RainAware Weather Timer Reviews

Best rain app out there

gmk17

This is by far the best weather app. So good it is used by MLB teams

Great app

Mimosajack

I have found this app to be quite accurate. Also their radar page is very easy to read.

A friend highly recommended this app but I find it very unreliable. Maybe it depends on your location. For me it’s been many times where the app said “no rain in the next 3 hours” while it was pouring down. This was a complete waste of money.

Not worth it.

truckter

No notifications? Where are advanced settings?

Save Your Money - Skip This App

Golf-Indy

I purchased this app because of a glowing online review I had read (‘The Four Best Weather Apps’ posted at OutsideOnline.com, written when the app was available for free). In my 2-months’ experience, this app works when a large system is moving into the area, but is very poor at predicting the arrival of small to medium-sized cells (~100 square miles or less). I have used the app in all sorts of terrain from Indiana to Montana, and the results are consistent (not good unless a large system is sliding across the region). Examples: During a heavy rain storm with a 10-mile by 10-mile cell moving across Kansas City, the app told me it was dry and would stay that way for the next 3 hours. This morning. radar from a free app showed a large band of rain was approaching my location in Indiana and it looked like it would arrive in about 2 hours. RainAware did not indicate any rain for 3 hours - but about 15 minutes after the rain arrived, it suddenly updated to show it would continue raining for another half hour. For the record, I have adjusted the app settings to notify me of even the slightest rain (and it cautions not to do that unless the app is regularly missing storms because false alarms will be more likely). I wish this app worked as advertised, but it just can’t predict rain unless it is a large storm - but for those, one can simply look at the radar to judge the arrival of those rain events. Again, I’d suggest you save your ~$5. Instead, I recommend the free Weather Underground app or Accuweather website; their hour-by-hour forecasts seem to be reasonably accurate, and their radar maps give good insights on what to expect.