RainViewer Downloads & RevenueRainViewer: Live Weather Radar · App Store & Google Play
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar by MeteoLab Inc. is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar update history & changes
Last change · 98 events since 22 Jul 2015Full timeline ↓✏️iOSAdded hidden keywords: hailing🔎iOSTop 10 for “weather”✏️iOSDescription updated📦iOSUpdated to version 8.6📈iOSEntered the top 10📦AndroidUpdated to version 8.5📈iOSEntered the top 10⭐iOSRatings taking off in Germany📦iOSUpdated to version 8.5🎉iOSIn-app event: Duo, meet rain📈AndroidEntered the top 10📦AndroidUpdated to version 8.4.1📈AndroidEntered the top 100 in 2 charts🔎iOSTop 10 for “radar”🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play
Full timeline · 98 events
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: hailingiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎RainViewer: Live Weather Radar reached Top 10 for “weather”iOS#10 in Italy search · popularity 72
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· JP
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.6iOSLIVE ACTIVITIES ARE EASIER TO READ
· When several Live Activities are active, the Dynamic Island shows the precipitation icon, and the time is no longer cut off
· The time in the Dynamic Island is white, the same as on the Lock Screen
· The expanded Dynamic Island uses the same layout as the Lock Screen
· On a Mac, the Live Activity in the menu bar no longer clips text
· On Apple Watch, the Live Activity shows the place name and the minutes until the rain starts or ends
Have a question or suggestion? Contact us via the app Settings > Send Feedback.… more - 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 10iOSTop Grossing · Weather · DE
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: forecastiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.5Android· FIND ANY PLACE ON THE MAP: Tap the search button, pick a city and the map moves there with a pin. Tap the pin to see the forecast. With radars shown, the same button finds radar stations.
· Turn off "Forecast Cone" in Settings under "Weather Layers" to see rain below a storm.
· Weather alert borders now stay above rain and clouds.… more - ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: rencontresiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 10iOSTop Grossing · Weather · ID
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.5iOSTHE ANIMATION STARTS IN 2 SECONDS
Tap Play and the rain moves. On mobile data it used to take 4 to 5 seconds, and much longer on 3G. Many small optimisations later, the animation now starts within 2 seconds on 4G, and the frame under the time slider appears first, so you see the moment you asked for.
· Between frames, each part of the rain now moves with its own measured speed and direction, not with one speed for the whole map
MAP AND WIDGETS
· Weather alerts no longer hide the rain: the alert outline is above the weather layers, and the fill is below them
· A new "Forecast Cone" switch hides the cone around a storm track (Essential and Pro)
· The radar map in widgets is sharp, and widget text follows your iOS text size
· The Apple Watch radar complication no longer shows "Unavailable"
FIXES
· The weather alert count on the tap-on-map card now opens the alerts
· Satellite widgets no longer show every place name twice
Have a question or suggestion? Contact us via the app Settings > Send Feedback.… more - 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: precipitation, doppler, meteoblue, forecastiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🎉RainViewer: Live Weather Radar in-app event: Duo, meet rainiOSSPECIAL EVENT · until 15 Nov
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· US
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· US
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · US
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· 5 countries
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· 6 countries
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · 6 countries
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· KR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· KR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · KR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· JP
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· JP
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · JP
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· IT
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· IT
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · IT
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· FR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· FR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · FR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· DE
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· DE
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · DE
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· CN
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· CN
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · CN
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: app got biggeriOS118 MB → 130 MB (+10%)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· CA
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· BR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· BR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · BR
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: description updatediOS· AU
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new iPad screenshotsiOS· AU
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: new screenshotsiOS10 screenshots (was 10) · AU
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.4iOSRAIN FIRST
The forecast screen is rebuilt. It still reads the way you know it, but the answer you came for is now at the top: nowcast and radar first, then everything else in cards.
· The rain chart, the radar preview and the temperature come first now. Weather alerts sit below them, not above. Tap the preview and the map opens at that spot on the radar layer
· Hourly and daily charts show how much rain falls, not only the chance of it. "Past 24h" and "Next 24h" totals sit next to the summary (Essential and Pro)
· The daily chart shows the chance of rain for the day and for the night as two values, not one, plus the rainfall total for each day, and it is clear which night belongs to which day
· Sunrise, air quality and the AI summary each have their own card, and the AI answer stays while the forecast refreshes
· Locations list and search are new: swipe to reorder, rename or delete, and one search for saved and new places
· On iPad and Mac, your locations stay in a sidebar and the forecast uses two columns
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
Not a stretched iPhone layout. Every screen in RainViewer was rethought for a phone that opens, closes and stands up: map, player, forecast, search, share, settings, onboarding and the tutorial.
