Hurricane Track vs Pacific Hurricane Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hurricane Track
Track hurricanes and tropical storms with advanced radar, forecasts, and detailed storm information. Features global and local radar views, projected paths, and sea temperature data. Stay informed about potential cyclone formations and weather hazards.
- 18 World Radars
- Customizable Local Radar (NEXRAD)
- Projected Tropical Storm Paths
- Forecast and Hazard Warnings
- Lightning Intensity Radars
- Interactive 3D Earth Map
- Sea Surface Temperatures
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Hurricane Track 3.0 is the most advanced, modern, and easiest to use Hurricane Tracking and Radar application! Hurricane Track 3.0 features incredible new features such as 18 World Radars featuring the newly launched GOES-19 Satellite, a new customizable dynamic Local Radar using NEXRAD "next-generation radar" technology, Forecast and Hazard warnings, future projected tropical cyclone paths, Lightning Intensity Radars, Sea Temperatures, Cloud Formations that can potentially turn into tropical cyclones, Maps, an interactive 3D Earth, detailed tropical storm information and discussion, and much much more! Hurricane Track 3.0 brings the most advanced hurricane tracking technology to your fingertips, and the best part is Hurricane Track is Free! Innovative Features! - 300+ World Radars: 18 Radar Locations around the globe with 17 Radars per Location - Customizable Advanced Local Radar using NEXRAD technology (U.S. only) - Projected Tropical Storm paths: Future tropical storm paths for the next five days - Forecast and Hazards give you detailed forecasts for different periods of the day, and hazards that you should look out for (Tornado Watch, Flood Warning, High Tide, etc.) (U.S. only, Updated hourly) - Innovative Lightning Intensity Radars - Interactive Map with Tropical Cyclones, Live Clouds, and Earthquakes - Sea Surface Temperatures for the past two months - Graphical outlines of cloud formations that can turn into potential Tropical Storms - 3D Earth with Live Clouds, Tropical Storms, and Earthquakes - Tropical Storm and Weather Information, Summaries, Discussions, and Outlooks 8 World Radars for 12 different Locations around the Globe! - Visible - Unenhanced visible imagery that transitions to IR2 overnight - Shortwave - Channel 2 Shortwave Infrared imagery - Shortwave, sometimes considered "night visible" - Water Vapor - IR Channel 3 - Aviation - Aviation color enhancement - Dvorak - Used for tropical classifications with the Dvorak technique - JSL - Used to bring out low level and high level clouds in tropical cyclones - Funktop - Higlights intense areas of precipitation - Rainbow - Rainbow enhancement curve, colorful enhancement
Pacific Hurricane Tracker
Track hurricanes, tropical storms, and depressions in the Atlantic with detailed weather data. View global cloud cover, precipitation, wind, and wave information on an interactive map. Includes real-time data from official sources.
- Hurricane, tropical storm, and depression tracking
- Global cloud cover visualization
- Wave height and precipitation data
- NOAA buoy and ship observations
- Real-time wind data
- GPS location integration
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Pacific Hurricane Tracker is an interactive mapping application for tracking hurricanes, tropical storms and tropical depressions in the Atlantic ocean. All data comes from the NHC, NOAA and NWS. Listed below are the featured layers of this application. -Global Cloud Cover -Hurricane Tracks -NHC Chance of Development -Tropical Storm Tracks -Tropical Depression Tracks -Wave Height Data -3 Hour Precipitation Data -NOAA Buoy and Ship Observation Data -GPS Location -Wave Direction -Global Surface Winds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hurricane Track at 4.5 against Pacific Hurricane Tracker's 3.0. Hurricane Track also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months). Pacific Hurricane Tracker's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hurricane Track holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Hurricane Track's written reviews are positive against 33% of Pacific Hurricane Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hurricane Track ships an update every 4 months, Pacific Hurricane Tracker every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hurricane Track | Pacific Hurricane Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mach Software Design | corey hoggard |
Customer experience
Hurricane Track
Pacific Hurricane Tracker
Bugs and requests
Hurricane Track
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when opening forecast/projected path sections
- Loading screen hangs indefinitely before crashing
- Arrow navigation buttons cause app to crash
- Radar views display blank/white screens
- Lightning tab causes app to close
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- App only loads 3 out of 10 times
- Maps load 30-50 images unnecessarily on each view
- Geographic coverage cuts off at certain latitudes
- Text displays on single line, unreadable
- Satellite imagery fails to update or refresh
- Location permission requirement causes issues
- Incompatibility with specific iOS versions (5.1, etc.)
Requested features
13 requests- Ad-free paid version option
- Zoom functionality for maps and images
- Help menu and icon explanations
- Ability to pin/select specific hurricanes of interest
- Expanded geographic coverage (Australia, New Zealand, Asia)
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- Speed control for satellite loop animations
- Better text formatting for advisories and forecasts
- Offline mode capability
- Improved color contrast for map overlays
- Archive access for historical storm data
- Selective data loading (load only desired maps)
- World Sea Surface Temperature map restoration
- Caribbean radar coverage restoration
Pacific Hurricane Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hurricane Track
No in-app purchases
Pacific Hurricane Tracker
No in-app purchases
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