Comparison

Hurricane Tracker Pro vs Spotter Tools Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hurricane Tracker Pro

Track hurricanes, tropical storms, and depressions globally with interactive maps. Access detailed data layers including cloud cover, tracks, precipitation, and wind information. This app provides professional-grade weather tracking.

Highlights
  • Global cloud cover
  • Hurricane tracks
  • Chance of development
  • Tropical storm and depression tracks
  • Wave height and direction
  • Precipitation data
  • Buoy and ship observations
  • Global surface winds
Features
Currently charting
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Hurricane Tracker Pro is an interactive mapping application for tracking hurricanes, tropical storms and tropical depressions in the all over the world. All data comes from the NHC, NOAA and NWS. Listed below are the featured layers of this application. Get the ad free professional version of our top selling mobile app. -Global Cloud Cover -Hurricane Tracks -NHC Chance of Development -Tropical Storm Tracks -Tropical Depression Tracks -Wave Height Data -3 Hour Precipitation Data -NOAA Buoy and Ship Observation Data -GPS Location -Wave Direction -Global Surface Winds

About

Spotter Tools Pro

This app provides advanced weather data for enthusiasts and professionals, including detailed radar, live lightning, satellite imagery, and storm chaser streams. It offers robust reporting tools for spotters and customizable alerts for severe weather events.

Highlights
  • GPU-rendered NEXRAD radar
  • Live lightning and satellite imagery
  • Worldwide tropical weather
  • Spotter Network reporting
  • GPS beacon and Chaser Mode
  • Animated and composite radar
  • Sounding analysis
  • Live storm chaser streams
Features
Currently charting
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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

Screenshots

Hurricane Tracker Pro4 screens
Spotter Tools Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spotter Tools Pro at 100% against Hurricane Tracker Pro's 25%. Spotter Tools Pro also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ads (none vs shown). Hurricane Tracker Pro'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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hurricane Tracker Pro costs $4.99 and Spotter Tools Pro $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spotter Tools Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Hurricane Tracker Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spotter Tools Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hurricane Tracker Pro ships an update every 24 months, Spotter Tools Pro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Hurricane Tracker Pro versus Spotter Tools Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHurricane Tracker ProSpotter Tools Pro
Price$4.99 — better$19.99
Rating2.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 24 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#170#51 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB158 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercorey hoggardDUSTIN GARNER

Customer experience

Hurricane Tracker Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Spotter Tools Pro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hurricane Tracker Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Spotter Tools Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hurricane Tracker Pro free?
Hurricane Tracker Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spotter Tools Pro free?
Spotter Tools Pro costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hurricane Tracker Pro or Spotter Tools Pro?
Spotter Tools Pro is rated higher. Hurricane Tracker Pro averages 2.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Spotter Tools Pro averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Hurricane Tracker Pro or Spotter Tools Pro have ads?
Hurricane Tracker Pro shows ads; Spotter Tools Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Hurricane Tracker Pro or Spotter Tools Pro?
Hurricane Tracker Pro ships an update every 24 months, and Spotter Tools Pro every 4 days. Most recently, Hurricane Tracker Pro was updated on October 29, 2026 and Spotter Tools Pro on October 28, 2026.
Which is more popular, Hurricane Tracker Pro or Spotter Tools Pro?
Hurricane Tracker Pro currently peaks at #170 in the App Store charts, and Spotter Tools Pro at #51. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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