AuroraReach vs Aurorapulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AuroraReach
Track and forecast aurora activity worldwide. Get local visibility scores based on weather conditions and aurora intensity. Receive alerts for potential sightings and explore aurora travel destinations.
- Global aurora tracking
- Local aurora visibility scores
- Weather condition integration
- 4-day weather forecasts
- Aurora sighting alerts
- Real-time aurora map
- City/country search for forecasts
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AuroraReach app is an aurora tracking, forecasting and alerting app that gives local aurora visibility scores for cities around the world. We take weather conditions like cloud cover, visibility, time of day etc. along with aurora score to generate a score that can help you find the aurora visibility times for a gives city. Along with aurora, weather conditions are also predicted for up to 4 days. We also let users checkin an aurora sighting and alert based on that. We track ~24K cities around the world for aurora activity and weather conditions. It is easy to get started by subscribing to alerts for multiple cities and get alerted on the app for free. Realtime aurora map shows the aurora activity on the map and you can interact with the map to select the cities we are tracking from map and having activity at that time. Aurora Travel destination searching is easier with this and with our city search page you can search by city or country for viewing the city aurora forecast report and subscribe to cities for alerts. You can favorite the cities for quick accesses in the future even if you are not registered with an account. As we track city specific aurora scores, we cover cities under the northern lights (aurora borealis), southern lights (aurora australis) and even cities where aurora hasn't occurred till date. Web page has sighting specific pages to chat on realtime aurora sighting, this will be released soon in the app version too. Enjoy hunting auroras with AuroraReach and find your next aurora destination with this app.
Aurorapulse
Share your aurora photos and memories with a community of enthusiasts. Discover past sightings on an interactive map and connect with others who love the aurora borealis.
- Share aurora photos and memories
- Track aurora sightings on a map
- Community for aurora enthusiasts
- Discover past sightings
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Aurorapulse is a community for anyone interested in the aurora. You can upload all your memories and photos of the aurora and share them with others, and track on the map where your favorite aurora sightings have happened.
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Verdict
AuroraReach and Aurorapulse both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Aurorapulse's written reviews are positive against 80% of AuroraReach's. Aurorapulse also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). AuroraReach's advantage is ratings volume (102 vs 5). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for AuroraReach against 5.0 for Aurorapulse. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AuroraReach has 102 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of AuroraReach's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aurorapulse's.
AuroraReach ships an update every 5 weeks, Aurorapulse every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AuroraReach | Aurorapulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (102 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | HuskyCodes Oy | MishMash Technologies Limited Liability Company |
Customer experience
AuroraReach
Aurorapulse
In-app purchases
AuroraReach
No in-app purchases
Aurorapulse
No in-app purchases
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