“Canceled Subscription — A good app, but I don’t appreciate the bait and switch. It is now $29 a year when it was free for two locations.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 406 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★22,065 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
139 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
RainDrop is the most accurate way to see how much it rained or snowed at your exact location — no rain gauge needed. RainDrop delivers real-time precipitation totals with pinpoint accuracy for any spot in the United States.
Built for farmers, contractors, landscapers, gardeners, and anyone who needs to know exactly how much it rained and how much it will rain.
PRECISE RAINFALL & SNOW TOTALS • Real-time rain and snow totals at your exact coordinates • Hour-by-hour, daily, monthly, and yearly precipitation breakdowns • Interactive rain calendar — tap any day for hourly detail • Year-over-year precipitation comparisons • Monthly rainfall trend analysis • Custom date range selection for any time period
16-DAY WEATHER FORECASTS • Detailed daily and hourly forecasts • Temperature, wind speed, humidity, and pressure • Severe weather alerts and warnings…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.1.66 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.1.66, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 406 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (3.7% of 406 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“it WAS a decent app — I have been using the app for a couple of years to monitor my ranch property in the next county over. It allowed two marker locations for free which suited my needs. I placed a second marker here at my house to…”
“Bait and Switch — Extremely disappointed. After the update, the app quietly removed the ability to track two locations for free, with no warning or transparency beforehand. This feels like a bait-and-switch. Losing core functionality…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.1.66.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$2.99
Highest$49.99
RainDrop Plus Monthly$9.99
RainDrop Pro Monthly$4.99
RainDrop Basic Monthly$2.99
RainDrop Plus Monthly$4.99
RainDrop Basic Yearly$29.99
Show 1 more purchase
RainDrop Plus Yearly$49.99