Vindsiden Wind Graph vs Metar USA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vindsiden Wind Graph
Visualize wind speed, direction, and temperature with a 5-hour graph. Access detailed station information, view live webcams, and customize your display. Includes a Today extension for quick wind updates.
- 5-hour wind graph visualization
- Detailed wind station information
- Webcam views for stations
- Customizable station display
- Today extension for quick updates
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Displays weather stations from vindsiden.no. It shows information about wind speed, wind direction and temperature. It also got a nice graph to visualize how the wind has evolved the last 5 hours. Features: • Graph view with statistics for the last 5 hours. • Long press graph to get detailed information. • Basic wind information. • Web camera view for wind stations with camera. • Wind station details. • Sort, show/hide stations by choice. • Change wind unit by choice. • Today extension to get a fast glimpse of the wind situation All content is fetched from vindsiden.no.
Metar USA
Access continuously updated METAR weather reports for all USA stations, sourced from official government data. Includes a comprehensive database of USA airfields, airports, and their geographical information.
- USA METAR weather reports
- Continuous updates
- Official government data
- USA airfield database
- Airport geographical data
- Geo-coordinates
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Metar USA brings you the METAR observations of more than two thousand reporting stations across the United States, read straight from the official Aviation Weather Center (NOAA) source. The app opens on the full station list with the raw report, the observation time in UTC and the ICAO identifier coloured by flight category: green VFR, blue MVFR, red IFR, purple LIFR. One glance tells you where you can fly. Tap a station and the report is decoded item by item: temperature and dewpoint, wind direction and speed with gusts, visibility, altimeter setting in inches of mercury and hectopascals, field elevation and cloud layers in METAR notation. • Every US reporting station, refreshed on launch and on pull to refresh • Search by ICAO identifier • Map of all stations — tap a pin to read the report • Home Screen widget for the station you choose, in three sizes • Apple Watch app: your station plus the ten closest to you, ranked by distance • The observation time is highlighted when the report is no longer current • No account, no advertising, no data collected Data comes from the Aviation Weather Center (NOAA), exactly as published at the source. Metar USA is a quick reference tool: always rely on official sources and the required aeronautical documentation for flight planning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vindsiden Wind Graph at every 2 months against Metar USA's every 15 months. Metar USA's advantage is iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Vindsiden Wind Graph ships an update every 2 months, Metar USA every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vindsiden Wind Graph | Metar USA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ragnar Henriksen | Emanuele Chiavelli |
Customer experience
Vindsiden Wind Graph
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In-app purchases
Vindsiden Wind Graph
No in-app purchases
Metar USA
No in-app purchases
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