# RainRadarAU — user reviews > 110 indexed App Store user reviews of RainRadarAU by Simon Coggins, rated 4.51/5 from 127 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rainradarau/id290920045/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rainradarau/id290920045.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 0 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of RainRadarAU? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and easy to use - ✅ Accurate rain radar - ⭐ Long-standing reliable app - 🚀 Fast loading times (historically) - 📍 Red dot location option - 🇦🇺 Australia-focused radar - 💡 Better than BOM app - 💯 Go-to app for years - ✨ Keeps it simple and useful - 👌🏻 Reliable and simple - 🌟 Always my go-to app - 👍 Does exactly what it says - 💯 Best radar app - 🏆 Still the best - 🚀 Quick access to radars - ✅ Stable and reliable - 💯 Best weather radar around - 👍 Great work on updates - 🌟 Reliable and simple - 🚀 Quick access to local radars - 💯 Best app in town - ✅ Stable and reliable - 👍 Great app - 💯 Best radar app - ⭐ Simple and usable - ✅ Good on you - 💯 Brilliant - ⭐ Best available radar - 👍 Better than the official BOM - 🚀 Quick access - ✅ Great app - 💯 Awesome app - ⭐ Simple and informative - ✅ Still the best - 💯 Best rain and weather app - 👍 Appreciative of developer - ⭐ Excellent app - 💯 Flawless - 👍 Nothing more, nothing less - ✅ Does what it says on the tin - 💯 Still the best BOM radar app - ✅ Simple and easy to use - ⭐ Great app - 👍 GPS dot is helpful - ✅ Simple and still the best - ⭐ Combines wind and rain - 💯 Can't live without it - ✅ Great app - 👍 Brings back original BOM maps - ⭐ Happy to pay - 💯 It's back! - ✅ Best I have used - ⭐ Works like magic - 👍 Great app - ✅ Awesome - ⭐ Really handy - 👍 Great, simple and easy to use - ✅ Excellent, quick app - 💯 The best Australian radar app - 👍 Pinch/zoom for labels - ⭐ Finds nearest radar - 💯 Great app, very accurate - ✅ One of the better apps - ⭐ A must-have iPhone App - 👍 Functions easy to use - ✅ Maps are great - 💯 Awesome update - 👍 Useful for BOM site users - 🚀 Worked nice and fast - ⭐ GPS location added - ✅ Good app - 👍 GPS is good - ⭐ Loads BOM radars perfectly - 🚀 Faster than website - 💯 Awesome - 👍 Keeps getting better - ⭐ Brilliant, almost perfect - ✅ Absolutely brilliant - 💯 Awesome and useful app - 👍 One of the best apps around - ✅ Does what it says and does it well - ⭐ Great App - 👍 Must have app - ✅ Awesome! - ⭐ Works really well - 👍 Very handy - ✅ Brilliant! - ⭐ Can't live without it! - 💯 Great app!!! - ✅ Awesome, easy to use - 👍 Very handy - ⭐ Brilliant! - ✅ Everything you could ever want - 💯 Fantastic App - 👍 Very accurate - ✅ Brilliant - ⭐ Go to app - 👍 Great app - ✅ Awesome! - ⭐ Quick and reliable - 💯 Works perfectly - ✅ Essential for summer - ⭐ No complaints here - 👍 Frequently used quick reference - ✅ Latest update fixed issues - ⭐ Love the red location dot!! - 👍 Handy little app - ✅ Easy to use - ⭐ Red dot shows current location - 👍 Simple and Slick - ✅ Simple, easy to use - ⭐ Right amount of features - 👍 Favourites menu - ✅ Shows location on radar map - ⭐ Exactly what I've been looking for - 👍 Colours match BOM site - ✅ Favourites option - ⭐ Cool - 👍 Great application, accurate - ✅ Worth the money - ⭐ Super application - 👍 Useful for checking rain - ✅ It's a beauty! - ⭐ Incredibly practical - 👍 Fantastic Application! - ✅ Great app for Australia - ⭐ Fantastic Weather Radar app - 👍 Well worth installing - ✅ Nice look - ⭐ Simple and easy - 👍 You beauty! - ✅ Works as advertised! - ⭐ Awesome - 👍 Brilliant App for pilots!! - ✅ Incredible useful for pilots - ⭐ Cool - 👍 Good to see what's happening back home - ✅ Great - ⭐ Extremely accurate! - 👍 A must get! - ✅ Cool app - ⭐ Nice to see a free app - 👍 Moving radar **Cons** - 🐛 Radar sync is out - 🐛 Radar animations removed - 🐛 Still pictures instead of rolling - 🐛 New distance selection button terrible - 🐛 App stopped working - 🐛 All radars not working - 🐛 No animation - 🐛 Crash and Grab - 🐛 Still image only - 🐛 No radar on Gold Coast? - 🐛 Radar images not moving - 🐛 Bad update (white background) - 🐛 Not working since iOS 8 - 🐛 Was Great....now rubbish - 🐛 Pixelated radar map - 🐛 Radar false - 🐛 Unreliable - 🐛 Radar map is quite small - 🐛 Takes a whilst to load - 🐛 Zoom needed - 🐛 Splash screen - 🐛 BOM predictions and warnings missing - 🐛 Not much different from