Lightning Radar
Live strikes & storm distance
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now in 35 languages. The whole app, alerts and widgets included, in the language you read best. Every strike, in real time.
Lightning Radar shows you where lightning is striking, around you and around the world, in real time.
LIGHTNING ALERTS
Now you can be warned before a storm reaches you. Turn on Lightning Alerts and get a notification when strikes land within your chosen radius, around where you are and around any saved places you choose to watch. The alerts step up as a storm closes in, and they are tuned not to over-notify: once it is right on top of you, they stop repeating. Tap an alert to jump straight to that strike on the map. Alerts stay off until you switch them on, and you can turn them off any time. Turn on Background location and they can follow you as you move, still sending only the same coarse grid cell, so you stay covered on the road as well as at home.
ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN
While a storm is nearby, a Storm Live Activity keeps the nearest-strike distance on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show the live count of strikes near you at a glance.
NEARBY RADAR
See the closest strike to you at a glance: how far away it is, which direction it's in, and how long ago it hit. An animated radar dial sweeps through the strikes within your chosen range and turns to your compass heading, so "up" is the way you're facing. Set the range anywhere from 5 km out to 5,000 km.
NEARBY ACTIVITY
A live chart shows strikes per minute near you over the last several minutes, so you can tell whether a storm is building or moving off. Tap any strike to jump straight to it on the map.
LIVE WORLD MAP
Every strike detected by the Blitzortung.org volunteer network appears within seconds. From each one a ring spreads outward at the speed of sound, the way thunder travels, so you can watch a storm move and sense how far off it is.
MADE TO EXPLORE
• Search any place and jump to it
• Save the spots you care about for one-tap access
• Switch between a light or dark map
• Distances in kilometres or miles
• A live readout shows how far behind real time the feed is running
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Lightning Radar is translated into 35 languages, from the map and the radar to alerts, widgets and the Storm Live Activity. It follows the language your phone is set to, or you can give the app a language of its own in Settings. Distances, dates and times follow whichever you pick.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics. The map and radar run entirely on your device: your precise location is used only to place the radar around you and never leaves your phone.
Lightning Alerts are the one exception, and only if you turn them on. To work out which strikes are near you, the app sends an anonymous notification token, your alert radius, and a coarse location: a grid cell roughly a fifth of your radius across, never your exact position. That goes to our own server (on our own hardware in the EU), is used only to find nearby lightning and deliver the alert through Apple, and is tied to no identity. Turn alerts off and it is deleted.
ABOUT THE DATA
Strike data comes from Blitzortung.org, a community network of volunteer-run detectors, and is free for personal, non-commercial use. Coverage isn't perfect and strikes can be missed or delayed, so please don't rely on Lightning Radar for anything safety-critical.
Lightning Radar now speaks your language.
• The app is translated into 35 languages, alerts, widgets and the Storm Live Activity included.
• It follows your phone, or you can give the app a language of its own in Settings and leave the rest of your phone alone.
• Distances, dates and times follow the language you pick.
• A Storm Live Activity now always clears itself once the storm has passed, even if you never reopen the app.
• Steadier nearby alerts after a storm moves off, plus a clearer first run and an in-app disclaimer.
The developer, Koode, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Koode
- Size
- 7.6 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Koode, data provided by Blitzortung