WindMind
Know when the wind is right.
Pick a place on the map. Say what wind you are waiting for. WindMind watches the forecast and tells you when it arrives.
What it is for
Some people are waiting for the wind. Others are waiting for it to stop. WindMind does both, because they are the same question asked from opposite sides.
Waiting for it
A paraglider pilot whose launch faces north-west wants to know when the wind at that hill is between 8 and 18 knots and blowing from between 290° and 020° — and not gusting past 22. That is a fly window, and missing it means waiting another week.
Waiting for it to stop
Someone with an awning, a marquee or a boat on a mooring wants the opposite: tell me when it goes above 35 knots, at any hour, so I can do something about it before it is done for me.
How it decides
An alert fires when every condition you set is true at the same forecast hour:
- Wind speed inside the range you chose
- Direction inside any sector you drew on the compass — sectors may cross north, because plenty of good sites face it
- Gusts under your ceiling, or above your floor, or within a spread of the average — whichever describes your air
- Temperature inside a band, if cold or heat is part of your decision
- Sky clear, partly cloudy, overcast — and daylight only, if that is when you can go
Direction is always the direction the wind blows from, the way a windsock reads and the way every forecast you cross-check against reports it.
It tries not to wake you for nothing
- A rule that has fired stays quiet until its condition has been false again for an hour. A wind hovering at the edge of your band does not notify you every hour.
- Quiet hours, in your own timezone. A fly window at 03:00 has no reader — though a gale warning at 03:00 does, and you can say which is which.
- A ceiling on alerts per day across every place you have saved.
- A match 40 hours out is an outlook, not an alarm. It is shown in the app; it does not interrupt you.
Plans
One location, one rule, 24 hours ahead. A real place with real alerts — not a demo.
10 locations, 3 rules each, 48 hours ahead, hazard alarms, and alerts that may reach you during quiet hours.
100 locations, 5 rules each, and a month of wind history.
Prices are shown in the App Store in your own currency. Subscriptions are billed by Apple and can be cancelled at any time in your device’s subscription settings.
Where the forecast comes from
Global weather models, refreshed through the day. WindMind never sends your saved coordinates anywhere: the forecast is requested for the centre of an 11 km grid square, which is the resolution the models actually have, and which is shared by everyone else in that square. If your spot sits far from that centre, the app tells you so rather than pretending otherwise.
A forecast is a forecast. WindMind tells you what the model says; it does not tell you it is safe to fly, sail or launch. That decision is yours, and it belongs to you and the conditions in front of you.