Windy.app Reviews

My name is Bill Maxwell I am the owner and operator of the sport fishing boat TunaFever. From April through November my 57 foot sport fish weather permitting seven days a week between 45 and 55 miles offshore. We operate out of the Oregon in Inlet fishing center located in Nagshead North Carolina on the outer banks. Most of our fishing is done on the western wall of the golf stream where it crosses the hundred fathom them curve. Windyapp Windy is by far the most reliable source of information that I can use to determine whether I’m gonna have a safe day a beautiful day or whether I should go at all it’s an important factor on how I treat my people for my business because of the accuracy of Windyapp. I’ve been in business for 34 years and looked at all kinds of things for information for safe passage in the ocean and yours is by far the best I recommend it to anyone and it is been my pleasure to use it thank you so much Captain Bill Maxwell !!!!

This is a great app. The ability to compare different weather models on one screen is unique to all other weather apps. The info you can customize on your personal forecasts is great, too. I get just about everything I want, displayed in the order I want to read it.

I even pay the annual subscription because I feel strongly enough that they have earned my business. I got so sick of Apple Weather and The Weather Channel predicting 0% chance of rain for a Saturday and then updating their forecasts when the rain hits (while I’m getting soaked). I do not miss those days.

My only wish- a way to know the water temperature at each location. Maybe there is already a way to track this and I’ve not found it yet. Anyways, great work.

Windyapp developers have turned Windy into a greedy, money hungry app. They once used to show wave height and now it is only available if you “pay for pro”. When I originally contacted Windy they told me this was an error by developers and the next update wave height would be included for all. THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A COMPLETE OUTRIGHT LIE. I am not one to say “look at me”...but I commercial fish, I tournament fish...and there are many on Long Island who know who I am. Once upon a time I used to recommend Windy to everyone in my industry. Now...now, out of principle bc you told me lies that it would be included the next update, I will NEVER use your app. I will NEVER recommend your app and I will go as far to tell everyone I know never to trust your lie-filled company. Dont forget who your demographic is. IE salt of the earth fisherman who operate in an oldschool manner and on principle. DONT string us along with lies saying it will be included in the next update. And then follow up w me a week later “oh yea forgot to tell you, youll need to pay for pro to actually get it”. Dont push the old salty dog...

As far as I can tell, I paid $40 for absolutely nothing. This application will not load any data. Period. I’ve tried registering my email/account which it won’t let me do. The prompt keeps claiming my account is already in use. The remember password feature doesn’t work. Windyapp just doesn’t actually do anything. Fairly certain this application is a scam. Trying to figure out how to report it to Apple.

Update: 24 hrs after purchasing Windyapp , I was able to register my account and begin using the application. Not sure why I was unable to register at first. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and my IOS is updated. Given weather underground’s recent poor performance regarding wind I needed a new app and quick. Heck, I was willing to pay $40 for a good one….In short, if you’ve got a trip planned the next day (duck hunt for me this time) be sure and download Windyapp several days in advance.

I use Windyapp for sailing. I have downloaded many wind forecast apps, but beyond dedicated weather routing software none come close to the beauty, design, and depth that windy has.

First, the interface is simple, easy to navigate, customizable, and puts all the data you need right at your finger tips.

Second is the breath of numerical models. In North America you have the trusty GSF, but you also get the benefits of the NAM model and the ICON model. In Europe they have a whole suite of models
available as well. The wind data from all these models can be displayed at the same time so you can use the real world conditions to see which model seems to line up best and thus guide your choices.

Third, local wind related shops can advertise in Windyapp . I used it to find boat rentals near me when I go traveling.

All in all it is a fantastic app. I wish the developer would make a similar platform except that would incorporate other parameters of the various numerical models so I could have this same interface for parameters such as winds aloft or precipitation. It would also be fun to have some of these other parameters on the global view as well.

I almost exclusively use Windy for sailing in and around NYC. The different models coupled with the cloud, rain, and temperature forecasts are great. I haven’t found a better interface and I’ve tried nearly a dozen other apps before being told of Windy.

I wish there was Apple Watch support like complications or a fully native Watch App. I have other sailing complications installed and being able to glance and current or forecasted wind conditions at once would be great.

I also wish there were a way to lock or snap the view to the current date/time without hiding the legend. It would make a small but impactful change when using Windyapp to look several hours/days ahead.

Some stations are real-time and give you current sustained and gusts. It would be great if Windy could plot both over time in one view.

Finally, I’ve noticed that tide data for the NYC area isn’t always accurate. Recently it said high tide was several hours sooner than my guide books indicated and so it’s not as helpful there as it should.

Still, it’s a great app and part of my arsenal of tools to plan, prepare, and track my sailing. And I hope it continues to improve its features as it has added new forecasting models and data points.

