PredictWind — Marine Forecasts app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 4992 ratings )

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Developer: PredictWind Limited

Free

Current version: 5.2.3, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 03 Jan 2012
App size: 26.94 Mb

Accurate marine weather forecasts and powerful tools utilizing wind, wave and currents, save you time, keep you safe and ensure you get the most out of every day on the water.

Access all of the world’s top ranking forecast models for reliable and accurate wind and weather data, including ECMWF, SPIRE, UKMO, GFS and more. Our very own PWG & PWE models offer incredible accuracy and a record-breaking 1km resolution showing wind in detail.

View high resolution marine weather maps for wind, gust, CAPE, wave, rain, cloud, pressure, air temperature, sea temperature, ocean data and solunar. Suitable for sailing yacht, powerboat and any other marine weather activity.

In addition to marine forecasts, PredictWind also provides a suite of powerful marine weather tools to save you time and keep you safe at sea using Wind, Wave, Tidal and Ocean currents.

Weather Routing takes your start and end points then calculates your route factoring in tides, currents, wind and wave data, depth and your Sailing Yacht or Powerboats unique dimensions to give you the best route for comfort or speed.

Departure Planning quickly summarizes the forecast marine weather conditions you’ll encounter along your route if leaving on day 1, 2, 3, or 4. Use this data to select the perfect departure date, every time for your Sailing Yacht or Powerboat.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- Daily Briefing: Powerful marine weather data condensed into a simple text forecast.
- Maps: High resolution forecasts maps with animated streamlines, wind barbs or arrows.
- Tables: The ultimate dashboard for detailed analysis of Wind, Wave, Rain and more.
- Graphs: Compare multiple marine forecasts at the same time.
- Live Wind Observations and Webcams: Know what’s happening with the weather right now at your local spot.
- Local Knowledge: Hear about the best marine spots, amenities and activities at your destination.
- Weather Alerts: Set your preferences then get alerts when conditions are just the way you like them for Wind, wave and other parameters.
- Ocean Data: See what’s happening under the waves with ocean and tidal currents, and sea temperature.
- GPS Tracking: Get a free customized GPS tracking page for your blog or website showing wind data overlaid.
- AIS Data: View over 280,000 vessels worldwide on the AIS network to see marine traffic.

Pros and cons of PredictWind — Marine Forecasts app for iPhone and iPad

PredictWind — Marine Forecasts app good for

its simple, clear and very helpful for sailing decisions without having to check many different sources. I love the 0.1 model precision . some maps are too small for iphone screen.

By far the best weather routing and weather forecasting model existing

Really useful and reliable prediction. Awesome to be able to compare three forecast and make up your own opinion. A must app that I use everyday for sailing, kitesurfing or even just planning a hike or a surf.

I find Predictwind very precise in comparison with Windguru and Windfinder, at least for my spots. Good overview too. But the lack of a simple refresh function and not beeing able to set the hours displayed on the forecast reduces the rating by one star.

I am only using the free version. The wind forecast works surprisingly very, very well in my area. However it is a bit complicated to set up and therefore does not motivate me to upgrade for the pro version at this stage.

Its working great for me on my iPhone Im using this app so Ill know if its gona be a good or bad day to ride the motorbike

Some bad moments

First asking fo sendung pushmails - no comment ( for what?) Than it needs an account. This is not Worth to Download it in my opinion

Great idea , but does not work on my iPad. Too many bugs to fix with the display and logics of logging in before it could be recommended.

The wind map is not working well when moving the map in scale our place. Much Too expensive

Perhaps the data is excellent, but the app is poorly written - to the point where I dont know how it managed to get through the App Store screening process. This might pass for a reasonable app a couple years ago, but its 2013 and the bar is higher. Better apps out there for the purpose. And at least for the carribbean, I find the weather model to be a bit too pessimistic v.s. others.

Looks like could be a helpful app but so many features are disabled it is essentially useless. I get more information by looking out the window at the flag poles and the cloud movements than from this app. Dont bother. It looks really nice, nice graphics, tempts with hints of nice features, but useless. Just like some if the women I know.. Lol!

Oops. Must have written my password down wrong and now apparently no way to recover or reset. So, off it goes. Cant re-register as it recognizes my email and forwards to login again. Wont be chasing this one, dont need another exercise in frustration. Good luck folks.

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