SmartBriefing METAR,TAF,NOTAMS
Faster,clearer pilot briefing
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Brief smarter: import whole flight in seconds, review forecasts in one swipe, spot weather risks instantly, and focus only on relevant TAF parts.
A weather app for pilots, built by a pilot. SmartBriefing makes pre-flight faster, clearer, and easier than ever. Open all your flight’s airports in one step and focus only on what matters — relevant airports, time periods, TAF sections, runways in use, and NOTAMs. Weather and winds are visualized on a timeline for instant understanding. Get a faster briefing with better data — free 30-day trial included.
Dive deeper into any airport: explore weather, wind, and daylight forecasts, assess runway winds at a glance, and swipe through NOTAMs sorted by importance.
Try it today and discover how effortless a pilot’s weather briefing can be.
Main Features:
* Manual flight creation with history (SmartBriefing remembers even takeoff and enroute alternates).
* Flight imports from PDFs (including ForeFlight), clipboard, camera, or ATC data on the internet (via flight number or aircraft tail number).
* Manual or automatic insertion of enroute alternates. A relevant time window for each enroute alternate is calculated based on the distance from the route and other enroute alternates.
* Compact view showing only relevant time windows (a quick scroll provides instant understanding of the weather situation for the whole flight).
* Airport search with filtering by country or runway length.
* Groups of airports can be easily filled with airports from any selected country. They can also be imported from Aeroweather.
* Quick airport search tab with search history.
* Visual guides explaining how to use certain features.
* In-app notifications.
* Settings to customize the preferred weather color scheme, units, airport filters, app appearance, etc.
Features for Every Airport:
Weather
* Timeline separately depicts permanent, TEMPO, or PROB phenomena, along with sunrise and sunset.
* METAR and TAF are available in original format, colored format (original text colored according to weather minima), or decoded format (including decoded remarks or runway state messages).
Premium subscription is needed for features below after the first 30 days:
Wind
* Timeline displays wind forecasts from TAF.
* Animated wind over airport layout provides quick awareness of the overall wind situation.
* Each runway is depicted separately from a pilot’s perspective, including its dimensions and wind components.
* Evaluation of (user-defined) wind limits for every runway with suggestions on usable/unusable runways.
NOTAMs
* NOTAMs are sorted based on their importance.[1]
* NOTAMs effective at a given time are automatically highlighted and separated.
* Important NOTAMs can be bookmarked for future reference.
* New, unread NOTAMs are always at the top of the list.
Details
* Timeline shows local time along with night, dawn, day, and dusk periods.
* Local time and UTC offset.
* Precise sunrise and sunset times.
* Airport layout and detailed runway information.
* Option to add personal notes to airports.
* Links to external apps such as maps or web sources with airport information.
Try it out and discover the convenience of effective weather briefings!
[1] NOTAMs sorting by importance is available for NOTAMs in ICAO format
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New Features:
- D-ATIS now available for 78 major U.S. airports, as well as LKPR, LKTB, LKMT, and LKKV.
- Compact D-ATIS view focusing on key information: departure runways for DEP airports, and approach type and runway for LAND airports.
- Option to manually force update of all airport data.
Major Improvements:
- INTER label is now correctly recognized in TAFs.
- Progress icon displayed when downloading METAR, TAF, or D-ATIS.
Many minor improvements and bug fixes.
The developer, Ivan Lacko, 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
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Size
- 123.8 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 11.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 11.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Subscription 299,00 Kč
- Provider
Ivan Lacko
- Ivan Lacko has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- Address
P. O. BOX 40
60800 Brno 8
Czechia - Phone Number
+420 703952243 - Email
info@smartbriefing.app
- Copyright
- © 2025 Ivan Lacko