Your weather briefing, read aloud.
Decoding aviation weather bulletins is slow and error-prone — whether you're planning a local flight or a long cross-country. Pilot Briefer turns cryptic METAR and TAF codes into plain language and reads them aloud with proper ICAO and DGAC aviation terminology.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Choose Local Flight or Navigation
2. Pick your airfield (or departure + destination), or tap My Position to find the nearest one
3. Tap Get Briefing
4. Listen while you walk to the aircraft — the map animates the conditions as the briefing plays
THREE VIEWS, ONE BRIEFING
• Interactive map — color-coded by flight category (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR) with animated wind, ceiling and visibility overlays synced to the audio
• Weather cards — structured, scannable summaries of each element at every airfield
• Spoken narration — natural-language briefing in your chosen language, played automatically
TWO OPERATING MODES
• Local flight — pattern work, training sorties, single-airfield briefings
• Navigation — route-based briefing with stations ordered along your flight path, drawn on the map
NO COMPROMISE ON ACCURACY
Every AI interpretation is backed by the raw METAR and TAF it was generated from. Tap the Raw tab to see the source text. Stale METARs and expired TAFs are automatically flagged or filtered, so you always know how fresh the data is.
WHY PILOTS USE IT
• Spoken briefings — METAR and TAF translated into natural language and read aloud track by track
• Bilingual — fully localized English and French, with proper phraseology (QNH in hPa, feet, Zulu time)
• AI-powered — Amazon Nova on AWS Bedrock, with adaptive prompts tuned per report
• TAF forecast clock — a circular timeline shows how conditions evolve across the forecast period
• Flight path route line — your route drawn on the map from departure to destination
• Find your nearest airfield — GPS-based lookup with instant ICAO resolution
• Overview or per-field — regional summary across your route, or drill into each station individually
• Background playback — keeps playing when the screen locks, with lock-screen media controls
• Global airfield database — thousands of airports, heliports and microlight fields, including hard-to-find French ULM strips
• Privacy-friendly — no account, no sign-up, no tracking
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE
Pilot Briefer runs on iPhone and iPad. Your settings follow you across devices.
PERFECT FOR
• VFR pilots planning a local flight or cross-country
• Flight instructors walking students through a weather decision
• Student pilots learning to decode METAR and TAF
• Anyone who prefers listening over reading in the cockpit
IMPORTANT
Pilot Briefer is a decision-support tool. It does NOT replace official pre-flight briefings from your national aeronautical information service (AIS). Always cross-check critical data with the official source before flight.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Fantastic app! Highly recommend using as part of pre-flight preparation activities.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! Enjoy! I’ll keep adding functionality
New in 3.5:
- Plans: Premium gives 30 briefings a month, Premium+ unlimited briefings.
- If you bought Pilot Briefer before, you get 3 months of Premium.
- New map with VFR charts.
- Options on the main screen: brief the whole route or field by field.
- Two-column layout on iPad.
- Fixes and improvements.
Version 3.5
The developer, amenai technologies, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
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Information
Seller
amenai technologies
Size
1.3 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.