Illinois Storm Chasers vs StationDeck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Illinois Storm Chasers
Get hyper-local weather updates with real-time conditions and minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts. Access interactive NOAA radar and receive alerts for severe weather discussions and maps. Stay informed about your local forecast for the next 48 hours and 7 days.
- Minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts
- 48-hour hourly forecasts
- 7-day daily forecasts
- Interactive NOAA NEXRAD radar
- Customizable radar color schemes and layers
- Severe weather alerts and forecast discussions
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Live weather conditions from your neighborhood weather station, precipitation forecasts down to the minute. Hourly forecast out to 48 hours, and 7 days of detailed daily and nightly forecasts. Radar is interactive, NOAA NEXRAD data with industry-leading update times for a consumer weather app. Select your favorable radar color scheme and desired layers. Be notified when Illinois Storm Chasers issues a new forecast discussion and map(s) for everything from severe thunderstorms to winter weather! Download today! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
StationDeck
This app transforms personal weather stations into a comprehensive weather monitoring tool. It offers customizable dashboards, advanced data analysis, and detailed forecasts, even before you own a station.
- Customizable weather dashboard
- Corrected 'feels like' temperature
- Historical weather trends
- Wind direction and rose visualization
- Animated radar and NWS forecasts
- Weather model comparison
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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StationDeck turns a personal weather station into the weather app you actually want — and works even before you own one. Connect an Ecowitt or Ambient Weather station, or pull readings through Home Assistant. Point it at any public Weather Underground station — usually a neighbour's back garden rather than an airport twenty miles away. Don't have a station yet? Start with the nearest official National Weather Service station and add your own hardware later. YOUR DASHBOARD, YOUR ORDER Every card can be reordered or hidden. Temperature, feels-like, dew point, humidity, wind, rain, pressure, solar, UV, indoor conditions — arranged the way you read them, not the way someone else decided. FEELS LIKE, CORRECTED The standard heat index is a shade figure. The National Weather Service notes that direct sun can add as much as 15°F to how hot it actually feels. StationDeck uses your station's own solar sensor to apply that correction, alongside NWS wind chill when it's cold — a number your station's stock feels-like doesn't give you. TRENDS THAT GO SOMEWHERE Tap any reading for its history: 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or a full year, with high, low and average. Barometric tendency is read out properly — rising, falling, and what that usually means — because a bare pressure number tells you nothing on its own. WIND, READ CORRECTLY Direction on a compass dial rather than a bare number, and a wind rose showing where the wind actually came from over time. Not a line chart, which is meaningless for a value that wraps through north. RADAR AND FORECASTS Animated precipitation radar with adjustable base map, opacity and playback. Official NWS forecasts, daily and hourly, for your station and any other town you care about. Severe weather alerts scoped to your exact coordinates. WEATHER MODELS Compare GFS, ECMWF, ICON, HRRR and five more side by side, as charts or as a map you can scrub through hour by hour. When the models disagree, that spread is the honest measure of confidence — and StationDeck shows it rather than hiding it behind a single number. ALL-TIME RECORDS Hottest, coldest, strongest gust, wettest day and wettest month, each with the date it happened, computed from your station's own history. SENSOR HEALTH Battery voltages become plain language — Good, Fair, Replace Soon — with an estimate of how long is left, learned from the actual drain rate over time. Solar-charged sensors are treated as what they are rather than flagged as failing every night. WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Home Screen widgets with four independently chosen readings, Lock Screen widgets, and a Live Activity that starts on its own when it rains or the wind gets up. ALERTS THAT MATTER High gust, freezing, heavy rain, low sensor battery, and a station that has stopped reporting — plus official NWS severe weather warnings. BUILT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE No account. No analytics. No tracking. No advertising. StationDeck never asks for your location — you tell it where you are. Your API keys stay in the device Keychain and are sent only to the service they belong to. Settings sync through your own iCloud account, which the developer cannot see. Forecasts, alerts and official station observations cover the United States and its territories. Your own station, radar and weather models work anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: StationDeck at 5.0 against Illinois Storm Chasers's 4.0. StationDeck also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Illinois Storm Chasers's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Illinois Storm Chasers sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. StationDeck asks for nothing beyond the download.
StationDeck holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Illinois Storm Chasers has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Illinois Storm Chasers ships an update every 3 months, StationDeck every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Illinois Storm Chasers | StationDeck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Illinois Storm Chasers, LLC | Timmy Faneuf |
Customer experience
Illinois Storm Chasers
StationDeck
In-app purchases
Illinois Storm Chasers
- 1 Month Ad Removal$0.991 Month
- 1 Year Ad Removal7 Days trial$4.991 Year
StationDeck
No in-app purchases
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