Radar Pro X vs StormNet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Radar Pro X
This app provides a fast, modern weather radar experience with live NEXRAD data, severe weather warnings, and storm tracking. Its clean interface is designed for clarity and ease of use during active weather events.
- Live NEXRAD radar with high-contrast display
- Smooth radar animation with adjustable speed
- Severe weather warnings on map
- Storm tracking with forecast positions
- Fast radar site switching
- Quick radar view sharing
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Radar Pro X is a next-generation weather radar app built for speed, clarity, and advanced storm awareness. When weather turns serious, every second matters. Radar Pro X gives you a fast, modern radar experience designed to help you monitor storms, track severe weather, inspect radar data, and stay aware of what is happening around you in real time. With live NEXRAD radar, severe weather warnings, storm tracking, smooth animation, radar data color maps, and powerful inspection tools, Radar Pro X keeps the most important weather information front and center. The interface is clean, dark, and easy to read, so you can focus on the weather without fighting cluttered screens or complicated controls. Radar Pro X includes powerful tools for all users, including radar data color maps, a Data Inspector tool for examining radar values directly on the map, and radar site selection directly from the map for a faster, more intuitive workflow. For users who want deeper radar analysis and advanced storm monitoring, Radar Pro X Premium unlocks Chase Mode along with an expanded set of professional radar products, including Base Radar, Dual-Pol, and Derived radar products. Features: • Live NEXRAD radar with a high-contrast display • Smooth radar animation with adjustable playback speed • Severe weather warnings displayed directly on the map • Warning lists sorted near the current map center for faster awareness • Storm tracking with forecast positions, nearby towns, and distance details • Radar data color maps for improved radar interpretation • Data Inspector tool for checking radar values directly on the map • Radar site selection directly from the map • Fast radar site switching with search by city or radar ID • My Location and Follow My Location support • Quick sharing of the current radar view • Built-in guided tour and in-app help • Optional Keep Screen Awake mode for storm monitoring Radar Pro X Premium includes: • Chase Mode for advanced storm monitoring while on the move Base Radar Products • Base Velocity • Spectrum Width • Storm Relative Velocity Dual-Pol Products • Correlation Coefficient • Differential Reflectivity • Specific Differential Phase Derived Products • Composite Reflectivity • One-Hour Precipitation • Digital One-Hour Accumulation • Digital Precipitation Rate • Storm Total Precipitation • Vertically Integrated Liquid • Legacy VIL • Hydrometeor Classification • Hybrid Hydrometeor Classification • Echo Tops Radar Pro X is designed for people who actively watch the weather, whether you are tracking strong thunderstorms, monitoring severe weather warnings near home, analyzing radar products, using Chase Mode on the move, or keeping radar open during active weather events. If you depend on radar to stay informed, Radar Pro X delivers a powerful, focused weather experience with the tools you need to monitor changing conditions quickly and clearly. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. Our privacy policy is available at https://www.solidcarbon.ai/radar-pro-x-privacy-policy.html Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
StormNet
This app provides highly accurate severe weather forecasts using advanced radar and real-time data analysis. It predicts risks for lightning, hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes up to 14 days in advance.
- NEXRAD Super-Res Radar
- 14-day severe weather forecasts
- Lightning, hail, wind, tornado risk prediction
- Real-time data analysis
- Radar overlays (reflectivity, velocity)
- National Weather Service warnings
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StormNet is optimized to provide the most accurate severe weather forecast with NEXRAD, Super-Res Radar. StormNet is completely free, with no ads. Trained on decades of severe weather events, StormNet analyzes high-resolution radar, satellites, ground-based sensors, and weather forecast models in real-time to find complex patterns that lead to severe weather. The model updates every 2 minutes to provide 14-day forecasts for lightning, hail, damaging thunderstorm winds, and tornadoes. Super-Res Radar is the highest-resolution NEXRAD radar data available from 159 stations across the continental United States. Each radar station updates every 3-4 minutes and measures the intensity of precipitation based on how much energy the radar signal receives back from objects in the atmosphere. Combined, StormNet + Super-Res Radar provides a first-of-its-kind, multiple-component severe weather forecast system for the United States. StormNet Map Overlays • Radar: The highest-resolution radar available for the United States from each radar station. • Radar + Risk: NEXRAD radar, alongside StormNet risk probabilities, for the next 4 hours. • Risk Forecast: The StormNet risk probabilities from real-time to 14 days into the future. StormNet Risk Forecasts • Lightning • Hail • Damaging Winds • Tornado Super-Res (NEXRAD) Radar • Radar Reflectivity • Radar Velocity • Spectrum Width National Weather Service Warnings • Tornado • Severe Thunderstorm • Snow Squall • Flash Flood StormNet vs. National Weather Service The National Weather Service, the Storm Prediction Center, and other government agencies are the official sources for watches, warnings, and severe weather information. StormNet should serve as a trusted and automated guide for severe weather risk, but StormNet should not be treated as an official source. StormNet vs. Traditional Weather Models Existing weather forecast models are incredible feats of engineering and predict the ingredients for severe weather, but they are not designed to excel at severe weather forecasting and are not real-time tools. StormNet was trained and optimized to provide severe weather forecasts. StormNet vs. Other Weather Apps Existing weather apps and companies usually pass along official government watches and warnings, and often communicate if lightning or hail is already close by. While these are valuable features, we are not aware of another weather app or company that matches StormNet’s ability to provide real-time updates for lightning, hail, damaging thunderstorm winds, and tornado risk. Powered by OpenSnow In 2011, OpenSnow began predicting snowfall for skiers and snowboarders. OpenSnow has since become a global leader in mountain weather forecasts and expanded to provide forecasts for every type of outdoor activity. Since lightning is a risk to outdoor activities, especially on longer mountain-based adventures, OpenSnow created a weather forecast system that would provide both lightning forecasts to support real-time decisions and multi-day outlooks to support trip planning. Meteorologist Andrew Brady built StormNet to predict the risk of severe weather. OpenSnow acquired his technology in 2024 to help people stay safe and enjoy the outdoors. — Terms & Conditions — StormNet is free and available in the United States. We'll never track you, sell ads, or collect data. We only ask for your location to show the most accurate radar and severe weather forecast. Full terms and conditions can be found here: https://support.opensnow.com/legal/terms | https://support.opensnow.com/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StormNet at none against Radar Pro X's 2. StormNet also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Radar Pro X's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and chart position (#202 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Radar Pro X sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. StormNet asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Radar Pro X against 4.9 for StormNet. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Radar Pro X has 93 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Radar Pro X's written reviews are positive against 82% of StormNet's.
Radar Pro X ships an update every 2 weeks, StormNet every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Radar Pro X | StormNet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (93 ratings) | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #202 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Neel | Cloudnine Weather, Inc. |
Customer experience
Radar Pro X
StormNet
In-app purchases
Radar Pro X
- Monthly Subscription$5.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$39.991 Year
StormNet
No in-app purchases








