1. Simple to use map based application visualizing real time full area lightning data provided by the blitzortung. org lightning location network project.
2. The raster display ensures a fast performance of the application even if there is a very high thunderstorm activity. Blitzortung. org participants can visualize all stroke locations individually.
3. Note to Australian/US west coast users: The blitzortung. org network is currently concentrated on the eastern part of the continent.
4. If you would like to help to extend the coverage to other parts of Australia/South America/Asia/Africa, please participate in the blitzortung. org network.
5. The current thunderstorm situation at your fingertips. - single stroke display for blitzortung.
6. Please visit for more information regarding the community based lightning location project.
7. Using the GPS location provider in combination with the background service can lead to high battery use.
8. If you would like to contribute to a translation of the software in your language, please do not hesitate to contact the author of the software.
9. Further information can be found here Thank you!
10. Please use the network or the passive location provider for background operation.
1. Trust me you've shot yourself in the foot with this oneThe lightning tracking is accurate and sophisticated, but the map is very slow to load (even on fast wifi) and just looks like a blurred pixellated mess.
2. I had 4 bars of 5g service, and was seeing lightning strikes less than 1 mile away and this app was telling me 22 miles away was the nearest strike while showing the correct location for me.
3. Now it only tracks lightning, so there's no other radar settings than the lighting radar.Bring back satellite maps! I love this app.
4. In the past, I would witness lightning and wonder about the distance when it wasnt very clear by calculating by time lag of thunder(when thunder constant and omnidirectional).
5. That's the only thing holding back that last star.A superb lightning tracker with a programmable alarm that can be set to a threshold at any distance from your geographical location.
6. UPDATE following reply - as constructive feedback, why not have a 'download offline map' option as part of the app? Much better than the first impression of a really fuzzy map.Great concept, but lags too much to be useful.
7. As other users have said, it's now painfully slow to load and the colours on the map are the same as strikes!Best app ever until the recent map update.
8. I use it to track lightning in storms when I storm chase.
9. I never thought I minded the look of veins until now! Or it looks like the stuff in War of the World's that creeps over the ground although that makes it sound cooler than it is.
10. So long as the query period is kept quite low (20 seconds being the minimum), it approximates to real-time, and the philosophy makes the time-shifting useful also.
11. Ive installed another lightning tracker app and toggle between them as they inhance each other.