Best METAR Widgets alternatives: apps like METAR Widgets

METAR Widgets is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to METAR Widgets

Aviator Weather by Iddo Gino

METARs & TAFs - with widgets!

Editor's Choice

4.3😞(113 ratings)

$1.99

#57in Weather

Access live aviation weather reports, including METARs and TAFs, for thousands of airports worldwide. Plan flights with real-time data, perform E6B calculations, and view weather maps. Includes home screen widgets and an Apple Watch app for quick access.

What We Love

👍 Great app overall
👍 Accurate and helpful
👍 Free to use
👍 Variety of airports
👍 Good for quick glance
👍 Slick layout for decoding METARS/TAF

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes frequently
🐛 App won't open on iOS 26
🐛 Widget fails to load
🐛 Opens and immediately closes
🐛 Visibility data parsed as 0SM
🐛 Reports wrong visibility (0 M)
🐛 Crashes when searching airports
🐛 Home Screen widget buggy
🐛 Defaults to instructions in widget
🐛 Cloud ceiling calculation issue
🐛 Always opens KSFO
🐛 Reverts units after closing app

StationWeather - METAR and TAF by Oliver Puetz

Aviation Weather and Maps

Strong Contender

4.7😊(1.4K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app provides aviation-specific weather reports, including METARs, TAFs, ATIS, and NOTAMs, presented in an easily understandable format. It offers live radar, weather charts, and customizable filters to speed up weather briefings for pilots.

What We Love

🚀 Convenient
🚀 Easy to use
🚀 Great Widgets
🚀 Much improved
🚀 Awesome must have!
🚀 Great app for METAR!
🚀 Fantastic
🚀 Great weather app for pilots and ATC
🚀 Great Customer Service
🚀 Proactive developer, excellent communication!
🚀 Excellent app until recent update
🚀 Great app, but
🚀 Great app…
🚀 Fantastic
🚀 Great app for METAR!
🚀 Can't be it for quick and easy up to date airport weather and forecast
🚀 Really good aviation weather App

Room to Improve

🐛 Not recommended
🐛 Keeps getting worse
🐛 Watch complications are buggy
🐛 Has potential ..but
🐛 Crashes
🐛 Winds
🐛 Slow or expired METAR
🐛 Good but Crashes
🐛 Integration with Apple Watch doesn't work
🐛 Airport Chart Updates
🐛 Not that great
🐛 Doesn't load info when not on WiFi
🐛 No good on Apple Watch
🐛 Need update improvement
🐛 Pluses and minuses
🐛 Buggy - Crashes
🐛 Forecasts
🐛 Good app, very handy

WatchMETAR by Eugene Rakhmatulin

METAR/TAF on your wrist

Worth Considering

Weather and EFB Pilot App

3.7😞(106 ratings)

Free

Access real-time aviation weather data on your Apple Watch, iPhone, or iPad. View METAR and TAF reports, customize watch face complications, and use voice or scribble search for airports. Supports U.S. airports.

What We Love

👍 Great for METAR/TAF at a glance
👍 Simple and convenient for pilots
👍 Good UI design
👍 Free app
👍 Quick access on Apple Watch
👍 Color-coded flight rules
👍 Useful complication
👍 Responsive developer (historically)

Room to Improve

🐛 App frequently stops working/updating
🐛 Complications often fail to update or show 'No Station Set'
🐛 Developer support seems to have ceased
🐛 Website and support links are offline
🐛 Some users experience freezing
🐛 Favorites list can be lost
🐛 Only US airports available (historically)
🐛 App requires manual refresh often

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