Sferic Connect vs Kestrel LiNK
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sferic Connect
This app ensures organizational compliance with severe weather policies to protect employees and infrastructure. It provides real-time weather conditions, alerts for severe threats, and forecasts for various locations. Access requires an organizational subscription.
- Severe weather threat monitoring
- Organization-wide policy compliance
- Real-time weather conditions
- Push alerts for severe weather
- Radar and lightning tracking
- Hourly and 7-day forecasts
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Sferic Connect keeps everyone at your organization on the same page, ensuring organization-wide compliance to severe weather policies that protect employees, the community and infrastructure. You require a subscription form your organization to login and use the app. To sign up, contact info@aem.eco. HIGHLIGHTS: • Monitor and alert on severe weather threats for mobile and fixed locations • Total organization control over weather related warnings and alerts • Real time conditions including temperature, humidity, wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), wind, precipitation and lightning • Push alerting for severe weather based on the thresholds you define • Radar and lightning storm tracking on a contextual map • Hourly and 7-day forecasts for each location
Kestrel LiNK
This application allows users to monitor, download, and share environmental data collected by Kestrel Instruments meters and data loggers. It provides a seamless way to send your weather information to the cloud for further analysis and accessibility.
- Monitor environmental data
- Download data
- Share data
- Send data to the cloud
- Connect with Kestrel Instruments devices
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Monitor, download, share or send your weather data to the cloud from your Kestrel Instruments environment meter or data logger.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kestrel LiNK at 2.9 against Sferic Connect's 2.3. Kestrel LiNK also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 61 months) and review sentiment (27% vs 0%). Sferic Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Kestrel LiNK holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kestrel LiNK has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Sferic Connect's written reviews are positive against 27% of Kestrel LiNK's.
Sferic Connect ships an update every 61 months, Kestrel LiNK every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sferic Connect | Kestrel LiNK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 2.9 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 61 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Earth Networks | Nielsen-Kellerman Co. |
Customer experience
Sferic Connect
Kestrel LiNK
In-app purchases
Sferic Connect
No in-app purchases
Kestrel LiNK
No in-app purchases
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