RainViewer: Live Weather Radar: iPhone vs Android
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar by MeteoLab Inc. is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Weather GrossingRainViewer: Live Weather Radar at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-23. 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 needing precise, real-time precipitation data. The app holds the #2 position in both grossing and free charts in South Africa, with notable top-15 rankings in the UAE, Brazil, and India.
Similar apps: Windy, AccuWeather, MyRadar
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar’s App Store privacy label declares 4 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 4 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 1k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 1k+ | 1M+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 10M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
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.
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 Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 5 | Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month subscription | |
| 6 | 12 Months subscription | |
| 7 | RainViewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 8 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 9 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Year subscription | |
| 10 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Month subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 31k |
| Google Play | 4.7 ★ | 162k 492 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 193k |
What users say about RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
From the 58 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app's accurate radar visualization and widget customization but heavily criticize aggressive paywalls that restrict basic future radar access. Frequent complaints include server connection errors, intrusive ads in the free version, and inaccurate rain alerts.
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
Tracking a hurricane's path, watching a storm build, 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 of people rely on RainViewer for live radar.
RADAR WINS THE MAP SCREEN
Built with Apple's Liquid Glass design, the map screen now has fewer buttons and more room for the radar. A new layer indicator on the map shows Radar, Satellite, Forecast, Temperature, Rainfall Totals (QPE), Radar + Satellite. Fullscreen mode clears the interface for a clean screenshot or a beautiful screencast of a storm animation.
For anyone whose day depends on the next hour of rain.
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 marks data older than 15 minutes. New frames every 2 minutes on paid plans.
• Native radar resolution, no blur at any zoom level. Pick a single radar station or the nearest ones.
• 20 radar color schemes and 5 animation speeds.
• 80+ countries: USA, all of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
• Rated 4.7 by millions of users.
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.
HURRICANE AND STORM TRACKER
Timed alerts show exactly when a storm reaches you.
MINUTE-BY-MINUTE PRECIPITATION
When rain is coming, see when it starts, peaks, and stops. Nowcast updates every 10 minutes, up to 2 hours ahead. Live Activity appears automatically when rain is coming, on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
HOURLY AND 14-DAY FORECAST
Plan the day and the week: temperature, rain chance, and wind hourly for up to 72 hours, then daily for up to 14 days. Forecast map layers from ECMWF, ICON, HRRR, and WRF-ROMS Thailand.
RAINFALL TOTALS (QPE)
See how much rain fell in the last 1 to 48 hours. Tap any spot for the exact amount.
AI WEATHER INSIGHTS
Our AI reads the radar near you and writes a short summary of the next few hours.
APPLE WATCH, WIDGETS, MAC
Standalone Watch app with radar, forecast, alerts, and a radar complication. Radar and rain widgets for Home and Lock Screen. Runs on Mac too.
PRO RADAR (US + MOST OF EUROPE, 22 COUNTRIES)
See what meteorologists see: Doppler products on all tilts, reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, dual-pol, with tap-to-read values. Standard radar in Thailand and Saudi Arabia is free.
PRIVACY
Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
FREE: live radar and satellite, 6-hour archive, 7-day forecast, 2 saved locations, Apple Watch.
ESSENTIAL adds: 48-hour archive, 2-ho
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar iPhone
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 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 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Weather GrossingRainViewer: Live Weather Radar at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-23. 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 needing precise, real-time precipitation data. The app holds the #2 position in both grossing and free charts in South Africa, with notable top-15 rankings in the UAE, Brazil, and India.
Similar apps: Windy, AccuWeather, MyRadar
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar’s App Store privacy label declares 4 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 4 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
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
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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in RainViewer: Live Weather Radar before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How RainViewer: Live Weather Radar makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
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 Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 5 | Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month subscription | |
| 6 | 12 Months subscription | |
| 7 | RainViewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 8 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 9 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Year subscription | |
| 10 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Month subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
| United States | WeatherFree | #27 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherFree | #3 |
 Germany | WeatherFree | #13 |
 Japan | WeatherGrossing | #32 |
| United States | WeatherGrossing | #54 |
| Germany | WeatherGrossing | #18 |
 United Kingdom | WeatherGrossing | #28 |
| United Kingdom | WeatherFree | #25 |
 Brazil | WeatherGrossing | #15 |
| Brazil | WeatherFree | #14 |
 France | WeatherGrossing | #22 |
 China | WeatherGrossing | #61 |
 United Arab Emirates | WeatherFree | #6 |
 India | WeatherFree | #17 |
 Italy | WeatherGrossing | #22 |
| India | WeatherGrossing | #31 |
| France | WeatherFree | #38 |
 Indonesia | WeatherFree | #19 |
 South Korea | WeatherGrossing | #63 |
 Australia | WeatherFree | #38 |
| Indonesia | WeatherGrossing | #25 |
| Italy | WeatherFree | #33 |
| Australia | WeatherGrossing | #52 |
| South Korea | WeatherFree | #72 |
 Canada | WeatherFree | #56 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherGrossing | #28 |
Apps near RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
From the 58 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app's accurate radar visualization and widget customization but heavily criticize aggressive paywalls that restrict basic future radar access. Frequent complaints include server connection errors, intrusive ads in the free version, and inaccurate rain alerts.
