TrueWind vs SkyForge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrueWind
This app provides detailed marine weather forecasts, including wind, tide, current, and wave data. It's designed for sailors and watersport enthusiasts to aid in planning, decision-making, and performance on the water.
- Wind direction, speed, and gusts
- Wind shifts over time
- Tide station data
- Current station data
- Wave details
- Regatta planning tools
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TrueWind is a sailing and nautical weather app built for sailors, skippers, regatta racers, and watersport enthusiasts. Wind, current, tide, waves, weather, and NWS marine alerts, all in one clean app. NEW: RACE REMINDERS Add your weekly race once and TrueWind keeps it ready. See wind, current, and tide for your exact race window on one screen, watch how the wind builds or fades from start to finish, and get notified when conditions change significantly. A Home Screen widget counts down to your next race with the latest conditions. WITH TRUEWIND YOU CAN VIEW - Wind direction, speed, and gusts - Wind shifts over time - Tide station data, including high and low times and spring tides - Current station data, including flood and ebb, for better timing - Wave details, including height and wavelength - NWS marine alerts, including storm, gale, and other marine warnings - Race conditions for your exact start and finish times - Home Screen widget for your next race BUILT FOR REAL SAILING DECISIONS From Nantucket sailing days to Tuesday night club racing, weekend regattas, and everyday boating, TrueWind brings the marine conditions that matter into one fast, easy-to-read view, without the clutter of a general weather app. Plan with confidence. Sail with better timing.
SkyForge
Experience a dynamic, full-screen animated weather map as your primary interface. View detailed radar, wind streams, and temperature overlays, alongside a comprehensive 10-day forecast with interactive charts. Get severe weather alerts and air quality information for your current location or saved cities.
- Full-screen animated precipitation radar
- Live wind stream visualization
- 10-day forecast with daily briefs
- Interactive hourly forecast charts
- Severe weather watches and warnings
- Automatic location-based weather
- Dark and light map themes
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SkyForge makes the weather radar the whole app — a full-screen, buttery-smooth animated map is your home screen, and everything else floats cleanly on top. RADAR THAT MOVES • Smooth, motion-interpolated radar: the past two hours, then up to an hour of forecast radar where it's available • 3D storms — heavy rain rises off the map as shaded clouds that cast shadows • Live wind streams — thousands of moving particles showing direction and speed • Temperature overlay with a color-graded legend • Show precipitation, temperature and wind together • Fronts & pressure from NOAA's surface analysis • Zoom out far enough and the map becomes a spinning 3D globe, colored with NASA satellite land cover A FORECAST WITH DEPTH • 10-day forecast — tap any day to expand a plain-English brief • Interactive charts for every day: temperature, precipitation, UV, wind, humidity, visibility, and pressure — drag to pinpoint any minute • Hourly forecast, current conditions, "feels like", and high/low • Air quality (US AQI), UV index, sunrise & sunset, dew point, and more BUILT FOR WHERE YOU ARE • Automatic radar and forecast for your current location • Save cities and reorder your list with a long-press • Dark and light map themes that remember your choice SEVERE WEATHER • Live watches, warnings, and advisories from the US National Weather Service, right at the top of your screen when they matter HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% free and ad-free • No account, no sign-up, no tracking • Your location is used only to fetch weather — never stored or sold Weather data from Open-Meteo, LibreWXR, RainViewer, NOAA / National Weather Service, NASA GIBS, Iowa State Mesonet, and OpenWeatherMap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SkyForge at 5.0 against TrueWind's 4.6. SkyForge also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). TrueWind's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SkyForge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrueWind has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TrueWind ships an update every 3 weeks, SkyForge monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrueWind | SkyForge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noujan Fakhri | Tyler Posey |
Customer experience
TrueWind
SkyForge
In-app purchases
TrueWind
No in-app purchases
SkyForge
No in-app purchases









