Thunderstorm vs Rockets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thunderstorm
Get instant, accurate weather updates and forecasts for your precise current location. This app automatically detects where you are to provide hyper-local conditions and predictions, ensuring you're always prepared for the sky's changes.
- Real-time weather updates
- Hyper-local forecasts
- Automatic location detection
- Hourly and daily predictions
- Current conditions (temp, humidity, wind)
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Thunderstorm-Local Weather is your go-to mobile source for instant, accurate weather updates and forecasts, precisely for your current location. Whether you're at home, at work, or traveling, always know what to expect from the sky. Real-Time Weather, Right Where You Are Gone are the days of checking general city forecasts. Thunderstorm-Local Weather automatically detects your current location to deliver hyper-local conditions and predictions. Current Conditions: Get instant access to temperature, humidity, wind speed, and more, updated live. Accurate Forecasts: Plan your day and week with reliable hourly and daily forecasts specific to your immediate area. Always Relevant: Wherever you go, the app adapts to provide the weather for your exact spot, ensuring you're always prepared. Simple and Intuitive We've designed Thunderstorm-Local Weather to be incredibly easy to use. Open the app and get the weather information you need without any hassle.
Rockets
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Rockets is a personal launch-day companion for spaceflight fans who want to know what is worth watching, what changed, and what to do next. Today highlights the next relevant mission and source freshness. Explore keeps the 3D globe, search, Mission Planner, and Launch Pulse. My Missions saves a complete local journey, while Launch Room combines the countdown, status, source details, change history, Calendar, Live Activity, and alert controls. Mission Control is the existing optional EUR 4.99 one-time purchase. It unlocks unlimited watched missions and advanced enthusiast tools forever. There is no subscription, trial, recurring billing, account, or Rockets-operated backend. Existing Mission Control buyers receive the Rockets 2 paid capabilities automatically after StoreKit restoration. Explore launch sites on a 3D globe, search pads and missions, compare recent and upcoming launches, and use Mission Planner to filter missions by provider, orbit, status, timing, and weather or hold concerns. Add selected launch windows to Calendar and start a Live Activity for upcoming missions. Rockets uses Launch Library 2 for launch schedules and launch pad data. If launch-site data is temporarily unavailable, the app may use OpenStreetMap Overpass as a fallback for public launch-site map data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thunderstorm at none against Rockets's 1. Thunderstorm also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). Rockets's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 114 months). On price and device support 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. Rockets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thunderstorm asks for nothing beyond the download.
Thunderstorm ships an update every 114 months, Rockets every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thunderstorm | Rockets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 114 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramalingam Sivaramakrishnan | Mirco Schoepf |
In-app purchases
Thunderstorm
No in-app purchases
Rockets
- Mission Control$3.99
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