WeatherEarth vs Gulf Hurricane Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeatherEarth
Explore Earth's geography and weather with this interactive globe application. Spin, zoom, and navigate to any region to view terrain, satellite imagery, maps, and detailed atmospheric visualizations. Access real-time weather forecasts and understand atmospheric conditions.
- Interactive 3D and 2D globe navigation
- Terrain and satellite imagery
- Real-time weather forecasts
- Atmospheric visualizations (clouds, wind, rain)
- Map overlays
- Zoom and pan functionality
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WeatherEarth is an awesome geographic information and weather application from EastModelSoft Laboratory. The developers of WeatherEarth have tried to fulfill the goal of virtual globe concept proposed since the beginning of this centuary. It brings our planet's geographic and weather information right to your fingertips using advanced graphics rendering technology. With WeatherEarth, you can literally spin, zoom, and move the globe to navigate to your region of interest in both 3D and 2D. WeatherEarth combines terrain, satellite imagary, maps, weather forecasts, atmospheric visualizations (cloud, rains, wind, temperature, and pressure) so that users may easily check them together.
Gulf Hurricane Tracker
This app provides real-time tracking of hurricanes, tropical storms, and depressions using data from official sources. It features interactive maps with layers for cloud cover, storm tracks, precipitation, wave height, and wind data. Users can also view buoy observations and their GPS location.
- Hurricane, tropical storm, and depression tracking
- Global cloud cover layer
- NHC chance of development
- Wave height and precipitation data
- NOAA buoy and ship observations
- GPS location display
- Global surface winds
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Gulf Hurricane Tracker is an interactive mapping application for tracking hurricanes, tropical storms and tropical depressions. All data comes from the NHC, NOAA and NWS. Listed below are the featured layers of this application. -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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gulf Hurricane Tracker at Free against WeatherEarth's $0.99. WeatherEarth's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, in-app purchases 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
Gulf Hurricane Tracker is free to download; WeatherEarth costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WeatherEarth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
WeatherEarth ships an update every 3 months, Gulf Hurricane Tracker every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeatherEarth | Gulf Hurricane Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.6 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 975 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 连庆 于 | corey hoggard |
Customer experience
WeatherEarth
Gulf Hurricane Tracker
In-app purchases
WeatherEarth
No in-app purchases
Gulf Hurricane Tracker
No in-app purchases
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