Comparison

Firespot vs Probably Rain

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

Head to head
About

Firespot

Access real-time wildfire information worldwide with satellite data and detailed agency reports for the US and Canada. Monitor fire perimeters, aircraft, wind, air quality, and warnings. Subscribers receive custom alerts for significant fire events.

Highlights
  • Real-time wildfire maps
  • Satellite data and imagery
  • Aircraft tracking
  • Wind and air quality data
  • Red flag warnings
  • Customizable event alerts
Features
Currently charting
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Firespot is the most comprehensive source of real-time wildfire data. Satellites provide worldwide coverage. US and Canadian government sources provide hyper-detailed North American coverage. - Perimeters and fire status - Satellite true color imagery for active and historical fires - Satellite infrared imagery to see fire through smoke and clouds - Aircraft tracking - Wind - Air quality - Red flag warnings - Satellite-detected fire hotspots from multiple Earth-observing satellites - Satellite-derived climatological data: vegetation, moisture, etc. Firespot subscribers can activate Alerts to receive notifications on important fire-related events. Set one or multiple areas to monitor, and Firespot will pop an alert on your phone when an important change happens. FREE TIER: Use the map, view all fires and red flag warnings. PAID TIER: Set custom alerts, get notifications on your device, access all satellite images, see real-time firefighting aircraft tracking. Firespot is not meant as a replacement for local evacuation alerts and information. Privacy Policy: https://www.firespotapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.firespotapp.com/terms

About

Probably Rain

Features
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It's probably rain. Here's how sure we are. Most weather apps hand you a number and walk away. This one hands you the number and then tells you how much of it to believe — because a forecast without its error bar is just a confident guess. HOW SURE IS THIS Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 2 doesn't run once. It runs 64 times, from slightly different starting conditions. Where those 64 runs land on top of each other, the atmosphere is behaving predictably. Where they fan apart, it isn't. Probably Rain draws that fan. You see at a glance whether tomorrow is settled or whether the models are quietly arguing, and every temperature carries an honest tolerance instead of false precision. When Google's model and ours genuinely disagree, the app says so — and explains why, instead of picking one and hoping. THE FORECAST, PROPERLY DRAWN - The next 48 hours as one readable band: temperature on a blue-to-red spectrum, rain where height is probability, night shaded, sunrise and sunset marked. - How today compares to the historical normal for this date, from ten years of records for your exact spot. - The whole week as a grid — 168 hours, one cell each — so "when's the good weather?" takes one glance instead of seven taps. - Sparklines for temperature, feels-like, rain, wind, UV, humidity and pressure. - Rain radar, an air quality map and active wildfires, on one map you can pinch and pan. - Heads-up alerts roughly twenty minutes before rain arrives or the wind gets up. WORTH DOING Eighteen activities scored against the actual conditions — the run, the ride, the beach, the barbecue, the stargazing. It tells you when to go, and when not to bother. THE PLANET SHOWING OFF The hottest and coldest inhabited places on Earth, live, right now. Tonight's moon drawn with its real terminator. And weather records that sound invented and aren't: 26 metres of rain in a single year, a temperature that fell 56 degrees in a day, hailstones the weight of a melon. Every one is sourced to the WMO, NOAA or Guinness World Records. If we couldn't source it, we didn't include it. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF No account. No sign-up. No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. The app runs no server of its own, and your saved places never leave your phone. Weather data by Open-Meteo, including forecast confidence from Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 2. Radar by LibreWXR. Wildfire data from the US National Interagency Fire Center. Probably Rain is not a substitute for official warnings from your national weather service.

Screenshots

Firespot4 screens
Probably Rain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Probably Rain at none against Firespot's 1. Firespot's advantage is chart position (#187 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Firespot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. Probably Rain asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Firespot versus Probably Rain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirespotProbably Rain
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#187 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRayner Software LLCSean O'Connor

Bugs and requests

Firespot

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Fires not showing up on the map
  • Subscription issues (unable to cancel, charges not stopping)
  • Accessibility problems (not working with VoiceOver)

Requested features

3 requests
  • More detailed fire information (size, direction, rate of spread)
  • Improved map and visualization features
  • Faster data updates

Probably Rain

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Firespot

Subscriptions1
  • Firespot Yearly$29.991 Year
None

Probably Rain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Firespot free?
Firespot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Probably Rain free?
Probably Rain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Firespot or Probably Rain have ads?
Neither Firespot nor Probably Rain shows ads.

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