
RadarScope 4+
Professional weather radar
Base Velocity, LLC
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- $9.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
RadarScope is an AMS-award-winning weather visualization tool that empowers meteorologists, public safety officials, storm spotters, and weather enthusiasts to view a full suite of single-site radar data and related severe weather products. Your initial purchase provides professional radar visualization in a fully native app, free from distracting and invasive practices, with optional subscription packages to add even more capabilities.
Whether you’re scanning for a mesocyclone’s tell-tale hook echo, pinpointing the landfall of a hurricane’s eye wall, or identifying velocity couplet, hail spike, or debris ball signatures, RadarScope displays native radar data in its original radial format. You see what the radar sees almost as soon as the radar sees it, with automatic updates every two to ten minutes depending on the radar’s scanning strategy.
Your initial app purchase includes the following:
• Full suite of single-site radar products for the US, Canada, Guam, Denmark, Finland, and Germany
• 6-frame radar loops
• Two built-in providers for radar data
• Tornado, thunderstorm, flash flood, special marine, snow squall, and extreme wind warnings in the US
• Selected severe weather warnings in Canada and Australia
• NWS-generated storm tracks with hail, TVS, and mesocyclone attributes
• Inspector and distance tools
• Color palette options for radar data
• AllisonHouse data plan integration
• Spotter Network integration for storm and location reporting
• mPING integration for submitting weather reports to NSSL
• Bundled maps with political boundaries, water bodies, and major highways, optimized for low-bandwidth use
• Support for widgets and complications
• Universal app for Apple platforms, including Apple Watch and Apple TV
• Family Sharing support
RadarScope Pro Tier One is an optional annual subscription that adds more features for tracking severe weather:
• 30-frame radar loops
• Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes
• Severe weather watches in the US and Canada
• Special weather statements in the US and Canada
• Mesoscale convective and precipitation discussions
• SPC convective, tornado, hail, wind, and fire outlooks
• WPC excessive rainfall outlooks in the US
• Local storm reports in the US
• Custom color palette support
• Multi-pane display (2 on phones; 4 on larger devices)
• Family Sharing support
RadarScope Pro Tier Two is an optional annual or monthly subscription that transforms RadarScope into a more complete visualization tool for a larger suite of weather products, including:
• Everything in Pro Tier One
• 50-frame radar loops
• A third provider for US radar data
• NEXRAD Level II radar data for the US with a 30-year historical archive
• Historical NEXRAD Level III, super-res, and non-US radar data with a 30-day archive
• Historical NWS bulletins with a 19-year archive
• GOES East and GOES West satellite products
• NSSL’s Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) products
• NCEP’s Real-Time Mesoscale Assimilation (RTMA) products
• Surface observations
• Atmospheric soundings in the US
• Hail size, hail probability, and azimuthal shear contours with a 30-day archive
• More detailed transportation and satellite imagery maps
• Custom color palette support for GOES, MRMS, and RTMA
• Server-sent events for radar and warning updates
• Cross-platform subscription sharing on up to 5 devices
• Family sharing support
If you choose to buy a RadarScope Pro subscription, it will be charged to your App Store account. The subscription will be auto-renewed within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the same price you originally paid. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal disabled via your App Store account settings after the purchase. Once purchased, the subscription cannot be canceled during the active subscription period.
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What’s New
Version 5.4.1
• Added FIKAU in Finland
• Added a Merchandise link to the Help view
• Adjusted loop export timing to avoid missed frames
• Removed seconds from time stamp of exported images
• Fixed a bug that signed out of RadarScope accounts
• Fixed a crashing bug when selecting a Denmark radar product
• Fixed a crashing bug when processing map tiles
• Fixed a crashing bug when viewing certain soundings
• Fixed a receipt validation issue for apps purchasd via VPP
Ratings and Reviews
Best radar
The other reviewers are right-- this is the best radar and well worth the cost. I had purchased several others and put off this one because of the price. The other apps disappointed-- they have been inaccurate or slow to update. This one is precise and quick--so far is has never been more than a minute or two before it updates and most often it is up to the moment. And the accuracy has been brilliant. It has many features that I have not yet used, but i hope to learn them soon. I'm a weather novice, but I definitely want to know where the storms are, where they're going, and how much rain we'll get. This is the best radar by far!
Update: the developer keeps refining an already brilliant application. This is THE radar application, far superior to any other out there. Absolutely one of the best purchases I've ever made for my iOS devices—beautiful on the iPad, crucial app on the phone, and a very informative glance at the radar on the watch.
I bought the upgraded pro version and like the additional features: longer loops and lightening info. As with the basic version of this app, the cost is there but well worth it: this radar and all the features are the some of the best things on my phone. One of the top apps of any kind and one I will subscribe to without hesitation every year.
Needs a couple more features
I love this radar app and it’s by far the best on the market. I have nothing to complain about, however I do wish there was one added feature that would greatly improve it. I enjoy watching the radar and looking at storms even when they’re not near me, especially tornado warned storms. The only problem is when I see the storms, I can only see the general location of the storm with respect to cities. I wish there was a feature that allowed me to see the precise location of where certain storms are. Even if it was just something where I pressed my finger and it pulled up the latitude and longitude coordinates so I could search them. It would make it a lot more enjoyable for me and would help me to know exactly what houses or businesses are being affected rather than general locations.
Another feature I would like to see is the ability to change the four quick select radars. I would love to have the choice of what four radars I can choose from when holding down on it. I would especially like to see the super res of reflectivity, velocity, specific differential phase, and correlation coefficient. As of right now, unfortunately I am forced to quick select the ones given and have to scroll a lot for the ones I want to see.
No radar app can hold a candle to this one
I have been a weather nerd since I was a little kid, and I’m a trained Skywarn Storm Spotter. I first downloaded this app in 2013 when a meteorologist mentioned it after I was complaining about how I struggled to find a decent one. Most radar apps have a smoothing algorithm that obliterates storm structure. This app does a beautiful job with with its radar display. I’ve struggled to find certain details like specific rotation data inside a supercell storm, the correlation coefficient to detect tornado debris, decent hurricane reflectivity to see structure of the rain bands as well as the rotation within (I live in Florida), or just basic resolution to see what part of the storm will hit my location. This app does it all and so much more that I could write a book on it. The features of data are endless. I’ve used it through Hurricane Matthew, Irma, and Dorian (and plenty of other tropical storms). The storm season here has me tracking several hundred storms over the years. I have it on my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. There’s a reason all the professionals, scientists, and storm chasers use this app. It’s the best $10 I’ve ever spent.
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Information
- Seller
- Base Velocity, LLC
- Size
- 41 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 15 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 8 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- 2025 © DTN
- Price
- $9.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro Tier 1 $9.99
- Pro Tier 2 $14.99
- Pro Tier 2 $99.99
- RadarScope Pro Subscription $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.