Aurora Expert
Mark Baumann Weather iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Aurora Expert is a free Weather app for iPhone and iPad by Mark Baumann. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 10, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 14 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 10
- 2026 · v1.2.0
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About Aurora Expert
Live data from NOAA’s new solar wind sentinel SOLAR-1: Aurora Expert tells you whether you can see the aurora tonight – at your place, with clouds, darkness and the moon. FREE • Tonight’s chance at your place, in five levels from “Very low” to “Very likely” – and every value says when it is from. • Why this verdict? Tap ⓘ: the factors behind the chance and the Kp it takes where you are. • Forecast for up to three nights: Kp, how far the aurora reaches, and the clouds when Apple Weather provides them. • Globe with a time scrubber: NOAA’s aurora oval twelve hours back and ahead, with the day and night side. For both hemispheres. • An alert for your home when the aurora activity there reaches the threshold and it is dark – with a test alert, so you know it arrives. • Red light and field mode for outside: compass and the key values, and your eyes stay adapted to the dark. • Live Activity and widgets for the Lock Screen and StandBy. • Journal with a season summary: for each place, from your own answers, how often you saw the aurora at each forecast level. • At Kp 7 or more, the storm cockpit is open for one night without Aurora Pro. AURORA PRO – ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Place alerts: alerts for every saved place within aurora range, your own threshold of 25, 50 or 75%, wake for strong activity. Save unlimited places. • Trip planner: the best spot for every night of your trip, with route and leave-by reminder. • Tonight from here: clearer places within a 30 to 90 minute drive. • Your best nights: season calendar and widget. • Storm cockpit: Deep Dive with solar wind, Kp history and raw data, substorm tracker, CME outlook and live tiles in field mode. • My nights: photos for your nights, a gallery and export as CSV or JSON. DATA Aurora activity (OVATION), Kp and storm warnings from NOAA SWPC, solar wind from NOAA SOLAR-1 / ACE at the Lagrange point L1, clouds from Apple Weather. No ads, no tracking.
What’s new
Version 1.2.0 · Updated October 10, 2026
Season 2026/27 – what’s new: • Up to three nights ahead – with clouds: in the Forecast tab, for each night, Kp, how far the aurora reaches, and the clouds when Apple Weather provides them. • Why this verdict? Tap ⓘ next to the chance: the factors behind it and the Kp it takes here. • Your journal with a season summary: for each place, from your own answers, how often you saw the aurora at each forecast level. • Photos and export – My nights: photos for your nights, a gallery and export as CSV or JSON (Aurora Pro). • Home: alerts and the widget follow your fixed place, even while you look at another one. • Honest data times: every value says when it is from; when data is missing, the app says so. • Place alerts for your saved places (Aurora Pro) and a test alert that shows alerts get through. • Red light and field mode for outside. • Trip planner and “Tonight from here” (Aurora Pro). • Season calendar and widget: your best nights (Aurora Pro). • Aurora Pro: one purchase, no subscription.
App privacy
The developer, Mark Baumann, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
Used for: App Functionality
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