Comparison

TAFHighlight vs SkyWx

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TAFHighlight

Features
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Smarter, faster preflight preparation. TAFHighlight gives pilots a clear, streamlined way to prepare with flight-specific TAFs, METARs, and NOTAMs. Enter a flight number or build your route manually - the app instantly retrieves and interrogates the data you need for your departure and arrival - covering up to six legs, including destination alternates and any other airports you require. TAFs are interrogated automatically, highlighting only the elements applicable to your actual departure and arrival times. METARs are included for a complete weather snapshot. The result: you see the essentials at a glance, saving valuable time and removing the stress of manually extracting and interpreting data. Active NOTAMs appear with keywords highlighted to enable a rapid scan, while inactive NOTAMs are automatically filtered and hidden to reduce clutter. The result is a faster, simpler, and more accurate preflight preparation. In seconds, you gain a clear, prioritised view of the data that matters most. The app works equally well without a flight number. Charter pilots, general aviation pilots and even students benefit from the same professional experience: rapid retrieval, smart time-based highlighting, and keyword-driven NOTAM summaries. Designed and tested by real pilots, TAFHighlight is built as a supplemental awareness tool to reduce workload and improve clarity. Whether you’re preparing for a long-haul airline sector or a short VFR trip, TAFHighlight helps you focus on what really matters, so you can prepare with confidence. From departure to arrival, clarity in seconds - download TAFHighlight today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.tafhighlight.ai/privacy-policy

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SkyWx

Features
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Fly with the whole weather picture in front of you. SkyWx is aviation weather built for how pilots actually brief: one map, every layer that matters, and a route briefing that follows your corridor from takeoff to touchdown. THE MAP • Worldwide radar • Winds aloft — barbs at the level you choose • Icing and turbulence, filtered by flight level • Convective clouds and CB tops • Jet streams and high-level SIGWX • SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs and CWAs • Volcanic ash and tropical cyclones • Aurora and space-weather radiation advisories Scrub forward in time and up and down the flight levels — the hazards move with you. ROUTE BRIEFINGS Enter any city pair and get the corridor, not just the endpoints: • Turbulence, icing and CB along your track • Winds aloft at your cruise level • En-route NOTAMs, drawn on the map • Take-off and destination alternates, filtered to runways you can actually use • METARs and TAFs for every field that matters YOUR FLIGHTS, ALREADY THERE Add a leg by flight number, import a roster from CSV, or subscribe to your crew calendar feed. Your next flight is always one tap from a full briefing — and now you can show your active route right on the weather map. YOUR FLIGHTS, STRAIGHT FROM YOUR CALENDAR SkyWx reads your calendar and finds the flights in it. It spots a flight number in an event — "BA295" in the title, the notes, or the location — and resolves it to a real origin and destination, so a roster entry becomes a briefable route without you typing a thing. No flight number in there? It falls back to airport codes instead ("ESSA → EGLL"). Flying a published roster? Paste your crew calendar link once — webcal or .ics, an iCloud published calendar or an airline feed — and your flights land in Routes. That path needs no calendar permission at all. Rosters change. SkyWx keeps up: when a flight is cancelled or moved off your roster, it drops out of Routes too. Your next flight is always one tap from a full briefing — and you can show the active route right on the weather map. NO ACCOUNT. EVER. No sign-up, no password, no email address. Install and brief. FREE • Airport watchlist with live METAR and TAF SKYWX AVIATOR — $0.99/month, first 3 months free • Every weather map layer • Full route briefings, end to end Situational awareness only. SkyWx is not a navigation system and is not a substitute for an official pre-flight briefing or the aircraft's own systems. Always cross-check. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TAFHighlight4 screens
SkyWx4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TAFHighlight at weekly against SkyWx's monthly. TAFHighlight also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TAFHighlight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and SkyWx sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TAFHighlight ships an update weekly, SkyWx monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
TAFHighlight versus SkyWx: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTAFHighlightSkyWx
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTAFHIGHLIGHT PTY LTDThrottle AB

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TAFHighlight

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Plan$35.901 Year
1 purchases

SkyWx

Subscriptions1
  • SkyWx Aviator3 Months trial$0.991 Month

Questions

Is TAFHighlight free?
TAFHighlight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SkyWx free?
SkyWx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TAFHighlight or SkyWx have ads?
Neither TAFHighlight nor SkyWx shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TAFHighlight or SkyWx?
TAFHighlight ships an update weekly, and SkyWx monthly. Most recently, TAFHighlight was updated on September 29, 2026 and SkyWx on October 12, 2026.

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