PredictWind Offshore Weather for Android

I was an early adopter of Predict Wind and was somewhat of an evangelist until recently. I've noticed over the past year that first, the weather forecasting is getting progressively worse, and the weather routing is, well, frankly, dangerous. After downloading a recent update, I began receiving numerous error messages. After a few days of exchanges, they realized they pointed their solution to a Beta Server and fixed it; by then, I found myself in the North Atlantic staring down 4M Waves and 35 Knot Winds. There are more and more options out there that I've started using in addition to Predict Wind.

A solid performer but not the best of the several available. Like many apps, they are a little disingenous about the "free" aspect of what they offer. In fact if you want to get what is most useful, it becomes very expensive to continually re-purchase the data. From what I can see from the data from these apps, it all comes from the same place (NOAA, etc), and repackaged for the various application's purposes. The interfaces take time to get used to and the steps that you have to go thru are several and a bit tedious. There should be a smoother stepping from one command to the next and they should be grouped in a way that the eye/hand functions follow better. The distinction between Predict Wind and Offshore are sort of clear, but there is crossover and it is still a bit of a mystery as to where one is "better" vs the other. Well, one is "offshore" - well, where does "offshor"e start and stop? Their marketing/financial agreements/collaborations between them and YouTube voyyagers for example, make it seem that the product is so good that it's being adopted because of what it does vs the financial arrangements that have been likely forged behind the scenes. Don't get me wrong, as I said at the beginning, it's a solid product, just expensive. BTW, the same data is available from NOAA and related sites, the problem there is that it is a bit clunky and not downloadable offshore unless you have full (expensive) internet access.

We've sailed 3,000 nm in 3 months, using Predictwind several times a day to get the best route, and the precision of its forecast is very impressive. We couldn't fault it once... Everytime we thought we would outsmart the app by taking a different route, we ended up back on the predicted route, as the weather always imposed its rule on us, as forecasted by Predictwind, Jolokia crew

Cannot say enough about this product and the team behind it! Great tool for those of us cruising the world. Whether it be coastal or offshore journey's, this app is key to our safe passage making and vlidating enroute weather changes.The features are rich and ever being updated. I cannot imagine cruising without this lifeline.

year after year, and with every update, the people at PredictWind keep making improvements to a product that is already, hands down, the absolute best. Having crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and downloading the twice daily updates, I can say without reservation that they are the best.