Idamage Pushed App Reviews

Good app been using it for years but could use updating. The iPhone X has been out for like 6 months now and still no support. Would be much nicer if I could utilize all the screen. Also the “Full day/ last 2hrs tab could me more clear cut.

Awesome app! Provides essential data that details storm and damage report information in a customized way. Very helpful! Thanks to the developers of this app.

It is my go to app to start the day with the severe weather forecast models then to keep alerted with damage reports.

*Update* They just fixed the background capability which makes this app the best app of its kind and in the top 5 apps I use. Thank you!!! I love this app! Its a quick one stop shop to all the important places that I want to see when I want to know if something's about to happen today or in the coming days. It had the SPC convective outlook maps with the wording as well as any mesoscale discussion maps with discussions and weather watches with discussions. Everything that you get on the NOAA SPC website you get on here but it's a quick push of a button. The storm reports are the main attraction where you can view the days activity as well as any days activity from any time you chose in the archive. I'm not sure how far it goes back to but I'm sure it goes back a far as the NOAA web site but it gives you the pins and map of the iPhone where you can zoom in anywhere and click it and see the description. You can also filter it to just see hail, tornados, or wind reports. You an even chose to see minimum hail sizes. The push alerts have no issues and I have received many with no problems. The one main thing I don't like about this app that I'd like to see fixed is when I exit out of the app, no matter where I am, when I go back into it, the app restarts from the beginning and I have to go through the stages of getting back to where I was. That's the only annoying part. But other than that its solid app that I would recommend to any weather geek.

I have loved this app since purchasing it a number of months back. Since updating to the latest OS, this app has been crashing left and right when trying to load the SPC outlooks, even with the latest app update that should support the latest OS. I hope the creators are working on this issue unless I'm alone on having this issue. Been a great app until this and I hope the next update fixes this issue...

Don't waste your money on this app! I am a new user for only a week. I have 5 other weather apps on my phone that I use to track hail storms. I have this app set to the lowest of 1 inch size for hail. Yet it did not show hail recorded in MS or TN or TX in the last 8 hours. Some areas had larger then 1 inch. The only hail reported here today was by a user reporting it. Does this app solely rely on individuals reporting the weather? Today 4-17-15 there is hail all over Texas 2 inches and better. I have my region as all 48 states but the map never indicated the hail.

Would give more stars if the bugs were fixed! Fails to open 90% of the time or closes app at random.

This app works great, and a requirement for anyone that lives in tornado alley, as I do. But the makers need to release the older version for those who do not want to upgrade to 4.0....2 stars until then...sorry

Love the alerts. I can get them for several different areas, even rural areas! Alerts can be quieted at bedtime. Also love the forecast section, gives you probability for several different scenarios. Great app!

This is a decent app for a buck, but it falls short in basic user interface structure. Feels clumsy bouncing around trying to find the features. It has some nice novelty functions though. For a dollar, I won't complain too much...but as a serious weather app, it just needs some more work. Keep up the good work!

App has so many useful points in app to get you where you to be to setup for the chase.

Very useful tool to show locations of weather related incidents. Keep up the great work!

I require all my roofing salesmen to use thanks an keep up the good work!

Amateur storm dude here. Hail and wind notifications came in like a charm on the first bigger storms after buying this. Worked exactly as I had hoped. Main reason I wanted this app was to avoid future hail damage deductibles with my vehicle. I had far more warning about the storms' potential than Dark Sky and WU Storm gave me (both apps I love dearly... (Also Radar Scope, Storm Shield, and Aeris Pulse threat warnings are excellent). Combined with those alert systems, iDamage is an essential tool for weather safety and observation. Maybe a good addition would be a quick way to nullify alerts from within the app for 15 minutes to an hour or something if we realize a storm's track is going to be nowhere near us. Although it is useful to know that even at the statewide level that a severe threat is possible. I must say the name of the app and the app icon are both, in my opinion, ghastly; or at least misinform your customer as to the potential of this app. I dig the artwork, but I think a different name and icon would help market this better for both contractors and weather enthusiasts. A trifle in comparison to the 100% effectiveness of this app. Excellent work, folks!!!

