RainAware vs C
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RainAware
Get precise rain timing and severe weather alerts for your location. Visualize weather data with interactive graphs and maps, and customize notifications to stay informed about changing conditions.
- Rain Clock with precise timing
- Customizable rain and severe weather notifications
- Interactive temperature and wind graphs
- Weather map overlays with watches and warnings
- Satellite and radar imagery
- Forecast clock for 8-day outlook
- Site lists for nearby locations
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Know exactly when rain will start and stop at your location. RainAware, the original hyperlocal rain app with RainClock, push alerts, live radar, satellite, lightning & storm tracking. ***** INCLUDED IN THE STANDARD VERSION ***** • Rain Clock See rain timing for your location up to 3 hours ahead. Example: “Rain starts in 1 hr 30 min and ends at 4:30 PM.” Background images match the weather outside. • Alerts & notifications Get notified when rain is coming or ending, or when severe weather threatens. Customize alert timing, rain-duration thresholds, proximity settings, and alert frequency. • Regional radar, satellite, and 1-hour precipitation View live weather imagery over a regional domain, then move the domain anywhere to inspect weather there. • Watches, warnings, and advisories View active hazards including severe storms, floods, winter weather, wind, fire, marine alerts, and more. • Weather map overlays Analyze the map with overlays for surface observations, lightning, hurricane tracks, storm reports, moving ship observations, and more. • Landscape mode & fast looping Use landscape mode for a larger map with extra pan and zoom controls. Long-press to burst-loop imagery faster and spot trends. • Current conditions ticker Cycles through the nearest surface observation and also shows nearby lightning, precipitation, and storm reports when relevant. Tap icons to jump to the location. • Interactive graphs View 36-hour trend graphs for temperature, wind, cloud cover, precipitation amount and type. • Forecast Clock See the next 8 days in a concise Today/Tonight format, including sunrise, sunset, and moon phase. • Site lists Quickly check weather for nearby cities, airports, ballparks, speedways, golf courses, and more. Stadium views include wind direction for in, out, or across-field awareness. • Drawing tools Draw on the map, add text, overlay it on weather imagery, and share. • Weather badges Badges show when rapid changes in rain, temperature, clouds, or wind are forecast. Configurable. • Deep customization RainAware includes extensive settings so you can tune the app to your workflow. ***** SUBSCRIPTION FEATURES ***** Subscriptions are available in-app and work across supported devices. • Full-map access View the full weather map without regional limits. • Storm cell tracking Filter storm cells and view motion, hail potential, rotation, and more. • National radar products Includes Echo Tops, Hail Swaths, and Rotation Tracks. • Single-site radar Access reflectivity and velocity products, with options to merge Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico radar into the national view. • Expanded satellite imagery Adds water vapor and colorized visible imagery for enhanced cloud-top analysis. • More alert types Add lightning proximity alerts, severe storm report alerts, and alerts for another location. • RainPro tool Interactively refine precipitation motion for even more precise rain timing. • Environmental fields Display threat areas, VAD wind profiles, isobars, CAPE, updraft helicity, 500 & 850 mb charts & more. • Warning & observation monitor Filter and sort warnings and surface observations. • Advanced surface observations Plot thousands of stations, ships, and buoys, including water temperature and wave height. • Longer loops Animate up to 36 frames and as much as 12 hours ahead on capable devices. • Aviation mode Use FAA sectional maps as an underlay, display flight rules at stations, and view winds aloft at VWP locations. • Advanced drawing tools Draw fronts, time-match drawings to imagery, and create lines, polygons, circles, and squares. • Faster data updates Get more frequent radar, satellite, and surface data refreshes. • Performance controls Manage memory, cache behavior, panning, and image tiling. Coverage is best across the USA and southern Canada. Satellite and local radar coverage also extends from Hawaii to the Caribbean. https://www.rainaware.com/rainaware_coverage_map.webp
C
This app provides Canadian boaters with 24-hour marine towing and assistance. It offers real-time weather updates, tide predictions, and helps locate nearby marine facilities. Members receive free services, while non-members can access assistance at an hourly rate.
- 24-hour marine towing and assistance
- Environment Canada marine weather updates
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada tide predictions
- Buoy observations
- GPS location pinpointing
- Locate nearby marine facilities
- Membership management
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A Canadian Marine Assistance App is now available, helping to provide a stress-free boating experience for you and your family. C-Tow Marine Assistance Ltd has been providing "Peace of Mind Boating" for Canadian boaters since 1984. Now with 30+ tow boats serving Ontario and BC, we're on 24 hr standby ready to assist. C-Tow App Features: iPhone & iPad Version available. - Fast effective way to contact C-Tow for 24hr marine towing and assistance services. C-Tow can also be contacted by phone at 1 888 354 5554 - Check current Environment Canada Marine Weather, including weather alerts - Check report weather from members or submit reported weather - Fisheries and Oceans Canada Tide predictions for coastal areas - Buoy observations from nearby stations within Canada and the United States - Pinpoint your location through your phones GPS and provide C-Tow Dispatch your Latitude and Longitude for a fast response to your vessel* - See your speed and compass heading - Locate nearby marinas, fuel docks, and marine facilities. - Join, view or update your C-Tow membership C-Tow service is available for members free of charge and non-members on an hourly rate. For detailed information on C-Tow and our services please see our website at www.C-Tow.ca or contact us at 1 888 354 5554 In the event of a life-threatening situation, your first call should be to Coast Guard. C-TOW membership allows for stress free-boating. Four great package options to choose from Member benefits include: • Free boat tows • Fuel delivery • Soft ungroundings • Fog shepherding • Jump starts • Minor on-scene repairs • Over 30 C-Tow service boats • C-Tow member discounts • Trip planning/registry • Marine concierge service • 24-hour assistance *The accuracy of our data is based solely on the accuracy of your phone’s internal GPS.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: C at Free against RainAware's $4.99. C also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). RainAware's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 2). On review sentiment, ads 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
C is free to download; RainAware costs $4.99 up front. RainAware sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. C asks for nothing beyond the download.
RainAware holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RainAware has 1.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of RainAware's written reviews are positive against 55% of C's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
RainAware ships an update every 2 weeks, C every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RainAware | C |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.1K ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.9% of reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #19 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RainAware LLC | C-Tow Marine Assistance Ltd |
Customer experience
RainAware
C
Bugs and requests
RainAware
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- JSON could not be serialized because of error: The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format. [47
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Push notifications to alert you to rain within 3 hours
C
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RainAware
- RainAware Suite - Monthly$6.991 Month
- RainAware Suite - Annual$69.991 Year
- RainAware Suite - Day Pass$0.99
C
No in-app purchases









