Comparison

Alertable vs WeatherCAN

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

Head to head
About

Alertable

Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.

Highlights
  • Canada-wide public safety alerts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Customizable notifications
  • Location-based alerts
  • Sharable alerts
  • Local community notifications
  • Workplace alerts
Features
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting

About

WeatherCAN

Access Canada's official weather forecasts and alerts directly from Environment and Climate Change Canada. Get current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, and high-resolution radar animations for over 10,000 locations. Receive customizable Air Quality Health Index notifications and messages from meteorologists.

Highlights
  • Current conditions and forecasts
  • Weather alerts and notifications
  • Location-based weather tracking
  • High-resolution radar animation
  • Customizable Air Quality Health Index
  • Messages from meteorologists
  • Bilingual (English/French)
Features
Currently charting
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Environment and Climate Change Canada has a mobile weather app! It’s cool (pun intended), it’s fun, and it’s easy to use. Get all your latest forecast information directly from Canada’s official weather source. Receive weather alerts notifications in your area, as well as in your saved locations, wherever you are in Canada. Key features: • Current conditions, 24-hour forecast and 7-day forecasts for over 10,000 locations in Canada • Never worry about missing alerts! Push notifications for all weather alerts issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada • Weather information for your location (following you as you travel) as well as for saved locations anywhere in Canada. • High resolution radar animation on a zoomable map background • Today and short-range forecast widget for quick, at-a-glance weather information • Accessible in English and French, and an in-app ability to switch between languages • Message centre – interesting messages from friendly, human meteorologists • Custom Air Quality Health Index notifications tailored to your unique risk level, depending on your sensitivity to pollution. For more information: www.canada.ca/weathercan By clicking "Install" you consent to the installation of this app and updates in the future. This app can be uninstalled at any time.

Screenshots

Alertable4 screens
WeatherCAN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against WeatherCAN's 4.0. Alertable also leads on review sentiment (61% vs 28%) and ratings volume (177 vs 4). WeatherCAN's advantage is chart position (#208 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alertable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 177 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Alertable's written reviews are positive against 28% of WeatherCAN's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Alertable versus WeatherCAN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlertableWeatherCAN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews — better27.7% of reviews
Number of ratings177 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#208 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Emergency Alerting Services IncEnvironment and Climate Change Canada

Customer experience

Alertable

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive61.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.3%

WeatherCAN

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive27.7%
Neutral7.2%
Negative65.1%

Bugs and requests

Alertable

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App not working after update
  • No alerts sent out
  • Misleading and late alerts
  • Old alerts cannot be deleted
  • Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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  • Poor Shuswap updates
  • Unreliable emergency alerts
  • Evacuation alerts too late
  • Garbage app
  • History not deletable
  • High battery drain
  • Alerts not informative enough
  • Too many alerts in a row
  • Early morning notifications
  • Huge drain on battery
  • Very slow to load
  • Not getting audio alerts
  • Cannot select region by panning
  • Alerts don't display properly
  • Useless in BC and most of Canada
  • No cities in California
  • Does not include my city
  • Weak privacy policy

Requested features

14 requests
  • Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
  • Add dark mode
  • Allow selection of entire city by panning map
  • Remove pointless alert types
  • Ability to silence specific alert types
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  • Option to ignore specific alert types
  • Improve location accuracy for alerts
  • Add wildfire alerts
  • Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
  • Allow deletion of old alerts
  • Provide more informative alerts
  • Include cities in California
  • Include more cities
  • Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking

WeatherCAN

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

None

WeatherCAN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WeatherCAN free?
WeatherCAN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Alertable or WeatherCAN?
Alertable is rated higher. Alertable averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while WeatherCAN averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Alertable or WeatherCAN have ads?
Neither Alertable nor WeatherCAN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alertable or WeatherCAN?
Alertable ships an update every 2 months, and WeatherCAN every 2 months. Most recently, Alertable was updated on September 24, 2026 and WeatherCAN on September 22, 2026.

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