Skyballast: Wind Atlas
Navigate wind by altitude
$0.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Skyballast is a one-touch balloon game about riding the right wind. You cannot steer left or right. You can only climb or descend, and each altitude band carries the balloon sideways at its own speed and direction.
HOW IT PLAYS
- Tap above the balloon to climb, tap below it to descend. Each tap adds a little vertical speed that fades out.
- Eight wind bands carry the balloon sideways. Each band's label shows its altitude, direction and speed: most carry it to the right, and two higher bands drift it slowly left. Drift off one side of the chart and it comes back on the other.
- Fly through ring gates to collect them. Each flight has four gates.
- Touching the top or bottom of the chart bounces the balloon back and costs one of your three lives.
- Back-to-back gates build a chain multiplier, and passing close to a gate's center earns more stars.
- Collect the flight's gate target to move on. The target starts at three and rises in later flights.
CAMPAIGN
- 60 flights on a campaign map that shows your stars and best scores. All flights use the same wind bands and gate positions; later flights ask for more gates.
- Progress stays on your device.
DAILY AND LAB
- Daily: each date selects one campaign flight for everyone, worked out on your device without an account or server.
- Flight Planner: a small practice panel with two sliders and an icing switch that shows how wind alignment and lift reserve change a confidence score.
ALSO INCLUDED
- Five on-device achievements and a player records page.
- Haptic feedback switch.
- Works offline on iPhone and iPad.
- No ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases, accounts, analytics, weather data or tracking.
Skyballast is an abstract arcade puzzle game, not a flight planning tool.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Every flight can now be completed, the wind bands show their real direction and speed, and the in-game text now describes the game accurately.
The developer, Robert Corbin, 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
- Robert Corbin
- Size
- 77 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Robert Corbin
