Wind & Tides vs BlipSat

A wind map up to 14 days ahead, NOAA nautical charts with your GPS position, the marine forecast from your local NWS office, live buoy reports, tides and currents: everything you check before leaving the dock, in one app for your home waters. One-time purchase. No subscription, no account, no ads. The wind map and NOAA charts cover US waters wherever NOAA publishes a chart. The marine forecast, live buoy reports, tides and currents are per region: 30 regions so far, listed below. If your home waters aren't there yet, request them at windandtides.com. Built for boating, sailing, fishing, kayaking, paddleboarding, windsurfing, wing foiling, kiteboarding, and open water swimming. Sailors have used Wind and Tides since 2011, and the marine and weather forecasts, tides, currents and buoy reports each link back to their NOAA source page. SUPPORTED REGIONS California • San Francisco Bay • San Francisco Offshore • Monterey Bay • Morro Bay and Port San Luis • Santa Barbara • Los Angeles • Catalina and Channel Islands • Newport Beach and Dana Point • San Diego Pacific Northwest • San Juan Islands • Port Angeles • Port Townsend • Puget Sound Hawaii • Honolulu and Oahu South Shore Northeast • Portland Maine and Casco Bay • Boston and Massachusetts Bay • Cape Cod Bay and Plymouth • Buzzards Bay and New Bedford • Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket • Newport and Narragansett Bay • Block Island • Long Island Sound East • Long Island Sound West Mid-Atlantic • Chesapeake Bay North • Chesapeake Bay South Florida and Gulf Coast • Fort Lauderdale • Miami and Biscayne Bay • Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg • Pensacola • Galveston Bay WHAT'S INSIDE • NOAA ENC nautical charts: depths, hazards, buoys, channel markers, with your GPS position, course and speed • Wind map: speed and direction animated over the chart, up to 14 days ahead • NWS coastal waters forecasts from your local forecast office: wind, seas, small craft advisories, and gale warnings through day 5 • NOAA tide predictions • NOAA current predictions • NDBC live buoy observations • NWS gridded weather forecasts • Wind models: NOAA HRRR, NBM, and GFS; ECMWF open data Wind and Tides surfaces public NOAA, NWS, and NDBC data and ECMWF open data, and is not affiliated with these organizations. Don't see your region? Request it at windandtides.com.

BlipSat turns your satellite communicator into a two-way information terminal. Out of cell range on a ZOLEO, Garmin inReach, SPOT X or Bivy Stick? Send a short command and get the answer back over your satellite communicator. No cell signal, no Wi-Fi required in the field. WHAT YOU CAN ASK - Aviation weather: METAR and TAF reports, with an optional plain-English decode, plus D-ATIS at supported airports. - Weather radar: request a radar picture for an airport or your current position; the app renders a radar grid over an offline airport map, including a forward "corridor" aligned to your direction of travel. - Sports scores: live and final scores for MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL. - Stock quotes: quick prices on the symbols you follow. - Web search: ask a question in plain language and get a concise, AI-assisted answer. HOW IT WORKS When you have an internet connection, the app sends your request directly to the BlipSat service and shows the reply instantly. When you're off the grid, the same request goes out over your satellite communicator via Bluetooth, and the reply comes back the same way — automatically. Long answers are split to fit your device's per-message limit, so nothing gets cut off. BUILT FOR THE FIELD - Works with ZOLEO, Garmin inReach, SPOT X and Bivy Stick satellite communicators. - Automatic path selection: internet when available, satellite when it isn't. - On-device airport map and radar rendering — no data connection needed to draw it. - A clean message history so you can review every request and reply. - Readable in the cockpit or the backcountry, with adjustable text size. WHO IT'S FOR Pilots, backcountry travelers, boaters, and anyone who ventures beyond cellular coverage and still wants weather, radar, scores, and answers on demand. SUBSCRIPTION BlipSat is an auto-renewing monthly subscription: 1 month free, then a monthly price billed to your Apple ID. The price in your currency is shown before you subscribe. Payment is charged at the end of the free month and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ BlipSat Terms: https://blipsat.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://blipsat.com/privacy IMPORTANT — SUPPLEMENTAL USE ONLY BlipSat is an informational aid and is NOT a certified source for flight planning or navigation. Do not rely on it as a primary source of aviation weather or for navigation. Always consult official, authoritative sources and use appropriate certified equipment for safety-of-flight and navigation decisions.