Comparison

Rain Radar & Alerts vs SkyForge

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Rain Radar & Alerts

Features
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See rain coming before you step outside. Rain Radar puts a live precipitation map on a fast, full-screen world map. Scrub through the past two hours, watch the nowcast, and know whether showers are heading your way — at home, work, or anywhere you care about. LIVE RAIN RADAR • Real-time radar overlay on a smooth vector map • Animated timeline: past 2 hours plus short-term forecast • Adjustable radar opacity • Light and dark map themes • Global coverage RAIN ALERTS — NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED • Turn on alerts in Settings and choose which places matter in Places • Get a push notification when rain is expected near a saved location • Optional alerts for your current location while you move • No sign-up, no password — just enable notifications and go SAVE YOUR PLACES • Bookmark home, work, the park, or any spot on the map • See rain and cloud status for each place at a glance • Tap the bell on any place to turn alerts on or off • Save your current GPS position or pick an exact spot on the map IPHONE HOME SCREEN WIDGET • Add “Rain at Place” to your Home Screen • Glance at conditions for a favourite location without opening the app • Tap the widget to jump straight to that place on the map BUILT FOR QUICK CHECKS Rain Radar is designed for one thing: knowing if it’s going to rain. Open the app, check the map, and get on with your day. When you’re not looking, alerts watch for you.

About

SkyForge

Experience a dynamic, full-screen weather map with animated radar, 3D storms, and live wind streams. Get detailed 10-day forecasts with interactive charts and severe weather alerts. This app prioritizes privacy with no sign-up or tracking.

Highlights
  • Full-screen animated weather radar
  • 3D storm visualization
  • Live wind streams
  • 10-day forecast with interactive charts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Privacy-focused, no tracking
Features
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SkyForge makes the weather radar the whole app — a full-screen, buttery-smooth animated map is your home screen, and everything else floats cleanly on top. RADAR THAT MOVES • Smooth, motion-interpolated radar: the past two hours, then up to an hour of forecast radar where it's available • 3D storms — heavy rain rises off the map as shaded clouds that cast shadows • Live wind streams — thousands of moving particles showing direction and speed • Temperature overlay with a color-graded legend • Show precipitation, temperature and wind together • Fronts & pressure from NOAA's surface analysis • Zoom out far enough and the map becomes a spinning 3D globe, colored with NASA satellite land cover A FORECAST WITH DEPTH • 10-day forecast — tap any day to expand a plain-English brief • Interactive charts for every day: temperature, precipitation, UV, wind, humidity, visibility, and pressure — drag to pinpoint any minute • Hourly forecast, current conditions, "feels like", and high/low • Air quality (US AQI), UV index, sunrise & sunset, dew point, and more BUILT FOR WHERE YOU ARE • Automatic radar and forecast for your current location • Save cities and reorder your list with a long-press • Dark and light map themes that remember your choice SEVERE WEATHER • Live watches, warnings, and advisories from the US National Weather Service, right at the top of your screen when they matter HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% free and ad-free • No account, no sign-up, no tracking • Your location is used only to fetch weather — never stored or sold Weather data from Open-Meteo, LibreWXR, RainViewer, NOAA / National Weather Service, NASA GIBS, Iowa State Mesonet, and OpenWeatherMap.

Screenshots

Rain Radar & Alerts4 screens
SkyForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SkyForge at none against Rain Radar & Alerts's 2. SkyForge also leads on ads (none vs shown). Rain Radar & Alerts's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rain Radar & Alerts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SkyForge asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rain Radar & Alerts ships an update weekly, SkyForge monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rain Radar & Alerts versus SkyForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRain Radar & AlertsSkyForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChee Yong LeeTyler Posey

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Rain Radar & Alerts

One-time2
  • Buy Me a Coffee$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

SkyForge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rain Radar & Alerts free?
Rain Radar & Alerts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SkyForge free?
SkyForge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rain Radar & Alerts or SkyForge have ads?
Rain Radar & Alerts shows ads; SkyForge does not.
Which is updated more often, Rain Radar & Alerts or SkyForge?
Rain Radar & Alerts ships an update weekly, and SkyForge monthly. Most recently, Rain Radar & Alerts was updated on November 6, 2026 and SkyForge on October 31, 2026.

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