NAIPS vs Seabreeze.com.au
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NAIPS
Access critical aviation weather and NOTAM information directly from Airservices Australia. Submit flight notifications, amend plans, and view charts. Save briefings for offline use and receive push notifications for new weather updates.
- Submit flight notifications
- Amend/cancel flight plans
- SARTIME notification
- Location briefing
- View weather charts
- Offline briefing access
- GPS location features
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NAIPS for iPhone & iPad. Download pilot weather and notam information direct from Airservices Australia. Features include: * Submit Flight Notification (up to 3 stages) * Amend/Cancel flight plans * SARTIME Notification * Location Briefing * Charts (eg. SigWX & Grid Pt Winds) * Wind/Temp profile * Area Briefing * First/Last Light * Dial AWIS phone numbers * Location Directory * GPS/RAIM * Custom divert briefing Why not use the airservicesaustralia.com website? With NAIPS for iPhone you can: * Save briefings for viewing offline/airborne. * Quickly update briefings * Submit or amend flight plans in the cockpit before takeoff. * Use your GPS Location to get the closest airfields & restricted areas. * Downloads text only for very fast speeds * Automatic login (you need your own login though) * Save Aircraft & Route details for flight notifications & SARTIMES. * Print or email your met/notams * Push notifications send you a message when there is new weather out for your destination Note: Requires a free login from www.airservicesaustralia.com/naips to work. Please direct all questions to support@ozrunways.com This application is not associated with Airservices so please don't ask them any questions about using this app. Once downloaded, there are no other charges to use NAIPS.
Seabreeze.com.au
Access detailed coastal weather forecasts and live reports for over 20,000 Australian locations. Find the ideal conditions for watersports and browse a vast selection of water sports gear in the classifieds section.
- 7-day wind speed & direction forecasts
- 7-day tide predictions
- 7-day wave height, direction & period predictions
- Live wind reports
- Water sports classifieds
- Private messaging for classifieds
- Watch list for favorite listings
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Australia's #1 Watersports website - seabreeze.com.au Do you dream of the ideal conditions on the ocean? Get the info you need to get out on the water doing what you like doing best, more often. For over 25 years, Seabreeze has been the go-to site for reliable coastal weather forecasts, live weather reports. Add the most popular water sports classifieds and community, and you've set for good times on the water. ###### WEATHER ###### FORECASTS and LIVE WEATHER for over 20,000 locations around Australia, including * 7 Day Wind Speed & Wind Direction forecasts * 7 Day Tide predictions * 7 Day Wave Height, Wave Direction and Wave Period predictions * 7 Day Temperature Forecasts * 7 Day Rainfall Forecasts * Live Rain Radar * LIVE wind reports from Australian beach weather stations * Moon phases & Sunrise / Sunset for the coming week. ..all presented using the Unique and Innovative weather graphs that make knowing when to go a simple glance of the screen. ###### CLASSIFIEDS ####### Australia's most popular water sports classifieds! Features: - Largest listings of water sports gear in Australia - Browse adverts, zoom in on photos - Private messaging to discuss with buyers & sellers - Post your own adverts to an enourmous audience - Post photos of your item using iPhone camera/gallery - Create a 'watch list' of your favourite listings More 2nd hand/used Kitesurfing gear, SUP (Stand Up Paddle Boards), Windsurfing, Surfing and Foilboard & Wind Wing listings than any other source in Australia! Seabreeze.com.au - serving weather junkies since 1997!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Seabreeze.com.au at 93% against NAIPS's 45%. Seabreeze.com.au also leads on price (Free vs $7.99) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). NAIPS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Seabreeze.com.au is free to download; NAIPS costs $7.99 up front. Seabreeze.com.au sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. NAIPS asks for nothing beyond the download.
NAIPS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seabreeze.com.au has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of NAIPS's written reviews are positive against 93% of Seabreeze.com.au's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NAIPS ships an update every 6 weeks, Seabreeze.com.au every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NAIPS | Seabreeze.com.au |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OzRunways Pty. Ltd. | WeatherWise Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
NAIPS
Seabreeze.com.au
User reviews
NAIPS
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Essential kit for Australian pilots
- 👍 Great app for weather and NOTAMs
- 👍 Can save briefings offline
- 👍 Works great most of the time
- 👍 Good easy to use app
Room to improve
- 😞 Terrible application, needs redesign
- 😞 Unusable if dark mode is enabled
- 😞 Soooo hard to use!
- 😞 Broken SPIFB updates
- 😞 No GAF charts
Seabreeze.com.au
From 19 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and understand
- 🎯 Accurate weather and wind forecasts
- 🌊 Great for water sports (boating, fishing, surfing, sailing, etc.)
- 💨 Reliable wind predictions
- 📈 Informative graphs and data
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes or bugs
- 📉 Forecasts can be inaccurate at times
- 🚫 Missing features (e.g., swell forecast in some versions)
- ↔️ UI changes that are not well-received
- 🎛️ Difficulty reading or zooming in certain views
Bugs and requests
NAIPS
Reported bugs
32 issues- Window closes when clicking outside border on iPad
- 0's removed from Northing/Eastings entries
- Cannot retrieve saved draft Flight Notification on App
- Nearest locations seem off
- Access Violation error
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- Users cannot update Saved document after password change
- Cannot view background picture
- Initial startup photo too brief
- Cannot Cancel/Amend Sartime (Error: Sartime must be forward of EOBT and current time. ETD is more than 5 days in the future.)
- iPhone X/XS/11 black bars
- %connection error
- Connection error 80% of the time
- App doesn't show GAF feature anymore
- Save all button needed for saved entries
- Ability to reorder saved entries
- Login bug
- NAIPS username and password problem
- Asks for login details on EVERY start up
- Cannot submit flight plans
- SPFIB update option not functioning
- Flt plan amendment non functional
- Airfields within xx miles of route partly non functional
- Won't recognise Naips username or pin number
- Won't recognize naips login
- Numerous non functional options
- Restricted airspace status was very handy
- No SPFIB facility
- Unable to get A-B weather and NOTAMS for a flight out of Brisbane due to NAIPS abbreviation conflict
- NAIPs (NIS) not working
- New update works great
- Password change problem
- Charts feature is slow
Requested features
7 requests- Dark mode option
- Pinch to zoom
- Add GAFs to area briefing
- AVFAX support
- Add ons such as daps, ersa, etc
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- RAIM predictions
- Restricted airspace status
Seabreeze.com.au
Reported bugs
7 issues- Contact button doesn't work
- App crashes consistently on ordering and filtering in buy and sell
- Buy n sell not working
- Pictures aren't showing up on ads
- Error codes when trying to post an item for sale
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- App quits itself after coming back on it
- Scrolling when touching is a bit clunky on the latest version
Requested features
12 requests- Fix contact/feedback button
- Ability to remove or reorder photos on paid adverts
- Restore combined top graph (swell, wind, weather temp)
- Ability to zoom in on maps/charts
- Include moonrise and moonset times
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- Longer time period of weather forecasts
- More detailed tide data for specific locations
- Live ocean swell data from offshore buoys
- Winds in kilometers
- More detail for offshore wind conditions at least 5 kms out
- Customise which weather stations appear on the screen
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
NAIPS
No in-app purchases
Seabreeze.com.au
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Advert Listing$3.99
- Advert Listing$8.99
- Advert Free$9.99
