AIM Weather vs Lightning Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AIM Weather
Get accurate, detailed local weather forecasts with spoken rain alerts and interactive radar maps. This app provides hourly and 7-day forecasts, satellite imagery, and marine information for the United States.
- Spoken rain alert notifications
- Powerful radar view
- Home screen weather widget
- Hourly and 7-day forecasts
- Interactive weather maps
- Marine and moon phase information
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The best weather app just got better. New spoken rain alert notifications when rain approaches your location. Get the most accurate local and detailed weather. What features are exclusive to AIM Weather app? • Powerful radar view with scroll and pan. • Rain alert notification for incoming rain. • Home Screen weather widget. • Uses Location Services to get local weather information automatically. • Hourly weather forecast. • Beautiful Satellite imagery to view clouds and storms moving. • Forecast discussion for in depth forecast patterns. • Push Notifications to receive weather information and warnings. • Interactive Maps that show weather and seas forecast patterns. • Weather charts showing today's temperature, maximum, minimum, humidity and rainfall. • 7 day forecast chart with temperature, mean monthly maximum, mean monthly minimum, humidity and rainfall. • Sunrise and sunset. • Moonrise, moonset, moon transit and major and minor periods information used by fishermen and hunters. • Marine information on tides, seas and wind. INTERACTIVE MAPS: • Max Temperature. • Min Temperature. • Weather. • Hazards. • Temperature. • Wind Speed & Direction. • Dew Point. • Wind Gust. • Sky Cover. • Amount of Precip. • Snow Amount. • Ice Accumulation. • Wave Height. • Apparent Temperature. • Relative Humidity. This app is designed with an intuitive interface and fully equipped with all the weather information you need in your pocket. We provide the most accurate weather information with AI technologies. You can be assured the information is always correct and not sourced outside of the US. FINAL NOTES: - This App contains weather information only about United States of America and its territories. - The data is sourced from United States of America. Any questions, bugs or recommendations should be sent to us support@weatherinfoapp.com or visit us at www.weatherinfoapp.com. Thanks for your support. Terms & Conditions http://weatherinfoapp.com/terms_conditions.php Privacy Policy http://weatherinfoapp.com/privacy.php
Lightning Tracker
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KNOW BEFORE IT STRIKES BOLT tracks live lightning activity around your location and turns raw strike data into a clear answer to one question: is a storm coming toward you, and how close is it? BOLT is a subscription app. Every feature described below is part of BOLT Premium and requires a paid, auto-renewing subscription. There is no free version and no free trial. LIVE STRIKE MAP See real lightning activity plotted on a live map centered on you. Track distance and direction so you always know exactly where the danger is. RISK INSTRUMENT PANEL A precision-instrument risk gauge reads current conditions and a forecast timeline built on live thunderstorm data, giving you an at-a-glance read on how dangerous the next few hours look. MOVEMENT TRACKING BOLT compares multiple strike observations over time to detect whether activity is approaching, retreating, or holding steady, so you are not just seeing a snapshot, you are seeing a trend. PROXIMITY ALERTS Set custom alert distances for nearby lightning, approaching storms, high risk conditions, and severe activity. Quiet hours, haptics, and sound options let you tune alerts to how you actually want to be warned. SAVED LOCATIONS Monitor more than just where you are. Save home, work, a golf course, marina, campsite, or school, and get lightning alerts and risk information for every place you care about. STRIKE HISTORY Review strike activity over the last 1, 6, or 24 hours with a clear chart of nearby strikes over time, so you can see how a storm actually developed. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Add the Nearest Lightning widget to your Home Screen for the latest cached strike distance, recency, and risk state without opening the app. DESIGNED LIKE AN INSTRUMENT BOLT uses a dark, precision-instrument design inspired by automotive gauges, aviation radar, and titanium hardware, built to be read quickly and clearly in changing light. PRIVACY-RESPECTING BY DESIGN Location access is used only to calculate strike distance and bearing. BOLT does not request continuous high-accuracy tracking, and the app can be used with a manually selected location instead of your current one. BOLT PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION BOLT Premium is a paid, auto-renewing subscription offered as a weekly or a yearly plan. The exact price for your region is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Whether you are heading out on the water, onto a golf course, into the mountains, or just want to know if it is safe to be outside, BOLT gives you a clear, immediate answer. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lightning-landing.avilletardpiano.workers.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lightning Tracker at none against AIM Weather's shown. AIM Weather's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. AIM Weather sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and Lightning Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | AIM Weather | Lightning Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (153 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mende App Inc. | Augustin Villetard |
Bugs and requests
AIM Weather
Reported bugs
36 issues- Consistent crashes on iPad with latest update
- App crashes every time on opening
- App won't stay open, closes immediately
- Default favorite locations reappear after deletion
- App crashes and won't open after initial use
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- App has been broken for weeks, uninstall/reinstall doesn't help
- Cannot add locations (town, airport, county)
- Radar map stuck on home location
- App closes every time on opening
- Cannot delete default locations
- App support page shows outdated delete location instructions
- West Virginia weather doesn't work
- Push notifications have wrong location
- Weather for Ithaca, NY shows incorrect data
- No autocomplete while searching
- Can add duplicate entries
- Can't get out of edit mode
- App appears upside down on iPad
- App asks for current location, gets it wrong, and won't allow correction
- App freezes when trying to add cities
- App crashes immediately upon setup
- App reverses in landscape mode
- App keeps adding location multiple times
- Search for cities doesn't work
- Forecast text is cut off mid-word
- Current temp badge doesn't refresh until app is opened
- Radar is slow to load
- Today's weather report is 2 days old
- App stuck on last day used, taking forever to update
- App doesn't start on home town page
- App gives information for wrong location
- Many locations/cities missing
- Current location found to be miles away
- App crashes
- Weather alerts are for a city hundreds of miles away
- Zip code searches yield distant locations
Requested features
24 requests- Allow users to set favorite locations
- Fix the issue with preloaded favorites reappearing
- Improve location accuracy
- Allow deletion of default locations
- Fix West Virginia weather glitch
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- Add Canadian weather reports
- Add foreign city support
- Improve graphics and animation quality
- Add live radar
- Fix discrepancies in precipitation data
- Allow full description of forecast text
- Fix current temp badge refresh issue
- Add a legend to the radar
- Make location search and save features less complicated
- Clarify confusing terminology
- Improve map selection
- Add autocomplete to search
- Allow adding unique entries only
- Fix edit mode exit issue
- Improve search functionality for cities
- Ensure full forecast is accessible
- Fix weather alert location accuracy
- Allow setting default push location
- Provide better app support
Lightning Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AIM Weather
- Subscription to Remove Ads$3.991 Year
Lightning Tracker
- Premium Weekly$9.997 Days
- Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
Questions
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