Kentucky Mesonet vs SatSquatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kentucky Mesonet
Access real-time weather and climate data from a network of stations across Kentucky. View current conditions, rainfall, wind, and 48-hour forecasts. Customize units and find the closest station to your location.
- Real-time weather data updates every 5 minutes
- Air temperature, solar radiation, rainfall, wind speed/direction
- Closest station identification via location services
- 48-hour National Weather Service forecasts
- Metric and standard unit toggling
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As the official source for weather and climate data in the Commonwealth, Kentucky Mesonet provides real-time weather information from its network of stations across the state. App Features: • View local temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, sea-level pressure, and soil conditions. • Use optional location services to find the nearest Kentucky Mesonet station, search stations across Kentucky, save multiple stations, and choose a home station. • See detailed seven-day forecasts and active weather alerts from the National Weather Service. • Explore precipitation totals and station-history charts ranging from recent conditions to monthly and yearly views. • View current images and recent playback from station cameras where available. • Check sunrise, sunset, solar, and moon information. • Switch between Metric and English units and between 12- and 24-hour time. About Kentucky Mesonet is a network of automated weather monitoring stations developed and operated by the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University to serve diverse needs in communities across Kentucky.
SatSquatch
Visualize and analyze complex weather data with customizable maps. Access satellite imagery, high-resolution radar, and multiple forecast models. Explore historical data and overlay various meteorological analyses for detailed insights.
- Customizable weather map layers
- High-resolution Level II radar
- Multiple satellite imagery bands
- Various forecast models
- Archive mode for historical data
- Overlay NWS warnings and outlooks
- Animated wind and loops
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SatSquatch is your all-in-one professional weather data app: satellite data, full-resolution Level II radar, forecast models, mesoanalysis and more, layered however you like on a fast, GPU-drawn map. SATELLITE • All 16 GOES-East and GOES-West bands, Himawari-9 full disk, True Color and core composites • RGB composites such as Air Mass, Day Cloud Phase and Fire Temperature (Pro) • GLM lightning and LightningCast (Pro) • GOES fire detections RADAR • Level II radar from every NEXRAD and TDWR site: reflectivity, dealiased and storm-relative velocity, spectrum width and the dual-pol moments (ZDR, CC, KDP, PHI) • Every tilt, echo tops, VIL, MESH, azimuthal shear, rotation tracks, ZDR columns and a tornado debris overlay • Storm-relative velocity from the radar's own storm tracks • 15-second refresh, with live sweeps (Pro) • Radar cross-sections (Pro) • MRMS composite reflectivity and precipitation, plus hail, rotation, echo tops, rainfall totals and flash flood guidance (Pro) ARCHIVE MODE (PRO) • Replay any past date: GOES satellite back to 2017, Level II radar back to 1991, MRMS back to 2020, GLM lightning and fire detections • That day's warnings, watches, SPC outlooks and storm reports, as they stood at the time FORECAST MODELS • HRRR, RRFS, GFS, RTMA and URMA • ECMWF IFS and AIFS, RAP, AIGFS, NBM and the GEFS, REFS, AIGEFS and AIFS ENS ensembles (Pro) • Filled contours, labelled contour lines, wind barbs and animated wind particles • 18 built-in presets, from 500 mb heights and vorticity to reflectivity over updraft helicity tracks • Run-to-run trends and one-tap model compare • Point soundings with skew-T, hodograph and parameters, cross-sections and meteograms (Pro) • Ensemble probabilities, spaghetti and plumes (Pro) ANALYSIS AND OVERLAYS • NWS warnings and watches, SPC, WPC and CPC outlooks, METARs, storm reports, ProbSevere, WPC fronts and Nadocast • Mesoanalysis, observed soundings and VAD winds (Pro) • Tropical model tracks, with ensemble tracks (Pro) CUSTOMIZABLE MAPS • Stack any layers in any order, with per-layer opacity and display units • 49 colormap presets and a full colormap editor • GRLevelX colour table import and export (Pro) • Saved presets, saved locations, annotations and a satellite basemap (Pro) • Split screen with synced panes, a data inspector and measuring tools • Animated wind with a level slider from 10 m to 250 mb • Loops of up to 72 frames; export images, GIFs and videos • Settings and favorites synced across devices SatSquatch Pro is an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks the features marked (Pro). Also available on the web at satsquatch.wxbyte.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wxbyte.com/satsquatch-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kentucky Mesonet at none against SatSquatch's 2. SatSquatch's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 14 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. SatSquatch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Kentucky Mesonet asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Kentucky Mesonet against 4.4 for SatSquatch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 19 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Kentucky Mesonet's written reviews are positive against 71% of SatSquatch's.
Kentucky Mesonet ships an update every 14 months, SatSquatch weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kentucky Mesonet | SatSquatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Western Kentucky University | WxByte LLC |
Customer experience
Kentucky Mesonet
SatSquatch
In-app purchases
Kentucky Mesonet
No in-app purchases
SatSquatch
- SatSquatch Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- SatSquatch Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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