Thunderly

Name: Thunderly
Rating: 4.30487 (2588 reviews)

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Thunderly

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User Reviews for Thunderly

beautiful + oddly calming

Not sure why this is getting such bad reviews? I only installed it because I couldn’t figure out what could possibly be so awful about this app that sounded really neat and was one of the recommendations in the app store. I have not encountered any glitches at all. The app looks exactly like the pictures.You can toggle various options to feel vibration for the lightning, have a flash from the iPhone’s camera flash, and/or play a little recording of thunder for each lightning strike that occurs in your visible area. The farther out you are zoomed, the more lightning strikes you will catch, I think. Maybe if there is a more active storm, it would be better to be zoomed in? I’m not sure, but I’m excited to try it in a month or so when the Midwest thunderstorm season starts!I’m not sure what the person who only saw white and grey was talking about, there’s definitely a photorealistic globe. It’s pretty similar to Google Earth, but if you zoom in, you don’t see streets and such. Honestly that would just be distracting... You want to watch lightning, right? Why are you looking for streets all zoomed in?

22spitzname22, Feb 10, 2018

👎 Crashed after a few minutes on iPad Air 2

October 4, 2018: I don’t understand how this app made it to App of the Day, but then again, a lot of blahhh apps make it there too. I installed on my iPad Air 2. The app “caught” over 79 lightening strikes, made cool sounds, then nothing...then it crashed. Maybe this app starts up like this each time? I don’t know. I do know that the app was showing new strikes, but there was no sound. DATA SOURCING: In one of the developer’s comments (month of May 2018), I read that the app relies on one person (he) for data. One? Maybe he was asleep when I downloaded app? APP ISSUES: Apple released another update yesterday, and I think this app needs another update to fix the way the app does not stretch to full screen size. Annoying. Option for Landscape mode is not available, which I also find annoying.

danarius, Oct 04, 2018

Shows potential but just not there yet

With a plethora of weather apps available for IOS, this shows some potential but nothing new or innovative in comparison which seems to be the same thing everyone is indicating. The biggest issue is zero support for iPad and or landscape.The second biggest issue is the workflow of using the various selections for cloud, lightning etc., is very slow and cumbersome.The menu gives you roughly 5 choices for selecting on/off the various elements but that is it. The global aspect is nice but even on an iPad Pro (2017 model) it’s painfully slow to render. Since the 3D globe is the biggest selling point, to make the rendering slow it essentially makes the app somewhat useless. The zooming and selected level of zoom is somewhat cheap feeling. The lightning aspect is covered by so many apps now and as a normal function which works perfectly for most therefore if you are marketing this app based on lightning detection and or zooming the globe, those two functions are in need of some serious development help.In order to compete against other apps, you will need much faster rendering and redo the menu system to be more professional and or smooth otherwise I am uninstalling for now but will check back in 6 mos to see if you have improved the app based on everyones comments.

Dark Horse (NB), May 24, 2018

See update! Maybe it’s too advanced for my phone?

Update!!! Well the day I got word things were fixed, there’s no lightning within 1,000 miles, but now I can see everything! Looking forward to the help this will provide in the future. Thanks to the developer for sorting this out!This is awful. I see maybe the bottom fourth of the earth and the upper edge is blinking in and out. No amount of messing with it makes it better..... sure doesn’t look anything like the pictures I see here. I have an iPhone 7 that is up to date on software. Maybe I missed something saying it only works with 8 and above? Nope. Looked back and it should work. But I am up to about 1/3 of the earth now....

djack44, May 02, 2018

Won’t work on iPhone 7

The reason I’m giving it a bad review is that I get less than 1/2 of the Southern Hemisphere and that’s it. There is no way to measure distance to strike or anything else advertised other than flash and thunder. If this can be fixed I will be happy to change my review. Perhaps that will answer the person’s question as to why some reviews are bad. It apparently works on some phones and not others.UPDATE: As promised, the issues appear to be resolved, and the app is now working fine. Thank you for not just shrugging your shoulders and ignoring our comments as many developers seem to do. Well done and many thanks again!!

