Comparison

WeatherEarth vs Asteroid Alerts

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

WeatherEarth4 screens
Asteroid Alerts4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
WeatherEarth versus Asteroid Alerts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeatherEarthAsteroid Alerts
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size975 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer连庆 于Francesca DeMeo

Customer experience

WeatherEarth

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Asteroid Alerts

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WeatherEarth

No in-app purchases

None

Asteroid Alerts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WeatherEarth free?
WeatherEarth costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Asteroid Alerts free?
Asteroid Alerts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WeatherEarth or Asteroid Alerts?
WeatherEarth and Asteroid Alerts are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do WeatherEarth or Asteroid Alerts have ads?
Neither WeatherEarth nor Asteroid Alerts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WeatherEarth or Asteroid Alerts?
WeatherEarth ships an update every 3 months, and Asteroid Alerts every 3 weeks. Most recently, WeatherEarth was updated on September 30, 2026 and Asteroid Alerts on October 8, 2026.

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