Metarize
Weather
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Metarize is a powerful tool to consult two iconic aviation weather products — METARs and TAFs — and use them for a variety of missions beyond aviation.
It leverages the properties of these weather products:
- Their compact, very quick to read format
- Their high quality, on which millions of lives depend
- Their global availability in a standard format
… and provides features to make them useful for a variety of critical missions
- Push notifications
- Discovery of local stations (using GPS or a map location)
- Monitoring and reporting of the integrity and recency of the data using visual color codes
- Offline support – refresh data in the background so it’s available to consult if connectivity is lost
- Part 107 readiness indication (“go”/”no-go” badge to assist with take-off decisions based upon visibility and cloud ceiling height)
- Decoding assistance, to help learn the format (it’s well worth the effort!)
More subtle design goals – some of these are still actively being worked on:
- Chain of trust – report any element that puts the integrity or recency of what it displayed in question
- Latency – use the lowest latency source possible
- Resiliency – make the app resilient to failures
- Security-minded – require no permissions beyond internet access (optionally use more permissions, see below)
- Tactical-friendliness – low light color scheme
Permissions:
- Internet – required, to download weather data
- Location – optional, to automatically display nearby stations
- Notifications – optional, for push notifications
Background-fetching (offline support) – this feature makes the app periodically (every 15 minutes in most cases) download an up to date METAR or TAF for each favorite station/product combination. If the device goes offline, the last data fetched will be available.
Ratings & Reviews
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- settings: configurable warning and alert time thresholds
- nearby: usability improvements to search by place name
- decoding aid: parse many more blocks
- support for visibilities >= 100SM
- parse ice accretion amount
- parse visibility in meters
- FtpMetarApi: detect truncated metars (race with upstream update) and retry
The developer, Pierre-Marc Fournier, 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
- Pierre-Marc Fournier
- Size
- 34.6 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © PMF Technologies LLC