Max Defender 8 Weather App

Nexstar Inc.

Contains ads

About this app

News Channel 8 and Storm Team 8 are proud to introduce Max Defender 8, a new, interactive local weather app for all of Tampa Bay.

The world’s most powerful radar is now in the palm of your hand. Whether you live in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Clearwater, Lakeland or New Port Richey, Mac Defender 8 will keep you and your family safe.

Ratings and reviews

When I opened the app it said, " a new version is available" and took me here. So I decided to read the reviews because there was hardly any 5⭐ reviews and after reading them I could understand why. For starters those ad's are big and the exit button is really tiny. Also, it crashes after I've looked at the radar, so I just tell my phone to close the app. I don't understand why they need a button for the news, I thought this is a weather app. I wish I could track tropics within the app.

A friend told me to try again. This time it worked. Still randomly crashes. The widget sucks so be don't use the widget. When the app is working. It looks and works great. I'm giving it a chance for now. Yesterday i got my alerts from cities and states i saved. i was able to warn family of the storms that happens Yesterday in Oklahoma City. Again when it's not crashing. It works and very accurate.

The way that they pop their ads is really sketchy. They're basically relying on people clicking by accident when it pops up suddenly. It's also annoying to see an ad after every single refresh of the weather map. It works, but I'd look for something that doesn't have as aggressive ad pop-ups

What’s new

Introducing widgets to monitor current conditions and forecasts from your phones homepage, Expandable hourly for more data at your fingertips, and various other updates and bug fixes!