METAR AF vs SkewT Aero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
METAR AF
Get real-time weather data from nearly every ICAO registered airport. This app provides aviation-focused weather information with a humorous, no-nonsense attitude, designed to entertain while delivering crucial data.
- Real-time airport weather data
- Covers ICAO registered airports
- Humorous, direct commentary
- Pilot-focused weather information
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We've gathered together a group of the most mid-level pilots and programmers to bring you the weather! This app solves boredom while checking the weather at your local airport before you go out and bust your local Bravo. This app will (not) make you better at understanding the weather at your local airport. Using the power of pixies, wizards, and internet connected weather stations, we are able to bring you weather from just about every ICAO registered airport. Much like 90% of the internet, THE DATA IS REAL, but the advice is not.
SkewT Aero
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SkewT Aero helps pilots truly understand the atmosphere and what that means for a planned flight. Explore weather along your route using interactive visualizations built directly from modern forecast guidance. Slide your departure time, inspect hazards, and understand how clouds, winds, icing, turbulence, convection, ceilings, and visibility evolve before you fly. Every view is synchronized by route, time, and altitude. Move anywhere along your route or slide your departure time to see how the forecast changes throughout the flight. SkewT Aero complements tools like ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot by helping pilots explore forecast guidance in greater detail before making weather decisions. Features include interactive route weather visualization, route hazard timelines, vertical atmospheric profiles, forecast soundings (SkewT), route stations, nationwide weather maps, operational NOAA forecast guidance, offline weather and navigation data, hourly forecast updates, Home Screen widgets for a SkewT and for three airports' stations, iPad in either orientation, and iPhone Duo. Forecasts are built from operational NOAA guidance including HRRR, RRFS, GFS, NBM, DAFS, and LAMP. Rather than reducing those models to a text briefing, SkewT Aero lets you interact directly with the atmosphere they predict. Whether you're evaluating today's flight or planning several days ahead, every view stays synchronized so you can quickly understand how weather changes with location, time, and altitude.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SkewT Aero at none against METAR AF's shown. SkewT Aero also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). METAR AF's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. METAR AF sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SkewT Aero sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for METAR AF against 5.0 for SkewT Aero. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: METAR AF has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
METAR AF ships an update monthly, SkewT Aero fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | METAR AF | SkewT Aero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (69 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Hughes | Enlu Aero LLC |
Customer experience
METAR AF
SkewT Aero
In-app purchases
METAR AF
- $5 Donation. No more ads!$4.99
SkewT Aero
- SkewT Aero Annual$39.991 Year
- SkewT Aero14 Days trial$39.991 Year









