Windfinder Pro: Wind & Weather App Reviews

I usually dont bother with feedback, but.... This is the "must have" app for sailors. Worth every penny!!!

The nearest station is over 100 miles away. Totally useless. No way to check station locations before you buy. Use Sailflow instead.

Windfinder Pro offers an enormous amount of detailed information, in an easily discernible format-- quite a trick on the iPhones small screen. From my experience it is decidedly more accurate than your standard weather forecast. It has underestimated the afternoon onshore winds on the Maine coast a few times, but theyre a pretty localized phenomena, so I am forgiving. It is worth the price for the forecast maps (GRIBs) alone. I check Windfinder before hoisting the mainsail every time.

There is no such thing as a real accurate weather forecast, but windfinder is as close as it gets

This is now the only app I need to go sailing. Because I belong to a charter group I can sail in multiple locations, this works for even that. With wind speed, direction, wave height and duration, tide info and forecasting. Love this app!

No way to change air pressure units. Add this feature and Ill give it 5 stars

Wind Alert App says it is blowing 26 knots, whitecaps and we are reefed. This app says it is blowing at 8. Also, the tide is wrong. So if you want to run aground and capsize use this app, otherwise buy Wind Alert. It cost more but it works.

Very good app but the web version presents the info in more useful and quick to use way. The predictions are good tho it would be good to have more info on the models used. A graphic that showed wave height and period would also be great. It would be good to get current conditions and recent history for local stations, tho granted not all of them report reliably. Overall very good and recommended.

You missed the mark by PRICE GOUGING on the alerts. .99 per alert? What a joke. The point of alerts is so we dont have to keep logging into the app to check wind speeds but at a buck a pop good luck seeing your customers go over to your competitor. Do you guys work for the oil companies?

Do not buy, its a rip off, you pay 1.99 after which they require u to pay an additional weekly mo thy or or annual charge up to 20.00. Dont get sucked in. Get the free one, it works, so you have to live with the pop ups.

Used to be a great app... Now they have become Greedy. Do not purchase!

Easy to get everything you need to know for any type of water sports activity on one screen by hour. A great tool.

Weve been using Windfinder Pro for the first time this June to plan our northbound transit of Chesapeake Bay and the New Jersey Coast. Weve found it a terrific help in showing real time buoy reports as well as models for future wind conditions. Our only complaint is that using the map to find stations is a little annoying in that we have to return to the home map to find each new station. Once we put all the stations in our Favorites List this was no longer a problem.

Dont like it to much , the measurements are not exact .. There is no way it can be 10 knots when its really blowing 20 .. its just not accurate .. Maybe someone help me understand it .. Observación ( not a newbie to wind sports )

I think that its time to update this app for the iPhone 5.

I dont mind paying $2 for this app to get a notification for wind speed but now they want at least 40cts for each alert? Come on !!

Nice app, but although it says it works on ipad, it does not.

It works swell, information is reliable specially coming from an airport station. User interface is great. Very easy to navigate and find new windy spots around your area. However the wind alert feature is unavailable, you cannot subscribe. Please fix. -from Puerto Rico

I hate having to do the math on the time. Can you please just put regular time in there as an option?! When you leave your wind list and go one screen over to prefs, youd think you could just slide back over. Nope have to navigate back to favs then click on the last fav you were looking at if youre lucky enough to remember. Lots more UI weirdness I cant explain.

Since the last update when all my favorites are showing listed on the favorites screen all the info next to the favorites is blank. The info comes up only when you go into each favorite individually.