RainVis vs Weather Magic PWS

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

Weather Magic PWS puts your own personal weather station on your iPhone. It reads the data your station already sends to Weathercloud and shows your readings as they come in. You can also connect your own station's Weather Underground account (optional). If your station goes offline, Weather Magic PWS can use a nearby backup station so you still see current conditions until your station is back. FREE - Live data from your home station - Today's graphs - One backup station Free does not include long-term history, cloud storage or data export. PRO: ONE UNLOCK FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription. Buy it once and it unlocks Pro on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. On iPhone and iPad you can try Pro free for 30 days first, once; the trial never renews or charges. Pro adds: - Your station's history and week, month and year graphs, read from your own cloud database. Long-range graphs load quickly because they use hourly and daily averages. - Your own cloud database: choose Turso or Supabase and connect an account you control - Multiple devices: one computer, such as your Mac, collects your station's data every minute. If it stops, another computer takes over automatically. Your iPhone and iPad view the data from the cloud. - A second backup station - Air quality - Near-real-time lightning: the wind vane shows nearby strikes on 1, 5, 10 and 20 mile rings with a flashing bolt. On iPhone and iPad, lightning comes from your collecting computer through your cloud database, so no key is needed here. - Data export YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Your station's data goes only to your own database. It is not sent to us. Data read from public backup stations is used only in the app and is never pushed back to its source. GOOD TO KNOW - Weather Magic PWS is built for owners of a personal weather station that sends its data to Weathercloud. Connecting your own station's Weather Underground account is optional. - Viewing history from the cloud needs Pro, your own Turso or Supabase account, and a computer running Weather Magic PWS to collect your station's data. - Lightning data is provided by OpenWeather and requires a free OpenWeather account and API key on your collecting computer. Pro setup there walks you through creating one. No key is needed if your weather station reports lightning itself. - Air quality and lightning depend on the data available for your area. - Readings come from your station and the sources you connect, and may sometimes be delayed or unavailable. Not for lightning safety decisions.