AvWx vs StationWX

Situational awareness for pilots and dispatchers — every airport you care about, on one screen. AvWx brings NOAA's forecasts and radar, AviationWeather.gov, FAA advisories and NOTAMs, Digital ATIS, NWS alerts and Apple Weather into one picture, so you can read a whole day of flying without opening five apps. TAF TIMELINE Every TAF drawn on one time axis: TEMPO and PROB groups in their own band, each hour's worst ceiling and visibility with its flight category, runway wind components, the current METAR overlaid, and NOAA's hourly forecast beneath it. NOAA METEOGRAM One day, hour by hour: clouds by altitude to 45,000 ft, the freezing level, precipitation and snowfall by type, winds aloft and the flight category — each reading labeled with the NOAA model behind it. MAPS AND RADAR NOAA's newest radar scans looped over the last hour, storm cells with motion arrows, lightning within minutes of the flash, satellite clouds, fronts, NWS alert regions, worldwide forecast layers, airspace, and satellite imagery down to the runway. ALSO • Ceiling and visibility every 15 minutes for six hours in the US, and out to a week worldwide • NOTAMs worldwide, straight from the FAA's NOTAM Management Service — closed runways and approach aids out of service marked on the runway table and METAR tiles, closures drawn on the satellite view • Traffic flow and the runways in use, handy at non-towered fields • SIGMETs, CWAs and NWS alerts matched to your airport's position, not just its region • Decoded D-ATIS, METAR tiles, favored runways, density altitude, sun and moon • Saved places beyond airports — home, layovers, anywhere — with full forecasts FREE: up to five airports, METAR and TAF, the TAF timeline, NOTAMs, traffic flow and FAA advisories. PREMIUM: unlimited airports, the maps and radar, the NOAA meteogram and charts, Apple Weather's tiles and charts, and no ads. One-week free trial. An in-app Guide and Legend explain every bar and color. AvWx is a professional supplement, not a replacement for certified flight-planning tools. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://avwxllc.github.io/privacy-policy.md

StationWX brings station observations, aviation weather and NOAA context together in one native app. START WITH THE OBSERVATION Search 2,668 U.S. ASOS and AWOS stations. Read decoded METARs, flight categories, wind, visibility, sky, temperature, dewpoint and altimeter, with raw reports and observation times close at hand. Maintenance flags and report age help you judge the evidence without mistaking a reporting gap for a confirmed equipment outage. FOUR STATION WORKSPACES Now: measured conditions, runway wind components and point-scoped NWS alerts. Forecast: choose a time in the airport TAF to see prevailing and possible temporary conditions, runway wind components and the original report. Read NWS hourly and seven-day forecasts and full discussions from the responsible forecast office. History: up to 30 days of METAR charts, your preferred display units, visible reporting gaps and CSV export for the selected window. Certified one-minute stations also support available NOAA one-minute products. Sources: source explanations and original station information. BEYOND THE AIRPORT Explore nearby NOAA NDBC buoy and coastal observations, including wind, gusts, waves, water and air temperatures, and pressure. Each measurement keeps its own report time. Browse radar and satellite imagery, aviation hazards, space weather, weather headlines and a curated library of official NOAA products. Library links open the original provider's website. TOOLS THAT TRAVEL WITH YOU - Flight-category station map and animated NEXRAD radar - Multi-station comparison, wind roses and maintenance-flag analysis - Route briefings, runway wind components and PDF station reports - Watchlist alerts with permission status, test delivery and mute controls - Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch companion and complications - Flight-day Live Activities, Siri, Shortcuts and station search - iCloud synchronization of supported settings and watchlists IPHONE, IPHONE DUO AND IPAD Keep your station workspace open as you fold, unfold or rotate iPhone Duo. Native navigation and Liquid Glass controls on iOS 26 and later, with support back to iOS 17. Adaptive layouts, Dark Mode and Dynamic Type keep the data readable. PAY ONCE One purchase. No subscription, app account, ads or third-party tracking. Future updates are included. Weather data is requested directly from public providers, including NOAA, NWS, AWC and the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Internet access is required for fresh data; location access is optional. StationWX is for situational awareness and education, not a replacement for official flight briefings, warnings or navigation information. Background station notifications depend on time granted by iOS and are not continuous warning delivery.