BOM website - 🐛 No forecast - 🐛 Not real-time displays - 🐛 Previous rainfall activity displayed - 🐛 CRAPPY - 🐛 Terrible - 🐛 Mikzeet hala azed **Commonly reported bugs** - Time on radar loop stuck - Radar synchronisation is out - Radar animations removed - Still pictures instead of rolling - New distance selection button terrible - App stopped working - All radars not working - No animation - Crash and Grab - Still image only - No radar on Gold Coast? - Radar images not moving - Bad update (white background) - Not working since iOS 8 - Was Great....now rubbish - Pixelated radar map - Radar false - Unreliable - Radar map is quite small - Takes a whilst to load - Splash screen - Not much different from BOM website - No forecast - Not real-time displays - Previous rainfall activity displayed - CRAPPY - Terrible - Mikzeet hala azed **Most requested features** - Bring back the old distance buttons - Bring back radar animations - Add address finder - Add predicted weather patterns - Add wind speed in knots option - Add rain alert/alarm - Add full Australia view radar - Add weather alerts/warnings - Add zoom functionality - Add BOM predictions and warnings - Add approximate location using iPhone GPS - Option to turn off splash screen - Make app available for USA - Add forecast - Add real-time displays - Add wind speed in knots option ## Newest reviews (18 of 110) ### 3/5 — Bring back the old distance buttons *2026-04-07, version 3.1.0* The new distance selection button is terrible! You have to click twice instead of once. What is the point?? Please change it back. ### 4/5 — Radar sync is out *2026-04-06, version 3.1.0* Hey team nice update but now the radar synchronisation is out. ### 5/5 — Best weather radar around by far *2025-11-11, version 2.3.16* This app has been a constant reliable source for up to date weather radar images for years! Since the BOM have recently ruined their web site, this app is now more important than ever. It’s also great to see it getting regular updates now to keep it on top of the BOM screwing everything up. Well done! ### 5/5 — Glad You’re Working Again *2025-11-07, version 2.3.15* I’ve been using this wonderful app for years! Sorry the BOM jerked you around when they redesigned their dreadful website recently. Keep up the good work. ### 5/5 — Still the best *2025-11-06, version 2.3.15* It’s been my goto since it was written forever ago. It still seems to be the easiest for me to interpret. Others try to look prettier - or smoother, but that doesn’t help. Thankyou to the developer! Full credit :) ### 5/5 — Better than BOM!! *2025-11-03, version 2.3.15* I’ve been using this for years and years. I still prefer it to the BOM app. Lets home BOM don’t kill off the api!! ### 5/5 — Thanks *2025-11-02, version 2.3.15* I’m so grateful you’re chasing the ios26 bug. This is my only and fav radar app and have used it for years and years. So pleased you’re still supporting it. Well done. ### 5/5 — Perfection *2025-11-02, version 2.3.15* The perfect radar app! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2025-11-01, version 2.3.15* Best available radar imo ### 5/5 — Better then the BoM app *2025-10-28, version 2.3.13* This is what the BoM app should be. Quick access to local nearby radars ### 5/5 — Best app in town …. *2025-10-27, version 2.3.13* Well it was. I am so gutted by the changes to the BOM site that have adversely affected this app. I do hope that you are able to find a solution soon. This was one of the very first apps I got when I first got my iPhone 4 🤣🤣 ### 5/5 — Hang in there *2025-10-27, version 2.3.13* Yes, hang in there. The BOM website is a shambles and my sense is they will have to roll back much of it. Hopefully that will include the data to third party apps such as the excellent RainRadar, which I have used for a decade or more! We can only hope they come to their senses. ### 5/5 — Great app, appreciate the work *2025-10-27, version 2.3.13* This app and most others went down when BOM changed something but this one was updated straight away, great work. ### 5/5 — 👌🏻 *2025-10-26, version 2.3.13* Have been using this for years now. Hopefully the dev can keep getting the good data. The new BOM stuff is hopeless! ### 5/5 — Thank You *2025-10-26, version 2.3.13* Thank you for getting the app working again after the BOM messed up their website. Your app is the best weather radar app hands down. ### 5/5 — Best radar app *2025-10-25, version 2.3.13* This is the best Radar app that I can find. Really simple and usable. ### 5/5 — Good on you *2025-10-24, version 2.3.13* I’ve been using this app for many years; gives me something to blame my golf score on. I’ve seen the new BOM update and i’m less than impressed. