Weathertrack Grib App Reviews

I’ve been using this as my primary weather app for over 2 years. I can’t say enough positive things about it. It’s ‘just’ a grib viewer, but a good, reliable one, the represents the data quite well. Best of all, download once, use until you refresh. Thank you for creating this.

Don't fall for cute fonts this app is for real sailors that want all the data. Ocean currents are key and weather track has them. PLEASE add a counter for when the next GRIB file is due. (IE 2 hours till next data)

User friendly, great background map. I use it whether traveling, fishing or sailing. Great app.

Fantastic, intuitive App for getting weather info! Combines the gribs with the ability to provide a point forecast in a weather graph of wind, waves, etc. Extremely easy to use with quick download times for the grib. If you have WIFI or cell service, this saves all that HF radio time and expense and AMPS! Having used the pactor modem and HF for gribs for many years, I would highly recommend this App for any cruiser!

I love it. It is great. It would be interesting to see what a satellite overlay would look it. Nonetheless it is a great app

It is not perfect, but is great help when trying to figure out conditions for sailing. I always check with it how weather is evolving before any activites, either in the water, the air or land. Recommended.

Great app. Use it to plan sailing trips, trail hiking. Wish I could set up a catalog of favorites places I visit on a regular basis. Impressive performance.

The Grib maps are beautiful. My biggest disappointment is the lack of Dew Point information in the Global-Local and gribs. The Global-local display is a little awkward but the cloud data presentation is very nice. Turning off the day night display helped. I'd like an option to make the night shading more transparent. I'd also like the option to pop up more than 10 cities at a time - at least 15 in the Global-local. The grey boxes used to display the data make it cluttered. Finding a way to display the city data with a transparent background I think would be a nice improvement.

Great app. Very easy to use. Even inland when on Lake Champlain and the Hudson.

One of the best weather apps

I'm a sailor and have used weather tracs up and down the west coast from Alaska to California, Mexico is next. It is a great easy app to use. I am not looking forward to going back to getting essentially the same files via SSB when offshore, this is far easier. The apps weaknesses are issues that are integral to the grib files themselves: tendency to underestimate wind and wave heights, lack of detail close to shore, inland water data is generalized and does not reflect local variations.

Very good aplication for the outdoor!!

Nice job! As a forecaster this is great tool on the go. It would be great to have the NAM model added and is there a way to make the maps have state lines and counties added. Otherwise great job!

Great! Very helpful in decision to cross Gulf Stream.

Awesome weather app. I use it frequently and it gives me a great deal more confidence when planning my trips.

Grib files are great

I learned about this app while I was delivering a boat from Cape Disappointment to Cape Fear through the Panama Canal. Now I use it for all my weather needs! Love it!

It's amazing how accurate the Grib charts are. The hurricane / typhoon forecasting and storm tracking is so accurate it's scary.

I first started using WeatherTrack for sailing a few years ago. Now I use it for everyday weather. It has lots of types of weather products for easy access. Heavy weather users or light this App rocks!

I bought this based on the one review available. What mistake. This does not even begin to compare to weather4d. The graphics are amateurish, they don't even go miles to the shore edge or large bays and inlets. The interface is clunky. The routing feature is a joke it has no optimization routines or use Polaris how they can call this routing is beyond me. Something seems off in their interpolation between points such that I get odd differences compared to other programs. A complete waste of money.

This is my "go to" weather app. We recently completed a trip from FL to MA in our boat and Weather Track was with us all the way. If there are differences between weather forecasts, we rely on Weather Track and it has not let us down.

It's amazing. Specially use full outside the US where there aren't do many weather source options. I use it for flight planing.

I have used this app for years. Always pleased with the new developments and it's ease of use. This app is intuitive to use and full of useful features for monitoring weather conditions

Back to 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 for releasing a fix for iOS 8. Having just purchased another GRIB app, I am happy to have the best one available again. Fast, easy to use, nice map views and with the ability to export video of a model makes this the top GRIB app in the App Store. Previous Review: Was a great app until iOS 8. We have waited long enough for the update. Completely unsatisfactory to have to avoid upgrade to keep functionality. Fix this now!