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
Tracking a hurricane's path, watching a storm build, 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 of people rely on RainViewer for live radar.
RADAR WINS THE MAP SCREEN
Built with Apple's Liquid Glass design, the map screen now has fewer buttons and more room for the radar. A new layer indicator on the map shows Radar, Satellite, Forecast, Temperature, Rainfall Totals (QPE), Radar + Satellite. Fullscreen mode clears the interface for a clean screenshot or a beautiful screencast of a storm animation.
For anyone whose day depends on the next hour of rain.
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 marks data older than 15 minutes. New frames every 2 minutes on paid plans.
• Native radar resolution, no blur at any zoom level. Pick a single radar station or the nearest ones.
• 20 radar color schemes and 5 animation speeds.
• 80+ countries: USA, all of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
• Rated 4.7 by millions of users.
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.
HURRICANE AND STORM TRACKER
Timed alerts show exactly when a storm reaches you.
MINUTE-BY-MINUTE PRECIPITATION
When rain is coming, see when it starts, peaks, and stops. Nowcast updates every 10 minutes, up to 2 hours ahead. Live Activity appears automatically when rain is coming, on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
HOURLY AND 14-DAY FORECAST
Plan the day and the week: temperature, rain chance, and wind hourly for up to 72 hours, then daily for up to 14 days. Forecast map layers from ECMWF, ICON, HRRR, and WRF-ROMS Thailand.
RAINFALL TOTALS (QPE)
See how much rain fell in the last 1 to 48 hours. Tap any spot for the exact amount.
AI WEATHER INSIGHTS
Our AI reads the radar near you and writes a short summary of the next few hours.
APPLE WATCH, WIDGETS, MAC
Standalone Watch app with radar, forecast, alerts, and a radar complication. Radar and rain widgets for Home and Lock Screen. Runs on Mac too.
PRO RADAR (US + MOST OF EUROPE, 22 COUNTRIES)
See what meteorologists see: Doppler products on all tilts, reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, dual-pol, with tap-to-read values. Standard radar in Thailand and Saudi Arabia is free.
PRIVACY
Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.
FREE: live radar and satellite, 6-hour archive, 7-day forecast, 2 saved locations, Apple Watch.
ESSENTIAL adds: 48-hour archive, 2-ho
Latest updates
Store changes
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, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar is #3 in Weather Free on Google Play in Thailand and charting in 17 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Weather FreeRainViewer: Live Weather Radar at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-22. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
RainViewer is a free weather application providing live radar maps, nowcasts, and severe weather alerts for users seeking precise, real-time precipitation data. The app holds strong positions in the Weather category across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe, ranking as high as #3 in Thailand's free charts and consistently appearing in top-20 grossing lists in markets like Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.
Similar apps: Windy, RadarScope, AccuWeather
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on Google Play
App details
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
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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in RainViewer: Live Weather Radar before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How RainViewer: Live Weather Radar makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
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 Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 5 | Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month subscription | |
| 6 | 12 Months subscription | |
| 7 | RainViewer Premium: Yearly subscription | |
| 8 | RainViewer Premium: Monthly subscription | |
| 9 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Year subscription | |
| 10 | RainViewer Pro: 1 Month subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Thailand | WeatherFree | #3 |
| United States | WeatherFree | #79 |
| Germany | WeatherFree | #26 |
| United Kingdom | WeatherFree | #35 |
| India | WeatherGrossing | #21 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherFree | #12 |
| France | WeatherFree | #31 |
 Mexico | WeatherGrossing | #19 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherGrossing | #18 |
| Indonesia | WeatherGrossing | #20 |
| Brazil | WeatherFree | #31 |
| Italy | WeatherFree | #27 |
 Turkey | WeatherGrossing | #18 |
 Netherlands | WeatherGrossing | #19 |
| India | WeatherFree | #44 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherGrossing | #20 |
| Australia | WeatherFree | #54 |
 Spain | WeatherFree | #38 |
| Thailand | WeatherGrossing | #20 |
 Vietnam | WeatherGrossing | #17 |
| Mexico | WeatherFree | #48 |
| Indonesia | WeatherFree | #71 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherFree | #58 |
| Netherlands | WeatherFree | #59 |
| Thailand | All AppsGrossing | #142 |
Apps near RainViewer: Live Weather Radar on the chart
Weather Free, around #3.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
From the 88 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's lightweight design and accurate short-term rain radar for planning activities like astrophotography or roofing. However, significant dissatisfaction stems from aggressive advertising, unreliable location updates, and perceived inaccuracy compared to other weather services.
Mixed but leaning positive (55% 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
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 8.2
· Open the guide again any time in Settings under "Premium Features Overview".
· On the free plan? The same guide shows what Pro adds.
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