RainVoid™What RainVoid does
Rain-avoidance navigation, from your door to any door.
Open it, plan the trip, ride or walk: the radar is read for your road at every step, and a road it calls dry is the only one it offers.
1 · Open
The sky around you
- The compass shows where the rain cells are and where they are heading, from live radar.
- Fuel, covered stops and good places to stop on the map before you leave; covered bike parking in bike mode, bus and train stops in walking mode.
- Live e-bikes, scooters and shared bikes: every spot on the map with how many are there right now, straight from the operators, in bike and walking mode.
- Home and Work routes watched all day: a glance tells you whether you will stay dry on the ride, or whether to wait and when to leave.
2 · Plan
Circumnavigate the storm
- The dry way around, drawn on the map with the extra minutes it costs you.
- Three options when rain is in the way:
- a dry road around it
- a covered stop to wait under
- the time to leave
- ★ BEST CALL marks the option RainVoid would take, with the reason in plain words.
- Not dry yet? Wait it out. RainVoid sends the all-clear the moment RainVoid Futurecast scores your whole route dry, door to door, with a heads-up to get ready, and a leave-by time with the reason when a window will close.
- Covered stops and good places to stop marked along the road.
3 · Ride
Active rerouting when a rain cell spawns
A cell pops up ahead that wasn’t there ten minutes ago. Your phone says it out loud before you can see it.
- Every new radar image re-checks the road ahead, every two minutes.
- A cell spawns mid-ride that no plan could see: the last-resort reroute. RainVoid moves you onto a dry road within the extra minutes you allow, tells you what it is going around and the minutes it adds.
- No dry road? RainVoid heads for the nearest covered stop you can reach dry, or turns you back to the last one, and tells you why. Riding through the rain is only ever your call.
- Fuel in one button tap, without leaving navigation.
4 · Arrive
A receipt for every ride
Dry. Again. The receipt tells you what the other road would have cost you.
- The rain you dodged, measured: how many minutes of rain the road you skipped would have put on you, read off the radar that actually followed.
- Your season's tally: rides kept dry and the hours of rain dodged.
- A poster to share, drawn from the storm you went around.
5 · On foot
Dry to the stop, dry to the door
Train, bus, the last six minutes on foot. All three are dry.
- RainVoid walks you dry to the stop, tells you what bus/train route to take, with live times and waiting buffers built in, and then walks you dry to your final destination.
- Your journey on the lock screen: which stop is next, when to get off, and the walk from there, step by step.
- Late at night it names the first bus or train that gets you there, with its time.
- No good option? Call a ride. One tap opens Uber or Lyft, whichever is on your phone, with your destination already filled in and the pickup where you stand.
Live bus and train times where the transit agency publishes them. RainVoid is actively adding transit cities; stops everywhere come from OpenStreetMap.
Ride Roulette
Somewhere new, dry.
One tap spins the wheel: a highly rated restaurant, café, ice-cream stop or viewpoint you have never been to, an easy ride away, and the road to it checked against the radar. A place you have been is never picked twice.
In every mode. In bike mode it picks closer; on foot, closer still.
Three modes
Motorcycle, car, bike or on foot.
Vehicle
Motorcycles, cars, trucks
Forty miles of two-lane and one cell drifting east across it.
Another storm, another way around: Walland to Tallassee, the loop in blue, the Best call.
What is great about it
- Detours in driving minutes: only a way around that fits the extra time you allow.
- Fuel on the map before you leave, one tap while you ride.
- The way around a storm drawn with its extra minutes and the covered stops along it.
What sets RainVoid apart
- RainVoid Futurecast: our own forecast, tuned on simulated rides through real storms, judging your road minute by minute.
- Active rerouting: a cell spawns ahead and a dry road fits your minutes: RainVoid moves you onto it and says what it is going around. No tap needed. No dry road: the nearest cover you reach dry, else a turn back.
- Hail: avoided like heavy rain, the detour cap waived. Lightning is announced; that call is yours.
- Cargo mode: the strictest rain rules on one switch.
Bike, e-bike, scooter
Anything with pedals or a deck
No roof, no wipers, and a meeting at nine.
Bike mode's map in New York: shared rides with their counts, covered parking, Ride Roulette one tap away.
What is great about it
- Shared bikes, e-bikes and scooters, live, with how many are at each spot: New York, Chicago, Washington, Boston, the Bay Area, Austin, Pittsburgh, Portland and Salt Lake City.
- Covered bike parking and drop-off zones where they really are.
- Bike stops in one tap: repair, pumps, charging, water, toilets.
What sets RainVoid apart
- RainVoid Futurecast timed to your pedaling speed on bike-friendly streets, so the dry way around is one you can ride.
- Somewhere dry to leave the bike at both ends of the trip.
- Rain mid-ride? Rerouted around where the rain is heading, and told what it goes around. No dry road: cover you reach dry, else a turn back.
- Rain before you leave? The minute to go.
Walking
And the bus or train, dodging the rain on foot
Nine minutes to the platform. The rain is six minutes out.
The walking page in Chicago: the L and bus trips with the best one marked BEST CALL, the full walk, and the Divvy bikes nearby.
What is great about it
- Every way there, side by side: the bus and train trips from the stops around you, and the whole walk.
- Live departures where the agency publishes them, coast to coast; the cities are on the map below.
- Nothing dry? Call a ride: Uber or Lyft opens with your destination filled in.
What sets RainVoid apart
- RainVoid Futurecast checks the exact minutes you walk, to the stop and from it. Only a trip that scores dry gets ★ BEST CALL.
- Dry to the stop, dry to the door, which line and which stops, on your lock screen.
- Wait it out for walkers too: the minute to leave, and the all-clear.
Ride Roulette
Somewhere new, dry.
One tap spins the wheel: a highly rated restaurant, café, ice-cream stop or viewpoint you have never been to, an easy ride away, and the road to it checked against the radar. A place you have been is never picked twice.
In every mode. In bike mode it picks closer; on foot, closer still.
Where RainVoid works
Live radar across the United States. Bus and train times where the agency publishes them.
Routing, fuel, cover and good stops everywhere. Bus and train times are live where the transit agency publishes live times, and on its printed timetable where it does not.
Always adding new places. More cities join as each transit agency’s terms clear — keep an eye out for yours.
Your data stays yours
No accounts. No ad trackers. No cookies.
Your rides, your places and your settings live on your phone. What leaves it is named in plain words in the Privacy Policy, and the same text ships inside the app with the Terms of Service. Reviews and cover reports you choose to share are anonymous, and you can take them back from inside the app.
We count visits to this website with a self-hosted, cookieless counter on our own server: pages, time on page, clicks on our own buttons, the browser and device type, the country and city your address points to, and the page that sent you here — never a name, an IP address kept, or anything that follows you elsewhere.
Know the rain before the road does.
Military, veterans, firefighters and EMS: 25 % off
On Android. Live radar and RainVoid Futurecast across the United States; routing and stops everywhere, with more countries as their radar clears.