# Parakiter — The parakite pilot's app > The parakite pilot's app (iPhone/iPad app by Matt Gough.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/parakiter/id6763248525 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Matt Gough](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895232494) - Category: Sports, Weather - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 92 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-05-11 - Data updated: 2026-09-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/parakiter/id6763248525/reviews.md ## What is Parakiter? Parakiter walks with you through every stage of a flying day — from the first sign that conditions are coming good, to keeping in touch with the pilots you met when you packed up. Built by pilots, for pilots. TAILORED FORECASTS Generic regional forecasts tell you it's "10–15 knots and westerly". Useless. Parakiter takes your wing, your weight and your personal wind window, then crunches live RASP, Open-Meteo and tidal data against YOUR setup at YOUR site. The answer it gives you is the one you actually need: today's a fly, or today's a write-off. WING SETTINGS Pick your wing, set your all-up weight, and that's it. Every forecast from then on is calibrated to your personal wind range — no mental maths at the trail head, no second-guessing whether today's a small-wing day or a big-wing day. CUSTOM ALERTS Don't want to keep checking? Tell Parakiter the conditions you want and the sites you care about, then get on with your week. When the forecast lines up, your phone buzzes — Wednesday afternoon is going to fire at your local, take the day off. Never miss a great day again. SITE FINDER Coastal dunes, ridge sites and soaring spots across the UK — with the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Portugal and Spain rolling out now. Find new sites within range of where you already go. Coastal sites have tide gates baked in, so you won't drive an hour to find your launch underwater. SESSION CHATS Who else is going? Lift to share? Where's everyone meeting? Session chats put you in a thread with every pilot planning to fly the same site that day. Pull up to the site already knowing who's there. WIND FLOW See where the lift is. See where the rotor is hiding. Our wind flow system overlays animated streamlines on satellite imagery of your site, calibrated to today's forecast wind direction and speed — a highly accurate picture of what the wind will be doing right at launch. Pick your launch point, spot the danger zones, fly with confidence. BUDDY SYSTEM First on site and don't want to wait for the others to land before you launch? Pick a buddy in the app before you go up. If you don't confirm a safe landing within 5 minutes, they get an alert with your last GPS location, your what3words address, and emergency-services guidance. Solo flying, with someone watching your back. FLIGHT LOGS You flew. The barometer noticed. By the time you've packed up, today's flight is in your logbook — takeoff, landing, full track on a map, personal bests, and a running total of your airtime. That airtime total matters: it's how you know when your wing is due a service. Your career, logging itself in the background. MEDIA GALLERIES Every shot from every site, in one place. Drop your photos and clips into the day's session chat — share with the exact pilots who were there with you. Look back on a season and remember why you do this. PILOT COMMUNITY The session ends, but the chats don't have to. Stay in touch with the pilots you met today through site groups, regional threads, or private chats with your usual crew. Build a network of pilots wherever you fly. COMING SOON Kit reviews, tutorials, classified ads, and more. Parakiter is shaped by what pilots actually ask for — so tell us what's missing. WHO IT'S FOR Every Parakite pilot, from your first flight onwards. Built by pilots, for pilots. PRIVACY AND DATA Your wind window, AUW, sessions and chats stay yours. We don't sell your data. Forecasts are computed on our infrastructure; chat is private to your group. SUBSCRIPTION 3 months free, then £2.49 / month for full access to site forecasts, custom wind alerts, wind flow, flight tracking, buddy safety, pilot logbook, pilot chat and coastal tide gates. Auto-renews monthly until cancelled. Cancel any time from your device's Subscriptions settings. Get in touch via the in-app chat — we read every message. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Parakiter Pro | $2.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.1 — 2026-08-30 Widget improvements Your home-screen widget now refreshes on its own through the day, so it stays current whether or not you open the app. And removing a site from your favourites clears it from the widget straight away, instead of waiting until you next open Parakiter. Announcements Opening an announcement no longer makes it disappear. Start a video, run out of time, come back to it later — it stays on your dashboard until you choose "Remove from dashboard". Better rain forecasting Rain now only counts against an hour when the forecast really expects it. A small amount at a low chance is the forecast hedging its bets, and it was writing off perfectly good flying. Heavy rain still rules an hour out whatever the stated chance. Also fixed: dashboard badges no longer freeze after you sign in. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-28 Home-screen widget See where to fly without opening the app. Add the Parakiter widget to your home screen and your favourite sites are ranked best-first for each of the next five days. Three sizes: the small one shows tomorrow's best site and its flying window, the medium gives you all five days, and the large adds a second site per day. Every site shows an hour-by-hour bar from 6am to 9pm, so you can see at a glance whether you're getting a solid afternoon or a fleeting hour — including where rain will break the day up. Tap any site to open it. Also in this update: day ratings now handle a single bad hour in the middle of an otherwise good window, instead of treating it as two short days. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-08 coloured wind barbs, tutorial vids and equipment reviews. ### 1.0.14 — 2026-08-03 Wind streaks now on by default on the forecast map — no hunt for the button. Trip-alert taps now open the site's forecast, and trip windows show up in your Upcoming alerts list. Chat: live member count with join/leave shown as they happen; URLs in messages are now tappable. ### 1.0.13 — 2026-06-25 More live wind stations on the forecast map. Channel Coastal Observatory feed added: ~22 UK piers, harbours and nearshore platforms from Brighton to Bude. Announcements can include a photo or short video. Admins can attach media to dashboard announcements — the card shows a thumbnail with a ▶ overlay for video; tap to open inline or play fullscreen. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*