Acme Weather vs Metarize

Acme Weather, from the creators of Dark Sky. Our homegrown forecasts help you make better decisions about your day. * Alternate Predictions Weather is unpredictable, and forecasts are often wrong. Instead of a single guess, Acme displays alternate predictions that show you how reliable the forecast is and the range of possible outcomes. * Notifications Never miss important weather again. Acme has notifications for precipitation, severe weather, lighting, daily summaries, and more. Want to know if it'll be windy or if the UV index will be high? Create custom notifications for the conditions you care about. * Community Reports There’s nothing more reliable than when someone nearby tells you what’s happening. Acme lets anyone report what they’re seeing, maps it instantly, and alerts you when something’s happening close by. * Beautiful Maps Our maps include real-time radar, snow accumulation, air quality, hurricanes and more. The most relevant map will appear directly in your forecast page for instant context. * Subscription Acme is free to use for two weeks, then requires a $25 USD/year subscription. A Family Sharing subscription is also available for $50 USD/year. * Privacy First - We collect only what’s necessary to provide the service - We don’t store your location history - We don’t sell your data - We don’t use third-party tracking or analytics tools Terms of Use: https://acmeweather.com/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Metarize is a powerful tool to consult two iconic aviation weather products — METARs and TAFs — and use them for a variety of missions beyond aviation. It leverages the properties of these weather products: - Their compact, very quick to read format - Their high quality, on which millions of lives depend - Their global availability in a standard format … and provides features to make them useful for a variety of critical missions - Push notifications - Discovery of local stations (using GPS or a map location) - Monitoring and reporting of the integrity and recency of the data using visual color codes - Offline support – refresh data in the background so it’s available to consult if connectivity is lost - Part 107 readiness indication (“go”/”no-go” badge to assist with take-off decisions based upon visibility and cloud ceiling height) - Decoding assistance, to help learn the format (it’s well worth the effort!) More subtle design goals – some of these are still actively being worked on: - Chain of trust – report any element that puts the integrity or recency of what it displayed in question - Latency – use the lowest latency source possible - Resiliency – make the app resilient to failures - Security-minded – require no permissions beyond internet access (optionally use more permissions, see below) - Tactical-friendliness – low light color scheme Permissions: - Internet – required, to download weather data - Location – optional, to automatically display nearby stations - Notifications – optional, for push notifications Background-fetching (offline support) – this feature makes the app periodically (every 15 minutes in most cases) download an up to date METAR or TAF for each favorite station/product combination. If the device goes offline, the last data fetched will be available.