While the concept of this app is amazing, I wish there was a way to track the lightning you’ve seen on the app. You could have one section that shows a count of all lightning strikes you’ve seen on the app anywhere around the world, and a count of all lightning strikes that occurred within a 10 mile radius of your current location (that’s the distance the sound of thunder travels). It would game-ify the app, promoting its use during a storms. Also, the thunder sound effect doesn’t have the beautiful rolling/rumbling sound that follows the initial ‘Crack!’ sound. It would be cool to use as a white noise app when I’m trying to fall asleep, due to how realistic it is. The potential for this app is awesome. But I’m also experiencing visual issues. The only thing showing when zoomed out is a white square, with a glitchy earth appearing as I zoom in.

Not sure why this is getting such bad reviews? I only installed it because I couldn’t figure out what could possibly be so awful about this app that sounded really neat and was one of the recommendations in the app store. I have not encountered any glitches at all. The app looks exactly like the pictures.You can toggle various options to feel vibration for the lightning, have a flash from the iPhone’s camera flash, and/or play a little recording of thunder for each lightning strike that occurs in your visible area. The farther out you are zoomed, the more lightning strikes you will catch, I think. Maybe if there is a more active storm, it would be better to be zoomed in? I’m not sure, but I’m excited to try it in a month or so when the Midwest thunderstorm season starts!I’m not sure what the person who only saw white and grey was talking about, there’s definitely a photorealistic globe. It’s pretty similar to Google Earth, but if you zoom in, you don’t see streets and such. Honestly that would just be distracting... You want to watch lightning, right? Why are you looking for streets all zoomed in?

Update April 22, 2018. Heard back from developer, App is now working on my iPad Pro 12.9, & my iPad Air as well. Looks great even at 2X which happily surprised me. Graphics with the audio are very cool! Found the App works extremely well even showing storms/lightning where my family lives near Tokyo with me on the east coast of USA. This App was extremely accurate when checked against my lightning detector from AccuRite. I use it on my iPad Air when traveling in my car. When both the detector and the thunder sounds I pull over and can see exactly where the lightning is in relation to my location. Then I can drive where the storm is heaviest to photograph the lightning.It’s a great App and the price is right, it’s not just fun it’s really useful too. You won’t be disappointed!

Update!!! Well the day I got word things were fixed, there’s no lightning within 1,000 miles, but now I can see everything! Looking forward to the help this will provide in the future. Thanks to the developer for sorting this out!This is awful. I see maybe the bottom fourth of the earth and the upper edge is blinking in and out. No amount of messing with it makes it better..... sure doesn’t look anything like the pictures I see here. I have an iPhone 7 that is up to date on software. Maybe I missed something saying it only works with 8 and above? Nope. Looked back and it should work. But I am up to about 1/3 of the earth now....