· Open it and the map simply grows to the whole inner display. Every control and the spot you were looking at stay where they were. Panels open beside the map instead of over it: pick a colour scheme and see it on the map at once, read a storm's details beside the storm, set up a share beside its preview
· Open it on the forecast and your locations sit beside it, with more hours and days at once
· Close it and everything follows you to the outer display, with native navigation in every orientation
· Half open, the forecast splits at the fold and the share preview uses both halves
· In landscape, navigation moves to the side bar and the rain stays in focus
· Every orientation works, including upside down
MORE ROOM FOR THE RAIN
· Landscape now works on every iPhone, on the map and in the forecast
· On iOS 26, when you move the map or scroll the forecast, the player and the tab bar shrink on their own and come back when you stop
IMPROVEMENTS
· The tap-on-map card has a new look
· Map layers are now named "Tropical Storms" and "Rain Direction"
· Rain alert levels are now Light, Moderate, Heavy and Extreme, the same scale as the map legend
· Forecast text follows your text size setting as you change it
FIXES
· Offline, every screen shows an error with "Retry", and the forecast no longer waits on old cached data
· Ads disappear right after a purchase, no restart needed
· The widget time badge shows the time again with the clear or tinted Home Screen style
· Storm track dates show the month in Arabic, Thai and Khmer; "Live Activities", "Update RainViewer" and the Feature Tour are localised
· "Change plan" in Subscription Details is readable again
Enjoying RainViewer? A quick review helps more people find it.… more - 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Weather · SA
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: raintoday, regenvorschau, weatherly, whether +2 moreiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.4.1Android· PICK YOUR RADAR COLORS ON DAY ONE: Setup now lets new users choose Universal Blue, Broadcast or Dark Sky and see the radar preview change right away.
· The map keeps the colors you pick.
· Already using RainViewer? Find every color scheme in Settings under "Weather Layers".… more - ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: weatherlyiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: prévisioniOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: thunderstormsiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: satelliteiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: climeiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: now updating weeklyAndroid4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Weather · CA · Top Free · Weather · NL
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar charting in a new countryAndroidCanada
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.2Android· GET MORE FROM YOUR SUBSCRIPTION: After you buy Pro or Essential, a short guide shows each feature you now have and opens it with one tap.
· Open the guide again any time in Settings under "Premium Features Overview".
· On the free plan? The same guide shows what Pro adds.… more - 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Free · Weather · ES · Top Grossing · All Apps · TH · Top Free · Weather · TR
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar new best rank in the overall chart: #99AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · TH
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar charting in a new countryAndroidSpain
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Weather · TH
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar new best rank in the overall chart: #101AndroidTop Grossing · All Apps · TH
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Weather · MX · Top Grossing · Weather · NL · Top Grossing · Weather · VN
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar charting in a new countryAndroidNetherlands
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: meteorediOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Free · Weather · MX · Top Grossing · Weather · TH · Top Grossing · Weather · TR · Top Free · Weather · VN
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar charting in a new country in 4 chartsAndroidMexico · Thailand · Turkey · Vietnam
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: regenalarmiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: app got smalleriOS511 MB → 118 MB (-77%)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: hurricane, noaa, 天気予報アプリiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.2.1iOSKEINE ABSTÜRZE MEHR AUF DER RADARKARTE
· Die App schließt sich nicht mehr beim Start, wenn die Radarebene aktiviert ist, oder beim Öffnen der Radarliste
· Auf iPad und Mac schließt sich die App nicht mehr, wenn du nach einem Radar oder einem Ort suchst
· Die App ist kleiner und wird dadurch schneller heruntergeladen und aktualisiert
TEILEN
· Auf dem iPhone zeigt das geteilte Bild einen größeren Kartenausschnitt
· Auf dem iPad erscheint das Menü nicht mehr im geteilten Bild
· Datum und Uhrzeit im geteilten Bild richten sich nach dem Format deines Geräts und werden nicht mehr abgeschnitten
FEHLERBEHEBUNGEN
· Warnungen für Kleinfahrzeuge und tropische Wirbelstürme haben eigene Symbole, und Warnungen vor tropischen Wirbelstürmen werden nicht mehr als Unwetter angezeigt
· Die Schaltfläche „i“ in der stündlichen Vorhersage öffnet wieder die Details
· Die Einführungstour verweist wieder auf die Kartenlegende
· Menü und Titel sitzen auf iPad und Mac an der richtigen Stelle
Hast du eine Frage oder einen Vorschlag? Schreib uns in der App unter Einstellungen > Feedback senden.… more - 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Weather · JP
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: 雨雲レーダー, 防災アプリiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: météoiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.1Android· KNOW HOW FRESH THE DATA IS: Tap the map on any layer - satellite, forecast, nowcast or Pro Radar - to see when its data was made, not only the frame time (Premium).
· The "Share" button is back on the map, below your location button. Send a radar video or GIF the same way as before.… more - ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: hurricane, noaa, forecastiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: meteorediOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.2iOSDATA TIME ON EVERY LAYER
The time on the player is the time of the frame, not the time of the data. A forecast model can be hours old, and a satellite image can be older than its frame.
