My Lightning Tracker Pro Reviews

App is simple to use, but having to use a slider to select the distance is not ideal and makes it exceedingly difficult to pick an exact distance. Please make this more user-friendly—let us type in the distance, use a scrolling wheel, drop-down menu... literally anything other than what’s there now.

7/9 update: As noted by the developer’s response to this comment, by sliding your finger up, the distance scale can be made less sensitive, but only to a point, and it still seems to be a crapshoot as to whether the distance will stay exactly where you set it or jump up or down by a few tenths of a mile based on which part of your finger comes off the screen first. There are better options than this.

I don't buy a lot of apps. I tend to reserve my dollars for those that prove themselves so useful that I keep opening them up day after day. This is one of those. I will be minding my own business and suddenly my Apple Watch will bing that there was lightning 20 miles away. I had no clue there was a storm coming, but MyLightningTrackerPro alerted me to it. For those of us who work or play out of doors, this is crucial information. Highly recommended.

MyLightningTrackerPro is very helpful but I have some tips that I would love to see in later updates. When the lightning strikes and it alerts you, it would be nice for the alert to say how far away the lightning was. For example: Lightning strike 6.7 miles from your location. That would be better than having to open MyLightningTrackerPro to see where it struck. Also I would like to see an option of it alerting you once every minute that lightning strikes in the area instead of it alerting you once every 10 minutes. If this option was to be enabled, that is when it would be helpful for the exact location to be alerted through notifications. That is all the tips I got, I still love MyLightningTrackerPro but I think this would make it better. Thank you

I accidentally removed my original review so I’ll rewrite it best I can. I’ve had the pro-version lightning tracker app for a few years now and love it. I spend a lot of time outdoors at home as a family and I also work at a major airport and spend a lot of time outside on the job too. I rely heavily on MyLightningTrackerPro. I now have an Apple Watch but noticed MyLightningTrackerPro isn’t a choice as a complication for your watch faces. This would be a welcome polishing touch. Can you add a complication feature (changes color, etc) that we can put right on our watch face if there's lightning in our circle so we don’t have to swipe down and look for it in notifications? Thanks!

No lockup’s, updates perfectly, best in Class APP. Would be nice to have an update override, where if you get a strike within let’s say 10 Miles, it will override the 5 Minute update minimum ( useful for gas station attendant (we live in New Jersey), tree men, Cable repair men, police, construction people, hikers, etc... otherwise a great APP
More strikes than actual are shown it would appear...

We are very grateful to this application for being so accurate. We upgraded to the pro. We would love to see this application also show cloud movement overlay for a future update. Many thanks for making swimming and riding safe. No guessing about lightning. We get a great warning with this application!!! I’d give it ten stars if I could! Happy Mom

I used the free version for a bit & it was fabulous. I recently bought the ad free upgrade just to support the developers because I’m so grateful this exists. I live in california fire country & there is nothing like the piece of mind I can get, day or night, being alerted to a local lightning strike. It’s a beautiful simple app that I believe will save lives, if it hasn’t already. Thank you!!

I’ve had MyLightningTrackerPro for five years plus and every year it gets better and better, buy them coffee often as it helps. Keep your family safe as it does mine. I love everything about MyLightningTrackerPro from the thunder sound to the radar which is downright accurate. Thanks again for a fantastic app.

There’s no way to just glance and see basic info like when was the last strike within X miles in the past Y minutes. You can only set one radius for notifications, and can only set one single alert location. There’s no way to sort data shown on the Apple Watch, and it’s just a list.

I’ve found MyLightningTrackerPro to be extremely helpful in tracking storms through our geographic area. The notifications are dependable and work well on my Apple Watch. Most other apps push you toward a large-fee subscription model in order to get lightning information, so MyLightningTrackerPro is a solid investment. The customer support is first rate and quick.

I boat a lot and live in SW Florida so lightning is a real thing for me. This is simply to most accurate app I’ve used and my first line of awareness when I’m out and about. We’ll done. My only wish is that I could increase the volume of the alert since I’m often on a noisy boat and it would be good to hear or perhaps set up the flash so I can see it also.

I’m a hobby photographer and have a Davis VP2 weather station here at the house. So between those two hobbies I got interested in photographing lightning storms.

Being down here in south Alabama we don’t have the wide open flat land like in the midwestern areas where you can see a storm fifty miles away...if you don’t know they’re coming the storms can be on you around here before you know...and too late to set up cameras.

With My Lightning Tracker I can see a line of storms coming into my area and be set up for them when they get here.

The alerts are great in letting you know early on that there is lightning activity in the area that you’ve defined.

