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RainViewer: Live Weather Radar

by MeteoLab Inc.

  • Weather
  • Free
View on the App Store
Rating
4.6
30.9K ratings · US storefront
Top 21%among 175 Weather apps
Last update
Oct 9, 2026
Version 8.2.1
Size
118 MB
Category
Weather
Tracked since
Oct 9, 2026

Estimated revenue

A model estimate with a likely range, not a reported figure.

No estimate. Apps outside the grossing charts, and some countries, have no reliable rank-to-revenue curve, so we show nothing rather than a guess.

How this estimate is made

Rank: we take the app's best Top Grossing rank on the latest chart day. Category ranks are converted into an equivalent overall rank, because a #10 in Finance earns far less than a #10 overall.

Curve: that equivalent rank is read off a rank-to-revenue curve anchored on public company revenue and market-data reports for the US iPhone App Store.

Country: the curve is scaled per country (Japan is roughly a third of the US, Türkiye under 1%). Where we have no scale, such as China, there is no estimate.

Range: the likely range widens with country, category and chart depth. It is a plausible span, not a statistical confidence interval.

Not included: ads, payments outside the App Store, and any difference between gross sales and what the developer keeps. Low confidence means indirect data; medium means several independent sources agree.

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Screenshots

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About this app

Text from the App Store listing.

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, 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-hour nowcast, rainfall totals, AI insights, hurricane tracker, 20 saved locations, no ads.
PRO adds: Doppler products with 48-hour playback.
14-day free trial on annual plans.

Essential: $4.99/month or $19.99/year. Pro: $8.99/month or $39.99/year. Cancel anytime.

Privacy: https://rainviewer.com/privacy.html
Terms: https://rainviewer.com/terms.html

What’s new

Release notes for the latest version, as written by the developer.

v8.2.1

NO MORE CRASHES ON THE RADAR MAP

  • The app no longer closes on launch when the radar layer is on, or when you open the radar list
  • On iPad and Mac, the app no longer closes when you search for a radar or a location
  • The app is smaller, so it downloads and updates faster

SHARE

  • On iPhone, the shared image shows more of the map
  • On iPad, the menu no longer appears in the shared image
  • The date and time in the shared image follow your device format and are no longer cut off

FIXES

  • Small Craft and Tropical Cyclone alerts show their own icons, and Tropical Cyclone alerts are no longer shown as Severe Weather
  • The "i" button in the hourly forecast opens the details again
  • The onboarding tour points to the map legend again
  • Menu and title positions are correct on iPad and Mac

Have a question or suggestion? Contact us via the app Settings > Send Feedback.

Rank history

Daily position in the Canada charts. #1 is at the top.

Best rank
#45
Current rank
#62
Days charting
6 of 7

On the charts today

Small & simple score

How realistic it is for a small team to build something like this.

73/100

Not flagged as small & simple

  • Developer size100% · 25

    Developer: 1 app on the charts

  • Audience size0% · 20

    Ratings: 30,862

  • App size60% · 10

    Size: 118 MB

  • Price model80% · 15

    Price model: free with in-app purchases

  • Demand proof100% · 30

    Best rank #1, 165 countries

An indicator, not a fact. We can't see team size. Calculated Oct 25, 2026 · method i2

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Version history

  • 8.2.1LatestReleased Oct 9, 2026