· With Premium, tap any point on any layer to see when the data at that point was measured or calculated
· The details stay open when you move the map, zoom or switch layers, so you can compare values at one point
· To close the details, tap the details or an empty spot on the map
· Outside radar coverage, the details show "No coverage", and all text appears in your language
GLASS ON THE MAP
· The player, the speed and interval controls and the bottom menu now use the same glass
· The selected option is clear in the dark theme, and long radar names fit in the radar menu
· Close buttons and onboarding buttons match the current iOS design
SHARE BUTTON
· The "Share" button is back under the current location button, with the same radar video and GIF sharing as before. Fullscreen mode stays
PLAYER
· The collapsed player shows the date when the frame is not from today
· Rain direction arrows no longer freeze during playback at 4x and 6x
FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
· Map animation is smooth again: rain and clouds move between frames instead of jumping
· The satellite layer is cleaner and sharper across the whole world, and clouds now show relief
· Switching the AI toggle back to the regular forecast no longer closes the app
· The tab bar no longer disappears when you open the app from a Live Activity or a notification in fullscreen mode
· The map no longer flashes bright colours when you switch from satellite to radar
· The last search results are no longer hidden behind the keyboard
· RainViewer complications now appear on watch faces added from the app
· Layout fixes for the "Edit Name" dialogue, the plan cards and the "i" button with large system text
Enjoying RainViewer? A quick review helps more people find it.… more - ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: severe, satelliteiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: lightningiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar charting in a new countryAndroidJapan
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: regen-warnungen, façoniOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Weather · AU
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar charting in a new countryAndroidAustralia
- ✏️RainViewer: Live Weather Radar added hidden keywords: windy, hurricane, weatherzone, noaa +5 moreiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎RainViewer: Live Weather Radar reached Top 10 for “radar”iOS#10 in China search · popularity 60
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar entered the top 10AndroidTop Grossing · Weather · BR
- 📈RainViewer: Live Weather Radar hit #1iOSTop Grossing · Weather · SA
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar updated to version 8.0.1Android· MORE MAP, LESS INTERFACE: The map screen is rebuilt around one question - where is the rain, and where is it going. The layer button always shows "Radar" or "Satellite", unused buttons are gone, and the compact Material 3 player keeps playback options in one place.
· A new fullscreen button gives the map the whole screen - ideal for a radar screenshot or screen recording.
· The timeline now marks each radar frame, so you see where data exists and where it is missing.… more - 🆕RainViewer: Live Weather Radar first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidIndia
- 🆕RainViewer: Live Weather Radar first spotted by AppInsideriOS#81 in Top Grossing · Weather · United States
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar version 8.1iOSNo release notes
- 📦RainViewer: Live Weather Radar version 8.0AndroidNo release notes
- 🆕RainViewer: Live Weather Radar released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕RainViewer: Live Weather Radar released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
194k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#1
App Store · 
Weather Grossing
Weather GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
1,965
▲ +12% vs the 2 weeks before (App Store)
Measured
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
RainViewer is a free weather application that provides real-time radar maps, minute-by-minute rain nowcasts, and severe weather alerts for users seeking precise, immediate precipitation data. The app demonstrates strong monetization potential in the Middle East and Europe, ranking #2 in Saudi Arabia and #8 in UAE for grossing revenue, while maintaining high visibility in free charts across South America and Asia.
Similar apps: Windy, AccuWeather, MyRadar
App Store
App details
App ID
980123924
Publisher
MeteoLab Inc.
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Jul 2015
11 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
34
AR BE BG KM CA HR CS DA NL EN ET FI …
Size
131 MB
Also listed in
Travel
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.lucky_apps.RainViewer
Publisher
MeteoLab Inc.
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v7.21, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
3
Permissions
25
Trackers
Google AdMobGoogle CrashLyticsGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 1k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 1k+ | 1M+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 10M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where RainViewer: Live Weather Radar's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Ad-led
How RainViewer: Live Weather Radar makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 8 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 2 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | RainViewer Essential: 1 Year subscription | |
| 4 | Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month subscription | |
| 5 | Rain Viewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 6 | RainViewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 7 | 12 Months subscription | |
| 8 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Month subscription | |
| 9 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 10 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Year subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #1 Weather Grossing | 15 of 30 countries | #32 | #46 |
| Google Play | #3 Weather Free | 17 of 23 countries | #86 | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
1,260
▲ +12% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.6★ lifetime
Review momentum
88/100
top 1% of Weather apps
Growing fastest in 
Germany ▲ +115% · 
Australia ▲ +83%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 1,165 | 93% | – |
 United States | 26 | 2% | ▲ +6% |
| Germany | 21 | 2% | ▲ +115% |
 Brazil | 15 | 1% | ▼ -29% |
 Italy | 8.8 | 1% | ▼ -39% |
 United Kingdom | 8 | 1% | ▼ -11% |
 France | 5.2 | 0% | ▼ -23% |
| Australia | 3.8 | 0% | ▲ +83% |
 India | 2 | 0% | ▼ -33% |
 United Arab Emirates | 1.8 | 0% | – |
 Canada | 1.8 | 0% | – |
 Japan | 1.5 | 0% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
706
▼ -26% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
4.1★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
72/100
faster than 95% of Weather apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 31k |
| Google Play | 4.7 ★ | 163k 493 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 194k |
What users say about RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
From the 60 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users frequently complain about aggressive paywalls that restrict basic radar features and intrusive ads in the free version. While some praise the app's accuracy and widget design, many report connection errors, inaccurate alerts, and limited coverage outside major regions.
Mixed (45% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and few ads. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “Tough in Costa Rica but quite good”
- Ads: “Better Now — no Ads galore”
- Crashes & bugs: “Awesome but there was a bug”
- Speed & performance: “It seems to be battery friendly, which is paramount to have for a feature”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Cancelled my subscription”
- Crashes & bugs: “Radar doesn't work occasionally”
- Connection & sync: “I have Wi-Fi at home so I could use that”
- Ads: “But, ads are so intrusive, I cannot evaluate adequately”
About RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
Live weather radar, nowcast and rain alerts, hyperlocal forecast and hurricane tracker, built to help you see, understand, and act on rain before it changes.
Tracking a hurricane’s path or just checking if it’s dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the map. Data reaches your screen in seconds, direct from the radar source, not a third-party feed. 10 million downloads.
