WeatherSentry vs Precision Weather Forecasting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeatherSentry
This professional weather service offers businesses top-rated forecasts, monitoring, and alerting. It provides real-time meteorological consulting and decision support to enhance safety and efficiency for organizations across various industries.
- Professional-grade weather alerting
- Real-time meteorological consulting
- Location-based alerts
- Severe weather storm tracking
- Radar and future radar
- 15-day forecasts
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WeatherSentry is a subscription weather service for businesses, providing top-rated forecasts, monitoring and alerting capabilities. Businesses across numerous industries and public authorities use the WeatherSentry app for professional-grade alerting and decision support to ensure safety and improve efficiency. With WeatherSentry, organizations gain access to a wealth of weather insights and live meteorological consulting from the global weather authority – DTN! If you are not yet a WeatherSentry user, please contact us on dtn.com. The WeatherSentry® app provides full awareness to current and changing weather conditions with alerts for your GPS position and fixed locations; real-time lightning display and alerts; severe weather storm tracks – thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes; radar and future radar; multiple map layers and weather variables; hour-by-hour plus 15-day forecasts, and more! Please note: Allow Location Services when installing. Background location tracking is necessary for receiving location-based alerts, but does have a nominal effect on battery life.
Precision Weather Forecasting
This service offers highly accurate, location-specific weather forecasts and storm warnings for municipalities and businesses. It provides detailed, time-specific information designed to aid decision-making for weather-dependent operations. Access exclusive reports, animated radar, and custom audio updates.
- Location-specific forecasts
- Exclusive storm warnings
- Animated weather radar
- Custom audio reports
- Push notifications
- Encrypted login
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Precision Weather Forecasting is a private weather forecasting service that provides location specific weather reports 24/7/365 to municipalities, utilities and weather dependent businesses and operations throughout southern New England. The Precision Weather Forecasting application encompasses the following features (Subscription to PWF services required): - Login feature with encryption functionality - Access to the exclusive Precision Weather Forecasting Storm Warning, Daily Forecast and Certified Weather Statement. - The entire product fits on your cell phone screen with the ability to resize the screen to the user’s preference. - Tab/button view access makes switching between pages flawless. - Push Notification functionality that will immediately notify users of product updates/changes. - Automatic page refresh upon login into the application and whenever each product within the application is accessed. - Access to weather radar from not one but two different sources for redundancy with he second set of radar data exclusive to the app and features ability to animate the radar and to stop the radar image on different frames. - Receive custom audio weather reports and real time storm warnings with the app. In addition to this application, our forecasts are issued via email, fax, telephone and instantly available through our web site. Meteorologists Rob Gilman and Bill Gile are the co-owners of Precision Weather Forecasting and since 1991 the company has become the 'LOCAL' Personalized Leader in site specific and time specific forecasting. Our forecasts are highly reliable and extremely precise and accurate. Our staff consists of dependable meteorologists that you know, not technicians or interns covering shifts. If you have questions, we’ve got answers! Precision Weather Forecasting provides town specific forecasts, not a regional forecast that is made to look local. We provide Daily Forecasts to our clients, but when severe weather looks to impact a location we issue special STORM WARNING reports as much as 72 hours in advance! These Storm Warning reports are updated approximately every 6 hours before and during the event with intermediate reports as necessary to keep you informed. They are not your average forecast for Today, Tonight and Tomorrow! Our exclusive Storm Warning reports break down the impending event into highly time specific and weather specific detail designed to help you make the right decisions in order to save money. It tells you everything you need to know about the approaching storm event in a simple easy to read one page format. When will it start? How long will it last? What conditions will occur during the event and when? And just as important...What’s going to happen after its over? Need information on past weather events? We’ve got that too! We can provide you with Certified Weather Statements that are available via email, phone, fax, our web site as well as this application. Our clients include, but are not limited to; OVER 150 individual highway departments, local police and fire departments, electric and water departments, universities & grade schools, hospitals, hospice, museums, landscapers, plowing contractors, sporting events, fairs, weddings and film makers, all of who are dependent on accurate town and time specific weather forecasts. Our prices are very affordable and the service can pay for itself after a single winter weather event. Again, this application and other means of obtaining our forecasts require the subscription package in order to use it. Contact us at HYPERLINK "mailto:info@snowandice.com" info@snowandice.com for more information. Precision Weather Forecasting Application Description for I-Tunes Application Store
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Precision Weather Forecasting at 5.0 against WeatherSentry's 3.3. WeatherSentry's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Precision Weather Forecasting holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WeatherSentry has 38 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WeatherSentry ships an update every 2 months, Precision Weather Forecasting every 10 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | WeatherSentry | Precision Weather Forecasting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DTN, LLC | Lex Tech Cellutions LLC |
Customer experience
WeatherSentry
Precision Weather Forecasting
In-app purchases
WeatherSentry
No in-app purchases
Precision Weather Forecasting
No in-app purchases
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