Weather UAE vs Rain Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weather UAE
Access real-time, high-resolution weather forecasts and now-casts for the UAE. This official government application provides a continuous, multi-view feed of weather data, including current conditions and future predictions, supported by high-quality imagery.
- High-resolution weather now-casts
- Continuous multi-view weather feed
- Real-time forecast data
- Official government information
- Supports geo-location for customized data
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The National Center of Meteorology, a UAE federal government entity has developed this Mobile application as an additional way of communicating and serving its clients through providing a continuous informational multi-view feed on high-resolution weather now-cast and forecast. * Internet connection and Geo location are required to show the latest customized data. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- بصفته الجهة الرسمية المختصة بالأرصاد الجوية والزلازل، واستناداً للخطط التنفيذية لاستراتيجية المؤسسة، طور المركز الوطني للأرصاد هذا التطبيق كقناة اتصال إضافية للتواصل مع عملاء المركز والجمهور، وذلك عن طريق إتاحة بيانات الأرصاد المحدثة تلقائياً بأنماط متنوعة وعلى أبعاد زمنية مختلفة، كبيانات الطقس الحالية والتنبؤات المستقبلية المتوقعة لحالات الطقس مدعمةً بالصور العلمية عالية الجودة. ويستند المركز في عمليات الرصد والتحليل والتنبؤ على أحدث ما تقدمه التكنولوجيا وأفضل الممارسات المعتمدة والمستخدمة عالمياً من قبل مراكز الأرصاد الجوية والزلازل المتطورة. هذا التطبيق يتطلب الاتصال بشبكة الإنترنت أثناء استخدامه حتى يتسنى له الوصول إلى آخر تحديثات الأرصاد الجوية والزلازل.
Rain Maps
Visualize live rain radar, cloud cover, dust, fog, and lightning directly on a map. Get detailed precipitation, temperature, and wind forecasts from multiple global models. Explore weather phenomena and plan your activities with up-to-date information.
- Live rain radar
- Satellite cloud maps
- Dust and fog tracking
- Lightning detection
- Precipitation forecasts
- Temperature forecasts
- Wind forecasts
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Rain Maps is an application that shows you live rain radar on the map and much more, including observation maps: - Rain radars and their archive images. - clouds and clouds from satellites. - dust and fog. - lightning. - and more, explore it! It also displays weather forecasts on the map, some of which we mention: - Precipitation forecasts during the coming hours and days, cumulatively, and by hours, from several models, including the European, American, British and others. (some require a subscription) - Temperature forecast. - Wind and dust forecast. - and more, explore it! And more to come, God willing. Rain Maps is developed by Yanbu Weather, on Twitter: @YanbuWeather Terms of Use: https://www.yanbuweather.com/terms/Apps/rainMaps/termsofuse.html Privacy Policy: https://www.yanbuweather.com/terms/Apps/rainMaps/privacypolicy.html Website: https://www.yanbuweather.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Weather UAE at none against Rain Maps's 1. Weather UAE also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). Rain Maps's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Rain Maps sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Weather UAE asks for nothing beyond the download.
Weather UAE holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 108 and 77 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Weather UAE's written reviews are positive against 69% of Rain Maps's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Weather UAE ships an update monthly, Rain Maps every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weather UAE | Rain Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (108 ratings) — better | 4.2 (77 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.4% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 77 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 243 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NCMS | ziad aljohani |
Customer experience
Weather UAE
Rain Maps
In-app purchases
Weather UAE
No in-app purchases
Rain Maps
- Yearly subscription$9.991 Year
