AURA User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience40.0% of reviews
Neutral16.7% of reviews
Negative experience43.3% of reviews

~ Based on 30 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is AURA Safe?

AURA - Smart Weather for Drone appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for AURA is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 151 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

89.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 151 App Store ratings for AURA.

Is AURA Legit?

AURA - Smart Weather for Drone appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AURA is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Kept crashing with update iOS 18.3.1 50% discount ?

It has become more stable This App says you can get 50% off annual subscription. You can’t in U.K. it charges full price. Please sort this out. Thank you

Keeps crashing with update iOS 18.3.1

I used this a lot but now it continually crashes. I have re-installed but keeps crashing

Not accurate.

This app shows me in a NFZ, however, according to the FAA I am in Class G airspace.

Needs more wind information

I would give it more stars if I was able to get hourly wind information. Looks promising.

Great App but needs some major adjustments

Used the Aura app many times and found it very useful and accuracy was surprisingly excellent. So much so that I subscribed.

Meanwhile with the recent update it tells me that I am in a No Fly Zone. With no way to make any setting changes to adjust the "zone" radius. I am NOT in a No Fly Zone. There are a couple of private a runways (not airports) but no reason to call it a NFZ. Nearest County Airport is over 10 miles North of me.

I will not be renewing my subscription until the Devs incorporate some settings to change the type of airfields and radius area.
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Amazing Interface

Great app, features and interface! I am unable to check the weather at a different location. Thought I could tap somewhere else on the map. Would be nice to know before I travel to a site. Also, a nice option would be to pick a location and have the app list all ‘good to fly’ periods for the upcoming week for example. The results seem quite different when compared to UAV Forecast… I am inclined to trust this one more. Also, are all Canadian fly-zones and weather integrated? Cheers.

Can you add the option to use micro drone (sub250g) rules to determine if it is actually an NFZ?
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Mostly a great app

I like most of the features of this app and it looks very professionally done. It does seem to have some glitches. For example sometimes when I click on the app, it comes on in daylight mode and I have to go into the settings to refresh my subscription to access dark mode. But all in all a pretty good and affordable app. Unlike some of the others which are asking crazy amounts of money for a cheesy looking app.
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Good looking, but…

1) It disagrees with other drone specific weather apps and even with what I’m seeing outside as far as local conditions. 2) If there’s a Cloud Base feature or setting to enable the readout I can’t find it. Either incorporate Cloud Base or give me a Dew Point readout so I can calculate it myself without opening another weather app. Again, sexy looking app, but I can’t trust it because it’s inconsistent with current conditions I can physically feel and see while other apps are more representative of the actual conditions. I’ll keep it on my device, though, in hopes of a reliable app in future updates. Hopefully the owners will invest their earnings into R&D for needed improvements. ETA: App could use customizations like longpressing a tile to add/change or remove a tiles information. For example, I don’t need sunrise/sunset so getting rid of it or replacing it with something more preferable (dew point, cloud base) or just decluttering and reorganizing the tiles to taste would be phenomenal! Also, needs option to display pressure reading in inHg
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Smart looking app

Very nice looking app. It would be nice if I’t had a direct tie in to LAANC but it is a forecast app. Love the interface look and feel. It seemed a bit clunky having to go to a different (map) mode to move locations but I get the flow. Unfortunately it doesn’t warn my of the flight restrictions Vandenburg Space Force Base has in place near me. I need to go to an entirely different app to see that. I popped for a year, I’ll see how it goes. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be family shareable. Would be 5 stars otherwise.
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Really useful app

Really useful app - it would take ages every day to get all this highly relevant information together. Strongly recommended!

Does what it says.....

I like the app but not for an annual subscription. They do update it to fix the issues (bugs).

Absolut unbrauchbar

Jeder Tag wird regnerisch und zum Fliegen ungeeignet angezeigt. Das ist ein Witz.

Disappointed

Very good looking app and with lots of weather information but ,

Things that need fixing:
1. I’ve subscribed but every time I open the app it says that I haven’t subscribed so I have to restore purchases EVERY time .

2.NO notifications on the Apple Watch the app isn’t even listed on the notification list in the Apple Watch app!!

3. Aura on the Apple Watch don’t even show me the weather as it says that I’ve not subscribed but I have subscribed!

4. The weather score needs to be more refined it says it’s chucking it down with rain outside but the score is 4 out of ten. It should be 0 out of 10 as no drone can fly in this horrible weather. And yes it’s poring it down with rain outside ant very very windy 50mph gusts, 26mph wind 💨

Please fix soon or I will be getting my money back!!
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Appli très utile 👍 !!

App très pratique pour savoir si c’est le bon moment pour faire du drone mais dommage qu’elle n’est pas en français mais sinon je la trouve très bien faite avec une conclusion et un indice allant de 0 à 10 en haut à droite.
Merci au développeurs !

Rubbish

Paid full subscription, still only get weather for current area and for next 48 hours, not 10 days. There is an image of globe in bottom left area which I assume should open up for other areas, but when I click on it, I just get kicked out of the app.

Response from developer

Hello, thank you for reporting. Sorry for the inconvenience, we have fixed it and will provide an update soon.

Halfway there

Good that is has a watch complication. Also like the breakdown per category to explain conditions. But why in the Hell does it not factor in wind gusts? Right now it says fine to fly, and I have 60km/h wind gusts which shouldn’t be fine!

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for your concern. You can adjust each weather component's limits. we suggest you to make sure that you set the range sliders correctly inside the "Wind Gust" settings (tap the "Wind Gust" box). Chances are you set the sliders too high, no wonder 60km/h wind gusts will be ignored. Please check. Hope this helps and thanks again.

Updated

Looks good

“Feels-like” temp and other issues

I just discovered the app shows feels-like temp or wind chill index (-3F) rather than actual (10F). Why?

Also, I subscribe, yet the app frequently asks me if I want to subscribe and doesn’t give me access to the subscription features without an app-force-restart.

I like the idea, but sadly, the app appears to be riddled with bugs and no way to contact support, only showing a guided walkthrough of the app when clicking on Help.

With updates to the app appearing very few and far-between, and no support link, I’m thinking this app could be/is abandonware.
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Very Unhappy!

Just downloaded and subscribed....where is the satellite information??? Update: App is continually saying that a storm is nearby when there is not a storm in my entire state? The data provided in this app is suspect to say the least. I’ve attempted to contact the developer without any response. If you’re going to sell a product ensure that it’s working and provide timely customer service. I have cancelled my subscription and I request a refund.
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Loud Ding! Removal

Working with the app was fine, but I couldn’t remove or turn down the annoying bell.
There is nothing in its meagre setting list for:
Sound: Loud, Quiet, or Off.

In my notification setting, Aura was not even listed, so I couldn’t turn off sounds from there.
I fixed this by simply going to Aura, settings - shutting off all location & data services and deleting the app. Done.
Dinging bell is gone.
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