MyLightningTrackerPro also has a radar included and with this I’m able to get a good weather picture in my mind of what is going on and whether I want to set up my cameras. Now, if I can just get my lightening photography skills honed some!!!

There’s really no difference between the free and paid/“Pro” versions other than that th ad bar at the bottom of the screen is removed in the paid version. But, I was impressed enough with MyLightningTrackerPro that I felt MyLightningTrackerPro ’s authors deserved a little something. It’s a nice app if your interested in weather and lightning specifically.

Seems to point out lightning pretty fast. Maps are good and info seems pretty accurate...

BUT...

It claims to have an Apple Watch component, but all it does is tell you lightning detected then directs you to open MyLightningTrackerPro on the phone!! WHY NOT JUST TELL ME HOW FAR AWAY THE CLOSEST STRIKE IS?? MyLightningTrackerPro has the information, why can’t it just display that on the watch??

In my job, working around explosives is important to know when lightning is actively around and in Florida that’s often. But I can’t pull out my phone every time I get a watch notification.

Make the Apple Watch side more functional and this would be a 5 Star app, especially in my line of work.

UPDATE!

Now MyLightningTrackerPro is very useful, and gives me distances of lightning from my last known location to my notifications and my Apple Watch. Well done, 5 Star as promised!

I am a retired paramedic, and knowing what I know due to calls envolving lightning strikes, I would not be without MyLightningTrackerPro. I found the Lightning Pro app a few years ago after “gaining invaluable knowledge” regarding a strike related injury on a seemingly beautiful summer afternoon. (I was not the victim...but I was shaken after responding to the call for the person that was). I was grateful to find such an app even existed, and even more grateful for it’s ability to accurately forewarn of the presence of lightning during rapidly changing conditions. There have been some great additions to MyLightningTrackerPro , including a meteorologist grade radar. Keep in mind, it can only save you if you act appropriately to the information it provides.

Used MyLightningTrackerPro for five minutes and I’m sold. I bought the Pro version just because I think they’ve done such a great job. Been looking for something like this for years - simple, straightforward, gets the job done. Find out where lightning is, how close, what time, and get notifications. Everything I’ve ever wanted. Thank you. Enjoy your bonus $ for a job well done. Look forward to future additions and enhancements you’ll make 👍🙌

As someone who suffers from astraphobia, MyLightningTrackerPro is incredibly useful to me. It’s very accurate, as opposed to every other lightning tracker app I’ve tried. The interface is simple and smooth and the various notification/sound settings are great. I used the free version for about a year before buying the [affordable] paid version… Not much of a difference other than that the free version has tiny banner adds — regardless, I was happy to help support this company for putting out a life-saver of an app.

I’ve been using the free version all summer. I’ve found it to be a great indicator of what’s in my area. I start to hear the detector going off even with MyLightningTrackerPro closed. When it starts to get frequent then I open MyLightningTrackerPro to see just what’s going on. It’s my early warning detector of storms that has really worked good for me! I have my radius set out at just over 60 miles to give me advanced warning.
Today I upgraded to the Pro ver and was pleasantly impressed at the additional info I can get in just a tap on a strike like distance from the strike to my location. Nice. !

I was thinking about investing in a relatively expensive lightning detector system. Decided to search MyLightningTrackerPro Store just to see if anything worth while was available for my phone before buying a system. MyLightningTrackerPro is fantastic and the info is available for my home area or anywhere else I might be. Well worth getting the pro edition. We live in Tombstone, Arizona and can see for miles. I see the lightning and MyLightningTrackerPro alerts almost instantly. I’m very impressed. One of the few apps that does what it says and is even better than I expected. I’d give it 6 stars.

I'm a longtime user of Lightning Pro. MyLightningTrackerPro provides awesome information on an incoming storm with lightning. Adjustable parameters make it easy to customize information for your location. Plots of lightning strikes are very specific down to street level when you zoom in. Currently, the sun is shining here but I'm getting notifications of approaching lightning from a thunderstorm moving in from the northwest. I walked outside and sure enough there is a large thunderhead coming my way. The radar on MyLightningTrackerPro updates faster than my other goto radar apps and is very accurate. I highly recommend MyLightningTrackerPro.

MyLightningTrackerPro is fantastic- I work in a crane and MyLightningTrackerPro keeps me and people around me safe. I have one suggestion/request: can you add an “all clear alert”? I have mine set up to OSHA standards of 10 miles/30 minutes and have to constantly check it while down to see when I’m all clear to work. An all clear sound would be an awesome addition in my opinion and the only thing MyLightningTrackerPro is missing.