NAIPS vs Bravo Weather
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.
Bravo Weather
This app provides detailed weather forecasts by showing you the underlying data from multiple global weather models. It uses AI to synthesize these models into a single, reliable forecast, allowing you to see where models agree and disagree for better decision-making.
- AI-powered BravoCast forecast
- View multiple global weather models side-by-side
- Rainfall totals and frost alerts
- Live rain radar and hourly forecasts
- Wind, tides, swell, sun, moon, and UV data
- Plain-English weather briefings
- Customizable email and phone alerts
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A new way to read the weather. Most weather apps give you one number and hide where it came from. Bravo gives you BravoCast, our own AI forecast, and every weather model behind it, so you can see whether they agree. BravoCast is Bravo's AI machine-learning weather model. It has learned from years of observed rainfall which forecast models to trust, where and when, and turns them into one answer for rain, temperature and wind, anywhere on earth. Behind it sit the world's major weather models, including ECMWF, GFS, ICON, GEM and JMA, with UKMO for Weather Nerds. They run on different physics and different observations, and when they disagree, that disagreement is the most useful thing on the screen. Every model putting 15 mm on Thursday is worth planning around. Two of them is worth watching and nothing more. Bravo shows you which one you are looking at. WHAT YOU GET • BravoCast: Bravo's own AI forecast, the one answer on every screen and the first row on every grid • Home: today, the next ten days and how sure the forecast is, with every model's rain drawn hour by hour underneath • Every model side by side, each to the end of its own run — up to 16 days ahead — for any location on earth • Frost forecasts on the same models — overnight minimums and how many agree • Snow: fresh snow from each model and BravoCast, day by day and hour by hour, plus a snowfall layer on the map • A full-screen rain map from ten forecast models, with wind and pressure • Live rain radar on the map: the rain that is falling now, and the next hour • Wind, tides, swell, sun, moon and UV, each on its own screen with the answer first • The Big Picture: a plain-English briefing on what is actually driving your region's weather, not just what will fall • Alerts on your own thresholds for rain, frost, high temperature, wind, snow and swell, by email and on your phone • Share the forecast as a picture: every model, every day, ready for Messages, WhatsApp or the family group chat • Your saved places on the home screen, one tap from their forecast • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen: the rain total for the days ahead and every model's number, at a glance FOR ANYONE WHO ACTS ON THE FORECAST If you are deciding whether to go, wait, or move something under cover, "60% chance of rain" is not an answer — knowing whether the models agree is. Bravo works anywhere in the world. FREE AND WEATHER NERD Home, the wind, tides, swell, sun, moon and UV screens, the rain map for the week ahead, live rain radar, search, the frost view and the first seven days of the model grid are free, with no account. Weather Nerd adds the rest of every model's run (up to 16 days), which model says what on each day, the map's extra models (AIFS, AIGFS, ARPEGE and GRAPES) and the map past the first week, Compare on the map, every kind of alert, and the complete Big Picture briefing. Weather Nerd is a yearly subscription, with the first 14 days free for new subscribers. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings at any time. ALERTS Set the amount of rain you are waiting for, how many models must agree, and how far ahead to look. Bravo checks once a day and tells you when your rule is met — once per weather event, not once per day. Every alert arrives by email, and any alert can reach your phone as a notification too. Frost, high temperature, wind and snow alerts work the same way, frost with a threshold defaulting to +2 °C, because models publish screen temperature and the ground runs colder on the nights that matter. Swell alerts cover the Australian coast. Weather data from ECMWF, NOAA, the Met Office and DWD. Radar data powered by Rainbow.ai. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bravoweather.com/privacy Bravo's own terms: https://bravoweather.com/terms
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Verdict
NAIPS and Bravo Weather both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Bravo Weather's written reviews are positive against 45% of NAIPS's. Bravo Weather also leads on price (Free vs $7.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). NAIPS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On rating, ads 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
Bravo Weather is free to download; NAIPS costs $7.99 up front. Bravo Weather sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. NAIPS asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NAIPS against 5.0 for Bravo Weather. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bravo Weather has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 45% of NAIPS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bravo Weather's.
NAIPS ships an update every 6 weeks, Bravo Weather every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | NAIPS | Bravo Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OzRunways Pty. Ltd. | Andrew Barron |
Customer experience
NAIPS
Bravo Weather
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
Bravo Weather
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NAIPS
No in-app purchases
Bravo Weather
- BravoWeather Pro1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Bravo Weather Nerd14 Days trial$29.001 Year