RAIN FIRST
We rearranged the forecast tab to put nowcast and radar at the top. The minute-by-minute rain intensity chart shows when rain starts, peaks, and stops, with a radar map preview and temperature beside it. Cleaner hourly and daily charts now show rainfall totals. The chance of rain is only half the picture: how much falls, and how fast, makes the difference.
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
RainViewer adapts radar map to every pose in Duo: open it and your locations sit beside the forecast on the inner display, with more hours and days at once; close it and the forecast follows you to the outer display; in landscape, navigation moves to the side and the rain stays in focus.
THE RADAR MAP YOU ACTUALLY USE
• 2-hour rain nowcast updated every 10 minutes.
• Tap the map to see rain details on every layer.
• Fullscreen mode clears the interface for clean screenshots and storm animations.
• 48-hour radar animation.
• 60fps vector map with arrows that show rain direction.
• Coverage in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
HOURLY AND 14-DAY FORECAST
Temperature, conditions, wind speed and direction, chance of precipitation, and rain amount hour by hour for 72 hours and day by day for 14 days.
RAINFALL TOTALS (QPE)
Pick a window - 1, 3, 12, 24, or 48 hours - and tap any spot on the map for the exact amount in millimeters or inches.
RADAR SCAN AGE
Tap the map to see when each area was last scanned, so you know when to leave.
RAIN ALERTS YOU CAN RELY ON
Set custom alerts for your locations. Get national severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and more.
HURRICANE AND STORM TRACKER
Follow hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones on the map. See each storm's live position, path, category, and wind speed in your units
AI WEATHER INSIGHTS
Get AI to write a short summary of what to expect.
APPLE WATCH (FREE)
Standalone app with radar map, satellite, forecast, severe alerts, and complications. Works without your iPhone.
WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES
Radar and minute-by-minute rain widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen. Live Activities show rain intensity as it changes.
PRO RADAR (US + MOST OF EUROPE, 22 COUNTRIES)
Doppler products on all tilts - reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, and the differential measurements used by meteorologists.
PRIVACY
Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
CHOOSE YOUR PLAN
FREE: live radar, 30-minute nowcast, 6-hour and 5-day forecast.
TRY ESSENTIAL OR PRO FREE FOR 14 DAYS
ESSENTIAL, $19.99/year: 2-hour nowcast, Rainfall Totals, AI insights,
Tracking a hurricane’s path or just checking if it’s dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the map. Data reaches your screen in seconds, direct from the radar source, not a third-party feed. 10 million downloads.
RAIN FIRST
We rearranged the forecast tab to put nowcast and radar at the top. The minute-by-minute rain intensity chart shows when rain starts, peaks, and stops, with a radar map preview and temperature beside it. Cleaner hourly and daily charts now show rainfall totals. The chance of rain is only half the picture: how much falls, and how fast, makes the difference.
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
RainViewer adapts radar map to every pose in Duo: open it and your locations sit beside the forecast on the inner display, with more hours and days at once; close it and the forecast follows you to the outer display; in landscape, navigation moves to the side and the rain stays in focus.
THE RADAR MAP YOU ACTUALLY USE
• 2-hour rain nowcast updated every 10 minutes.
• Tap the map to see rain details on every layer.
• Fullscreen mode clears the interface for clean screenshots and storm animations.
• 48-hour radar animation.
• 60fps vector map with arrows that show rain direction.
• Coverage in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
HOURLY AND 14-DAY FORECAST
Temperature, conditions, wind speed and direction, chance of precipitation, and rain amount hour by hour for 72 hours and day by day for 14 days.
RAINFALL TOTALS (QPE)
Pick a window - 1, 3, 12, 24, or 48 hours - and tap any spot on the map for the exact amount in millimeters or inches.
RADAR SCAN AGE
Tap the map to see when each area was last scanned, so you know when to leave.
RAIN ALERTS YOU CAN RELY ON
Set custom alerts for your locations. Get national severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and more.
HURRICANE AND STORM TRACKER
Follow hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones on the map. See each storm's live position, path, category, and wind speed in your units
AI WEATHER INSIGHTS
Get AI to write a short summary of what to expect.
APPLE WATCH (FREE)
Standalone app with radar map, satellite, forecast, severe alerts, and complications. Works without your iPhone.
WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES
Radar and minute-by-minute rain widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen. Live Activities show rain intensity as it changes.
PRO RADAR (US + MOST OF EUROPE, 22 COUNTRIES)
Doppler products on all tilts - reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, and the differential measurements used by meteorologists.
PRIVACY
Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
CHOOSE YOUR PLAN
FREE: live radar, 30-minute nowcast, 6-hour and 5-day forecast.
TRY ESSENTIAL OR PRO FREE FOR 14 DAYS
ESSENTIAL, $19.99/year: 2-hour nowcast, Rainfall Totals, AI insights,
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar App Store
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar is #1 in Weather Grossing in Saudi Arabia and charting in 15 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperMeteoLab Inc.
CategoryWeather
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (31k)
Version8.6
Age rating4+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10M+ worldwide
Rating
4.6 ★
31k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#1
Weather GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
1,260
▲ +12% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
RainViewer is a free weather application that provides real-time radar maps, minute-by-minute rain nowcasts, and severe weather alerts for users seeking precise, immediate precipitation data. The app demonstrates strong monetization potential in the Middle East and Europe, ranking #2 in Saudi Arabia and #8 in UAE for grossing revenue, while maintaining high visibility in free charts across South America and Asia.
Similar apps: Windy, AccuWeather, MyRadar
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on the App Store
App details
App ID
980123924
Publisher
MeteoLab Inc.
