Comparison

Windmate App vs Wind God

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

Head to head
About

Windmate App

Features
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Windmate – Find the best wind windows Windmate helps you quickly find the best spot and the best wind window near you. The dashboard analyzes wind, gusts, direction, and tides to automatically highlight the best sessions for today, tomorrow, and the coming days. Built for kitesurfing, windsurfing, wingfoiling, and kitefoiling. FEATURES Wind Window Dashboard See the best sessions in your region at a glance. Forecast Insights Instantly understand why a wind window is perfect. Hourly Forecast Detailed wind forecasts for your spots. Spot Information Wind directions, water conditions and local details. Sessions & Statistics Track your time on the water and build your personal session history. Session Insights Analyze your sessions and compare them with others. Wind Map See wind strength and direction across your region. Tide Forecast Stay on top of changing water levels. Windmate currently includes spots in Germany. More European regions will be added soon. Windmate – because great wind isn’t luck. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Wind God

This app provides hyper-localized wind forecasts by building digital twins of specific spots. It analyzes topography, water temperature, and atmospheric physics to predict wind conditions for activities like kitesurfing and windsurfing.

Highlights
  • Digital twin for each spot
  • 50-meter raster topography analysis
  • Hourly kitebar probability
  • Customizable wind alarms
  • Föhn and thermal wind regime intelligence
  • Real-time lightning updates
Features
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Worth the drive? Now you finally know. Two hours to the spot and then... nothing? Never again: Wind God tells you when the wind kicks in and whether it's 12, 20 or 30 knots. More accurate than any weather model. Your spot doesn't exist in any weather model. So we build it. Global weather models compute grid cells of 2 kilometers and more, your home spot is literally invisible in them: no lake, no shoreline, no venturi effect, no thermal edge. Yet that's exactly where your wind is born. Aeolus closes this gap with an approach that until now existed only in research. WHAT YOU GET • 25 spots across nine countries: Bavaria: Kochelsee, Walchensee, Ammersee, Starnberger See, Chiemsee, Alpsee, Forggensee Lake Constance: Friedrichshafen, Konstanz, Güttingen Italy: Lago di Garda, Lake Como (North), Reschensee Worldwide: El Gouna and Selena Bay (Egypt), Tarifa and Valdevaqueros (Spain), Cape Town (Bloubergstrand, Muizenberg), Taíba and Lagoa do Patos (Brazil), the Hel peninsula with three spots (Poland), Podersdorf on Lake Neusiedl (Austria) New spots start out "in testing" and go live once they pass our checks. The library keeps growing. • Kiteable probability for every hour, including your personal threshold (foil? big kite? set your limit). • Wind alerts that are truly yours: set them per spot, wind direction, strength, minimum duration, and how confident the forecast has to be. • Wind windows in your calendar: subscribe your favourites and the events add themselves and keep themselves up to date. • Tell us how it went: one rating per spot and day, wind speed and direction hour by hour. That's how we see where we were off. • Regime intelligence: foehn and thermals are different physics, our models treat them that way. • Instant updates with every weather-model run, precomputed, the answer arrives immediately. • Tidy by default: one number, one curve, done. Want more? Switch on expert mode for the dials and the probability curve. Aeolus is not another weather widget. It's a research program growing into your pocket, built by simulation specialists, tested in the field, computed with the physics of your spot. THE AEOLUS PROGRAM: A DIGITAL TWIN FOR EVERY SPOT Every spot gets a complete digital twin: real topography on a 50-meter grid, terrain roughness, water surfaces with their temperature, the energy balance of every single slope. On top of that, a 3D multiphysics flow simulation (CFD + turbulence modeling) computes the wind field physically: moist air, solar radiation, thermals, foehn, lake breeze, alpine lake, foehn corridor or coastal lagoon, every spot's physics under the same laws of nature. The first chapter is a showpiece in the Bavarian Alpine foothills: Kochelsee and Walchensee, two lakes, 200 meters of elevation apart, a mountain ridge in between, in a single simulation domain. One model, both spots, including their interaction: whether foehn- or thermally driven, both run in the same computation. THE NEURAL SURROGATE The full simulation costs hundreds to thousands of CPU hours per spot. That's why the heart of the program is a 3D neural surrogate model: a neural network trained on very many complete 3D simulations per spot. It doesn't memorize weather statistics, it learns to solve the physics itself: the result of the simulation in seconds on a single GPU, a speedup factor of 10,000 to 100,000. The same technology class NVIDIA's FourCastNet used to accelerate global weather forecasting from supercomputer hours to GPU seconds, except FourCastNet computes the globe at 25 kilometers. Aeolus brings this class to your spot: 50 meters. And because the training data comes from our own simulation, a new spot doesn't need ten years of measurement history, just geodata. The wind has always been there. Now you can see it coming.

Screenshots

Windmate App4 screens
Wind God4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wind God at none against Windmate App's 2. Windmate App's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Windmate App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Wind God asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Windmate App ships an update every 4 days, Wind God every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Windmate App versus Wind God: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWindmate AppWind God
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB4 MB
Age rating+124+
DeveloperTOBIAS STEINHAGENFritz Valentin Hoffmeister

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Windmate App

Subscriptions2
  • Windmate Peak$0.991 Month
  • Windmate Peak$8.991 Year
None

Wind God

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Windmate App free?
Windmate App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wind God free?
Wind God is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Windmate App or Wind God have ads?
Neither Windmate App nor Wind God shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Windmate App or Wind God?
Windmate App ships an update every 4 days, and Wind God every 6 days. Most recently, Windmate App was updated on September 10, 2026 and Wind God on September 17, 2026.

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