# Recon Weather — Radar, Warnings, Storm Chasers

> Advanced live weather radar, storm tracking, and scientific data for enthusiasts. (iPhone/iPad app by Vincent Waelti.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recon-weather/id6762109547 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vincent Waelti](https://appshunter.io/developer/1892950253)
- Category: Weather, Navigation
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.90/5 from 29 App Store ratings · 7 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 60 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-14
- Monetization: ad-supported
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recon-weather/id6762109547/reviews.md

## What is Recon Weather?

Recon Weather is a storm research mission you can watch live.

RADAR
Single-site NEXRAD down to base velocity and storm-relative velocity, a national mosaic, and a loop you can scrub frame by frame. Color tables you can change.

WARNINGS THAT FOLLOW YOU
Tornado, severe and flash flood warnings for where you actually are, delivered while the app is closed. Not a city you picked once.

FROM THE FIELD
Live POV video from chase vehicles. Storm reports with photos from the public. Pressure probes dropped in front of storms, reporting as they go.

FORECAST TOOLS
SPC and ECCC outlooks, mesoanalysis with CAPE, shear and helicity, WPC excessive rainfall, soundings and model data.

No ads. No data brokers. Nothing sold. Optional tipping if you want to fund the next probe, and nothing is locked behind it.

## Key features

- Live MRMS radar
- Storm chaser feeds
- Severe weather alerts
- Radiosonde data with skew-T diagrams
- Wildfire tracking
- NWS warnings with timers
- GPU-accelerated radar with hail detection

## Recent user reviews (7 of 7)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recon-weather/id6762109547/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Recon Weather

*2026-10-12*

Great App

### 5/5 — One of the best weather apps!

*2026-09-10*

This app is very user friendly, packed with a lot of information that is normally behind a paywall. Thank you Vince and team for the awesome weather app!

### 5/5 — Best weather app!

*2026-08-13*

This is the quickest and most accurate weather app. Living in Florida we get A LOT of lightening and rain. It shows you where the lightening has popped up on the map. It’s very detailed. I love the push notifications too. Definitely download!

### 5/5 — Great App

*2026-07-01*

Great app Vince and team you guys did an awesome job been watching for while too. Favorite weather app highly recommended keep up the great work.

### 5/5 — F WF

*2026-06-27*

This app is fantastic. Live feed video, probes, balloons, warnings, daily forecast! Everything all in 1!!

### 5/5 — Great Job Vince

*2026-06-13*

Been watching you on YouTube for couple seasons now.  You and you’re team of professionals are progressing exponentially to say the least, and the bonus is your transparency and not just saying what people want to hear.  F them biat__es!! My YouTube is @creamytip-mmm

### 5/5 — Well Done !

*2026-06-13*

I am loving this app. It's very easy to use. It's very user-friendly. I can navigate with not even thinking twice about. It shows the weather perfectly in my area. I like the way it is showing the wind coming through excellent job. I am loving it!!

## Frequently asked questions about Recon Weather

### Does WeatherEye Live have ads?

Yes, WeatherEye Live contains advertisements. While the description states 'no ads', the provided data indicates it is ad-supported.

### What is the rating for WeatherEye Live?

WeatherEye Live has a high rating of 4.7 stars, based on 14 user ratings.

### What devices does WeatherEye Live support?

WeatherEye Live is supported on iPhone and iPod devices.

### What is the age rating for WeatherEye Live?

WeatherEye Live has an age rating of 4+.

### How often is WeatherEye Live updated?

The latest version, 1.5.2, was released on June 20, 2026, indicating recent updates.

### Is WeatherEye Live free to download?

Yes, WeatherEye Live is available for free download.

### What kind of weather data does WeatherEye Live provide?

WeatherEye Live offers advanced data including MRMS radar, radiosonde data with skew-T diagrams, SPC outlooks, wildfire tracking, and METARs.

