WindTrac: Wind, Wave & Storm
#1 NOAA boating storm tracker
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
WindTrac is a weather app that turns raw data into a living, animated map you can read at a glance. Tens of thousands of particles stream along the wind field — speed as colour, direction as motion — for a clear, beautiful picture of the moving air anywhere on Earth, from your coast to the open ocean.
WindTrac is built for sailors, kitesurfers, windsurfers, surfers, paraglider pilots, fishermen, boaters, hikers, photographers, and anyone who plans a day around the weather.
Five weather layers, animated
Wind streams as glowing particles across the whole globe. Waves show significant wave height as a colour heatmap with wave direction and period. Precipitation paints rain and snow intensity frame by frame so you can watch systems come and go. Cloud cover shows the low cloud that actually blocks the sun. Temperature gives 2 m air temperature in °C or °F.
Wind At Every Altitude
Read the wind from 10 m at the surface up through the 850, 700, 500 and 250 hPa pressure levels — the whole column from a paraglider launch to the jet stream, on one slider.
Time You Can Scrub
Every layer is time-animated. Drag the timeline to any forecast hour or press play, with smooth transitions and speeds from 1× to 8×, and watch a multi-day weather system unfold in seconds.
Tap anywhere on the map to read the exact wind speed, wave height or temperature — the notable highs and lows are labelled automatically. Save favourite spots and jump straight to them. Show times in your device zone, the viewed location's zone, or UTC.
Storm Watch — official alerts and hurricane tracking
Live watches, warnings and advisories from the US National Weather Service and Environment Canada, drawn on the map where they apply. Tap any alert for the full official text.
Track tropical storms and hurricanes with the National Hurricane Center's forecast cone, track and 34-knot wind field — and because the wind field moves with the timeline, you can see when tropical-storm-force wind is forecast to reach you. Areas being watched for development are shown too, along with observed tornado, wind and hail reports from the past 24 hours.
All of it is free, and any of it can be switched off.
Multiple professional forecast models
WindTrac is built on public data from the world's leading weather centres, and lets you pick the model per layer: NOAA GFS (global), NOAA GEFS ensemble mean, DWD ICON and ICON-EU (highest resolution), ECMWF AIFS (AI global model), ECMWF IFS HRES (the reference physical model), plus the GFS and ECMWF wave models.
Works fully offline
With WindTrac Pro, download a region and its complete forecast — every layer and the basemap — for offline use. The animation, layers and timeline keep working out at sea, in the backcountry, on a plane, or anywhere mobile coverage ends.
Simple, free and private
The full interactive map, every layer, every model, timeline playback, saved locations and 72 hours of forecast are free — no ads, no account. WindTrac Pro is an optional subscription for offline maps and forecasts beyond 72 hours.
Privacy Policy: https://windtrac.app/privacy
WindTrac is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by NOAA, the US National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center, Environment Canada, ECMWF, DWD, or any other agency whose public data it displays.
Ratings & Reviews
Storm Watch: official weather alerts, right on the map.
• Watches, warnings and advisories from the US and Canada — tap any alert for the full text
• Hurricanes: forecast cone, track and 34-knot wind field, tied to the timeline
• Tornado, wind and hail reports from the last 24 hours
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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Rivolu LLC
- Size
- 22.4 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 18 more
- English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- WindTrac Pro Monthly $2.99
- WindTrac Pro Annual $29.99
- Copyright
- © Rivolu LLC
