WeatherMax+ vs Strike Weather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeatherMax+
Get precise, hyperlocal weather forecasts powered by the National Weather Service. Receive instant severe weather alerts, view detailed conditions, and plan your day with a beautiful, animated interface. Track multiple locations and access interactive radar maps.
- Hyperlocal grid-point forecasts
- Severe weather push alerts
- Animated weather backgrounds
- Minute-by-minute precipitation radar
- Interactive radar map
- Air quality and pollen index
- Multiple location support
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WeatherMax is back completely rebuilt from the ground up with a stunning new design and powerful features that put accurate, hyperlocal weather at your fingertips. WeatherMax+ delivers forecasts for your exact location, not just your city. Whether you're planning your morning commute or tracking an incoming storm, WeatherMax+ gives you the detail you need. Beautiful New Interface A fully redesigned dark interface with animated weather backgrounds, real-time particle effects, and glassmorphism cards that make checking the weather feel as good as it looks. Severe Weather Push Alerts — Always Free Get notified the moment a warning, watch, or advisory is issued for your location — tornado warnings, flash flood watches, freeze advisories, winter storms, and more. Delivered instantly, day or night, even when the app is closed, as Time Sensitive alerts that break through Focus and Do Not Disturb. Choose whether you're notified about everything, or only Severe and Extreme warnings. Hyperlocal Accuracy Forecasts for your precise coordinates. Not a regional average. Not a nearby station. Your exact location. Everything You Need • Current conditions with feels-like, humidity, wind & gusts • Hourly & 10-day forecast • Next-hour precipitation, minute by minute • Air quality index & pollen count • UV index & sun protection guidance • Sunrise & sunset times • Wind direction compass • Interactive radar map with future radar • Live map of active severe weather warnings • "What to Wear" daily recommendation • Apple Watch app Widgets Your Way Home Screen widgets show the next few hours and days at a glance, with the chance of rain and a 5-day forecast with high and low bars. They follow your °F/°C and mph/km/h settings. Ask Siri "WeatherMax will it rain today?", "WeatherMax weather" or "WeatherMax radar". No setup needed. Multiple Locations Save your favorite places and switch between them instantly — home, work, family, anywhere. Up to 3 free, unlimited with WeatherMax+. WEATHERMAX+ ESSENTIAL • Rain alerts — a push before it starts at your location • The full 2-hour future radar timeline (free includes the first 30 minutes) • Lightning on the map • Sky themes, including seasonal designs like Halloween • Lock Screen widgets, plus Details and Hourly chart widget styles • Apple Watch complications • Unlimited saved locations WEATHERMAX+ PRO • Everything in Essential • Pro map layers — storm outlooks, storm reports, wildfire, fire weather • Rain Countdown — a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Rearrange your dashboard and choose your Conditions metrics • Alternate app icons, including holiday designs Severe weather warnings are free for everyone, and always will be. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS WeatherMax+ Essential: $1.99/month or $14.99/year WeatherMax+ Pro: $3.99/month or $29.99/year Limited time: yearly plans start with 1 week free. New subscribers only, in select countries, through December 31, 2026. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use: https://weathermax.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://weathermax.app/privacy Weather data from Apple Weather, the National Weather Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Open-Meteo.
Strike Weather
Get detailed weather forecasts, real-time radar, and customizable rain alerts. Explore historical weather data and understand every weather reading with plain-language explanations. Choose your preferred weather data source for a personalized experience.
