Description
Know exactly when rain will start and stop at your location. RainAware, the original hyperlocal rain app with RainClock, push alerts, live radar, satellite, lightning & storm tracking. ***** INCLUDED IN THE STANDARD VERSION ***** • Rain Clock See rain timing for your location up to 3 hours ahead. Example: “Rain starts in 1 hr 30 min and ends at 4:30 PM.” Background images match the weather outside. • Alerts & notifications Get notified when rain is coming or ending, or when severe weather threatens. Customize alert timing, rain-duration thresholds, proximity settings, and alert frequency. • Regional radar, satellite, and 1-hour precipitation View live weather imagery over a regional domain, then move the domain anywhere to inspect weather there. • Watches, warnings, and advisories View active hazards including severe storms, floods, winter weather, wind, fire, marine alerts, and more. • Weather map overlays Analyze the map with overlays for surface observations, lightning, hurricane tracks, storm reports, moving ship observations, and more. • Landscape mode & fast looping Use landscape mode for a larger map with extra pan and zoom controls. Long-press to burst-loop imagery faster and spot trends. • Current conditions ticker Cycles through the nearest surface observation and also shows nearby lightning, precipitation, and storm reports when relevant. Tap icons to jump to the location. • Interactive graphs View 36-hour trend graphs for temperature, wind, cloud cover, precipitation amount and type. • Forecast Clock See the next 8 days in a concise Today/Tonight format, including sunrise, sunset, and moon phase. • Site lists Quickly check weather for nearby cities, airports, ballparks, speedways, golf courses, and more. Stadium views include wind direction for in, out, or across-field awareness. • Drawing tools Draw on the map, add text, overlay it on weather imagery, and share. • Weather badges Badges show when rapid changes in rain, temperature, clouds, or wind are forecast. Configurable. • Deep customization RainAware includes extensive settings so you can tune the app to your workflow. ***** SUBSCRIPTION FEATURES ***** Subscriptions are available in-app and work across supported devices. • Full-map access View the full weather map without regional limits. • Storm cell tracking Filter storm cells and view motion, hail potential, rotation, and more. • National radar products Includes Echo Tops, Hail Swaths, and Rotation Tracks. • Single-site radar Access reflectivity and velocity products, with options to merge Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico radar into the national view. • Expanded satellite imagery Adds water vapor and colorized visible imagery for enhanced cloud-top analysis. • More alert types Add lightning proximity alerts, severe storm report alerts, and alerts for another location. • RainPro tool Interactively refine precipitation motion for even more precise rain timing. • Environmental fields Display threat areas, VAD wind profiles, isobars, CAPE, updraft helicity, 500 & 850 mb charts & more. • Warning & observation monitor Filter and sort warnings and surface observations. • Advanced surface observations Plot thousands of stations, ships, and buoys, including water temperature and wave height. • Longer loops Animate up to 36 frames and as much as 12 hours ahead on capable devices. • Aviation mode Use FAA sectional maps as an underlay, display flight rules at stations, and view winds aloft at VWP locations. • Advanced drawing tools Draw fronts, time-match drawings to imagery, and create lines, polygons, circles, and squares. • Faster data updates Get more frequent radar, satellite, and surface data refreshes. • Performance controls Manage memory, cache behavior, panning, and image tiling. Coverage is best across the USA and southern Canada. Satellite and local radar coverage also extends from Hawaii to the Caribbean. https://www.rainaware.com/rainaware_coverage_map.webp
What's New
- You can now sort POI/Cities alphabetically or by distance. - Fixed rare missing location at app start. - [Subscribers] If 500 or 850 mb chart is selected, other data layers auto hide for cleaner view.
