Comparison

Wind God vs Barowise

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

Head to head
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.

About

Barowise

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Barowise forecasts barometric pressure — the next 48 hours free, 7 days with Pro. One clean screen: where pressure is now, where it's heading, and when a noticeable drop is coming. No diary to fill in, no account to create, nothing to buy but the forecast itself. Falling pressure is one of the most commonly reported weather triggers. Some people track pressure changes alongside migraine, headache, or joint discomfort — responses vary widely, and many people feel nothing at all. The science is genuinely mixed, and Barowise doesn't pretend otherwise. It shows you the weather fact. Whether pressure affects you is something only you can find out. The idea came from years of playing saxophone in the Paris Metro. Some mornings a whole train car seemed to share one mood, car after car — and I wondered if the weather had something to do with it. I still don't know. This app is that question, made useful. FREE • 48-hour pressure outlook for your location • Plain words — Steady, Noticeable drop, Strong drop — no scores, no percentages • Sensitivity setting BAROWISE PRO — $24.99/year (1 month free) or $3.99/month • 7-day pressure outlook • Multiple saved locations • Evening-before alert when a strong drop is coming Barowise is weather information only — not a medical device and not a substitute for professional care. It never predicts symptoms and never diagnoses anything. A calm reading doesn't mean you'll feel fine. Never delay medical care because of an app. Weather data from Apple Weather and Open-Meteo. No ads. No account. Your data isn't sold. Barowise Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription (annual with 1 month free, or monthly). Payment is charged to your Apple Account and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://barowise.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Wind God4 screens
Barowise3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wind God at none against Barowise's 2. Barowise's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Barowise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Wind God asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Wind God versus Barowise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWind GodBarowise
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFritz Valentin HoffmeisterThomas Hornig

In-app purchases

None

Wind God

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Barowise

Subscriptions2
  • Barowise Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Barowise Pro (Annual)1 Month trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Wind God free?
Wind God is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Barowise free?
Barowise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Wind God or Barowise have ads?
Neither Wind God nor Barowise shows ads.

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