WxPlan vs Session Scout for Water Sports

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/

Conditions information, never permission. Session Scout reads the water at your spots — wind, waves, swell, tide and sky — and rates every hour for your sport, at your level. Your personal shorecast, the same hour can be Good for a kayaker and Poor for a wing foiler. It knows the difference. It describes; you decide. THE READ • Per-sport ratings tuned to your ability, hour by hour • Wind read against the shore: onshore, cross, offshore — the number that changes everything • Forecast confidence, honestly: several models on every chart, and when they disagree, we say so • Tides from a dedicated service, chart-datum accurate to the minute • Sheltered water rated as sheltered water — no borrowed ocean swell • A day reel to scrub the hours — sky, wind, sea and tide rolling together YOUR CONDITIONS, NOT JUST OURS Brief a sport with the wind, swell and tide you want and your read sits beside Session Scout's — or takes the headline. Describe a whole day and it watches your spots for it: a firm alert inside 24 hours, an early "shaping up" notice days out, worded loosely on purpose because forecasts that far out shift. Bottle a great day with "Days like this" and hear when it comes back. WHEN CAN YOU ACTUALLY GO Spots to Check lists every Good-or-better window across your spots, days ahead. Turn on Check my calendar and each one reads free, or busy until your day clears. Get There adds the drive — a live estimate and the time to leave. BUILT IN • Siri: "Session Scout, scout me a SUP session" • Share a spot as one picture — that hour's own sky and sea — carrying a link that opens the app where you were standing • Send a forecast hour as a calendar invite that works on any phone • Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch, and spots that answer to whatever you call them FOR SUP · kayak · canoe · surfski · prone paddle board · outrigger · rowing · dragon boat · surf · kitesurf · windsurf · wing foil · dinghy sailing · open-water swimming · and more HONEST BY DESIGN No accounts. No tracking. The AI-written read is generated on your device and checked against the numbers — when it can't be verified we show nothing rather than something wrong. Ratings are a read of the forecast, not a verdict on you, your kit or the day. Read the water when you arrive — and if in doubt, don't go out. SESSION SCOUT PRO Unlimited watched conditions with alerts, the 7-day planner, 3-day early notices, sport briefs and Get There. Subscription payments are charged at the confirmation of purchase.† † Payment will be automatically charged to your Apple Account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current charging period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off by the user by visiting Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when a purchase to a subscription occurs, where applicable. Forecasts are sometimes wrong. Assess the water yourself and know your limits. Terms: https://www.sessionscout.app/terms