Windy.app - wind, waves and weather forecast app for surfers, kitesurfers, wi…
Windy Weather World IncNothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.
From our automated analysis, 12 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 96.0.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-12 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 96.0.0, updated 2026-09-30.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Windy.app - wind, waves and weather forecast app for surfers, kitesurfers, windsurfers, sailors, fishermen and other wind sports.
FEATURES:
✔ Wind report, forecast and statistics: wind map, accurate wind compass, wind meter, wind gusts and wind directions. It’s very useful for extreme wind sports.
✔ Variety of forecast models: GFS, ECMWF, WRF8, AROME, ICON, NAM, Open Skiron, Open WRF, HRRR (more details: https://windy.app/guide/windy-app-weather-forecast-models.html)
✔ Wind alert: Set up windalert and be aware of wind warning via push-notifications
✔ Weather history (archive) for 2012-2021: view wind data, temperature (day and night) and atmospheric pressure. Weather archive will help you to choose the best month for travel to the spot.
✔ Local forecast from NOAA: temperature in Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin, humidity, wind speed, precipitation (rain and snow).…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "One-time purchase"
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:f9cf0d69a37449cca5973e234240c69bf6ece964e1f5768a0851420a9ef19af3The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 8 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
sha256:f9cf0d69a37449cca5973e234240c69bf6ece964e1f5768a0851420a9ef19af3Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:f9cf0d69a37449cca5973e234240c69bf6ece964e1f5768a0851420a9ef19af3Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:f9cf0d69a37449cca5973e234240c69bf6ece964e1f5768a0851420a9ef19af3Constant upsell pressure: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 533 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
533 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
This app is always pushing to buy pro. Literally every day it's always offering the pro version, keeps coming up on offer ending soon, but the offer never stops along with the pop ups and notifications to a point thinking about…
Honestly used to love this app, was accurate enough and very informative. Even had premium for a while. But now I get hit with upgrade notifications constantly asking me to buy premium and every time I open the app I have to close the…
The app drains my battery, is too overwhelming, and constantly pushes you to buy their subscription.
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
Android package 96.0.0, scanned 11 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 96.0.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-12 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 96.0.0, updated 2026-09-30.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
windy-app-google-co-windyapp-androidAssessed 2026-10-12 from 533 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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