Aurora Alert Realtime vs SnapFlood
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aurora Alert Realtime
Receive real-time alerts for visible Northern Lights with high-quality, automatically updated imagery. Access daily forecasts, detailed knowledge, and stunning photos to enhance your aurora viewing experience.
- Real-time aurora alerts
- High-quality sky imagery
- Automated image updates
- Daily aurora and weather forecasts
- 1, 3, and 27-day aurora forecasts
- Northern Lights knowledge base
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Aurora Alert Realtime is a fast and reliable Aurora Alert system. You will get alert when Northern Lights are visible. Own professional-level cameras and lenses ensure high-quality images which are processed with a highly developed algorithm. The images are updated automatically once a minute. You can see the entire sky both with the human eye and with night vision. Open up a whole new world of watching the night sky. A unique alert system gives a new alarm when the Northern Lights intensify. This way you always have the opportunity to see the best Northern Lights. Daily updated, illustrative Northern Light and Weather forecasts. Northern Lights forecast: 1-day, 3-day and 27-day forecasts. Weather forecast for several days. Northern Lights related knowledge and stunning Northern Lights photos.
SnapFlood
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SnapFlood is a citizen science app that enables people to quickly capture and upload photos and videos of urban floods. The app helps document when and where floods occur, along with their severity, by building a real-time archive of flood-related images and videos. This growing database can support scientific research, engineering solutions, and policy decisions, while also helping municipalities respond more effectively during extreme weather events. The app has been developed by the RAFT (Rainfall-runoff Analysis and Forecasting Tools) group at IIT Hyderabad. The idea originated in 2019 during a project funded by the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology (DST-SPLICE, Climate Change Programme), National Network Programme on Urban Climate (NUC), under the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC). Earlier efforts were also supported by the Government of India's AI CoE for Sustainable Cities project. With SnapFlood, anyone can "Snap the Flood" safely and contribute to building a valuable flood archive for science, engineering, and policy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SnapFlood at none against Aurora Alert Realtime's 5. Aurora Alert Realtime's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Aurora Alert Realtime sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. SnapFlood asks for nothing beyond the download.
Aurora Alert Realtime ships an update every 2 months, SnapFlood every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Aurora Alert Realtime | SnapFlood |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kooditehdas Oy | Satish Regonda |
In-app purchases
Aurora Alert Realtime
- 1 day subscription$5.99
- 2 days subscription$9.99
- 3 days subscription$13.99
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- 4 days subscription$17.99
- 5 days subscription$21.99
SnapFlood
No in-app purchases
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