Docdithers, May 01, 2018

Very well made! (Suggestions included)

I’ve had a few close encounters with lighting before, and wanted to get this app to see why lightning likes to strike all around my house. This app doesn’t fail to do its job. No in-your-face ads, a very interesting way to customize your experience, top of the line graphics that I’ve seen in awhile. Pulls from reputable sources, seems to be updated regularly, very easy to use and read. It updates in real time with at worst, 8 seconds of lag, but normally it is only 1.5-2.1 seconds of lag here. If I could suggest adding an ability to see past lightning strikes, or a log rather than just the color coded dots, that would be amazing. That or an alert to notify you of when there is a lightning storm that is heading your way. I love to watch all the strikes while sitting in the storm. Also love the fact that this app uses a geofence rather than active tracking for your location!Love it, keep up the good work!

Kieran ennis, May 23, 2018

Possible Update Ideas, Please Fix Bugs

While the concept of this app is amazing, I wish there was a way to track the lightning you’ve seen on the app. You could have one section that shows a count of all lightning strikes you’ve seen on the app anywhere around the world, and a count of all lightning strikes that occurred within a 10 mile radius of your current location (that’s the distance the sound of thunder travels). It would game-ify the app, promoting its use during a storms. Also, the thunder sound effect doesn’t have the beautiful rolling/rumbling sound that follows the initial ‘Crack!’ sound. It would be cool to use as a white noise app when I’m trying to fall asleep, due to how realistic it is. The potential for this app is awesome. But I’m also experiencing visual issues. The only thing showing when zoomed out is a white square, with a glitchy earth appearing as I zoom in.

Sawyer Baran, Feb 10, 2018

[Fixed] impressed by the prompt update

[UPDATE]: Not even 2 days after my review the bug was squashed and I finally got to experience the app in it's best light. It's beautiful. Graphics and haptic feedback and spot on. This app will in fact join my arsenal of weather tracking application. Great work team! 👍🏽👍🏽If I may add one more note: when I'm playing music from my phone, the sounds of the app forces my music to stop playing music during say, the opening graphics and even just the sounds within the app itself. Is there a way to enable the sounds to just play over the music without interrupting? I'm not a fan of having my music shut off by any app.

timeinator, Feb 16, 2018

Fixed!!! Works great now on iPad Pro 12.9

Update April 22, 2018. Heard back from developer, App is now working on my iPad Pro 12.9, & my iPad Air as well. Looks great even at 2X which happily surprised me. Graphics with the audio are very cool! Found the App works extremely well even showing storms/lightning where my family lives near Tokyo with me on the east coast of USA. This App was extremely accurate when checked against my lightning detector from AccuRite. I use it on my iPad Air when traveling in my car. When both the detector and the thunder sounds I pull over and can see exactly where the lightning is in relation to my location. Then I can drive where the storm is heaviest to photograph the lightning.It’s a great App and the price is right, it’s not just fun it’s really useful too. You won’t be disappointed!

Twice Struck, May 20, 2018

Disappointed- Inaccurate

I’m so incredibly disappointed. This is a beautifully designed app however extraordinarily inaccurate. I live in South Florida which is the lightning capital of the world. We were having a fierce thunder and lightning storm, right above us. There is a button on the app click every time you see lightning or hear thunder. I click it and it would say there is no lightning in the area. But I was watching it and it was right over me.It’s disappointing because I rely on lightning apps for my traveling because who likes to be outside when deadly electricity is bolting down from the sky?The app is beautiful. The controls are lovely. The phone vibrating and making sounds when it’s happening is fabulous. I just wish it worked when that was actually lightning striking…If the accuracy follows the weather bug platform for lighting, I didn’t give this five stars in a heartbeat, or in a lightning strike…

WritingMyHeart, Apr 10, 2018

Description

Do you love storms as we do? Then you’ll love our app. At photorealistic globe you can see real time lightning all around the world.

Besides accurate day and night cycle, globe contains real time clouds, precipitation and lightning history layer for last hour. For better resolution you can zoom into map detail. If you zoom really closely to your location, you can use start-stop feature to measure your distance from nearby storm. When no storm is close enough, feel free to “stream” lightnings via your camera flash from opposite side of the world to your living room. ...and one more thing: If you try hard enough we are pretty sure that you’ll find switch for real time aurora. Not as cool as lightning, but also kind of amazing!