It would be great to have the option to switch to a satellite option on the map so you can see houses/buildings in the hail area. And if you could drop a pin at a location to get directions to that area easier.

The best weather app there is! All the info you need to spot, chase and predict!! Now, please make available for the iPad!! Then it's perfect! Thanks for such a cool app at such a low price!

I like the app but I don't know if it is the way the system works or the app works but notifications seem to come about 30-60 minutes after the storm had passed.

Love the program, but after an hour it quit showing anything on the map or text! Any ideas? Love the program! The program DIDN'T stop working, it was that "z" day rolled over at 8am, in my case. So data was blank, as nothing (damage) occurred yet! Hope this helps others! By the way, the history feature is great!! Keep up the great work on this app! Jack

Previous data connection issues seem to be resolved. I'm getting numerous reports today.

I do like this app a lot though I have not seen the new version yet. Looks to be great though. I've used iDamage to pinpoint Tornados, wind and hail several timesalready and it helped every person in my work building as well as myself. I was also able to warn several family members not with me, thanks to the iDamage warnings. I do wish flood warnings and watches would be added to the pushpins for the pan and zoom map as there have been so many floods, damage and loss of life in so many different areas. I would find it a valuable tool since we have had area flooding two years in a row. Once added, there will be five bright stars from me!

A truly unique offering of functionality with this app. The damage reports are helpful and easy to quickly assess. The Storm Prediction Center's convection outlook, mesoscale discussions, and watches are cool to have at your fingertips during storm season. Really love this app. Keeps me on top of the weather no matter what I'm doing.

There is nothing like this out there. The push functionality, which is configurable, is really the heart of the program. Professionals always know what is going in with damage caused by severe weather. Now if they can push warnings/watches with separate configuration......oh and pleeeeeeeaaase develop an iPad app. Still the best out there.

This is a fantastic App. It is EXACTLY what I was looking for to help me do my job. The push notifications are nothing short of "phenomenal" because of the way they're designed. The capability to email specific detail with legible maps and road descriptions give me just what I need to get a leg up on competitors. I just joined a new contractor and this App will be the essential tool I use for pinpointing areas to cold-canvass. Not to mention this App is also great for keeping me apprised of dangerous local weather I need to know about for my families safety. In summary, my advice is "BUY IT", I believe you'll really love it!

I am in the storm restoration biz and an adjuster told me about this app! Love it! Thank u!

Very useful in severe weather outbreaks but only for that. I would love to see snowfall totals incorporated and maybe even temperature records too that would be such a useful tool for a meteorologist such as myself, seeing the records and storm totals plotted on a map. Besides that, as it is now, it's alright.

The app uses the composite report from the Storm Prediction Center that combines all the local storm reports. This results in a huge delay of 30 min to 1 hour after event was first reported. It should be rewritten to use the local LSR reports from the NWS offices instead of waiting on the summary that contains reports from multiple offices.

As a roofer, good app. Wish it had "ink-blot" type maps that showed entire area hail fell instead if pin points, but this is still a very good tool once you figure out how to use everything. Especially without paying hundreds of dollars for a single map.

I contacted the author to this app to make a small addition to one of the screens in this app to help make the function more fluid and a little quicker when looking for storm activity near the GPS location. This is extremely helpful when consulting a potential customer and providing them with storm info to bring to their insurance provider. I give the app 5 stars just for the responsiveness of the author. The app is multifaceted once one becomes aquatinted with all that it has to offer. The author could charge more for this app as similar apps do for a lot less functionality.

I use this app for work purposes. I am a sales manager for a restoration company that specializes in weather related catastrophes. For a company that is expanding into different states, this app allows you to easily mark out territories where storms have been present. I highly recommend this app.

50/50

I got push note. From other states,this is not good

There was a tornado and this app did nothing. Yes the settings were set to alert me. But they didn't waste of money.

