SpaceWeatherLive 4+
Aurora and solar activity app
Parsec vzw
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
SpaceWeatherLive is the ultimate app for those who dream of seeing the northern lights or want to know everything about the activity on our Sun. With this app you will be able to see and understand how active the aurora is right now and if there might be a good chance to spot the northern or southern lights in the coming days. You will never miss an aurora display again with this app in your pocket no matter where you go!
Beginner friendly - While the SpaceWeatherLive app is filled with all the space weather information you can think of both for beginning and advanced space weather enthusiasts, every item has a pop up with additional information to help you along if something is unclear. Learn more as you go along!
Everything in one app - Switch between the auroral activity and solar activity modes with just one click!
Dark mode - Preserve your night vision with our special dark mode! Ideal for aurora chasing out in the field!
Push notifications - Free push notifications informing you of significant space weather events like solar flares, geomagnetic storms, earth-facing coronal holes and much more! You can turn any notification on or off so if you don't want to receive any notifications at all or are only interested in specific notifications: we got you covered!
Modern graphs - All the data that you are interested in are represented in sleek, responsive graphs. Dials don't cut it when you are out in the field, you want to know how the data looks like in the past and right now. Our graphs provide all the information you need in the blink of an eye!
News - Not only do we provide a ton of different automated alerts, we even have a dedicated team of space weather enthusiasts who write detailed hand written reports during high solar or auroral activity!
Extensive help section - Are you a beginner and does our app look a bit daunting when you first open it? Fear not, we have a dedicated help section with tons of articles and a FAQ section. Give it a read and soon you will be able to make your very own aurora forecasts!
Huge space weather archive - Ever looked back at your old aurora pictures and wonder what space weather was like on that specific date? We got you covered! Take a dive in our space weather archive that is filled to the brim with geomagnetic and solar data from the year 1996 until yesterday. Dig around and discover large sunspot regions, extreme geomagnetic storms and exciting data from the past!
Free for all - Best of all... Our app is completely free of charge! We do have ads but those can be removed by purchasing a subscription which in turn supports us to keep our services online!
PRICE AND TERMS:
Although the app is free, it does contain advertising at the bottom of the screen which helps us to keep our services online. Don't want the ads? No problem, with a simple in-app purchase you can remove them! A monthly subscription is $0.99, half-yearly subscription $5.49 and yearly subscription $9.99.
These prices apply to United States residents. Prices may vary in other countries respecting your local currency exchange rate. Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account. At the end of the term, unless auto-renewables subscriptions are disabled, your subscription will automatically renew in your iTunes account. You will be charged for the regular price of your subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term. You can turn off automatic renewal in your iTunes account settings at any time, but you must do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. Refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of any term.
Terms and conditions: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/app/terms-and-conditions
Privacy policy: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/app/privacy-policy
What’s New
Version 1.8.1
Dusted off some solar wind particles from the code to improve the app
Ratings and Reviews
Great app, room to grow
I wanted to give some feedback. I am a drone operator, and many SW factors impact the safety of my flight, but the notifications are generally useless as is.
Can we have more control over push notifications? I’d like to turn off all high latitude KP alerts, and be able to toggle on mid latitude alerts. It would also be nice to be able to set a threshold for the push notification.. ex: KP4 or G1 or greater.
The notifications only provide value when they apply to my use case and location.
It would also be good to see a latency indicator. Are the app values up to date? If they aren’t, how do I know?
Otherwise, great app!
Edit: developer responded to this in a couple days. Hope to see suggestions integrated in the future!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your feedback!
Currently it's not possible to set a threshold of geomagnetic storm notifications, but it's a good suggestion that we'll be looking into.
Space Weather data is up to date with only a few minutes lag between updates. All updates are automatically pushed so it stays up to date. You can always check the latest time values on the graphs to check.
Great app. Replaces all previous competitors
I am a solar physicist by training and had been using a different app to stay up to date, but that app was not maintained and was expensive.
This app has everything that I had hoped would be included, making it by far my top choice for looks at the Solar-Terrestrial interface, solar activity. Because it has so much, organizing it surely presented a challenge to the authors. Occasionally I’ll think, “I wish they had included __________” only to find that if I hit the right tab, the data I wanted is there! When new to the app, be sure to look around every corner. It includes data from SDO and STEREO, plus all of the usual solar-terrestrial indexes, images of the auroral zone etc.
Nice job!
Everything I need, and more
This app has all the features & data I wanted in a beautiful UI— even the free version. Kudos to the devs! The only thing I could ask for is ability to set user defined thresholds for the notifications. I’m not worried about turning off the power or sticking my phone in a faraday cage for anything lower than X class flares & CMEs, specifically >X10.0. It would be wonderful to have the ability to define the class & number threshold to reduce the number of notifications, especially during this peaking solar cycle.
App Privacy
The developer, Parsec vzw, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Poollicht, Astronomie, Sterrenkunde, Starnights, et Cetera, Vereniging Zonder Winstoogmerk VZW
- Size
- 28.6 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © SpaceWeatherLive © All rights reserved - Part of Parsec vzw
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Ad-free - monthly package $0.99
- Ad-free - yearly package $9.99
- Ad-free - half-yearly package $5.49