SatelliteWx vs WeatherCameras.live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SatelliteWx
Access live GOES satellite imagery, radar, lightning data, and severe weather overlays. Offers free access to all data with optional Pro features for enhanced resolution and advanced tools.
- Live GOES satellite imagery
- Mosaic radar and lightning detection
- Severe weather overlays
- Advanced Pro tools
- High-resolution local views
- Animation loops
- Drawing and measurement tools
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Satellite Weather puts live GOES-19 (East) and GOES-18 (West) imagery, mosaic radar, lightning detection, and severe-weather overlays in one fast, ad-free app. Free gives you all of the data. Pro gives you the resolution, the advanced tools, more favorites, and a longer archive. FREE • All 16 ABI channels plus every RGB product, GeoColor included • Every weather overlay — MRMS radar with hail size and rotation tracks, GLM lightning (flash, density, minimum flash area), NWS warnings, watches and mesoscale discussions, SPC outlooks, ProbSevere and storm reports, RAP variables across pressure levels, RTMA surface analysis, METAR observations, aviation, active fires, and tropical • Live GOES CONUS view and the full-disk hemisphere view • Mesoscale 2 — one-minute imagery wherever the sector is pointed • Animation loops up to 20 frames, and a 6-hour archive • Drawing, sharing, and the measure tool • Physical map boundaries — states, counties, roads, cities, rivers, lat/lon grid • One saved favorite — sign in with a free account to sync favorites and custom regions across devices and satellitewx.com • Convenient layering system to add all of the above on top of your satellite imagery • No ads PRO ($1.99/mo or $19.99/year — 2 week free trial) • Full-resolution local views — regional, sub-regional, state and metro. Every view is rendered at the same pixel count as CONUS but covers far less ground, so a state view carries roughly five times the detail of that same area seen in the free CONUS view. Zooming into CONUS magnifies one fixed image; Pro renders that area fresh. • Full-disk north and south crops, plus the ocean views • Mesoscale 1 — the second one-minute sector • Soundings, skew-T, and cross-section analysis tools • Pixel inspector for exact brightness temperatures • Time series tool for storm trends • Dual and quad (tablet) pane setup to view more data at once • Animation loops up to 100 frames • The full 48-hour archive — replay an entire event from the start • Up to 25 favorites (saved views), synced across your devices • No ads, ever PRIVACY & TERMS • Your location stays on your device — used only to center the map. We never see it. • No ads. No third-party tracking. No advertising SDKs. • Privacy Policy: https://satellitewx.com/privacy.html • Terms of Use (EULA): https://satellitewx.com/terms.html Built by weather enthusiasts. Questions, bug reports, feature ideas: support@satellitewx.com
WeatherCameras.live
Watch live coastal storm cameras from South Carolina and Florida. View ocean conditions, tide times, and weather data. Built for storm season with historical storm data and a regional wind map.
- Live coastal camera streams
- Real-time weather and tide data
- Regional wind map
- Historical storm data
- Picture-in-Picture mode
- Live stream health status
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Watch the coast live, right now. WeatherCameras.LIVE streams cameras from the South Carolina Grand Strand and Florida's Gulf coast, 24 hours a day. No account, no signup — open the app and you're looking at the ocean. WHAT YOU'RE WATCHING • Pier 14 — Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Mounted on the pier itself, out over the Atlantic, with nothing between the lens and open water. • Dock Holidays Marina — North Myrtle Beach. A protected-water view for when you need to know what the harbor is doing. • Salinity — Cedar Key, Florida. Dock Street on the Nature Coast, one of the most surge-exposed stretches of the Gulf. CONDITIONS AT A GLANCE Every camera carries live data from NOAA and Open-Meteo: • Water temperature • Next high and low tide • Sunrise and sunset • Air temperature, wind speed and sky conditions • Live viewer count and real-time stream status REGIONAL WIND MAP A full Eastern U.S. and Atlantic wind map, so you can see a system before it reaches the sand. BUILT FOR STORM SEASON These aren't decorative beach cams. Our cameras have streamed through Florence, Michael, Dorian, Ian, Idalia and Helene. Each camera includes a written history of the storms watched from that exact vantage point — what came ashore, when, and what it did. The Cedar Key camera has its own story. It lived at 83 West on Dock Street until Helene's surge took the building in September 2024. It came back at Salinity, up the street, looking out over the same water. FEATURES • Picture-in-Picture — keep the ocean on screen while you use other apps • Full-screen playback • Live stream health, so you always know whether a feed is up • Fast native video — no browser, no buffering wall Free to use. No account required. Camera feeds are proprietary content owned by WeatherCameras.LIVE. Broadcast and news use requires licensing — details on the support page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WeatherCameras.live at none against SatelliteWx's 2. SatelliteWx's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). 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. SatelliteWx sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. WeatherCameras.live asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SatelliteWx against 5.0 for WeatherCameras.live. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | SatelliteWx | WeatherCameras.live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Satellite Weather LLC | Cramer Snuggs |
Customer experience
SatelliteWx
WeatherCameras.live
In-app purchases
SatelliteWx
- Satellite Weather Pro (monthly)14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Satellite Weather Pro Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
WeatherCameras.live
No in-app purchases
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