- Live weather conditions with plain-English summaries
- Scrubbable 24-hour and 7-day forecasts
- Customizable rain and snow alerts
- Interactive radar with lightning, satellite, and warnings
- Historical weather data back to 1940
- Plain-language explanations of weather metrics
- Choice of multiple weather data sources
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Strike Weather is a private, no-nonsense weather app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that shows what's happening now and what's next. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE A live sky that matches the conditions, the temperature, a plain-English summary, a 48-hour chart of temperature, rain, wind, humidity or UV, and up to 10 days ahead. Tap any day for its hours, wind, UV, rain and sunrise and sunset. RADAR, TWO HOURS BACK TO A WEEK AHEAD Your nearest NEXRAD radar site, or a wide-area mosaic covering the US, Canada and Germany. Scrub back two hours of real radar, look an hour ahead with an on-device estimate, then out to a day or a week. Add storm cells, warnings, hurricanes, lightning, wildfires, flowing wind, smoke, satellite clouds or burn bans, and star your favorites. BURN BANS Counties under a burn ban are shaded on the radar in Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Washington and Wyoming, and a reminder shows under the forecast when your place is in one. ON YOUR WRIST The temperature, rain starting soon, the next hours and the week on Apple Watch, with complications for your watch face. RAIN ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A Live Activity shows rain or snow on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island whenever it's happening or about to start. WIDGETS Home Screen widgets with a sky that follows the weather, a warning banner and a next-hour rain strip, a radar widget, and Lock Screen gauges for the chance of rain, UV, wind and sunrise and sunset. KNOW BEFORE IT RAINS A banner says when rain or snow will start, how heavy it will be and how long it should last. Rain alerts can notify you 5 to 30 minutes ahead. TIME MACHINE What was the weather on your birthday? Pick any date back to 2001 and see it hour by hour, next to today. EVERY READING, EXPLAINED Tap a reading, from Feels Like to UV and Pressure, for a plain-language explanation and a chart. ACHIEVEMENTS A trophy button lists achievements to unlock as you explore. Some are hidden. YOUR WEATHER SOURCE, YOUR CHOICE Automatic uses Apple Weather, and the official service for your country (the National Weather Service, Environment Canada, DWD, SMHI or FMI) takes over if it can't be reached. Or pick one yourself, or MET Norway, or bring your own free Tomorrow.io, OpenWeather or WeatherAPI.com key, kept in your Keychain. SEARCH ANYWHERE Any city in the world, with favorites and your recent places. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking. Your location goes only to the weather and radar services you use. Your settings and favorites sync through your own iCloud. STRIKE+ Strike+ adds burn bans, Strike Weather on Apple Watch, the rain Live Activity, the radar widget, the Lock Screen gauges, Time Machine, more map layers and experimental features, for you or your family, monthly, yearly or once for good. The forecast, alerts and the radar's warnings stay free. GOOD TO KNOW - Radar and warnings cover the US; the mosaic also covers Canada and Germany; lightning and satellite cover the Americas. - The one-hour radar look-ahead moves existing rain; it can't show storms that haven't formed yet. - Burn bans come from each state's published map, which can take a while to catch up. Check with your county before you burn. - Rain alerts, the Live Activity and widgets are best effort: iOS decides when they can run. - Strike Weather is not a substitute for official warnings. In an emergency, follow your local authorities. DATA SOURCES Apple Weather; National Weather Service and NOAA (radar, lightning, satellite, storm cells, warnings, hurricanes and models); US EPA (UV); Environment and Climate Change Canada; Deutscher Wetterdienst (through Bright Sky); SMHI; Finnish Meteorological Institute; MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); NASA POWER; NASA FIRMS; state forestry agencies and the Bureau of Land Management (burn bans); Tomorrow.io, OpenWeather and WeatherAPI.com with your own key. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strike Weather at 5.0 against WeatherMax+'s 4.5. Strike Weather also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). WeatherMax+'s advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. WeatherMax+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Strike Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.
Strike Weather holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of WeatherMax+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Strike Weather's.
WeatherMax+ ships an update every 3 weeks, Strike Weather every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeatherMax+ | Strike Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Williams | Stephen Glassell |
Customer experience
WeatherMax+
Strike Weather
In-app purchases
WeatherMax+
- WeatherMax+ Essential Monthly$1.991 Month
- WeatherMax+ Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- WeatherMax+ Essential Yearly$14.991 Year
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- WeatherMax+ Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
Strike Weather
No in-app purchases
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