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Jul 2015
11 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
34
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Size
131 MB
Also listed in
Travel
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where RainViewer: Live Weather Radar's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in RainViewer: Live Weather Radar before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Top Grossing positions in every country we track, converted to dollars per store and country, sized by each market's published consumer spend and calibrated on revenue companies publish.
Business model: Ad-led
How RainViewer: Live Weather Radar makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 8 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 2 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | RainViewer Essential: 1 Year subscription | |
| 4 | Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month subscription | |
| 5 | Rain Viewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 6 | RainViewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 7 | 12 Months subscription | |
| 8 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Month subscription | |
| 9 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 10 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Year subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
| Germany | WeatherGrossing | #5 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherFree | #3 |
| United States | WeatherFree | #32 |
| United Kingdom | WeatherGrossing | #14 |
| India | WeatherGrossing | #7 |
| United States | WeatherGrossing | #46 |
| Japan | WeatherGrossing | #29 |
| Brazil | WeatherFree | #9 |
| Germany | WeatherFree | #20 |
 South Korea | WeatherGrossing | #21 |
 China | WeatherGrossing | #54 |
| Brazil | WeatherGrossing | #19 |
| United Kingdom | WeatherFree | #34 |
| France | WeatherGrossing | #26 |
 Indonesia | WeatherGrossing | #12 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherGrossing | #8 |
| Italy | WeatherGrossing | #17 |
| Australia | WeatherGrossing | #26 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherFree | #9 |
| India | WeatherFree | #28 |
| Italy | WeatherFree | #30 |
| France | WeatherFree | #49 |
| China | WeatherFree | #143 |
| Australia | WeatherFree | #43 |
| Saudi Arabia | All AppsFree | #76 |
| Canada | WeatherFree | #58 |
| Indonesia | WeatherFree | #124 |
Apps near RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
31k ratings
Measured
Ratings
31k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
1,260
▲ +12% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.6★ lifetime
Review momentum
88/100
top 1% of Weather apps
Growing fastest in Germany ▲ +115% · Australia ▲ +83%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 1,165 | 93% | – |
| United States | 26 | 2% | ▲ +6% |
| Germany | 21 | 2% | ▲ +115% |
| Brazil | 15 | 1% | ▼ -29% |
| Italy | 8.8 | 1% | ▼ -39% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 1% | ▼ -11% |
| France | 5.2 | 0% | ▼ -23% |
| Australia | 3.8 | 0% | ▲ +83% |
| India | 2 | 0% | ▼ -33% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1.8 | 0% | – |
| Canada | 1.8 | 0% | – |
| Japan | 1.5 | 0% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
From the 60 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users frequently complain about aggressive paywalls that restrict basic radar features and intrusive ads in the free version. While some praise the app's accuracy and widget design, many report connection errors, inaccurate alerts, and limited coverage outside major regions.
Mixed (45% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and few ads. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “Tough in Costa Rica but quite good”
- Ads: “Better Now — no Ads galore”
- Crashes & bugs: “Awesome but there was a bug”
- Speed & performance: “It seems to be battery friendly, which is paramount to have for a feature”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Cancelled my subscription”
- Crashes & bugs: “Radar doesn't work occasionally”
- Connection & sync: “I have Wi-Fi at home so I could use that”
- Ads: “But, ads are so intrusive, I cannot evaluate adequately”
About RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
Live weather radar, nowcast and rain alerts, hyperlocal forecast and hurricane tracker, built to help you see, understand, and act on rain before it changes.
Tracking a hurricane’s path or just checking if it’s dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the map. Data reaches your screen in seconds, direct from the radar source, not a third-party feed. 10 million downloads.
RAIN FIRST
We rearranged the forecast tab to put nowcast and radar at the top. The minute-by-minute rain intensity chart shows when rain starts, peaks, and stops, with a radar map preview and temperature beside it. Cleaner hourly and daily charts now show rainfall totals. The chance of rain is only half the picture: how much falls, and how fast, makes the difference.
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
RainViewer adapts radar map to every pose in Duo: open it and your locations sit beside the forecast on the inner display, with more hours and days at once; close it and the forecast follows you to the outer display; in landscape, navigation moves to the side and the rain stays in focus.
THE RADAR MAP YOU ACTUALLY USE
• 2-hour rain nowcast updated every 10 minutes.
• Tap the map to see rain details on every layer.
• Fullscreen mode clears the interface for clean screenshots and storm animations.
• 48-hour radar animation.
• 60fps vector map with arrows that show rain direction.
• Coverage in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
HOURLY AND 14-DAY FORECAST
Temperature, conditions, wind speed and direction, chance of precipitation, and rain amount hour by hour for 72 hours and day by day for 14 days.
RAINFALL TOTALS (QPE)
Pick a window - 1, 3, 12, 24, or 48 hours - and tap any spot on the map for the exact amount in millimeters or inches.
RADAR SCAN AGE
Tap the map to see when each area was last scanned, so you know when to leave.
RAIN ALERTS YOU CAN RELY ON
Set custom alerts for your locations. Get national severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and more.
HURRICANE AND STORM TRACKER
Follow hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones on the map. See each storm's live position, path, category, and wind speed in your units
AI WEATHER INSIGHTS
Get AI to write a short summary of what to expect.
APPLE WATCH (FREE)
Standalone app with radar map, satellite, forecast, severe alerts, and complications. Works without your iPhone.
WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES
Radar and minute-by-minute rain widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen. Live Activities show rain intensity as it changes.
PRO RADAR (US + MOST OF EUROPE, 22 COUNTRIES)
Doppler products on all tilts - reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, and the differential measurements used by meteorologists.
PRIVACY
Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
CHOOSE YOUR PLAN
FREE: live radar, 30-minute nowcast, 6-hour and 5-day forecast.
TRY ESSENTIAL OR PRO FREE FOR 14 DAYS
ESSENTIAL, $19.99/year: 2-hour nowcast, Rainfall Totals, AI insights,
Tracking a hurricane’s path or just checking if it’s dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the map. Data reaches your screen in seconds, direct from the radar source, not a third-party feed. 10 million downloads.
RAIN FIRST
We rearranged the forecast tab to put nowcast and radar at the top. The minute-by-minute rain intensity chart shows when rain starts, peaks, and stops, with a radar map preview and temperature beside it. Cleaner hourly and daily charts now show rainfall totals. The chance of rain is only half the picture: how much falls, and how fast, makes the difference.
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
RainViewer adapts radar map to every pose in Duo: open it and your locations sit beside the forecast on the inner display, with more hours and days at once; close it and the forecast follows you to the outer display; in landscape, navigation moves to the side and the rain stays in focus.
THE RADAR MAP YOU ACTUALLY USE
• 2-hour rain nowcast updated every 10 minutes.
• Tap the map to see rain details on every layer.
• Fullscreen mode clears the interface for clean screenshots and storm animations.
• 48-hour radar animation.
• 60fps vector map with arrows that show rain direction.
• Coverage in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
HOURLY AND 14-DAY FORECAST
Temperature, conditions, wind speed and direction, chance of precipitation, and rain amount hour by hour for 72 hours and day by day for 14 days.
RAINFALL TOTALS (QPE)
Pick a window - 1, 3, 12, 24, or 48 hours - and tap any spot on the map for the exact amount in millimeters or inches.
RADAR SCAN AGE
Tap the map to see when each area was last scanned, so you know when to leave.
RAIN ALERTS YOU CAN RELY ON
Set custom alerts for your locations. Get national severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and more.
HURRICANE AND STORM TRACKER
Follow hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones on the map. See each storm's live position, path, category, and wind speed in your units
AI WEATHER INSIGHTS
Get AI to write a short summary of what to expect.
APPLE WATCH (FREE)
Standalone app with radar map, satellite, forecast, severe alerts, and complications. Works without your iPhone.
WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES
Radar and minute-by-minute rain widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen. Live Activities show rain intensity as it changes.
PRO RADAR (US + MOST OF EUROPE, 22 COUNTRIES)
Doppler products on all tilts - reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, and the differential measurements used by meteorologists.
PRIVACY
Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
CHOOSE YOUR PLAN
FREE: live radar, 30-minute nowcast, 6-hour and 5-day forecast.
TRY ESSENTIAL OR PRO FREE FOR 14 DAYS
ESSENTIAL, $19.99/year: 2-hour nowcast, Rainfall Totals, AI insights,
Latest updates
8.6
LIVE ACTIVITIES ARE EASIER TO READ
· When several Live Activities are active, the Dynamic Island shows the precipitation icon, and the time is no longer cut off
· The time in the Dynamic Island is white, the same as on the Lock Screen
· The expanded Dynamic Island uses the same layout as the Lock Screen
· On a Mac, the Live Activity in the menu bar no longer clips text
· On Apple Watch, the Live Activity shows the place name and the minutes until the rain starts or ends
Have a question or suggestion? Contact us via the app Settings > Send Feedback.
8.5
THE ANIMATION STARTS IN 2 SECONDS
Tap Play and the rain moves. On mobile data it used to take 4 to 5 seconds, and much longer on 3G. Many small optimisations later, the animation now starts within 2 seconds on 4G, and the frame under the time slider appears first, so you see the moment you asked for.
· Between frames, each part of the rain now moves with its own measured speed and direction, not with one speed for the whole map
MAP AND WIDGETS
· Weather alerts no longer hide the rain: the alert outline is above the weather layers, and the fill is below them
· A new "Forecast Cone" switch hides the cone around a storm track (Essential and Pro)
· The radar map in widgets is sharp, and widget text follows your iOS text size
· The Apple Watch radar complication no longer shows "Unavailable"
FIXES
· The weather alert count on the tap-on-map card now opens the alerts
· Satellite widgets no longer show every place name twice
Have a question or suggestion? Contact us via the app Settings > Send Feedback.
8.4
RAIN FIRST
The forecast screen is rebuilt. It still reads the way you know it, but the answer you came for is now at the top: nowcast and radar first, then everything else in cards.
· The rain chart, the radar preview and the temperature come first now. Weather alerts sit below them, not above. Tap the preview and the map opens at that spot on the radar layer
· Hourly and daily charts show how much rain falls, not only the chance of it. "Past 24h" and "Next 24h" totals sit next to the summary (Essential and Pro)
· The daily chart shows the chance of rain for the day and for the night as two values, not one, plus the rainfall total for each day, and it is clear which night belongs to which day
· Sunrise, air quality and the AI summary each have their own card, and the AI answer stays while the forecast refreshes
· Locations list and search are new: swipe to reorder, rename or delete, and one search for saved and new places
· On iPad and Mac, your locations stay in a sidebar and the forecast uses two columns
BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO
Not a stretched iPhone layout. Every screen in RainViewer was rethought for a phone that opens, closes and stands up: map, player, forecast, search, share, settings, onboarding and the tutorial.