### Does WeatherEye Live require an account?

No, WeatherEye Live does not require an account to use its features, and it also states no tracking.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.4 — 2026-10-12

Soundings
Every sounding our balloons have flown is in the app now, under Our soundings on the Mission tab, grouped by drop. Each one opens the same analysis a model point sounding gets: CAPE, CIN, the parcel levels, storm-relative helicity and shear, using SPC's own sharptab maths rather than an approximation of it.

A package flown without a thermistor is not a failed flight. Those open their hodograph and wind analysis instead, because how much the wind turns is most of what a chase day asks a sounding for.

Winds are binned by height before they reach the hodograph and the numbers, so the trace shows the turning rather than the swing of the package under the balloon.

Balloons/sondes move in the archive radar loop now.  Scrub into the archive and a sonde climbs through the storm it was launched into, arriving at launch and leaving at loss of signal.

Mission log
Posts render with the spacing and the headings they were written with. Tap any picture to open it full screen, where a pressure chart is readable instead of an inch tall.

### 2.0.3 — 2026-10-11

Several never-ending bug fixes including:

Temperature unit selection latching. Solves an issue where C units would not stay selected and reverted to F. 
Pressure plots now report a trend line, not just a value.
Toggle switch contrast fixes in menu.
More efficient live video streaming with automatic high and low quality selection.
Tap-to-open notification fixed
Tropical overlay enhancements

### 2.0.2 — 2026-10-09

Bug fixes for notification alert zones: previously a deletion of a saved zone would crash the app.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-10-08

Recon Weather is a new name and a new engine from the same people you know and trust.

NATIVE METAL RADAR, EXCLUSIVE TO THIS APP
Level II decoded on your phone and drawn with Metal in full
super-resolution. No server-rendered tiles and no waiting on
someone else's image pipeline.

NEW
- Isopod pressure probes on the map, with 20 Hz traces you can scrub
- Probes follow the radar loop back into the archive
- Pin any probe's pressure under the radar as a live strip
- Rebuilt layer controls, with our own hardware on its own tab

FIXED
- Tropical forecast times were up to three hours off. They now
  count from your clock and say which time zone they are in.
- Tropical alerts are properly sending.
- Forecast track labels are easier to read on the move.

FASTER
Frames load and loop quicker, and the loop only fetches what it
actually needs.

WeatherEye Live is now Recon Weather. Same app, same team,
same account.

### 2.0.0 — 2026-10-08

Recon Weather is a new name and a new engine.

NATIVE METAL RADAR, EXCLUSIVE TO THIS APP
Level II decoded on your phone and drawn with Metal in ull super-resolution.
No server-rendered tiles and no waiting on someone else's image
pipeline.

NEW
- Isopod pressure probes on the map, with 20 Hz traces you can scrub
- Probes follow the radar loop back into the archive
- Pin any probe's pressure under the radar as a live strip
- Rebuilt layer controls, with our own hardware on its own tab

FASTER
Frames load and loop quicker, and the loop only fetches what it actually needs.

WeatherEye Live is now Recon Weather. Same app, same team, same account.

## Apps similar to Recon Weather

| App | Rating | Price | Category |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Storm Chaser Atlas](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storm-chaser-atlas/id6758031108) | 4.2 (5) | Free | Weather |
| [WeatherAlarmApp](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weatheralarmapp/id6760324478) | 5.0 (11) | Free | Weather |
| [Echoes Weather: Radar & Models](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/echoes-weather-radar-and-models/id6756086497) | 4.9 (61) | Free | Weather |
| [RadarCast: Live Weather Radar](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/radarcast-live-weather-radar/id6769410681) | 4.8 (25) | Free | Weather |
| [StormTrack - 360](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stormtrack-360/id6769494750) | 4.4 (10) | Free | Weather |
| [StormNet](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stormnet/id6760000154) | 4.9 (18) | Free | Weather |

## Related topics

[recon velocity](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/recon-velocity) · [pflotsh superhd](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/pflotsh-superhd) · [storm chasers](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/storm-chasers) · [storm chasers live](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/storm-chasers-live)

---

*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-14.*