Details
- Developer
- RainAware LLC
- Main Category
- Weather
- Version
- 2.1.6
- Version Release
- 2026-05-22
- Initial Release
- 2012-02-29
- Size
- 49 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 4.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- RainAware-LLC.RainAware
- Version Rating
- ★ 3.93 (1,059)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-14
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Competitive Benchmark — Weather Top 10
What it takes to beat this app — comparison with the category's top apps. The orange row is the current app.
| # | App | Price | Rating | Ratings | Langs | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RadarScope | USD 9.99 | ★ 4.18 | 2,674 | 4 | 2026-03-17 |
| 2 | RadarOmega: Doppler Radar App | USD 8.99 | ★ 3.53 | 886 | 1 | 2026-05-19 |
| 3 | MyRadar Weather Radar Pro | USD 5.99 | ★ 4.84 | 42,518 | 9 | 2026-05-20 |
| 4 | NOAA Weather Radio | USD 4.99 | ★ 4.25 | 9,556 | 1 | 2026-06-12 |
| 5 | My Lightning Tracker Pro | USD 4.99 | ★ 4.81 | 5,841 | 12 | 2026-05-13 |
| 6 | AeroWeather Pro | USD 4.79 | ★ 3.68 | 354 | 15 | 2026-06-11 |
| 7 | River Levels & Flows | USD 2.99 | ★ 4.60 | 2,592 | 3 | 2026-06-11 |
| 8 | NOAA SuperRes Radar US | USD 3.99 | ★ 4.68 | 1,495 | 1 | 2019-07-06 |
| 9 | RainAware | USD 4.99 | ★ 3.93 | 1,059 | 1 | 2026-05-22 |
| 10 | iDamage-Pushed | USD 2.99 | ★ 3.33 | 36 | 1 | 2026-03-31 |
User Reviews
I've used the app for years and it really helps on the jobsite, pouring concrete, etc. though the new update is like stepping back to MSDos. A lot more detail and functions, but not as user friendly as the older. Hope it's a step in the right direction. Still absolutely worth the purchase.
It used to be my favorite go to use all the time app but this new format sucks. Makes it much more difficult to just get my weather. Wish they had never changed it. Wish I could go back to the old version. Making things newer doesn’t always mean it’s better or more user friendly. Too bad this happened.
Liked the iOS version and saw they now have a mac app. Grabbed it and was impressed with the look. A few things to make it better: Starts in full screen mode with no option to start in a window. Support was very quick to reply and it seems that feature has already been added. Just have to wait for the push to the app store to receive it. Also needs a user manual specific to the mac version. Was told it’s in progress. Should be a top tier app once it’s documented.
I’d used this app for years and loved how simple/accurate/user-friendly it was. They have since done an update that spoiled all that.
I paid for a one time lifetime license. The latest update kills that and wand an annual subscription now. How to get it reinstated?
used to be a great app to open and quickly check rain chances for the next three hours. After recent update, app now takes forever to launch, and it is a train wreck to find anything. wish I had never updated app to new version.
What’s going on, it used to be my go to app for Weather and ever since you did the new change it has never been correct. I am so disappointed. I used to brag about this after everybody I came across.
This used to be my favorite weather app. It was perfect for a quick glance at the rain forecast for the next few hours. Now it’s a mess. It’s not just different, but it’s now slow to launch and inconsistent. Sometimes it shows the rain clock on launch, sometimes the radar, making it even slower to see the forecast. They also removed the bar graph view that combined the rain clock with % chance of rain and rain intensity. That was the best part about it. I’ve messed with the settings and nothing seems to put it back how it was or even fix some of the new issues. And I even payed for this thing when I first found it. All I want is to be able to disable all the extra stuff and use it as a quick reference again.
I can’t figure out where my saved locations went from before the update, and now trying to save them is not intuitive at all. I search using zip code and there’s no option to save it. Not liking this update at all
4/4/26 Changed rating from 2 to 5 stars. Developer support is also 5 stars. My weather information needs are very modest but it is clear that the developers are trying hard to make the program the best that they can. 4/1/26 Thank you very much for your response. Your last paragraph describes the problem. I would like all 3 larger charts to maintain their titles (and corresponding content) 3/28/26 After today’s update, it is still a two star program. The developer was kind enough to respond, saying the below problem would be fixed, but it wasn’t. Could be a very useful program but there are two serious problems: the rectangular graphs don’t retain their settings and don’t automatically update - the designated names for them e.g. precipitation amount changes to something else, and the date on top does not correspond to the dates represented in the graphs below the date.
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