“I used to like the app. Having some kind of indication if there was going to be rain around. It wasn't always accurate, but it seemed pretty decent. There was an ad every now and then, which I didn't mind. Now there is an ad every 5…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 445 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★189,933 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
502 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
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.…
Preview
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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 8.0.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.0.1, updated 2026-09-25.
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 at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme 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
65–79% 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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 14 distinct reviewers (3.1% of 445 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“it was cool when I first installed it but a couple days later it was completely flooded with bs ads like you can view it for 2-3 seconds and then it was ads for 8 or 10 seconds and then it went back to the app for about 2 seconds. I…”
“The information seems decent, and the paid seems compelling but I constantly get full screen ads that I have to wait on to time out. I wanted to just try the free version before upgrading but the stream of full screen ads just makes me…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$3.99
Highest$39.99
RainViewer Premium: Monthly$4.99
Rain Viewer Essential: 1 Month$4.99
RainViewer Premium: Monthly$3.99
RainViewer Pro: 1 Month$7.99
RainViewer Essential: 1 Year$19.99
Show 4 more purchases
Rain Viewer Premium: Yearly$19.99
12 Months$19.99
RainViewer Premium: Yearly$19.99
RainViewer Pro: 1 Year$39.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.