· Open it and the map simply grows to the whole inner display. Every control and the spot you were looking at stay where they were. Panels open beside the map instead of over it: pick a colour scheme and see it on the map at once, read a storm's details beside the storm, set up a share beside its preview
· Open it on the forecast and your locations sit beside it, with more hours and days at once
· Close it and everything follows you to the outer display, with native navigation in every orientation
· Half open, the forecast splits at the fold and the share preview uses both halves
· In landscape, navigation moves to the side bar and the rain stays in focus
· Every orientation works, including upside down
MORE ROOM FOR THE RAIN
· Landscape now works on every iPhone, on the map and in the forecast
· On iOS 26, when you move the map or scroll the forecast, the player and the tab bar shrink on their own and come back when you stop
IMPROVEMENTS
· The tap-on-map card has a new look
· Map layers are now named "Tropical Storms" and "Rain Direction"
· Rain alert levels are now Light, Moderate, Heavy and Extreme, the same scale as the map legend
· Forecast text follows your text size setting as you change it
FIXES
· Offline, every screen shows an error with "Retry", and the forecast no longer waits on old cached data
· Ads disappear right after a purchase, no restart needed
· The widget time badge shows the time again with the clear or tinted Home Screen style
· Storm track dates show the month in Arabic, Thai and Khmer; "Live Activities", "Update RainViewer" and the Feature Tour are localised
· "Change plan" in Subscription Details is readable again
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What RainViewer: Live Weather Radar changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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RainViewer: Live Weather Radar Android
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar is #6 in Weather Grossing on Google Play in Brazil and charting in 17 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperMeteoLab
CategoryWeather
PriceFree
Released
Installs1M+
Rating★ 4.7 (163k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.7 ★
163k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#6
Weather GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
706
▼ -26% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
RainViewer is a free weather application providing live radar maps, nowcasting, and severe weather alerts for users seeking precise, real-time precipitation data. The app ranks #3 in Thailand's free weather charts and consistently places within the top 20 grossing weather apps across diverse markets including Brazil, India, and Europe, indicating strong monetization potential alongside its high user base.
Similar apps: AccuWeather, Windy.com, MyRadar
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.lucky_apps.RainViewer
Publisher
MeteoLab Inc.
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v7.21, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
3
Permissions
25
Trackers
Google AdMobGoogle CrashLyticsGoogle Firebase Analytics
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RainViewer: Live Weather Radar downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where RainViewer: Live Weather Radar's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in RainViewer: Live Weather Radar before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Top Grossing positions in every country we track, converted to dollars per store and country, sized by each market's published consumer spend and calibrated on revenue companies publish.
Business model: Ad-led
How RainViewer: Live Weather Radar makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds · 8 ad networks
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 2 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 3 | RainViewer Essential: 1 Year subscription | |
| 4 | Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month subscription | |
| 5 | Rain Viewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 6 | RainViewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 7 | 12 Months subscription | |
| 8 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Month subscription | |
| 9 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 10 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Year subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | WeatherGrossing | #6 |
| Thailand | WeatherFree | #3 |
| India | WeatherGrossing | #14 |
| United States | WeatherFree | #86 |
 Mexico | WeatherGrossing | #17 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherFree | #13 |
| Brazil | WeatherFree | #25 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherGrossing | #17 |
| Indonesia | WeatherGrossing | #17 |
| United Kingdom | WeatherFree | #61 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherGrossing | #14 |
 Turkey | WeatherGrossing | #14 |
 Netherlands | WeatherGrossing | #15 |
| Germany | WeatherFree | #69 |
| France | WeatherFree | #49 |
| India | WeatherFree | #46 |
| Thailand | WeatherGrossing | #17 |
| Australia | WeatherFree | #59 |
 Vietnam | WeatherGrossing | #15 |
| Italy | WeatherFree | #48 |
 Spain | WeatherFree | #46 |
| Mexico | WeatherFree | #51 |
| Indonesia | WeatherFree | #55 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherFree | #58 |
| Thailand | All AppsGrossing | #140 |
| Turkey | WeatherFree | #104 |
Apps near RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #6.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
163k ratings
Measured
Ratings
163k
Measured
Written reviews
493
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
706
▼ -26% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1
Google Play
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
4.1★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
72/100
faster than 95% of Weather apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
From the 104 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's simple interface and live radar visuals but are heavily frustrated by aggressive advertising and perceived inaccuracies in rain forecasting. Recent updates have introduced location tracking bugs and privacy concerns, leading to significant user churn and negative sentiment regarding subscription value.
Mixed but leaning positive (60% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for few ads, and good value. The main complaints are about ads, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Ads: “the free functions without ads”
- Price & subscription: “Can you offer lifetime subscription?”
- Ease of use: “Really good and easy to use”
- Useful: “The next hour projection is very useful”
Common complaints
- Ads: “Useless app with ad every click”
- Price & subscription: “I don't want a subscription”
- Useful: “not very useful and intrusive ads”
- Privacy & data: “Can't trust the data privacy settings”
About RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
Live weather radar, nowcast and rain alerts, hyperlocal forecast and hurricane tracker. See, understand, and act on rain before it changes your plans.
Tracking a hurricane, watching a storm build, or checking if it's dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the weather radar map, in seconds, direct from the radar source. 10 million downloads across iOS and Android rely on RainViewer for live rain radar.
