RainAware vs PinWeather Golf
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
PinWeather Golf
Get hyper-local golf weather forecasts pinned to your course's GPS coordinates. Understand how wind, temperature, and rain impact your game with shot impact calculations and playability scores. Features a live wind compass and dual-model forecasting for up to 15 days.
- Hyper-local GPS-pinned forecasts
- Shot impact calculations
- Playability scores (A+ to F)
- Live wind compass
- Dual-model forecasting (HRRR & ECMWF)
- Hour-by-hour detail
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PinWeather gives you the golf forecast your weather app can't. Every forecast is pinned to your course's exact GPS coordinates, not the nearest airport, not the closest city. Using two world-class weather models (NOAA HRRR at 1-2 km resolution and ECMWF for extended outlooks), PinWeather delivers 14-day forecasts built specifically for golfers. SHOT IMPACT CALCULATIONS PinWeather doesn't just show you the weather, it tells you what it means for your game. See exactly how wind, temperature, altitude, and rain affect your carry distances, backed by TrackMan data. Know how many yards you'll gain downwind or lose into a headwind before you step to the tee. PLAYABILITY SCORES Every day gets a letter grade from A+ to F based on temperature comfort, wind severity, precipitation, and conditions. Pick the best day to play at a glance. LIVE WIND COMPASS See wind direction on four different compass views. Know instantly whether you're facing a headwind, crosswind, or tailwind and how many clubs to adjust. DUAL-MODEL FORECASTING Two weather models, intelligently blended. HRRR leads for today and tomorrow with hyper-local precision. ECMWF takes over for days 3-15. PinWeather always shows which model is driving the forecast and how much they agree. HOUR-BY-HOUR DETAIL Tap any day for a full 24-hour breakdown with temperature curves, wind speed and direction charts, and precipitation probability, all with shot impact context. PRO FEATURES Upgrade to Pro for the complete golf weather toolkit: - Unlimited pinned courses, save every course you play - 10-year historical weather, month-by-month averages for trip planning - AI rain nowcasting, minute-by-minute rain predictions up to 4 hours out, powered by Rainbow.ai - Live radar, animated precipitation radar overlaid on your course map in real time Every course you'll possibly need. Free to use and no ads. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PinWeather Golf at 100% against RainAware's 51%. PinWeather Golf also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.9). RainAware's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 3) and chart position (#24 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
PinWeather Golf is free to download; RainAware costs $4.99 up front. RainAware sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and PinWeather Golf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PinWeather Golf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RainAware has 1.1K ratings behind it against 3, 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 PinWeather Golf's.
RainAware ships an update every 2 weeks, PinWeather Golf every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RainAware | PinWeather Golf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #24 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RainAware LLC | Jesse Kaufman |
Customer experience
RainAware
PinWeather Golf
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
PinWeather Golf
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
PinWeather Golf
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Annual$44.991 Year
Questions
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