Comparison

Red Sky Ready vs Aurora Expert

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

Head to head
About

Red Sky Ready

This app provides comprehensive disaster preparedness and response resources. It offers detailed weather forecasts, storm damage reports, and a national weather overview for enhanced situational awareness.

Highlights
  • Detailed weather forecasts
  • Severe weather outlook
  • Interactive storm damage map
  • National weather overview
  • Disaster preparedness resources
Features
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Stay one step ahead of disasters with Red Sky Ready! Access comprehensive disaster prep and response resources, ensuring you're equipped and informed before, during, and after disaster strikes. Features Forecast: Get your detailed weather forecast for the United States including radar, weekly forecast, hourly outlook, and severe weather outlook for the week! Storm Reports: View the latest storm damage reports with our interactive map. How large was that hail or how strong was that gust of wind? Find out fast, whether it was an hour ago or 5 years ago. Disaster Dashboard: Obtain a concise national weather overview from our Disaster Dashboard. National situational awareness has never been this easy or convenient.

About

Aurora Expert

Features
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Live data from NOAA’s new solar wind sentinel SOLAR-1: Aurora Expert tells you whether you can see the aurora tonight – at your place, with clouds, darkness and the moon. FREE • Tonight’s chance at your place, in five levels from “Very low” to “Very likely” – and every value says when it is from. • Why this verdict? Tap ⓘ: the factors behind the chance and the Kp it takes where you are. • Forecast for up to three nights: Kp, how far the aurora reaches, and the clouds when Apple Weather provides them. • Globe with a time scrubber: NOAA’s aurora oval twelve hours back and ahead, with the day and night side. For both hemispheres. • An alert for your home when the aurora activity there reaches the threshold and it is dark – with a test alert, so you know it arrives. • Red light and field mode for outside: compass and the key values, and your eyes stay adapted to the dark. • Live Activity and widgets for the Lock Screen and StandBy. • Journal with a season summary: for each place, from your own answers, how often you saw the aurora at each forecast level. • At Kp 7 or more, the storm cockpit is open for one night without Aurora Pro. AURORA PRO – ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Place alerts: alerts for every saved place within aurora range, your own threshold of 25, 50 or 75%, wake for strong activity. Save unlimited places. • Trip planner: the best spot for every night of your trip, with route and leave-by reminder. • Tonight from here: clearer places within a 30 to 90 minute drive. • Your best nights: season calendar and widget. • Storm cockpit: Deep Dive with solar wind, Kp history and raw data, substorm tracker, CME outlook and live tiles in field mode. • My nights: photos for your nights, a gallery and export as CSV or JSON. DATA Aurora activity (OVATION), Kp and storm warnings from NOAA SWPC, solar wind from NOAA SOLAR-1 / ACE at the Lagrange point L1, clouds from Apple Weather. No ads, no tracking.

Screenshots

Red Sky Ready4 screens
Aurora Expert4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Red Sky Ready at none against Aurora Expert's 1. Red Sky Ready also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price and ads 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. Aurora Expert sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Red Sky Ready asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Red Sky Ready versus Aurora Expert: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRed Sky ReadyAurora Expert
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRed Sky ReadyMark Baumann

In-app purchases

None

Red Sky Ready

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Aurora Expert

One-time1
  • Aurora Export Pro Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Red Sky Ready free?
Red Sky Ready is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aurora Expert free?
Aurora Expert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Red Sky Ready or Aurora Expert have ads?
Neither Red Sky Ready nor Aurora Expert shows ads.

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