Comparison

Earthquake Alerts vs StationDeck

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Earthquake Alerts

Monitor earthquakes globally with detailed maps, real-time alerts, and seismic awareness tools. Track recent seismic activity, view earthquake specifics, and set up notifications for your important locations. Designed for informational purposes, it provides a comprehensive overview of seismic events.

Highlights
  • Nearby and worldwide earthquake tracking
  • Location-based earthquake notifications
  • Interactive earthquake map
  • Filters by magnitude, distance, and time
  • Daily earthquake summary and statistics
  • Personal risk centers for important locations
Features
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Earthquake Zone helps you monitor nearby, U.S., and worldwide earthquakes with clear maps, alerts, statistics, and practical seismic awareness tools. Follow recent earthquakes around your current location, review worldwide seismic activity, and open detailed earthquake pages with magnitude, depth, distance, date, time, provider, and map information. Key features: - Nearby and worldwide earthquake tracking - Location-based earthquake notifications - Interactive earthquake map - Filters by magnitude, distance, country, time period, and tsunami information when available - Daily earthquake summary and statistics - Personal and family risk centers for important locations - Emergency whistle sound options - Measurement unit, list style, radius, and alert threshold preferences Earthquake Zone is designed for informational and awareness purposes only. It is not an official earthquake warning system, emergency service, or government alert platform. Earthquake data and notifications may be delayed, incomplete, or unavailable depending on data providers, network conditions, device settings, and regional availability. Always follow official emergency alerts, local authorities, civil defense instructions, and government guidance during earthquakes or emergency situations. Privacy Policy: https://myearthquake-50c29.web.app/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Earthquake Alerts4 screens
StationDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: StationDeck at none against Earthquake Alerts's shown. StationDeck also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 16 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Earthquake Alerts against 5.0 for StationDeck. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Earthquake Alerts ships an update every 16 months, StationDeck every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Earthquake Alerts versus StationDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarthquake AlertsStationDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHasan KucukTimmy Faneuf

In-app purchases

None

Earthquake Alerts

No in-app purchases

None

StationDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Earthquake Alerts free?
Earthquake Alerts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StationDeck free?
StationDeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Earthquake Alerts or StationDeck?
Earthquake Alerts and StationDeck are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Earthquake Alerts or StationDeck have ads?
Earthquake Alerts shows ads; StationDeck does not.
Which is updated more often, Earthquake Alerts or StationDeck?
Earthquake Alerts ships an update every 16 months, and StationDeck every 4 days. Most recently, Earthquake Alerts was updated on October 30, 2026 and StationDeck on October 29, 2026.

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