Comparison

What's Up? vs Tornado Radar

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

Head to head
About

What's Up?

Discover celestial bodies visible in the night sky with this intuitive app. Easily track planets, the Sun, and Moon, and forecast their appearance. Access detailed information and moon phases, with support for the Southern Hemisphere.

Highlights
  • Simple sky grid display
  • Effortless navigation
  • Time-bar functionality
  • Comprehensive celestial information
  • Observation insights
  • Moon phases
  • Wikipedia links
Features
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Whether you're deciding if it's worth setting up your telescope or simply curious about that bright 'star,' What's Up? is the perfect companion for sky enthusiasts. Key Features: • Simple Sky Grid Display: View the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets on an intuitive grid representing the night sky. • Effortless Navigation: No augmented reality or motion tracking needed—just a straightforward display to see what's up. • Time-Bar Functionality: Slide the time-bar to forecast the appearance of your favorite planets and their directions. • Comprehensive Information: Displays the location of the Sun, Moon, planets, and even Pluto. • Observation Insights: Instantly identify which celestial objects are prime for observation. • Moon Phases: Stay updated with the current moon phase. • Wikipedia Links: Dive deeper with quick access to Wikipedia pages for detailed information. • Southern Hemisphere Support: Sky-watchers down south are covered too. • Minimal Network Usage: Only needed for Wikipedia access. • Note: Localizations are limited to planet names. For a full 3D rendered experience with motion tracking, check out our award-winning companion app, Pocket Universe. If you already own Pocket Universe, you'll find What's Up? familiar yet even more user-friendly, with a sleeker design and quicker access to the "Currently Visible" mode, and basic Apple Watch support.

About

Tornado Radar

Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter by organization or activity, and add events to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on university happenings.

Highlights
  • Discover campus events
  • Filter by organization
  • Filter by activity
  • Add events to calendar
  • Increase student engagement
Features
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Use the Concordia University - Texas Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus!  • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

What's Up?3 screens
Tornado Radar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tornado Radar at 5.0 against What's Up?'s 4.2. Tornado Radar also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%). What's Up?'s advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tornado Radar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of What's Up?'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Tornado Radar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What's Up? ships an update every 3 months, Tornado Radar every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
What's Up? versus Tornado Radar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat's Up?Tornado Radar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (9 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.511.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn KennedyCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

What's Up?

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral21.1%
Negative21.1%

Tornado Radar

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

What's Up?

No in-app purchases

None

Tornado Radar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What's Up? free?
What's Up? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tornado Radar free?
Tornado Radar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, What's Up? or Tornado Radar?
Tornado Radar is rated higher. What's Up? averages 4.2 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Tornado Radar averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do What's Up? or Tornado Radar have ads?
Neither What's Up? nor Tornado Radar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What's Up? or Tornado Radar?
What's Up? ships an update every 3 months, and Tornado Radar every 5 months. Most recently, What's Up? was updated on October 29, 2026 and Tornado Radar on October 12, 2026.

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