I like Windyapp itself, its interface is well designed and intuitive. However, I use Windyapp mostly in one area for paddle boarding and kayaking trips on the Hudson River in New York City. My route, dictated by the tidal currents and winds—especially when paddle boarding—are limited to about 15 miles north of midtown Manhattan to the Verrazano Narrows (entrance and exit of the upper harbor). I have found over the course of about four years of use that Windyapp ’s wind speed predictions are accurate about 50% of the time. On many occasions I have encountered winds about 10 mph greater than predicted or predictions of gusting speeds that are in actuality steady speeds. These are not of much concern for sailors but for other human-powered watercraft it is much more of a factor. All that said I’m not a meteorologist and do know that wind prediction is an extremely complex science, especially so given the complex topography of the area in question in this review.

First of all you are offered a free basic version of the application. There are additional add ons they will be helpful in other applications. The way this works for me is Windyapp provides wind conditions at your nearest airport at various elevations and times through the day. Then it’s forecast in the coming days. Wind speed planning is critical to all drone pilots at every level. To my knowledge this is the very best app available for that application. Lastly, I want to express my gratitude to the developers for allowing your users to have the very valuable basic level for free. Thank you 🙏🏻

App itself is pretty much replicated by other apps that display wind grids such as Windy (red colored icon) or Ventusky so you may want to avoid Windyapp to not accidentally get deceived into subscribing into a trial period of which turns into a paid subscription after a short period of time.

Presentation of data is nice and app can be customized to purpose you want (water or air sports for starters)

Windyapp gets lots of accidental subscription complaints because the continue (or next button) is far away from the center of the screen when presented with subscribe choices.

The actual button bypass committing to any subscription is black text on blue background in upper right corner. Very hard to see by design unless you have superior color differentiation vision. It is by design meant to not be seen.

To re-iterate, if you don’t want to subscribe to any subscriptions, be sure to look for the option in upper right corner of screen when presented with free trial subscription options or you will be inadvertently subscribing to some very expensive subscriptions!

In the spring and summer I do a lot of fishing offshore. My boat is a 21’ Striper. I need to know if it’s going to be windy. I ALWAYS check Windy’s forecast when I’m planning a trip. They let me pinpoint the areas I’ll be fishing and give me an accurate prediction of the weather.
In the fall I hunt waterfowl. Again I’ll ALWAYS check windy before I hunt. I save my hunting spots as “favorites” If it shows a weather front coming in, with high winds, I’ll start making plans to hunt those days. Here too their forecasts have been highly accurate.

Thank you for Windyapp. It has really great presentations. The weather widget on the initial screen has temperature and wind velocity but not wind direction. It would be great to have wind direction as does the forecast detail current weather block, which shows it as point of the compass, for example NW. The arrow in a circle direction indicators require me to translate in my head to the point of the compass, for example, SSW.

If only there was something that showed actual current and historical. Or maybe I’m not identifying it. The predictions, even short term, are pretty often wrong in my out of the way corner of the world. Current according to the prediction is pretty often wrong.

If your hoping to use Windyapp for boating activities on the water be advised, the fonts, color contrasts and info lines are difficult enough to read from your recliner at home let alone a bouncing boat. There is no way on my iPhone to expand the font size to read or pinch down. Great info if your at dock planning a voyage but of little help if you are underway. :(

Issue is visual. I cannot zoom into very small data bands to read comfortably. Need to have ability to zoom especially when moving.

Don’t waste your time. I would rate it zero stars if possible. After 4 years, This past upgrade lost all the weather stations on Roatan. Prior to the upgrade there were stations available on the Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras. Now there’s nothing. Clicking on the airport Coxen Hole, brings up wind forecasts on Cayos Cochino, closer to the mainland. This is useless for shore diving wave high TS, paddle boarding, kite surfing etc. Might as well just pick a location and check out the conditions visually by yourself. Big disappointment.

It’s been three plus weeks, and each time I click weather forecast for Roatan, I’m sent to other islands close to shore, with feet of differences in wave height. Windyapp has become useless.

Note I used to love Windyapp.

I use Windyapp to plan for my open water swims. It would be helpful to have more factors for swimming (you have every other sport!). On swims that are not along the coast, but are a channel crossings between two land masses sometimes more than 20km apart, it would be good to have more precise information on how the wind will change in the middle of the channel.

We need wind direction, wind speed, wind gust, currents, current direction, swells size, swell duration, water temperature.

I’ve heard great things about Windyapp and wanted to check it out. When I downloaded there was an option for free trail and pay once your free week is up or just pay now. Since I wanted to check Windyapp out first before just outright paying $50 I decided to go with the free trial. Once I chose the free trial option my bank notified me of a suspicious charge on my account and I saw they charged me the $50 right off the bat! I played around on Windyapp for a few minutes and it does look great as I’m a boater and the wind forecast helps me greatly. But I’m am very frustrated that I was charged before consenting to do so. Basically there is no free trial they will charge you right away so beware!

The original site stated this would always be free. Sadly that did not stay true. However, if you are one that truly wants to know about wind and waves, Windyapp is stellar. I really don’t like paying for an app, this one has been well worth it. Good for surfing, sailing, diving, kite flying or whatever activity you would like to know the accurate wind for. Especially helpful during the tropical storms that we get where I live. Get Windyapp, you will not be disappointed!

