Storm Tracker Professional vs Spotter Tools Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Storm Tracker Professional
This app provides detailed storm tracking with live Doppler radar, storm signatures for tornadoes and hail, and lightning strike data. It also offers hurricane tracking, NWS alerts, and storm reports directly from NOAA and NWS.
- Live Level III Doppler Radar
- Storm Tracks for Tornadoes, Hail, and Wind
- Doppler Radar Signatures
- Hurricane and Tropics Tracking
- Live Lightning Data
- NWS Watches, Warnings, and Advisories
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Storm Tracker Professional was developed by Severe WX Warn and contains features such as storm signatures(tornado vortex signatures, hail storm signatures and damaging wind signatures.) The pro version does not contain apps, so enjoy an hassle free user experience. The app also includes storms reports for tornadoes, damaging winds and severe hail. Along with this the app also includes lightning strike data, active hurricanes and tropical cyclones, global surface winds, cloud cover and NWS watches, warnings and advisories. All data feeds are direct from NOAA, NWS and the SPC. -High Resolution Live Level III Doppler Radar that updates automatically every 5 minutes. -Storm Tracks for Tornado Vortex Signatures, Hail and Severe Wind. -Doppler Radar Signatures for Tornadoes, Hail and Wind. -Hail signatures display max and min. size. -Hurricane and Tropics Tracking Information. -Live Lightning Data. -Current GPS Location. -Address Search for other locations. -NWS Watches, Warnings and Advisories. -SPC Outlooks -Cloud Cover Data -NOAA Storm Reports (24 hr. & Weekly)
Spotter Tools Pro
This advanced weather app provides detailed radar, forecasts, and alerts for weather enthusiasts and storm chasers. It offers turn-by-turn navigation overlaid with live weather data, reporting tools, and thousands of live camera feeds.
- GPU-rendered NEXRAD radar
- Turn-by-turn navigation with live radar overlay
- Spotter Network reporting and beacon
- Live wind and soundings
- Worldwide tropical storm tracking
- Thousands of live camera feeds
- Smart push alerts with polygon preview
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Spotter Tools Pro is a severe weather app for weather enthusiasts, storm chasers, and trained spotters. GPU-rendered NEXRAD radar, turn-by-turn directions, live wind flow, soundings, lightning, satellite, worldwide tropical, air quality, five forecast models, IBW alerts, live chasers, and thousands of live cameras. Plus Spotter Network reporting and Chaser Mode. Buy once. No subscription, no ads, no third-party trackers. TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS Drive to any address, town, or map point with your route drawn over live radar and warnings. Turn banner with distance and arrival time, spoken prompts that lower your music, and automatic rerouting. Start from search or a long-press. SPOTTER NETWORK REPORTING & BEACON Tornado, funnel cloud, wall cloud, hail, measured wind, flood, flash flood, and damage, each with the exact fields Spotter Network expects. Reports queue offline and auto-upload. Foreground and background GPS beacon with a configurable interval. RADAR: LEVEL 2, LEVEL III & TDWR Crisp at any zoom. Single-site Level 2 decoded on-device: Reflectivity, Velocity, Correlation Coefficient, Spectrum Width, and Storm-Relative Velocity. Plus WSR-88D Level III, dual-pol (ZDR, CC, KDP, HCA), derived products (VIL, Digital Precip Rate, rotation), storm tracks, mesocyclone and TVS markers, a VAD Wind Profile, and the 45-site TDWR network. Add a Mesoanalysis layer (SPC-style severe parameters) and a Storm Cell Deep Dive. Dual-view split-screen compare. 16 .pal color tables, or import your own. ANIMATED & COMPOSITE RADAR Loop recent volumes. Add a GPU-crisp CONUS MRMS mosaic drawn from the full product catalog, including the FLASH flash-flood suite, with up to 12-hour playback and tap-to-read values. LIVE WIND & SOUNDINGS Animated surface-wind particles colored by speed. On-device skew-T soundings, hodographs, and full analysis: tap anywhere for a profile (balloon or HRRR). LIGHTNING, SATELLITE & TROPICAL Live GOES GLM lightning; GOES East and West satellite (Infrared, Water Vapor, Visible, GeoColor) with a radar-synced cloud loop; and worldwide tropical: outlook areas, storm cones, spaghetti tracks, intensity, and wind-arrival times. WEATHER MODELS Overlay HRRR, GFS, RRFS, NAM, and ECMWF guidance (reflectivity, temp, wind, CAPE, precip) with a time bar. OBSERVATIONS & LAYERS RTMA surface observations (temperature, dew point, theta-e, wind, gusts), MRMS observed precipitation, METARs, EPA AirNow air quality, and WPC surface fronts and pressure centers. LIVE STORM CHASERS Watch major chasers stream live via YouTube and Facebook Live, right on the map. Live badges show who's on air. LIVE TRAFFIC & SKY CAMERAS Tens of thousands of DOT cameras across 37 states, plus FAA, Windy, NOAA buoy, USGS volcano, NPS, ALERTWildfire, and curated webcams. Live video where offered, stills elsewhere. SMART PUSH ALERTS Background NWS warnings with a polygon preview. Filter modes: Standard, Outbreak, and PDS/Emergency only. Watch zones: current location, home, city, state, or nationwide. Severe-alert tone, plus optional Critical Alerts so a Tornado Emergency or PDS warning sounds through silent mode and Focus. Each warning shows an estimated population inside the polygon. NWS & SPC ON THE MAP - 50+ NWS warning polygons, toggleable - Tornado and severe thunderstorm watch boxes - SPC Mesoscale Discussions and WPC flood discussions, full text on tap - Outlooks: convective Day 1 to 8, thunderstorm, excessive rainfall, fire weather, winter storm severity, CPC 6 to 10 day, drought - SPC storm reports plus the live Spotter Network feed MORE City and place search, long-press map menu, distance and bearing tools, freehand drawing, and storm-track projection. Optional account and opt-in Presence to see other users on the map. Per-event colors, county and state lines, 6 themes (OLED black). Privacy Policy: https://spottertoolspro.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://spottertoolspro.vercel.app/terms Support: spottertoolspro@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spotter Tools Pro at 100% against Storm Tracker Professional's 0%. Spotter Tools Pro also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Storm Tracker Professional's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $19.99). On in-app purchases, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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
Storm Tracker Professional costs $4.99 and Spotter Tools Pro $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spotter Tools Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Storm Tracker Professional's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spotter Tools Pro's.
Storm Tracker Professional ships an update every 27 months, Spotter Tools Pro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Storm Tracker Professional | Spotter Tools Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | corey hoggard | DUSTIN GARNER |
Customer experience
Storm Tracker Professional
Spotter Tools Pro
In-app purchases
Storm Tracker Professional
No in-app purchases
Spotter Tools Pro
No in-app purchases
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