Comparison

RWIS vs Metar USA

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

Head to head
About

RWIS

Visualize your field services and surface conditions on an interactive map. Monitor weather stations, vehicles, and staff in real-time for quick analysis and informed decision-making. Access detailed information about interventions and equipment directly from your smartphone.

Highlights
  • Interactive map visualization
  • Real-time fleet tracking
  • Weather station data monitoring
  • Intervention route display
  • Surface condition analysis
  • Live situation overview
Features
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Stay connected on the go with the RWIS app, bVision native app! Thanks to our app, you can keep an eye on your surface condition and your field services at all time. Displayed on an interactive map, the RWIS app is the perfect tool for on the field visualization. RWIS gives you the power of bVision, in your pocket. Live situation With the RWIS app, you can always keep an eye on your organization, wherever you are. From the field to the office, the RWIS app enable a quick analysis of your surface conditions and your field services directly on your smartphone. From your weather stations, to your vehicles and staff, you can monitor the current situation in your organization anytime, anywhere. Stay on top of your game thanks to the RWIS app. Map overview Thanks to our user-friendly map interface, you can keep an eye on your organization. All of your interventions, vehicles and weather stations are displayed on a map for you to analyze. With a simple tap on a map element, you can access more information about your intervention or station. With a second tap, you have access to all the details you need about your intervention or station. Easily accessible on a familiar map, RWIS app allows for a perfect analysis of the situation of your organization. Use map, satellite or traffic layers to gain more insights about your environment. Interventions Visualize all your ongoing interventions directly on your smartphone thanks to the RWIS app. The route taken by your vehicle or operator is displayed on the map. Moreover, this route is colored based on ongoing activities. The current position of the intervention is displayed directly on the map with a colored arrow head. More than just knowing what was carried out during the intervention, the details screen enable you to know which equipment are currently in use. Fleet management More than just data on a map, the RWIS app enables you to keep an eye on your fleet. You can now know which vehicles are currently in use, where they are and what they are doing directly from your smartphone. Thanks to the RWIS app, you have all the knowledge you need to reach informed decisions. Weather station More than just interventions, the RWIS app displays all of your RWIS or AWIS weather stations directly on the map for a perfect analysis of the situation. Get your Boschung ice early warning alarms, the precipitation type and intensity, water depth on the surface, road and air temperature and much more data from your weather station. Our user-friendly screen enables a quick analysis of the current data of your RWIS or AWIS stations as well as graphical view showing you the evolution of all data during the last 2 hours. Even better, if you have a camera on your station, you can directly visualize it from the same screen. Thanks to the RWIS app, you have all the information for your decision-making process! Public weather stations Thanks to several customers and partners believing in data sharing, we built an ever-growing network of public weather stations. For those public stations, you have access to several data such as precipitation type and intensity, water depth on the surface as well as road and air temperature. bMoves integration For you to keep a track of your field services, the RWIS app offers now a native integration with the field services management solution bMoves. With bMoves, you can gain valuable insights onto what your staff is doing, where and when.

About

Metar USA

Access continuously updated METAR weather reports for all USA stations, sourced from official government data. Includes a comprehensive database of USA airfields, airports, and their geographical information.

Highlights
  • USA METAR weather reports
  • Continuous updates
  • Official government data
  • USA airfield database
  • Airport geographical data
  • Geo-coordinates
Features
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Metar USA brings you the METAR observations of more than two thousand reporting stations across the United States, read straight from the official Aviation Weather Center (NOAA) source. The app opens on the full station list with the raw report, the observation time in UTC and the ICAO identifier coloured by flight category: green VFR, blue MVFR, red IFR, purple LIFR. One glance tells you where you can fly. Tap a station and the report is decoded item by item: temperature and dewpoint, wind direction and speed with gusts, visibility, altimeter setting in inches of mercury and hectopascals, field elevation and cloud layers in METAR notation. • Every US reporting station, refreshed on launch and on pull to refresh • Search by ICAO identifier • Map of all stations — tap a pin to read the report • Home Screen widget for the station you choose, in three sizes • Apple Watch app: your station plus the ten closest to you, ranked by distance • The observation time is highlighted when the report is no longer current • No account, no advertising, no data collected Data comes from the Aviation Weather Center (NOAA), exactly as published at the source. Metar USA is a quick reference tool: always rely on official sources and the required aeronautical documentation for flight planning.

Screenshots

RWIS4 screens
Metar USA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RWIS at 100% against Metar USA's 0%. RWIS also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RWIS ships an update every 4 months, Metar USA every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
RWIS versus Metar USA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRWISMetar USA
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 15 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoschungEmanuele Chiavelli

Customer experience

RWIS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Metar USA

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

RWIS

No in-app purchases

None

Metar USA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RWIS free?
RWIS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Metar USA free?
Metar USA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RWIS or Metar USA have ads?
Neither RWIS nor Metar USA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RWIS or Metar USA?
RWIS ships an update every 4 months, and Metar USA every 15 months. Most recently, RWIS was updated on October 23, 2026 and Metar USA on October 7, 2026.

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