WeatherEarth vs Asteroid Alerts
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.
Asteroid Alerts
Track near-Earth asteroids and space threats in real time with instant alerts and detailed data. Explore information on objects passing close to Earth, powered by NASA and the Minor Planet Center.
- Live asteroid tracking
- Push notifications for discoveries
- Weekly asteroid activity briefings
- Detailed object data (size, velocity, hazard)
- NASA Sentry integration
- Asteroid and space news feed
- Visual interface with charts
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When something hits — or just puts on a show — you'll know first. Asteroid Alerts tracks every near-Earth asteroid, fireball, and meteor shower worth your attention, and tells you the one thing that matters each day. • Fireballs — when a bolide lights up the sky and makes the news, you get the alert and the context within the hour. • Tonight — meteor shower peaks, aurora, and what's worth stepping outside for: when to look, where to look, and whether the Moon will ruin it. • Close approaches — every asteroid passing near Earth, with real numbers: distance in lunar distances, size, speed. • The threat list — NASA Sentry's impact-risk objects, tracked continuously, explained plainly. • Spotlight — the asteroids worth knowing about, and why: Apophis's 2029 flyby, Bennu's returned sample, the moon humanity deliberately moved. • Missions — Hera, OSIRIS-APEX, Psyche and the launches that matter. ONE NOTIFICATION A DAY. MAXIMUM. We rank everything happening and send you the single most important thing. No spam, no doom-mongering, no "asteroid the size of a bus" clickbait. FREE, NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Asteroid Alerts at Free against WeatherEarth's $0.99. Asteroid Alerts also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). WeatherEarth's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Asteroid Alerts is free to download; WeatherEarth costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WeatherEarth against 5.0 for Asteroid Alerts. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
WeatherEarth ships an update every 3 months, Asteroid Alerts every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeatherEarth | Asteroid Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 975 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 连庆 于 | Francesca DeMeo |
Customer experience
WeatherEarth
Asteroid Alerts
In-app purchases
WeatherEarth
No in-app purchases
Asteroid Alerts
No in-app purchases
Questions
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