# KWQC First Alert Weather

> Weather

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1207912430](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1207912430)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1207912430`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (5,804 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.2.512
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-29
- **First published:** 2017-02-23
- **Size:** 242 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kwqc-first-alert-weather/id1207912430)
- **Website:** [https://www.kwqc.com/](https://www.kwqc.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.kwqc.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.kwqc.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

The KWQC First Alert Weather extension brings the trusted KWQC-TV6 weather team's accuracy to your browser. Get real-time Quad Cities weather with interactive live radar maps, current conditions, and a convenient carousel of forecast options.\n\nThis free app delivers up-to-the-minute forecasts—7-day and hourly—plus weather alerts and push notifications, so you stay ahead of changing conditions in Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island, Moline, and beyond.

## Rankings

- #24,104 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise KWQC First Alert Weather for accurate, location-aware radar and fast loading, with some noting it’s more user-friendly than the built-in Apple Weather app and helpful for safety with timely alerts. However, reviews repeatedly complain about intrusive ads that disrupt viewing and alerts, radar glitches and disappearing data, a cluttered navigation experience, and audio/video issues such as no sound on weather videos or special weather statements. Some features like past/future radar views are missing or hard to use. Improvements in ad handling, UI clarity, and reliable audio would improve overall satisfaction.

### Pros

- Accurate, reliable radar that works across locations
- Fast loading and automatic location detection
- More user-friendly and feature-rich than the built-in Apple Weather app
- Timely weather alerts and safety notifications

### Cons

- Intrusive, loud ads that disrupt weather content and alerts
- Radar glitches with disappearing data and loss of past/future radar views
- Cluttered, hard-to-navigate UI with content overload
- Audio/video issues: no sound on weather videos and special weather statements; ads have sound
- Special weather statements lack audible or textual clarity

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1207912430)