Tropical Hurricane Tracker vs StationDeck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tropical Hurricane Tracker
Stay informed about hurricanes and tropical storms with real-time tracking maps and NOAA forecasts. This app simplifies complex weather data, offering easy navigation to essential information for hurricane-prone areas. Receive push notifications and access historical data to prepare for potential storms.
- Hurricane Tracking Maps by Region
- NOAA Forecasts
- Interactive Global Map
- Push Notifications
- Ensemble Models
- Historic Storm Tracks
- Safety & Preparedness Information
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Tropical Hurricane Tracker provides the most up-to-date information about hurricanes, tropical storms, and disturbances. Most apps are overly complicated and cluttered with information. Tropical Hurricane Tracker offers the unique ability to easily navigate through multiple data points to find the information you need to keep track of these potentially devastating storms. At JPL Tech, we are committed to learning and improving. We welcome feedback that will help us continue to develop this app to best suit the needs of our users. Our goal is to create an app that is easy for everyone to access, especially those in hurricane-prone areas. If there is a feature you would like to see, please let us know by contacting us within the app. Features Include: • Hurricane Tracking Maps by Region (Central Pacific, Eastern North Pacific, Atlantic) • NOAA Forecasts • Interactive Global Map • Push Notifications • Ensemble Models • Historic Seasonal Maps • Historic Storm Tracks • Saffir-Simpson Scale • Safety & Preparedness Information ----- Privacy & Feedback If you have any questions or suggestions about our service, please do not hesitate to get in touch at 'hurricane@jpltech.com'. Privacy Policy, https://jpltech.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use, https://jpltech.com/terms-of-use
StationDeck
This app transforms personal weather stations into a comprehensive weather monitoring tool. It offers customizable dashboards, advanced data analysis, and detailed forecasts, even before you own a station.
- Customizable weather dashboard
- Corrected 'feels like' temperature
- Historical weather trends
- Wind direction and rose visualization
- Animated radar and NWS forecasts
- Weather model comparison
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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StationDeck turns a personal weather station into the weather app you actually want — and works even before you own one. Connect an Ecowitt or Ambient Weather station, or pull readings through Home Assistant. Point it at any public Weather Underground station — usually a neighbour's back garden rather than an airport twenty miles away. Don't have a station yet? Start with the nearest official National Weather Service station and add your own hardware later. YOUR DASHBOARD, YOUR ORDER Every card can be reordered or hidden. Temperature, feels-like, dew point, humidity, wind, rain, pressure, solar, UV, indoor conditions — arranged the way you read them, not the way someone else decided. FEELS LIKE, CORRECTED The standard heat index is a shade figure. The National Weather Service notes that direct sun can add as much as 15°F to how hot it actually feels. StationDeck uses your station's own solar sensor to apply that correction, alongside NWS wind chill when it's cold — a number your station's stock feels-like doesn't give you. TRENDS THAT GO SOMEWHERE Tap any reading for its history: 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or a full year, with high, low and average. Barometric tendency is read out properly — rising, falling, and what that usually means — because a bare pressure number tells you nothing on its own. WIND, READ CORRECTLY Direction on a compass dial rather than a bare number, and a wind rose showing where the wind actually came from over time. Not a line chart, which is meaningless for a value that wraps through north. RADAR AND FORECASTS Animated precipitation radar with adjustable base map, opacity and playback. Official NWS forecasts, daily and hourly, for your station and any other town you care about. Severe weather alerts scoped to your exact coordinates. WEATHER MODELS Compare GFS, ECMWF, ICON, HRRR and five more side by side, as charts or as a map you can scrub through hour by hour. When the models disagree, that spread is the honest measure of confidence — and StationDeck shows it rather than hiding it behind a single number. ALL-TIME RECORDS Hottest, coldest, strongest gust, wettest day and wettest month, each with the date it happened, computed from your station's own history. SENSOR HEALTH Battery voltages become plain language — Good, Fair, Replace Soon — with an estimate of how long is left, learned from the actual drain rate over time. Solar-charged sensors are treated as what they are rather than flagged as failing every night. WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Home Screen widgets with four independently chosen readings, Lock Screen widgets, and a Live Activity that starts on its own when it rains or the wind gets up. ALERTS THAT MATTER High gust, freezing, heavy rain, low sensor battery, and a station that has stopped reporting — plus official NWS severe weather warnings. BUILT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE No account. No analytics. No tracking. No advertising. StationDeck never asks for your location — you tell it where you are. Your API keys stay in the device Keychain and are sent only to the service they belong to. Settings sync through your own iCloud account, which the developer cannot see. Forecasts, alerts and official station observations cover the United States and its territories. Your own station, radar and weather models work anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StationDeck at none against Tropical Hurricane Tracker's 2. StationDeck also leads on ads (none vs shown). Tropical Hurricane Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Tropical Hurricane Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. StationDeck asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tropical Hurricane Tracker against 5.0 for StationDeck. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tropical Hurricane Tracker has 2.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tropical Hurricane Tracker ships an update weekly, StationDeck every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tropical Hurricane Tracker | StationDeck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (2.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JPL Technical Solutions, LLC | Timmy Faneuf |
Customer experience
Tropical Hurricane Tracker
StationDeck
Bugs and requests
Tropical Hurricane Tracker
Reported bugs
2 issues- Notification long-press feature not working consistently
- Filter settings not persisting between app sessions
Requested features
3 requests- Add spaghetti models and more forecast models
- Ability to customize notification settings
- Retain notification history after launching the app
StationDeck
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tropical Hurricane Tracker
- No Ads (annual)$1.991 Year
- No Ads (forever)$6.99
StationDeck
No in-app purchases
Questions
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