Awesome app. Very well done. I would love to see some iOS widgets to put on our home screen. Could be very useful especially if we can select specific stats to display from specific locations! I like to fish and boat and many of the apps in our industry are not great. Some are pretty but buggy. Some are confusing but well developed. I can say this has both! Great job windy!

Windyapp is not very easy to use and not at all what I was looking for. Unfortunately I pushed the wrong continue button as it’s impossible to cancel I sent an email immediately within minutes of subscribing and even asked apple to help with no luck. Just make sure you absolutely want Windyapp cause it’s expensive and I don’t see how there is a real trial period. It seems like a bad business decision to not at least negotiate some kind of whoops that was a mistake purchase. Thank you for reminding me how important it is to research before even test driving. You must really be struggling for money or nobody really needs this kind of app.

It is a great app that I use daily. However for an outdoor app, it is most of the times hard to read in sunlight. The hour font color is unreadable in sunlight. It is a grey shaded font in a black background. Good luck reading that. Also using the color black on the wind speed with a blue background is also not a great combination. Much better would be to use white for more contrast.

Last remark is that I would like to see an option to hide the 'offers'. It takes screen space and have absolutely no interest in it.

Being into a myriad of water hobbies, I’m really excited to have everything in one place— no more going to NDBC, NHC, and my local weather app to get swell size, period, tide, and wind forecasts. However I am really confused as to where any basic radar info is, or if there even is any? Had been hoping to ditch all my other weather apps and just use this one, but without radar it still can’t beat the free local weather app.

I have literally purchased hundreds of apps and have never written a review for any of them. Windyapp makes the exception and it made me break my rule. Where do i begin? Windyapp. It is effective, easy with a gorgeous UI to match. If you think it's expensive, it's worth every penny. Let the development, packaging and presentation of this software be an example to all other app developers on how to do it right. Thank you!

It is a great app that I use daily. However for an outdoor app, it is most of the times hard to read in sunlight. The hour font color is unreadable in sunlight. It is a grey shaded font in a black background. Good luck reading that. Also using the color black on the wind speed with a blue background is also not a great combination. Much better would be to use white for more contrast.

Last remark is that I would like to see an option to hide the 'offers'. It takes screen space and have absolutely no interest in it.

I love how accurate windy is! Windyapp is very useful for me and helps me to go my job better and keep things at home protected. Yesterday for example I saw that it was going to be very windy and there was a small tree with a awkwardly big trunk and I said to customers please don’t park there that three is swaying back and forth and it’s not even 10ft tall; next thing you know it fell over into a parking space and it would have damaged a vehicle.

Awesome App!!!! Beyond awesome everything we needed to fly RC planes at a glance to tell if it’s a fly day or not. You can even make your own locations and label them. I sent my friends a screen shot of there flying field and were blown away as I had labeled it as Robs flying field and the city’s name they were blowing me up and had to have Windyapp .:-) you’ve done an amazing job with it. I don’t know how it could be Free. Great job hope for your continued success!!!

In my second year using Windyapp and it’s my go-to for comprehensive weather information.

The ability to choose what’s important to me and to have access to multiple models is great. Now, if the developer would just add the ability to verify/adjust time offset and make it easy to jump back to “now”.

I paid for pro features and I use them.

It would get 5 stars if it had all.

After the old Storm app was revised to give better radar tools but fewer wind tools, I went looking for what was missing. The Windy tables with all info are perfect. But the map is not helpful. It would be better for me if rather than wind rose for the single station, it could integrate a map with all wind vectors from many sources along with the radar. Then it would have all my met, waves, and tide info in one place.

Using free version for wind checks to fly RC aircraft. Works great for basic overview of the conditions. Needs more frequent and precise weather updates. Weather changes quickly sometimes and the updates need to keep up. Also I find it to be a bit inaccurate on wind speeds. Example; currently it says 5mph winds, when I go outside the trees are bending sideways with strong consistent gusts that are way more than 5mph.

If you’re looking for comprehensive weather data with the ability to create notifications for ideal conditions, this is it.

My only ask would be if the forecast could more easily be navigated to the current time. It’s sometimes difficult to side scroll to the current hour if you’ve lost track of the current day.

I check windy every time I’m considering going out on the water. It’s among the best wind forecast sources I’ve been able to find and easy to use. Just like PredictWind, my weather routing go to for navigation on long races, it relies on several forecasting models, but with an easy user interface for quick analysis of what kind of breeze I may encounter on a day sail or weekend trip.

This is a very confusing app for the casual user without an advanced degree in meteorology or atmospheric sciences. Basic info like “what direction is the wind blowing?” is represented by arrows which are pointing relative to the orientation of the separate true north arrow so it’s hard to tell EXACTLY which way the wind is blowing.

If you have a degree in atmospheric science - which I don’t - this may be a great app. I can’t evaluate it on that level. But for the average user, info could be presented a lot more clearly.