WindTrac
Wind, Waves & Rain Forecast
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
WindTrac - wind, wave, and weather forecast map
WindTrac is a wind, wave, and weather forecast app for iPhone and iPad that turns raw forecast data into a live, animated map you can read at a glance. Instead of burying conditions under menus, ads, and dense overlays, WindTrac shows tens of thousands of particles flowing along the wind field, with wind speed encoded in color and wind direction encoded in motion. The result is a clear, beautiful picture of where the air is moving anywhere on Earth, from your local coastline to the open ocean.
WindTrac is built for sailors, kitesurfers, windsurfers, surfers, paragliders, pilots, fishers, boaters, hikers, photographers, and anyone who plans their day around the weather. It is designed to be the simplest, fastest way to understand the forecast, while still drawing on the same professional forecast models used by serious weather services.
What you can do with WindTrac
WindTrac gives you three core layers that cover the conditions most people care about. The wind layer renders animated wind streamlines across the globe, so you can see both the strength and the flow of the wind at once. The wave layer shows significant wave height as a smooth color heatmap, along with wave direction, so you can watch swell build and see where it is heading. The precipitation layer paints rain and snow intensity across the map, frame by frame, so you can track systems moving in and clearing out.
Every layer is animated through time. You can drag the timeline to any forecast hour, or press play and let the forecast run, with smooth cross fades between frames and playback speeds from 1x up to 8x. This lets you watch a multi day weather system evolve in seconds, then slow back down to study the exact hour that matters to you.
With WindTrac, tap anywhere on the map to read the exact wind speed or wave height at that point for the selected hour, and the app labels notable high and low values automatically. You can save the locations you watch most and jump straight back to them, snap to your current location, and display times in your device time zone, the viewed location time zone, or UTC. Time zones for viewed locations are resolved on your device, so the timeline always matches the place you are looking at.
Multiple professional forecast models
WindTrac is built on public forecast data from the world leading weather centers, and it lets you choose the model per layer, so your wind and your waves can come from different sources at the same time. Supported models include NOAA GFS (the Global Forecast System, worldwide), DWD ICON-EU (the German weather service high resolution model over Europe), ECMWF AIFS (the European Centre machine learning, or AI, global model), ECMWF IFS HRES (the European Centre high resolution global model), GFS-Wave (NOAA global wave model for significant wave height and direction), and an ECMWF wave model as an alternate wave source.
Works fully offline
Offline support is one of the features that sets WindTrac apart. With WindTrac Pro you can download a region and its complete forecast, including wind, waves, and the base map, for use with no connection at all. The animation, layers, and timeline keep working when you are offshore, in the backcountry, on a flight, or anywhere mobile coverage drops out. For people who rely on forecasts exactly where the signal disappears, this turns WindTrac from a nice viewer into a tool you can trust in the field.
Simple, free, and private
The full interactive map, all layers, every forecast model, timeline playback, tap to read values, saved locations, and forecasts for the next 72 hours are free, with no ads and no account required. WindTrac Pro is an optional subscription that unlocks offline maps and extends forecasts beyond 72 hours.
Privacy Policy: https://windtrac.app/privacy
Ratings & Reviews
Wind at every altitude: use the new altitude selector to explore winds from launch height to the jet stream, or tap anywhere on the map for an instant vertical wind profile with shear warnings.
Added more weather models to choose from including two new models: the GEFS 31-member ensemble mean and DWD's 13 km ICON for wind and few more for Wave and Gust layers.
Also more accurate rain intensities, a smarter layer picker, and polish throughout.
The developer, Rivolu LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Rivolu LLC
- Size
- 21.4 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- WindTrac Pro Monthly $2.99
- WindTrac Pro Annual $29.99
- Copyright
- © Rivolu LLC