This app is VERY good. I use it everyday sailing the East Coast. Highly recommend!

Love the app, it's great and has been a big help as we've been sailing across the Pacific. My only complaint is that with the latest upgrade (which added sat imagery which is nice) you run into the "edge of the world" instead of having a continuous loop. Probably not an issue for many, but when you are getting ready to leave New Zealand for Fiji and want the weather all around, you now have to put the lat/long coordinates in by hand to get it to work. Not cool, especially since they don't get saved. Any fix on the horizon guys? Otherwise I absolutely love and recommend it.

Very nice basic app. I don't use some of the fancier futures this app offers. But since I travel I like to know ahead of time not only the temperate of where I'm going, but also the humidity.... Humidity makes a big difference. It has been accurate so far. Very useful. It's been a few months (and a few updates) since I got this app. Still like it

Astoundingly easy and very accurate representations

Very good app Use it all the time.Have found app to be very accurate.

This is a great program, but some key data are missing! First--please include the NAM model! Very important for North American users! Second, please let us choose whether to contour or fill values! As a side note, it would be nice to layer these. Third, here are additional data meteorologists would like to see: Vorticity, wind speeds (contoured), temperature, and heights at 850 mb, 700 mb, 500 mb (which you already have temp and heights for), 300 mb and 250 mb.

Weathertrack is the only weather app I know that really does do offline maps (without requiring to download the area you want to see). Very detailed and accurate. High quality and very well presented grib files. Love especially the route feature when racing which really helped me to decide which was the best way to go. You have all the weather data for your route including current and tide and get a pretty clear idea what to expect on your way. App highly recommended, worth every single cent!!!

We used the routing function getting to Bermuda and it is first rate for multi-day forecasts allowing the histogram to show you weather expected along the route. Really like the ability to change wind setting to apparent as well.

This app was recommended to me by a Cruising World editor and has since been my most used app when weather routing for sailing passages. I also bought the in app purchase routing - it's very basic but gets the job done. You can vary your departure time and predicted speed to see what the GRIBs look like for a given time on your trip. It would be nice to be able to plug in different speeds for each leg, but that's not available at this time. The in app purchase for Tidetech was not useful to me as it only pulls 1 GRIB each 24 hours. I also had a bad URL error at first when I got the Tidetech plugin - Weathertrack help got back to me almost immediately and Tidetech fixed the problem within a day. Having the gribs downloaded to the phone for reference offshore is a wonderful feature. I have not exported them to be read by my charting program but plan to do so soon. All in all, this has been a great addition to my weather routing basket - I'd buy both the app and the routing again.

Awesome app

I downloaded this AP because of it's ability to download and display wind forecasts via GRIB files. It does this very well. The interface is not necessarily that intuitive initially and could be better. For example there is a small circular reload icon down in the left corner of the graphical viewer. What is that for? Well it actually is an update button and downloads the newest grib file. It then takes you back to the previous screen showing the available grib files. You'll then click on the latest which will then return you to the graphical display screen. The process although once understood is fairly simple but seems awkward and unintuitive. Other than this minor quibble and a few others I am more than happy with the program. Thank you to the developers.

Best GRIB viewer I have used. However I am now noticing GFS forecast is not updating often enough. It is 11AM EDT and forecast is 0200. Should be 0800. Have been seeing this delay regularly. Please update every 6 hours when new model is issued. Time matters when going offshore up the coast. Thank you

Not worth it in my opinion.

It just works! Always impressive.

I have used many weather apps till I found this one. I use it for surfing and boating and its accurate. Worth the money!

sorry, has to have one star. i really like the app tho

Very good. Downloading is simple and gets you lots of useful information.

Can you put back the blue bubble representing your home location?

This is one of the best easiest to use weather prediction apps period. This app is one of the main apps I use to make weather decisions.

