POM Alert App Reviews

Just downloaded this app since I am traveling out if town this weekend and wanted to be alerted to any hazardous weather. Unfortunately, this app does not automatically detect your location, so the alerts dont move with you. Instead, you have to go through a series of menu options to tell the app where you are. Otherwise, like when traveling, you will still get alerts for "home" instead of where you are currently. This would be a five-star app if the devs could set it to auto detect location - and do so without me having to open the app either. It should all work seamlessly in the background. Now that would be peace of mind!

I can live without some of the features that are being requested, but heres a basic one: let us delete old warnings so that when a new one comes in--we can spot it right away and not have to dig through month old warnings. You should also be able to mark as read or unread" for easy reference later if you need more info later. Lastly, I actually bought this for the sex offender notification, and I havent gotten 1 in any of the 3 locations Ive checked---when I know that there is an offender living in the area. What gives? Ill revise my review when a new version comes out.

WHAT AN AWESOME CONCEPT!  GOT SO MUCH MORE THAN I WAS EVER EXPECTING!!  AMAZING! It could use a lil improvement here and there, I do agree BUT OVERALL I AM THOROUGHLY IMPRESSED!!! and then some!   THIS APP SHOULD COME STANDARD WITH ALL iPHONES! ITS AN ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE FOR EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF AGE OR SEX!! 

Doesnt map offenders. Cant scroll thru offenders. Doesnt have addresses. The free one I had before was better than this one

The concept is good, it is easy to install, but there are many shortcomings to this app. Alerts that have been received in some categories cannot be erased and some alerts that have been selected cannot be unselected. Very frustrating.

Great idea. Needs tweaking and weather warnings have stopped working.

WTF all I get is homeland security . I just wasted a dollar 

No alerts in over 40 days worthless app. Dont waste your money!

Needs more features. Needs to be able to delete or mark older alerts. Needs to return from mapping feature without having to re-open the app. Recently has stopped showing details of alerts. The alert will appear, but when you open the app, the details dont appear. Only homeland security alerts. When is the next version coming out, is my question?

Needs to show details like on the pics where you look at the details info of the app. It will tell u about accident. When you click to show you the Darold it doesnt show anything except about the stupid offenders and homeland security Im not happy with this

I bought this app last week. So far I like it. It has given me notifications of traffic alerts. Which I really need living in a highly congested city. As for the sex offenders, its ok. I do like being notified of a new icky person in my area. I do have an different app for sex offenders which is quite good but no notifications. I will review this app at another time for an update.

Seems like a great Idea, the info I can get is very helpful, but I can not get the traffic updates, under POM Alert all I have is Homeland Security and sex offenders???? where is traffic, why cant I change my time zone??? Please fix these and let me register with my server

The app was working great for a few months but within the last month, NO Alerts???

Bought a new iPhone and transferred all my apps, and the only app that no longer functions AT ALL is POM Alerts! What must I do? Buy it again!?

I appreciate the push notifications. Would like ability to specify which items i want the notifications for! Pretty great idea though and I am glad I decided to try it out.

I live in metro Atlanta and have not received a traffic alert in the week Ive had the app. That really is suspect considering I sat in numerous traffic jams.

When first downloaded I received some alerts but NOT ANY alerts the past 3 months. Nothing on the east coast 5.8 earthquake near Mineral VA or hurricane Irene. The app is properly configured. Version 1.0

I give them four stars for the concept. However, I take away a half-star because they dont give you an obvious way to determine what alerts youve already seen without actually reading them. I take away another half-star because they dont let you set the level at which you want to be alerted, or the distance from your designated location from which you want that alert to fire. For example, I dont want to be alerted any time there is a 5.0 or greater earthquake anywhere in a 5000 mile radius, but I would want to be notified if there was a 9.0 earthquake anywhere in a 5000 mile radius, with appropriate smaller radiuses for smaller quakes (i.e., any quake within a 100 mile radius that is a 6.0 or higher). Unfortunately, with POM Alert, its either off or on, and you have to take the distances and alert warning strengths that they provide. The app hasnt been updated since May 2010. Thats an awful long time for an iPhone app. I would give them another half-star if they fully and properly supported the iPad, and had Retina-quality graphics for the iPhone 4. They would get another half-star if they let me select multiple locations, with optional alternative levels of sensitivity and distance. It would be great if they could include a wider array of different types of alerts and a wider array of different sources of information (for example, wildfire notices for California are posted on a different website than the one they currently use). Ideally, that would also include user reports for certain types of events, such as traffic accidents or roads being blocked. Thinking even further forward, they could even allow you to get push alerts based on your current GPS location, which could be really handy for those highly localized issues like traffic problems. Meanwhile, Im looking at other location-based alerting applications.

Ive found the alerts Ive setup to be very useful. I hope to see more possibilities and more informative information in future updates, say maybe a link pointed to any news station streaming live on the topic allowing us to watch would be cool.

A very useful app that keeps you "in the know" at all times! So many options/features. This is one app that is worth the money fir sure! A+++++++