WxPlan vs SkyFeed

WxPlan - Smarter Weather & Flight Planning, tailored for Australian pilots. Get unrestricted access to official NAIPS weather - completely free, with no ads and no sign-in required. WxPlan gives all users free access to essential tools including Location Briefs, Area Briefs, First/Last Light, Wind & Temperature Profiles, Restricted Area Briefs, RAIM Prediction, and all Charts. Smart ETA-based TAF analysis: Simply enter your destination and ETA, or import your run sheet - WxPlan extracts the TAF lines relevant to your arrival, considers TAF3 requirements, buffers, Part 121 or 91 rules and utilises your alternate minima to determine any weather conditions that may trigger holding or an alternate. View detailed TAF and METAR wind components for each runway. NOTAMs Simplified: View active and inactive NOTAMs relevant to your ETA. The NOTAM Analyser delivers easy-to-read summaries, while smart filters let you focus on the categories that matter to you. Holding fuel calculator: Instantly calculate your maximum holding time and latest exit point, whether you're in the hold or planning ahead, based on forecast or real-time data. Alternate minima made easy: Use our built-in Category alternate minima for CAT A to D aircraft, or bulk-import your own. Switch between Category and individual Custom Destination/Alternate minima to suit your needs. Need to be more specific? Import and switch between individual runway minima with support for multiple variations to each runway minima. Auto-updating METAR, SPECI and ATIS: WxPlan refreshes airport weather with automatic METAR/SPECI updates and notifies you as soon as a new ATIS is issued. Flexible storage and caching: Going offline? Cache charts, Met Briefs, and your entire day’s flying straight from your run sheet. Store individual briefs or import full rosters, and update them all with a single tap. First/Last light indicator and Multi-ATIS pages: Instantly see if your arrival is going to be at night with our day/night indicator reflecting official first/last light data for your arrival. Use the Multi-ATIS page to display up to four ATIS entries simultaneously for a complete snapshot. Store your preferred briefs: Store up to 40 sets of Location Briefs, each with up to 11 international or domestic airports - all with TAF validity age display. Tap once to update all stored briefs. Restricted Area brief integration: View and store restricted area briefs with easy-to-read, colour-coded statuses and expandable NOTAM details for each area. Chart and General Met Brief pinning: Pin your preferred Charts and General Met Briefs to the top of your lists for fast access, and cache them all with a single tap. Highly customisable settings: Configure all your alternate minima, wind limits, aircraft category, automation and refresh preferences, display settings, and more. Built for Australian Pilots: WxPlan is built for Australian pilots, with official data sourced directly from Airservices Australia. Smart TAF analysis on all Australian airports and international airports in New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Designed for both iPad and iPhone, WxPlan offers a seamless experience across devices, with iPad providing flexible portrait and landscape layouts - fully supporting Split View for efficient planning. Whether you're flying your first solo, a GA charter, or for an airline, WxPlan brings clarity to your brief, helping you fly smarter and make informed decisions fast. WxPlan is free to download and use, with full access to core features. Get a 2-week free trial, then just AUD $2.99/month or AUD $29.99/year (save 2 months) to keep premium tools like the Planner, Holding Calculator, NOTAM filtering, General Met Briefs, and Multi-ATIS pages unlocked. One subscription works across all your devices with the same Apple ID. Terms Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

SkyFeed is an aviation weather app for general aviation pilots: student, private, and IFR-rated. It decodes METAR and TAF into plain English by default, checks your personal minimums, and returns one clear preflight verdict: GO, NO-GO, or CHECK. Built for pilots flying Cessna, Piper, Cirrus, Diamond, and Mooney class singles. Calm and quiet, on the ground and in the cockpit. DECODED BY DEFAULT Every METAR and TAF surfaces a plain-English sentence above the raw text. Tap to expand the coded report. Decoded is the default, because that is how pilots actually read weather under time pressure. ONE VERDICT, NOT A WALL OF DATA Open a saved trip and SkyFeed renders a Pre-Flight Brief: GO, NO-GO, or CHECK with a one-sentence reason • Per-airport breakdown for departure, destination, alternate • Personal-minimums grid with every limit as pass or fail • Distance, ETE, and ETA at your cruise speed The engine checks visibility, ceiling, max wind, crosswind, tailwind, and density altitude against your active profile. It demotes to CHECK on stale data, flags thunderstorms, and warns on IFR trips without an alternate. PERSONAL MINIMUMS, FIRST-CLASS Keep multiple profiles and switch in one tap: • VFR Day • VFR Night • IFR Solo • IFR with Passengers • Training Every screen evaluates against the active profile. WATCHED AIRPORTS Each row shows: • ICAO and IATA codes • Flight category (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR) • Wind in knots, visibility in statute miles, ceiling in feet • Observation age and NOTAM count • Best runway for current wind Group by Home Base, region, or training. Small fields borrow from the nearest reporting station. STATION DETAIL • Decoded METAR with raw text on tap • Live TAF preview • 12-hour meteogram: flight category, wind, gusts, ceiling • Runway diagram with headwind and crosswind components • NOTAMs grouped by impact • Tower, ground, and ATIS frequencies • PIREPs within 50 nautical miles LIVE TAF READER Chronological list with FM, BECMG, TEMPO, PROB30, PROB40 cards. Times in Zulu. MAP • Worldwide animated radar (RainViewer) with a time scrubber • US high-resolution NEXRAD as an optional layer • Satellite infrared • SIGMET and AIRMET polygons • PIREPs as severity-tagged icons • Markers color-coded by flight category TRIPS Save routes with departure, destination, alternate, ETD, tail number, cruise altitude, cruise speed. Filter by Upcoming, Today, This Week, Past. AVIATION CALCULATORS • Density altitude • Pressure altitude • Wind components • Crosswind table • True airspeed and Mach • Unit converter • Sun and civil twilight times • Weight-and-balance scaffold ALERTS Rule-based notifications watch your stations in the background. Category drops, wind exceeds, visibility or ceiling falls. Quiet hours and SPECI bypass. WIDGETS Home Screen widgets in two sizes: one airport, or four side-by-side. BUILT FOR iPAD Real master-detail layouts. List on the left, full station detail on the right. Three-column reading order on Station Detail and Pre-Flight Brief. OFFLINE-FIRST Every screen renders from local cache when offline. Stale-data badges escalate at one hour and four hours, with flight-category color suppressed so you never decide on expired data. UNITS ICAO codes, Zulu time, knots, statute miles, feet, inches of mercury, Celsius. Toggle to Local time or metric. PRIVACY No accounts. No server-side data. No analytics. No ads. No telemetry. All persistence is local. WHAT SKYFEED IS NOT SkyFeed is not a navigation app. No flight-plan filing, charts, approach plates, or sectionals. Not a substitute for an official preflight briefing. In the US: NOAA aviationweather.gov and 1800wxbrief. In Europe: AIS, Eurocontrol, and your national met service. Advisory only. AT LAUNCH FAA NOTAM integration is pending approval. International NOTAMs are not in v1. Single alternate per trip. iPhone and iPad only. iOS 18 or newer required.