I use this wonderful app every time I set sail. It's ease of use to get the latest Grib files for my trips is invaluable! The reports are very accurate, the map layout is easy to navigate and the ability to use this app with a satellite service for updates weather reports while your out sailing the great blue is a huge plus.

The long range forecast is the most reliable I've found and the "Forecast discussion" in the mobile section provides real detailed insights into weather patterns and impacts. If you are a weather junkie, I think it's a must have!

I drive a 54 meter sailboat for a living, I love this app, I use it to show the guests what to expect on a crossing. Couple of points, do we really need to show the year and month in a weather app with a 6 day forecast, can we swap that space for the day of the week? Keep up the great work

I drive a 747-8 it has been very helpful avoiding ice crystal icing, and mapping with gps,weather 12 hours down route and 4000 nm away giving an accurate picture of what to expect

Great app for many purposes.

Most useful tool for an offshore sailor. Plan a route with Nav app that is compatible, export to WeatherTrack and get time lapse of weather along the way. Download weather updates and the accuracy is impressive.

This app is the perfect tool for figuring out your passage's weather. I really like how you can plot where in the grib you will be. I used it recently on a 500 mile single-handed passage right through the Caribbean and I was able to correctly predict when to reef . Awesome app. Thanks!

I find this app useful for my navigations. it shows me the weather data I need when I need to sail offshore along the chosen route!

I have been using Weather Tracks GRIB for almost 2 years in Thailand and Malaysia on the Andaman Sea and the Strait of Malacca. I find it an excellent program and would recommend it to mariners needing needing weather information. It has saved me a number of times from getting in some very ruff weather with it’s wind forecast.

Great resource for viewing GRIBs.

weathertrack is simply the best! not your typical weather app interface, you have to learn to use this guy properly- but once you do, the benefits are huge. i live on a very remote island in the bahamas- it's very difficult to get accurate weather data for this location, even though several apps claim to provide it. but weathertrack always delivers the goods- let's face it, when you're talking about weather, no forecast can be correct in every detail: but this app has a great track record in terms of letting us know, within reason, what to expect weather-wise. for example, if weathertrack indicates that we're going to have high winds from the south tomorrow, we've come to know that the app can be trusted- and accordingly (since our shore faces south), we pull our boat out of the water and thereby avoid trouble and anxiety. and it's important to note that on important stuff like that, the app's always been right: it have may have indicated 30 mph winds and the actuality may be 25 mph- but so what? weathertrack let me know what was going to happen and allowed me to prepare accordingly! and, btw, the app also provides a page with links to all the major weather sites. what more could you ask? wonderful, wonderful app!

WOW! Awesome! I feel like a meteorologist thanks to WeatherTrack GRIB.

Did I go wrong on this one! What am I missing?

Many forms of information from great sources. lots of real data - excellent! Unfortunately, I mistakenly upgraded to iOS 8 and now the GRIB files don't work. Please fix ASAP! Am planning an amazing offshore trip next week and I've come to rely on this program. Thanks thank you

Easy to use. Most frequent updates.

Way too hard to get started with, and it seems you have to pay over and over for forecast data

Don't fall for cute fonts this app is for real sailors that want all the data. Ocean currents are key and weather track has them.

I use this on and off the water. It's my go-to weather app.

I live by this app. I do not listen to the NWS or the guy from Orlando on the SSB - not that I have anything against them, but if your the type of person who likes to look at raw data and come to your own conclusions, this is the app for you.

I have been using this app on a Pad and a Phone with either wifi or cellular data for just about all my weather info while cruising coastal Pacific, south and central America and Mexico. It does what it says, does it well, and They answer their emails expeditiously. I can't think of anything more I could ask for. I've also used it on the road in the US. Would not hesitate to buy again.

I use this for the quick and easy daily forecast when landlubbing/more intricate tool when on the water. Awesome meteogram data summary.. Love this app.

Accurate and superb app. Recommended! Please update to support iphone x.