Comparison

RainAware vs TempestOne Weather

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
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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

TempestOne Weather

Monitor real-time weather data from your TempestOne Weather Station. Get detailed insights into temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, and more, along with lightning detection and 10-day forecasts. Ideal for organizations seeking efficiency and safety improvements.

Highlights
  • Real-time weather data monitoring
  • Lightning detection and alerts
  • 10-day weather forecasts
  • Historical weather data graphs
  • Hardware configuration
  • Supports multiple station locations
Features
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Companion app to the TempestOne Weather Station. Install a TempestOne Weather Station and immediately uncover efficiencies and cost savings, while increasing safety within your organization. Our revolutionary solid-state design requires minimal maintenance and installs in less than 5 minutes. From within the app, view real-time and guaranteed-better forecast data for each TempestOne station location. The TempestOne Weather application will walk you through a quick hardware configuration process, including connecting to your organization’s WiFi network. Whether your organization owns 1 or 100 TempestOne stations, the process is simple and efficient. Once your TempestOne Station is configured, data from one or more Tempest Weather Stations are available to your organization’s decision-makers. Data available in the TempestOne Weather app includes: Temp, humidity, dew point, feels like, heat index Barometric pressure, sea-level pressure, trends Lightning detection and alerts up to 40 km Wind, UV, solar irradiance Rain rate, accumulation, rain onset alerts 10-day forecast Historical weather data graphs TempestOne has a full suite of additional services available to meet the needs of all your organization’s team members. A professional web application along with a powerful API solution is available for internal decision tools or customer-facing applications.

Screenshots

RainAware4 screens
TempestOne Weather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TempestOne Weather at 100% against RainAware's 51%. TempestOne Weather also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (4.4 vs 3.9). RainAware's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TempestOne Weather is free to download; RainAware costs $4.99 up front. RainAware sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. TempestOne Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TempestOne Weather holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RainAware has 1.1K ratings behind it against 9, 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 100% of TempestOne Weather's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RainAware ships an update every 2 weeks, TempestOne Weather every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
RainAware versus TempestOne Weather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRainAwareTempestOne Weather
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (1.1K ratings)4.4 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#6 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB44 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperRainAware LLCWeatherFlow

Customer experience

RainAware

All ratings1,068 ratings
Positive71.2%
Neutral5.2%
Negative23.6%
Written reviews172 reviews
Positive50.6%
Neutral9.3%
Negative40.1%

TempestOne Weather

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

TempestOne Weather

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

TempestOne Weather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RainAware free?
RainAware costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is TempestOne Weather free?
TempestOne Weather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RainAware or TempestOne Weather?
TempestOne Weather is rated higher. RainAware averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while TempestOne Weather averages 4.4 from 9 ratings.
Do RainAware or TempestOne Weather have ads?
Neither RainAware nor TempestOne Weather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RainAware or TempestOne Weather?
RainAware ships an update every 2 weeks, and TempestOne Weather every 3 months. Most recently, RainAware was updated on October 16, 2026 and TempestOne Weather on September 21, 2026.

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