WxPlan vs Bravo Weather

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/

A new way to read the weather. Most weather apps give you one number and hide where it came from. Bravo gives you BravoCast, our own AI forecast, and every weather model behind it, so you can see whether they agree. BravoCast is Bravo's machine-learning weather model. It has learned from years of observed rainfall which forecast models to trust, where and when, and turns them into one answer for rain, temperature and wind, anywhere on earth. Behind it sit the world's major weather models, including ECMWF, GFS, ICON, GEM and JMA, with UKMO for Bravo Nerds. They run on different physics and different observations, and when they disagree, that disagreement is the most useful thing on the screen. Every model putting 15 mm on Thursday is worth planning around. Two of them is worth watching and nothing more. Bravo shows you which one you are looking at. WHAT YOU GET • BravoCast: Bravo's own AI forecast, the one answer on every screen and the first row on every grid • Home: today, the next ten days and how sure the forecast is, with every model's rain drawn hour by hour underneath • Every model side by side, each to the end of its own run — up to 16 days ahead — for any location on earth • Frost forecasts on the same models — overnight minimums and how many agree • A full-screen rain map from ten forecast models, with wind and pressure • Live rain radar on the map: the rain that is falling now, and the next hour • Wind, tides, swell, sun, moon and UV, each on its own screen with the answer first • The Big Picture: a plain-English briefing on what is actually driving your region's weather, not just what will fall • Rain and frost alerts on your own thresholds, by email and on your phone • Share the forecast as a picture: every model, every day, ready for Messages, WhatsApp or the family group chat • Your saved places on the home screen, one tap from their forecast • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen: the rain total for the days ahead and every model's number, at a glance FOR ANYONE WHO ACTS ON THE FORECAST If you are deciding whether to go, wait, or move something under cover, "60% chance of rain" is not an answer — knowing whether the models agree is. Bravo works anywhere in the world. FREE AND BRAVO NERD Home, the wind, tides, swell, sun, moon and UV screens, the rain map for the week ahead, live rain radar, search, the frost view and the first seven days of the model grid are free, with no account. Bravo Nerd adds the rest of every model's run (up to 16 days), which model says what on each day, the map's extra models (AIFS, AIGFS, ARPEGE and GRAPES) and the map past the first week, Compare on the map, rain and frost alerts, and the complete Big Picture briefing. Bravo Nerd is A$48 a year, with the first 14 days free for new subscribers. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings at any time. ALERTS Set the amount of rain you are waiting for, how many models must agree, and how far ahead to look. Bravo checks once a day and tells you when your rule is met — once per weather event, not once per day. Every alert arrives by email, and you can switch on a notification for any individual alert to have it reach your phone as well. Frost alerts work the same way, with a threshold defaulting to +2 °C, because models publish screen temperature and the ground runs colder on the nights that matter. Weather data from ECMWF, NOAA, the Met Office and DWD. Radar data powered by Rainbow.ai. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bravoweather.com/privacy Bravo's own terms: https://bravoweather.com/terms