please don’t use this app for your forecast locally in your town/house if you don’t live in Austin because the temperatures forecasted/cloud cover is for Austin unless you live in a few spots out in the Hill Country where it treats it like as if those areas aren’t part of KXAN viewing area and it’s just the generic TWC Info for those spots but do use it for the rain coverage coverage % it’s for area wide not just Austin proper.

   Totally not FBI surveillance · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5Good changes in app!

   I was a loyal TWC app user for many year not because they were great but because I disliked them the least. Based on their changes in 2025, and your improvements later in 2025 I switch over to your app. I like the changes in format and layout. It launches quickly, due to better font size, I can read the relevant data without my glasses and minimal scrolling needed. I just wish the current day high/low showed up with the current temperature as to get that I have to look down at the daily horizontal bar. While I really like the horizontal hourly and daily data which again minimizes scrolling, trying to scroll horizontally on the hourly temp opens the vertical scroll way too easy which means the dealing with the ads and extra info I don’t need. That aside, nice changes!

   MGL5542 · 31 Jul 2026

3. 3/5App needs tweaking

   Not happy with the newest alerts from the app. This makes the app like the boy who cried wolf with random alerts not relating to imminent/severe weather. Plus the tone is annoying compared to the useful announcement of the unmistakable Jim Spencer’s voice. That’s my main gripe, however having ads play when trying to watch a severe weather warning video i s clearly much more of an issue, especially when the warning is about a tornado touching down. Also a link to the live broadcast in the sidebar of the app should be added for the same reasoning, and as a redundancy. Don’t forget this app is supposed to help save lives, if it’s too annoying when there’s no bad weather people are going to have the notifications off or delete the app when it’s need most.

   csyry_4 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 1/5This WAS my favorite app...

   Love/hate has progressed to just hate with the new edition of (approx.) May 2019. The annoyance of the app not respecting the portrait/landscape current position (which it did at one time) just required a restart of the app. But the “new, improved” radar page is abominable, and will force me to move on. Where the prior iteration radar page showed clickable watch/warning areas only when the animation was stopped, this version shows non-clickable areas all the time, totally obscuring the radar data beneath them. Surely Jim Spencer had no say in that, since it renders the radar data useless. The underlying map data is ugly compared to before... and if you click on an alert for your area, it brings you to a radar view of the roof of your HOUSE... decidedly less useful than the neighborhood view of before, so you’ll be “pinching” the screen over and over to get a useable view. This is the equivalent of switching from Google Earth to Apple Maps in the early days.

   Samrochet · 31 Jul 2026

5. 2/5Not as good as it was

   I don’t know what happened to this app. I’ve used it for years, I think I’ve finally had enough though. The radar, which I use for work every time it rains has started to either not load, or take 5-10 minutes to load properly. Not that the radar is wrong (which is happening more and more often) but the whole thing doesn’t load correctly, or load at all. It’s not my connection. It sometimes sends me 2+ notifications for the same thing back-to-back, which is just annoying. I’ll keep trying to use it out of habit, but I’m looking for others, that are more accurate, and has a less buggy radar if anyone has any suggestions.

   Tandango1 · 31 Jul 2026

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