Comparison

RainAware vs My Lightning Tracker Pro

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Currently charting
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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

About

My Lightning Tracker Pro

Monitor global lightning strikes in near real-time with detailed maps and historical data. Receive timely alerts for nearby storms and share strike information with friends. Track weather radar for incoming conditions.

Highlights
  • Global lightning strike detection
  • Real-time storm monitoring
  • Lightning strike history
  • Detailed map view
  • Proximity storm alerts
  • Weather radar integration
  • Strike sharing
Features
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My Lightning Tracker Pro is the best app for monitoring lightning strikes all around the world in close to real-time. With a sleek modern design, you can watch thunderstorms as they occur. You can also receive notifications whenever strikes are detected in your area. - Detects and displays lightning strikes all around the world! - See a history of hotspots where lightning strikes occur most often! - View more detailed information about where the thunderstorm is occurring on a map. - Receive a lightning alarm when a storm is nearby so that you can monitor it live. - Share a strike with your friends so that they can see where the thunder & lightning is occurring too! - Monitor the weather radar to track what could be coming. - Full support for the latest iPhone and iPad models. - Pro version is ad-free and includes Apple Watch support! If you want the most efficient way of keeping up lightning strikes and thunderstorms, then My Lightning Tracker Pro is the right lightning network for you. This version is similar to apps such as Blitzortung, Clime, Spark and Live Lightning.

Screenshots

RainAware4 screens
My Lightning Tracker Pro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: My Lightning Tracker Pro at 4.8 against RainAware's 3.9. My Lightning Tracker Pro also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 51%) and ratings volume (6K vs 1.1K). RainAware's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

RainAware costs $4.99 and My Lightning Tracker Pro $4.99 up front. RainAware sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and My Lightning Tracker Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My Lightning Tracker Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Lightning Tracker Pro has 6K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of RainAware's written reviews are positive against 81% of My Lightning Tracker Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RainAware ships an update every 2 weeks, My Lightning Tracker Pro every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
RainAware versus My Lightning Tracker Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRainAwareMy Lightning Tracker Pro
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating3.9 (1.1K ratings)4.8 (6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.9% of reviews80.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#20#4 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRainAware LLCJRustonApps B.V.

Customer experience

RainAware

All ratings1,068 ratings
Positive71.2%
Neutral5.2%
Negative23.6%
Written reviews171 reviews
Positive50.9%
Neutral9.4%
Negative39.8%

My Lightning Tracker Pro

All ratings5,979 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews379 reviews
Positive80.7%
Neutral5.8%
Negative13.5%

User reviews

RainAware

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Quick and Accurate
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Very dependable
  • 👍 Pretty accurate
  • 👍 Reliable - Accurate - Worth Every Penny

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Worse lately
  • 🐛 Very disappointed
  • 🐛 do not waste your money
  • 🐛 You never Know!
  • 🐛 Not reliable

My Lightning Tracker Pro

From 6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⚡ Accurate lightning tracking
  • 📍 Pinpoints lightning strike locations
  • 🔔 Helpful notifications
  • 🌧️ Useful radar overlay
  • 🔍 Detailed information on strikes

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Delayed notifications
  • 🗺️ Inaccurate mapping of strikes
  • 🔍 Difficulty adjusting detection radius
  • 💤 Slow radar updates
  • 🔴 Persistent issues with free version

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

My Lightning Tracker Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Radar not loading properly
  • Notifications not working as expected
  • Crashes or freezes on certain devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to view strike history
  • Improve Apple Watch integration
  • Implement real-time strike tracking
  • Add weather radar animation/time-lapse
  • Provide more customization options

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RainAware

Subscriptions2
  • RainAware Suite - Monthly$6.991 Month
  • RainAware Suite - Annual$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • RainAware Suite - Day Pass$0.99
1 purchases

My Lightning Tracker Pro

One-time1
  • Buy us a coffee$0.99

Questions

Is RainAware free?
RainAware costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is My Lightning Tracker Pro free?
My Lightning Tracker Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RainAware or My Lightning Tracker Pro?
My Lightning Tracker Pro is rated higher. RainAware averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while My Lightning Tracker Pro averages 4.8 from 6K ratings.
Do RainAware or My Lightning Tracker Pro have ads?
Neither RainAware nor My Lightning Tracker Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RainAware or My Lightning Tracker Pro?
RainAware ships an update every 2 weeks, and My Lightning Tracker Pro every 3 weeks. Most recently, RainAware was updated on October 1, 2026 and My Lightning Tracker Pro on October 1, 2026.
Which is more popular, RainAware or My Lightning Tracker Pro?
RainAware currently peaks at #20 in the App Store charts, and My Lightning Tracker Pro at #4. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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