Radar wins the map screen. Built with Material 3: fewer buttons, more radar. A layer indicator always shows which layer you see: Radar, Satellite, Forecast, Temperature, Rainfall Totals, or Radar + Satellite. The timeline marks every radar frame. Fullscreen mode clears the interface for a clean screenshot or screencast. Tablets and foldables get a proper landscape layout.
The radar map you actually use
Tap the map for rain intensity, cloud top temperature, the full alert advisory, and when that spot was last scanned
Live indicator shows when you see the latest scan. New radar frames every 2 minutes on Essential and Pro
Native radar resolution, no blur at any zoom. Explore individual radar stations with Pro Radar
20 color schemes, 5 animation speeds, Rain Direction arrows
Rain radar in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania
Rain alerts you can rely on: Rain alerts for your saved locations, including drizzle, with an optional daily limit. Severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and more. Choose how often your location updates in the background: Auto, or every 15 minutes to 12 hours.
Hurricane and storm tracker: Tropical Storms overlay on the map. Timed alerts show when a storm reaches you.
Minute-by-minute precipitation: See when rain starts, peaks, and stops. Radar nowcast up to 2 hours ahead, refreshed every 10 minutes.
Hourly and 14-day weather forecast: Temperature, rain chance, and wind hourly for up to 72 hours, then daily for 14 days. Air quality index. Forecast map layers from ECMWF, ICON, GFS, HRRR, and WRF-ROMS Thailand.
Rainfall Totals (QPE): How much rain fell in the last 1 to 48 hours. Tap any spot on the radar map for the exact amount.
AI Weather Insights: Our AI reads the radar near you and summarizes the next few hours.
Five home screen widgets: Radar Map with Rain Direction arrows, Nowcast rain chart, Hourly, 7-Day, and Summary. Transparent or solid backgrounds. Foldable support, including Galaxy Z Fold.
Pro Radar (US + most of Europe, 22 countries): See what meteorologists see: Doppler products on all tilts with tap-to-read values.
Privacy: Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
FREE: live radar and satellite, 6-hour playback, 30-minute nowcast, 5-minute updates, 24-hour model forecast, 12-hour hourly and 7-day forecast, 2 saved locations.
ESSENTIAL adds: 48-hour playback, 2-hour nowcast, 2-minute updates, exact frames, Rain Direction, Tropical Storms, tap on map for details, Rainfall Totals, 72-hour
Tracking a hurricane, watching a storm build, or checking if it's dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the weather radar map, in seconds, direct from the radar source. 10 million downloads across iOS and Android rely on RainViewer for live rain radar.
Radar wins the map screen. Built with Material 3: fewer buttons, more radar. A layer indicator always shows which layer you see: Radar, Satellite, Forecast, Temperature, Rainfall Totals, or Radar + Satellite. The timeline marks every radar frame. Fullscreen mode clears the interface for a clean screenshot or screencast. Tablets and foldables get a proper landscape layout.
The radar map you actually use
Tap the map for rain intensity, cloud top temperature, the full alert advisory, and when that spot was last scanned
Live indicator shows when you see the latest scan. New radar frames every 2 minutes on Essential and Pro
Native radar resolution, no blur at any zoom. Explore individual radar stations with Pro Radar
20 color schemes, 5 animation speeds, Rain Direction arrows
Rain radar in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania
Rain alerts you can rely on: Rain alerts for your saved locations, including drizzle, with an optional daily limit. Severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and more. Choose how often your location updates in the background: Auto, or every 15 minutes to 12 hours.
Hurricane and storm tracker: Tropical Storms overlay on the map. Timed alerts show when a storm reaches you.
Minute-by-minute precipitation: See when rain starts, peaks, and stops. Radar nowcast up to 2 hours ahead, refreshed every 10 minutes.
Hourly and 14-day weather forecast: Temperature, rain chance, and wind hourly for up to 72 hours, then daily for 14 days. Air quality index. Forecast map layers from ECMWF, ICON, GFS, HRRR, and WRF-ROMS Thailand.
Rainfall Totals (QPE): How much rain fell in the last 1 to 48 hours. Tap any spot on the radar map for the exact amount.
AI Weather Insights: Our AI reads the radar near you and summarizes the next few hours.
Five home screen widgets: Radar Map with Rain Direction arrows, Nowcast rain chart, Hourly, 7-Day, and Summary. Transparent or solid backgrounds. Foldable support, including Galaxy Z Fold.
Pro Radar (US + most of Europe, 22 countries): See what meteorologists see: Doppler products on all tilts with tap-to-read values.
Privacy: Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
FREE: live radar and satellite, 6-hour playback, 30-minute nowcast, 5-minute updates, 24-hour model forecast, 12-hour hourly and 7-day forecast, 2 saved locations.
ESSENTIAL adds: 48-hour playback, 2-hour nowcast, 2-minute updates, exact frames, Rain Direction, Tropical Storms, tap on map for details, Rainfall Totals, 72-hour
What's new in 8.5
· FIND ANY PLACE ON THE MAP: Tap the search button, pick a city and the map moves there with a pin. Tap the pin to see the forecast. With radars shown, the same button finds radar stations.
· Turn off "Forecast Cone" in Settings under "Weather Layers" to see rain below a storm.
· Weather alert borders now stay above rain and clouds.
· Turn off "Forecast Cone" in Settings under "Weather Layers" to see rain below a storm.
· Weather alert borders now stay above rain and clouds.
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