Precip - Rain Gauge

Precipitation Inc.

In-app purchases

About this app

Precip is the best free app for checking rainfall totals and seeing recent weather conditions. It uses radar to automatically track rainfall amounts with extreme precision so you don't need to install rain gauges. Farmers, gardeners, property owners, and outdoor pros use it daily to see realtime and past conditions.


With Precip you can:
- See how much it rained anywhere in the United States or Canada
- View daily rainfall totals on a calendar
- See how many days since it last rained
- Calculate year to date total rainfall
- Compare this year's rain to 30-year normals
- Get alerted about nearby rain
- See how muddy it is by looking at soil moisture percentage
- Check on soil temperature


Precip shows you highly accurate daily rainfall totals at precise locations. We use high resolution radar, gauge, and climatology data processed through advanced models to remotely sense precipitation without needing manually check rain gauges. Our data from the national weather service is continuously refined and updated to be the most accurate and useful source for monitoring rainfall, snow, and other types of precipitation.


Professionals and businesses can take advantage of our full data platform for even more advanced capabilities.


EULA: https://precip.ai/terms

Ratings and reviews

my rating is for the non-premium, basic app functions. I tool I thought would solve many of my rain tracking needs, but instead locks the great stuff behind a premium, and the rest of the good stuff behind registering a free account for data collection. No thanks. Therefore, only use this app has that I can't find for free anywhere else (not that I've looked everywhere) is the 12 hour rain map filter. Guess I'll have to keep looking.

Good for a free app. Limited to 2 set locations unless you pay, you can look up unlimited locations if you do it within 48 hours, they just don't get recorded. Recently the reported amounts have been running about 10% less than what's actually in the gauge. But earlier in the summer both measurements were very close to equal

we have a rain gauge in our back yard, and we have a bucket on the deck. This app consistently is in disagreement with both! Like we have big storms come through, or rain all day, like yesterday, and get 2 inches in our gauge and bucket and the app says .39 in. Not cool! So then the response comes from the app developer. Maybe they should define when the 24 or 48 hours begin and end. Our gauge was checked on Tuesday and Wednesday within 20 hours of each check. They want money to upgrade!

What’s new

We've added a nowcast to the Live layer. Paying users can now see the animated measured rain live from radar and then seamlessly transition into a one hour forecast.