Storm Chasers vs Storm Hunter Wx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Storm Chasers
Learn to interpret storm patterns like a professional. This app uses images, videos, and interactive diagrams to teach you about severe weather and tornadoes. It also includes a cloud chart to help you predict approaching storm systems and identify cloud types.
- Interactive storm diagram
- Video links for learning
- Detailed weather descriptions
- Cloud chart for prediction
- Learn Latin cloud names
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Learn how to read a storm like the pros. Filled with images, video links,detailed descriptions, and an interactive storm diagram; this app will teach you how to read the skies and predict the behavior of severe weather and tornadoes. A complete cloud chart will also allow you to predict when distant storm systems are approaching, and allow you to impress your friends with the correct Latin names of the various cloud forms.
Storm Hunter Wx
Receive advanced weather radar data with customizable alerts for lightning, hail, and rotation. Track storms with high-resolution radar, future scans, and detailed threat delineations. Monitor multiple locations and access national radar coverage for the entire United States.
- Advanced radar data display
- Safety Net alerting
- User-definable alert thresholds
- High-resolution NWS radars
- Future Scan storm extrapolation
- National radar coverage
- Customizable weather forecasts
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John McLaughlin's Storm Hunter Weather Developed in partnership with former KCCI-TV (Des Moines, IA) meteorologist John McLaughlin to provide a simplified display of advanced radar data and Safety Net alerting to multiple locations with user-definable thresholds. McLaughlin pioneered the use of Doppler radar for severe storm tracking on Iowa television, working with Bob Baron of Baron Weather to develop and install the nation's first High Definition Doppler radar (VHDD) in 1995.Storm Hunter allows you the option to select notification as storms begin to produce lighting, hail, or rotation so you can be alerted even before official warnings are issued. Up to eight locations can be specified so you can make sure your loved ones know when dangerous weather approaches. Storm Hunter includes five high resolution NWS radars covering Iowa. Select from radar intensity and velocity, plus one click threat delineation with the "Baron Button" breaking down storm cells into rain, hail and wind threats. Storm Hunter's Future Scan product extrapolates storm cells from their current radar locations out to one hour including predicted decay or growth. Detailed national radar will cover you across the United States, plus our "U.S. Severe Wind" product shows the areas of greatest wind shear as detected across the network of National Weather Service Doppler Radars. This tool is useful for quickly identifying rotation and damaging wind areas. In addition to custom alerts, you can save multiple location for specific computer generated weather forecasts from the national weather prediction models. Forecast radar and rain/snow accumulations out to 24 hours and radar estimated rain totals are great features in the Storm Hunter app. The Storm Hunter app is linked to the Iowa Storm Chasing Network for live streaming of severe weather events from the Storm Hunter Ford Escape chase vehicle and live radar analysis for significant tornado days. Storm Hunter Weather is sponsored by the McLaughlin Family companies in Iowa, Including New Way Ford, New Way Auto Group, McLaughlin Imprint and Apparel and Hurricane Motorsports. Advertisement links include exclusive discounts on new and used automobiles and apparel for Storm Hunter users. Meteorologist John McLaughlin says "The Storm Hunter app is a way for me to continue to share my passion for weather, even after my 31 year career on Iowa television ended due to a medical condition. Best of all, thanks to my family members financial support, the app is free to download and use. For that I am very grateful."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Storm Hunter Wx at Free against Storm Chasers's $1.99. Storm Hunter Wx also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 53 months) and ratings volume (83 vs 3). Storm Chasers's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On review sentiment, 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
Storm Hunter Wx is free to download; Storm Chasers costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Storm Chasers holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Storm Hunter Wx has 83 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Storm Chasers's written reviews are positive against 65% of Storm Hunter Wx's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Storm Chasers ships an update every 53 months, Storm Hunter Wx every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Storm Chasers | Storm Hunter Wx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | 4.0 (83 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 64.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 83 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 53 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #75 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Vance | McLaughlin Motors LLC |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Storm Chasers
No in-app purchases
Storm Hunter Wx
No in-app purchases
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