Alternatives to PredictWind
A marine weather service with wind forecasts, weather routing and departure planning for sailors. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
PredictWind
A marine weather service with wind forecasts, weather routing and departure planning for sailors.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as PredictWind.
Windy
An interactive animated weather map with wind, waves and radar forecasts from several forecast models.
Windy compares several forecast models with animated wind, wave and radar layers, but does not offer PredictWind's weather routing and departure planning for sailors.
qtVlm
Navigation and weather routing software for sailing boats, with a GRIB viewer and chart support.
qtVlm is sailing navigation software with weather routing, departure-time comparison and a GRIB viewer, running on Windows, Android and iOS with paid mobile versions.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Orca
A marine navigation app for planning trips with charts, routing and weather, with optional boat hardware.
Savvy Navvy
A boat navigation app with marine charts, tides and weather, pitched as Google Maps for boats.
Seapilot
Marine navigation app with digital nautical charts, AIS, routes and weather routing.
OpenCPN
A free, open-source chartplotter and marine GPS navigation program for laptops and onboard computers.
iNavX
A marine chartplotter app for iPhone and iPad with charts from many providers, AIS and GRIB weather.
myWindsock
A web tool that forecasts wind and weather along cycling routes and analyses rides.
