RainViewer: Live Weather Radar
MeteoLab Inc. Weather iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
RainViewer: Live Weather Radar is a free Weather app for iPhone and iPad by MeteoLab Inc. Rated 4.6/5 from 30,739 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 30.7K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 487 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 22
- 2026 · v8.1
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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, 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
Ratings & reviews
4.6
30.7K ratings
What’s new
Version 8.1 · Updated September 22, 2026
FEATURES GUIDE Many subscribers never open the features they pay for. The new "Features Guide" shows every Premium feature on its own page and opens it in the app with one tap. The guide appears after a purchase or a trial start, and is always available in Settings > "Features Guide" - for free users too. PLAYER · The radar update interval switch is back on the player: "5 min" standard, or "2 min" with Premium for a smoother animation · Archive playback at 4x and 6x over 24-48 hours no longer stops to buffer - frames load once and the loop runs without pauses FIXES · The alerts layer no longer enables itself when you tap or dismiss an alert notification, and alert areas no longer get darker as you pan · Widgets no longer show "Location no longer available" after a reinstall · Fixed two top crashes: opening a location from a notification or a widget, and the watch face widget on watchOS 10 · Premium features and settings update right after a purchase · The "i" button on the map is no longer cut off Have a question or suggestion? Contact us via the app Settings > Send Feedback.
App privacy
The developer, MeteoLab Inc., reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics
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:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
- Location: Precise Location
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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