479WX vs iDrizzle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
479WX
This app provides a local weather grid for Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley, featuring live radar, active alerts, and community storm reports. It offers a map-first experience to track changing skies, watch live severe weather coverage, and share observations with others.
- Live interactive radar for local storm tracking
- Severe weather alerts, watches, and warnings
- Community storm reports with media
- Live severe weather coverage
- Map layers for weather context
- Focus on Northwest Arkansas and River Valley
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479WX is a local weather grid for Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley, built for the moments when the sky changes fast. Follow live radar, active alerts, community storm reports, and severe weather coverage in one map-first experience. See what is happening nearby, watch live coverage during active weather, and share what you are seeing with your community. Features: • Live interactive radar built for local storm tracking • Severe weather alerts, watches, and warnings on the map • Community storm reports with photos, videos, and location context • Live severe weather coverage when storms are active • Layers for radar, posts, alerts, and other local weather context • Designed around Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley 479WX is intended to help you stay weather-aware, but it should not be your only source for life-safety decisions. Always follow official warnings, emergency management guidance, and instructions from local authorities.
iDrizzle
This app provides animated weather radar GIFs for the US. Users can view national, regional, or state-specific radar mosaics. It focuses solely on radar imagery without forecasts or temperature data.
- Animated radar GIF mosaics
- State-specific radar views
- Regional composite radar
- National radar mosaic
- Click-zone detection for large states
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Drizzle displays animated radar GIF mosaics. Click any state → loads that state's dedicated radar GIF Click a region button → loads a multi-state regional composite Click USA → returns to the national radar mosaic Large states (California, Texas) are split into sub-regions with click-zone detection There is no forecast, no temperature, no hourly breakdown. Just radar. That's it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: 479WX at 3 against iDrizzle's 1. On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 479WX against 5.0 for iDrizzle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | 479WX | iDrizzle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denton Sachs | DINO HOPIC |
Customer experience
479WX
iDrizzle
In-app purchases
479WX
No in-app purchases
iDrizzle
No in-app purchases
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