Dank Weather vs RainVis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dank Weather
Get real-time, up-to-the-millisecond weather updates from a global network of weather stations. This app offers hyper-local insights with a user-friendly interface, perfect for planning your day or tracking weather trends.
- Blazing fast data delivery
- Global weather station network
- Hyper-local insights
- User-friendly interface
- Real-time updates
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Dank Weather shows the weather where it is being measured: personal weather stations, airport METARs and flood gauges on the DankWeather network, updating live as each reading arrives. Every number is a real reading from a real sensor, stamped with how long ago it landed. The forecast has a page of its own and never stands in for a reading. Pick a station and it is on your home screen in seconds: the temperature right now, what it feels like, today's high and low, and a chart of the last 24 hours. Swipe between your favorites. THREE WAYS TO LOOK AT IT • Cards: hero temperature, a labeled 24-hour chart, and a card for each thing the station measures. • Ledger: an instrument panel, one row per reading with a 24-hour trace. • Dial: one big instrument with a compass ring, wind pointer, rain and air quality arcs, and the temperature in the middle. GO DEEPER ON ANY READING Tap a card for its page: Temperature, Humidity, Wind, Rain, Air Quality, Barometer, UV Index and Solar. Each charts the last day, week, month or year; drag across it to read any point. Then the numbers that matter: the peak gust and when it blew, the prevailing wind, rain this event and this year, the 3-hour pressure trend, dew point comfort, UV advice, the day's solar energy. Share any page as a text summary with a link to the station. AIRPORTS AND FLOOD GAUGES • Airports: the METAR as sent, with the flight category, visibility and ceiling. • Flood gauges: the stage and flood category up front, with top of bank, flood stage and how fast the water is rising or falling. A FORECAST AT THE STATION • The GFS at each outdoor station's own spot, out to 16 days: each day's high and low, rain and snow by type, wind and gusts, and sea-level pressure. • The station's own readings on the same charts, to see how the forecast is lining up. • Pick another model wherever it reaches: ECMWF and its AI model, NOAA's HRRR and RRFS, Germany's ICON, Canada's models or the National Blend of Models. • The next days on the home screen in every layout, a tap from the full forecast. STAYS WITH YOU • Live Activity: follow a station on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. It updates with every reading, not on a schedule. • Widgets: home screen widgets in three sizes and Lock Screen widgets for temperature, feels like, humidity, wind, air quality and UV, with an age label that keeps counting. On iOS 26 they update as new readings arrive. • Apple Watch: the station on your wrist, refreshed every minute while you look. Complications for sixteen readings, from feels like to UV and solar, and dials for Infograph and other bezel faces with readings curved across the top. Temperature gauges span the last 24 hours, colored by temperature. • Stale alerts: a notification when a station you care about stops reporting. FIND STATIONS The first time you open the app, it can find the stations nearest you. After that, search by name, browse airports and flood gauges, or use Near me. The map shows every station in view with its temperature, rain, air quality or wind, updating in place. AIR QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST The AQI is computed from the sensor's own PM2.5 with the EPA's 2024 breakpoints, the same table the DankWeather website uses, so the number here is the number there. YOUR UNITS Fahrenheit or Celsius. mph, km/h or knots. Inches or millimeters. inHg, hPa or mbar. Whole degrees or tenths. Charts as bars or a line. BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO AND IPAD Open iPhone Duo and the app becomes two pages: the station on the right, and the stations list, the forecast or any reading beside it on the left. On iPad, the cards stay phone-sized and centered, never stretched.
RainVis
Visualize detailed weather data with customizable forecasts. Track rain, temperature, wind, tides, and solunar timing in one view. Ideal for outdoor planning and coastal activities.
- Customizable forecast metrics
- Visual hourly previews
- Expandable hourly charts
- Coastal planning tools
- Rain-focused forecast
- Current conditions
- Radar with history
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RainVis turns detailed weather data into a visual forecast you can understand at a glance. Build your own forecast by choosing the details that matter most to you. Instead of jumping between separate hourly, daily, wind, rain, tide, and radar screens, RainVis lets you customize the forecast view around your plans. Track rain chance, accumulation, temperature, wind, gusts, humidity, pressure, dew point, cloud cover, tide height, tidal coefficient, and solunar timing in one visual forecast. Expand any day to inspect the hourly chart, compare multiple metrics together, and see when conditions line up. RainVis is especially useful for coastal fishing, boating, surfing, and outdoor planning, where the best window often depends on more than one number. Add tide and solunar details to your forecast to see tide movement, coefficient, moon timing, and major/minor activity periods alongside weather. Features: - Build-your-own forecast with customizable metrics - Compact daily forecast cards with visual hourly previews - Expandable hourly charts for rain, temperature, wind, gusts, humidity, pressure, dew point, cloud cover, tide, and solunar data - Coastal planning tools with tide height, tidal coefficient, NOAA tide source labels, moon data, and solunar activity periods - Rain-focused forecast showing chance, amount, timing, and accumulation - Current conditions for searched cities, saved places, or your current location - Radar with recent NEXRAD reflectivity history - iOS widgets for quick glanceable forecasts - Optional RainVis account for syncing Pro access across devices RainVis works immediately without signup. Free users can view the core visual forecast experience. RainVis Pro unlocks deeper planning features, including 15-day forecast trends, extended hourly forecast charts, longer radar history where available, live activities, and account-based access across iOS and web. Weather forecasts and coastal conditions can change quickly. Always follow official alerts and emergency guidance from the National Weather Service, NOAA, and local authorities. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rainvis.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dank Weather at none against RainVis's 2. RainVis's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. RainVis sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Dank Weather asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dank Weather against 5.0 for RainVis. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Dank Weather ships an update every 5 weeks, RainVis every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dank Weather | RainVis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drake Apps | Brian Hakel |
Customer experience
Dank Weather
RainVis
In-app purchases
Dank Weather
No in-app purchases
RainVis
- RainVis Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- RainVis Pro Annual$14.991 Year
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