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Best Weather Alert Apps for iPhone (2026)
The Weather Channel - Radar is the top-ranked of 40 weather alert apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 6,089,148 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,089,148 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,496,327 ratings · score 97 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 2,186,645 ratings · score 97 - 4
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 87,615 ratings · score 96 - 5
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 262,445 ratings · score 95
What belongs in this list
Get warned quickly when dangerous or notable weather is heading for my area.
Not here: A daily forecast alone; A weather map or radar view alone; Storm tracking with no push notifications alone; A general chatbot alone; A weather widget alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,089,148 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,496,327 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 2,186,645 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 4Free download · ★ 4.7 · 87,615 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 5Free download · ★ 4.6 · 262,445 ratings · score 95 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 1,055,807 ratings · score 95 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,204 ratings · score 94 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,085,836 ratings · score 94 · best in class - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 13,018 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 10
$3.99 · ★ 4.7 · 8,811 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 76,690 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 12
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 27,798 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 13
$4.99 + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 9,711 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 7,643 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 15
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 31,050 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 16
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 30,514 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 17
Free · ★ 4.8 · 68,518 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 18
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 52,292 ratings · score 84 · excellent - 19
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 7,831 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 20
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 26,003 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 21
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 29,124 ratings · score 81 · good - 22
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 19,691 ratings · score 81 · good - 23
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 46,871 ratings · score 81 · good - 24
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 16,801 ratings · score 81 · good - 25
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 23,073 ratings · score 81 · good - 26
Free · ★ 4.7 · 15,002 ratings · score 81 · good - 27
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 33,191 ratings · score 81 · good - 28
Free · ★ 4.8 · 10,490 ratings · score 81 · good - 29
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 22,662 ratings · score 81 · good - 30
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 9,859 ratings · score 80 · good - 31
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 24,887 ratings · score 80 · good - 32
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 14,021 ratings · score 80 · situational - 33
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 22,955 ratings · score 80 · situational - 34
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 24,191 ratings · score 80 · situational - 35
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 16,142 ratings · score 80 · situational - 36
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 33,571 ratings · score 80 · situational - 37
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,240 ratings · score 80 · situational - 38
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,176 ratings · score 80 · situational - 39
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 13,576 ratings · score 80 · situational - 40
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,672 ratings · score 77 · situational
Beyond the top 40
45 more, not ranked yet
- WPXI Severe Weather Team 11
- Max Tracker Hurricane WPLG
- FOX 8 Weather
- KAIT Region 8 Weather
- My Lightning Tracker Pro
- Storm team 12
- WLOX Weather
- WBAY First Alert Weather
- WDAM 7 First Alert Weather
- WALB First Alert Weather
- KSLA 12 First Alert Weather
- My Hurricane Tracker Pro
- KWTX Weather
- WMBF First Alert Weather
- 13abc First Alert Weather
- WEEK 25 First Alert Weather
- Rain Alarm Live Weather Radar
- Storm Shield
- The Weather Forecast App
- WMTV15 First Alert Weather
- Acme Weather
- WGEM First Alert Weather App
- KXII Weather Authority App
- News 6 Pinpoint Weather WKMG
- WILX First Alert Weather
- KSWO First Alert 7 Weather
- RNF First Alert Weather
- FOX13 Weather App
- WSLS 10 Roanoke Weather
- WEAU 13 First Alert Weather
- FOX23 Weather
- Action News Jax Weather
- LEX18 Storm Tracker Weather
- WQAD Storm Track 8 Weather
- FOX 17 Code Red Weather
- KIRO 7 PinPoint Weather
- WWMT Weather Alert Network
- KXAN Weather
- Knoxville Weather - WATE
- WJHG First Alert Weather
- NOAA Live Weather Radar
- Weather Underground: Local Map
- WRAL Weather
- WSVN Hurricane Tracker
- Will it Rain? - Notifications
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Questions people ask
- What is the best weather alert app for iPhone?
- The Weather Channel - Radar, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.8 by 6,089,148 people.
- Which weather alert apps are free?
- 38 of 40 are free to download: The Weather Channel - Radar (S), AccuWeather: Weather Forecast (S), WeatherBug: Weather Forecast (S), CARROT Weather: Alerts & Radar (S) and more. 10 of them sell in-app purchases. 3 report no in-app purchases.
- Which weather alert app has the best App Store rating?
- Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods at 4.9 from 52,292 ratings.
- How many weather alert apps reach S or A tier?
- 20 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.