Every time you use the app and then go reference your map app iDamage resets and you have to put in the date of the storm again, zoom into the area you are interested in again. Just a bad UI over all.

This app is informative and interesting. Useful for insurance adjusters, roofers, construction, etc. Has lots of different options so click on everything to see what all it does. This is the app to have if you need to keep up with storm damage for your job! I have had no problems or crashes with iDamage. The alerts I selected come through every time (you must of course have an Internet connection.) I use it on my iPad 2 and my iPod 4th generation. The developers for this app are doing a great job, keep it up!

The only thing that i would like to see happen is to be able to choose an area and be able to have a list of previous dates when the area had a hail storm. Being in the roofing business that's what I need to better find hail damage areas that others may not know about

LOVE the push notifications and the selectable pins on Map. Live NOAA forecast maps are very good too. Requested improvements would be for more granularity on specifying which alerts I want to receive (for example, YES to Tornado, Hail & Wind for my area - but also Tornado Only for my State). But still, for a $2 app, I'm pretty happy with what the program provides already.

Update: Finally they added multitasking. Not perfect yet but definitely a step in the right direction. First world problem but this app takes several seconds to load. Much slower than 99% of my other apps

I storm chase and use this in conjunction with other apps to five me all the info I need. Keep updating with improvements. Thanks!!

This app is very unique and works really good. Use it all the time and does exactly what it says. Someone definitely put a lot of effort into building this app. Thank you for the iPad support update!!!

With the new update, there is the option to turn on alerts for tornado warnings. I live in the Midwest and we have severe thunderstorms and flood warnings periodically, and I don't want to be awakened by them. On the other hand, I most definitely want to be awakened for a tornado warning, and now I will be! I've had this app for a few years now, but just didn't use it much. With the new display and options in this last update, this is now my new favorite weather app. Awesome!

Needs to be more polished. I can't figure out how to just use the app right out of the box.

good but not enough .. why does it have to take at least 50 mnts to find out there's a tornado 10 mnts away from me .. :/ I could die waiting on ur response

Love the app... for the 2 minutes I can use it for. Please fix the crashing issue. I really want to use it and I really hoped that you people wouldn't be a waste of money.

I use this app almost daily. Definitely worth more than $2 .In my line of work, just having this app available to me, makes owning an iPhone a No-Brainer! Keep up the good work Update V8.1.1 Appreciate the added functionality to switch to satellite view from map mode. Great stability. Quick response on issues. Thank you.

I've had this app for several months and loved it at first and the alert push notifications feature but after only a couple of weeks the alerts stopped working!!! I've tried to re-download it and have checked my settings daily but it still doesn't work!!! Furthermore, we had 80 mile hour winds w/ tons of damage a few weeks ago and there weren't any alerts at all in my state even when I went in and checked, since the push notifications stopped working!! To top it all off, today we could hear the tornado sirens but nothing from this app at all, not one drop pin in my state!!!! Basically totally worthless, I'm deleting it since it clearly is no help and is just sucking up space!!!!!

Normally 3-4 stars because it does what it claims, but with the latest upgrade, it will not run on my iPad or iPod Touch because I am not running iOS 4 (and can't). NEVER change the requirements to a higher OS on a program that is push upgraded, it forces the program not to install for some people. I now had to dig through my backups to find the previous version which did run, I just have to remember not to upgrade this program.

I love this app very accurate BUT there is a bug, it keep turning itself off, it starts on 3hr then I click FULL day and it turns off!

This app is awesome and I would highly recommend it. It would be sooooooo much better if you could display the current radar on the map. Once that's done - I'll give it 6 stars

This app is awesome. It gives alerts fast and it let's me know the weather before it gets to my area.

There are 2 things that are really annoying. First, the map does not stay zoomed to where you put it. It would be nice if I open the app and it is already on my area instead of the whole US. And second, you need to be able to set a radius around your area so you aren't getting these messages from far away that do not pertain to you. I want to be notified of things about 30miles from me, not the entire state or multiple states. Other than those 2 suggestions the app is perfect.