Track lightning on NOAA GLM and MTG LI maps with storm alerts, 24-hour history, saved places and forecasts for supported coverage areas and outdoor safety.
Lightning Tracker & Radar Map helps you understand storm activity before it reaches you. See live lightning, storm zones, alerts, saved places and forecast context in one focused weather safety app.
Powered by NOAA GOES GLM and EUMETSAT MTG-I1 LI satellite data, Lightning Tracker shows recent lightning flashes on a fast map, clusters active strikes into storm zones, and helps you judge whether a storm is building, approaching or moving away. Coverage includes the Americas, Atlantic, Europe and Africa; features depend on supported coverage and data availability.
USE IT BEFORE YOU GO OUT
Check storms before golf, boating, hiking, school sports, outdoor work, road trips, camping, events and family time outside. Open the map, check the nearest activity, review the storm zone and decide whether to wait, move or seek shelter.
LIVE LIGHTNING MAP
Fresh strikes appear on the map with age and distance context. Zoom from a regional view down to the places that matter and keep watching as cells develop.
STORM ZONES AND TRACKS
Lightning clusters are grouped into storm zones so the map is easier to read. Track movement, intensity and projected paths instead of trying to interpret scattered strikes one by one.
HISTORY AND FORECAST
Premium unlocks 24-hour lightning history, a lightning heatmap and storm forecast context from NOAA SPC where available.
ALERTS FOR SAVED PLACES
Set an alert radius around the places you care about. Free users can monitor one saved place with basic storm data; Premium adds push alerts, wider radius, more saved places, advanced storm data and an ad-free experience.
30-30 SAFETY TIMER
Use the built-in timer to follow the 30-minute lightning safety rule after nearby activity. It gives you a simple outdoor-safety checkpoint when the sky is changing fast.
Lightning Tracker is built for one practical question: how close is the storm, where is it moving and is it time to get inside?
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Monitoring lightening is crucial at a radio station, appears to work well on an old iOS 15 ipad used for weather monitoring.Will likely go premium after a few weeks checking for bugs.
Developer Response
Bleikr, an iOS 15 iPad on weather duty at a radio station is not the setup I tested on, so "appears to work well" is good news I did not have. The map reads NOAA GOES satellite data, and per-strike alerts are what Premium adds. If anything misbehaves on that iPad, support@lightningtracker.app reaches me directly.NikolaiCreator of Lightning Tracker
Nice and free
Samtheo90
Helps me decided to golf or not when storms are rolling in fast off the mountains towards Denver
Developer Response
Samtheo90, golf or no golf is the most practical use of a lightning map I have heard. When a storm rolls off the mountains, the approaching-storm alert is the free part built for exactly that decision, and the clubhouse beats the fairway every time.NikolaiCreator of Lightning Tracker
Didn’t do what I needed. Hard to see where the historic strikes were.
TechManDan
Really hard to see the lightning strikes. the icon doesn’t stand out. It’s shows you ‘2 in the last x hours’. Tapping that does nothing to focus the screen on where they were.I know there was one really close to my house at 11:30am today. No sign of it on the map.
Developer Response
Thanks for the detail. You saw a real strike and expected to find it on the map, that is a fair expectation. Two things work against it. I read NOAA's GOES-19 GLM satellite, which resolves lightning at roughly 8 to 14 km, so strikes close together collapse into one cluster and a weak flash near the edge of detection may not appear at all. You are also right that the icons do not stand out enough, and tapping the historical count to jump straight to those strikes would be genuinely useful. That part is on me to build. If you send your app version from Settings > About and roughly how far you were zoomed in, I can check that exact window. Stay safe.NikolaiCreator of Lightning Tracker
Heads up
Gunahasii
This program has been helpful with warnings allowing me time to take my radios off line to prevent lighting damage. No burned circuits this summer. Very grateful for that.
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing this. I'm glad the storm warnings have been useful for your radio setup, and I appreciate you taking the time to leave a review.NikolaiCreator of Lightning Tracker
Live lightning no longer vanishes from the map when your phone's clock is wrong. Smaller fixes and improvements.
Version 1.0.75
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Information
Seller
Nikolai Iakubovskii
Size
84.9 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.