Snowfall Forecast vs RUClosed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snowfall Forecast
This interactive map application displays 72-hour snowfall predictions sourced from NOAA and NWS. It provides detailed weather data for planning outdoor activities.
- 72-hour snowfall data
- Interactive mapping
- NOAA and NWS data sources
- Detailed weather predictions
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The Snowfall Forecast app is an interactive mapping application showing the next 72 hours of snowfall data from NOAA and NWS.
RUClosed
Track nationwide school, work, and church closings with near 100% certainty. Get real-time updates, contact information for verification, and share cancellations with friends. Receive push notifications for your favorite locations.
- Nationwide closing tracking
- Real-time updates
- Contact information for verification
- Favorite cities and places
- Share closings
- Push notifications
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RUClosed provides a clean, easy-to-use, interface that allows users to track closings nationwide. Whether it’s your school, work, or church, this nifty little app provides the flexibility to see cancellations of all types in cities across the United States. Why waste your time on other snow day closing apps that simply give a best-guess prediction when RUClosed can tell you with near 100% certainty if your place is closed. RUClosed also provides contact information, such as phone numbers and web sites for quick and easy verification of the closing details. Users can favorite cities and specific places and RUClosed provides them with real-time updates as well as the ability to share closings with their friends. The database of closings also allows users to easily see how many times places have been closed going back to January 2018. Whether it’s stormy weather, burst water pipes or a last-second change in schedule, if there is a closing, RUClosed will know about it. Recently added: Push Notifications messages for closings of your Favorite Cities and Favorite Places. Just enable Notifications when the App prompts you or in the App Settings and you will receive a message when a closing status changes. No email address or phone numbers are required for this new feature.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RUClosed at 4.0 against Snowfall Forecast's 1.8. RUClosed also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (30% vs 9%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RUClosed holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RUClosed has 151 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Snowfall Forecast's written reviews are positive against 30% of RUClosed's.
Snowfall Forecast ships an update every 8 months, RUClosed every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Snowfall Forecast | RUClosed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (12 ratings) | 4.0 (151 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | 30.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 151 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | corey hoggard | Falcon Software LLC |
Customer experience
Snowfall Forecast
RUClosed
In-app purchases
Snowfall Forecast
No in-app purchases
RUClosed
No in-app purchases
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