Comparison guide
If you are searching for My Lightning Tracker by name, you are probably comparing lightning tracker apps before choosing one to keep on your phone.
Lightning Alerts is an independent premium lightning tracker focused on recent strikes, nearby alerts, Ground mode, and available strike details.
Lightning Alerts is independent and is not affiliated with JRustonApps, My Lightning Tracker, Blitzortung, WeatherBug, Weatherplaza, or their owners. Competitor names are used only for factual comparison.
Sources checked July 3, 2026.
Choose Lightning Alerts if you want an independent premium tracker with a clean live map, nearby alerts, and available strike details such as type, strength, age, and distance.
Choose a broader weather app if you mainly want a full weather forecast product. Choose a network-specific map if you mainly want to inspect one public lightning network.
See the Lightning Alerts tracker app page or review the lightning strike map page.
Short answers for people comparing Lightning Alerts with My Lightning Tracker and other lightning apps.
No. Lightning Alerts is independent and is not affiliated with JRustonApps, My Lightning Tracker, Blitzortung, WeatherBug, Weatherplaza, or their owners. Competitor names are used only for factual comparison.
Choose Lightning Alerts when you want an independent lightning tracker with a clean live map, nearby alerts, Ground mode, and available strike details such as age, distance, type, and strength.
Choose a broader weather app if you mainly need daily forecasts, severe weather warnings, radar forecasting, or many weather layers. Lightning Alerts is focused on lightning awareness, not full weather forecasting.
These descriptions summarize public listing text and publisher pages checked on July 3, 2026. They are not endorsements, rankings, or safety guarantees.
A premium independent lightning tracker for detected strikes, strike details, live map context, and nearby alerts on iOS and Android.
JRustonApps' public listing describes close-to-real-time lightning monitoring, map views, and notifications when strikes are detected in your area.
The Google Play listing describes a map app that visualizes real-time lightning data from the Blitzortung lightning location network.
WeatherBug publishes Spark lightning tracker and radar pages as part of a broader weather product.
The Google Play listing describes thunderstorm movement, intensity, and lightning alerts based on weather-model and lightning data.
Use this as a decision aid, then check each app's current store listing before installing.
Lightning Alerts: Premium lightning awareness with detailed detected-strike context.
Other apps: Broad tracker, public-network map, or full weather-app workflows.
Lightning Alerts: Available age, distance, type, strength, polarity, and street context.
Other apps: Varies by app and data source; check each listing before relying on details.
Lightning Alerts: Current-area and saved-place alerts for places you care about.
Other apps: Many alternatives also offer nearby lightning or storm notifications.
Lightning Alerts: Detected strike data, live map context, and nearby alerts.
Other apps: Coverage, update timing, and forecast features vary by app and data source.
Sources checked July 3, 2026.