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2025-10-24, version 2.3.13* I have been using this app for several years and the designer has made it very simple and quick to use. I contacted him today as BOM has changed their configuration(so unable to access radar) and he was very quick to respond.Let us hope and pray BOM allows him access to keep this app going. Thank you. 🤞 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bring back radar animations *2026-04-03, version 3.0.1* 5 Stars until radar animations were removed at the latest release. These are so important to know direction. Now 1 star unfortunately. ### 1/5 — What happened? *2026-03-31, version 3.0.1* This was the best rain radar but the new version is terrible still pictures of the current rain situation instead of a rolling is a step backwards.. ### 1/5 — App stopped working *2025-10-23, version 2.3.13* Hi. I’ve been using this app for years and now no radars open anywhere in Australia. Has this app been shut down?? Please advise if there is a new app ### 1/5 — No animation *2023-10-12, version 2.3.11* Upgraded to latest iPad iOS and animation just stopped. Emailed developer to know avail. Have deleted and gone to another app. Very disappointing. ### 1/5 — Crash and Grab *2016-12-03, version 2.2.3* App kept crashing. Deleted it and had to reinstall it. I was charged again to download the "new" version, which is the same! Use a free one they are just as good. ### 1/5 — Still image only *2015-09-29, version 2.2.3* this app has been BS lately, only showing a still image at 10am. worked well u til this point, might wanna fix it or I'm getting a different app ### 1/5 — No radar on Gold Coast? *2015-07-14, version 2.2.3* What a joke? Being one of the most famous city in Australia and no radar is available there ### 1/5 — Not working since IOS 8 *2014-10-06, version 2.1.1* Used to be great but now the National Radar no longer works, which is a shame. ### 1/5 — Was Great....now rubbish *2014-10-04, version 2.1.1* For years this was a favorite of mine, however for some reason it no longer works. I've deleted and reinstated and none of the radars load. Disappointing ### 1/5 — Check the date/time *2013-02-25, version 2.0.4* I thought this app was great and up to date, until I looked at the details at bottom if screen and noticed I was looking at a radar either 10hrs prior or even the day before!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Update rocks *2026-05-01, version 3.2.0* The red dot location option is back ! The go to radar app since I first got an iPhone. ### 5/5 — Best rain radar app *2026-04-29, version 3.2.0* Have been using this app for years and it’s simply the best! Accurate and very helpful during storms! ### 5/5 — Time *2026-04-26, version 3.1.0* I have used this app for years now but after the last date there is something wrong with the times on the radar loop it is stuck on the same time ### 5/5 — AU Radar is the best *2026-04-25, version 3.1.0* This app is still on my phone after several years. Keeping it simple and useful. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-04-08, version 3.1.0* Thanks for the update ### 5/5 — Does Exactly What it Says *2026-04-08, version 3.1.0* Have been using this app for many years now. It’s only for rain and it’s always my go to app to check rains around Australia. ### 5/5 — 10+ years with this app *2026-04-07, version 3.1.0* Great app. Simple, response, the best ### 5/5 — Update Issues *2026-04-06, version 3.0.1* Loved this app for a long time but the recent update has lost the time intervals. Deleted and reloaded - all good thx. ### 5/5 — Best radar app *2026-03-31, version 3.0.1* It’s simply the best one out there. One the first apps I ever installed over a decade ago. Reliable and simple - perfect. ### 5/5 — Great App *2025-11-25, version 2.3.16* Does what is says,have been using for years no problems and still a stable reliable App Thanks :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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