Windy.com: iPhone vs Android
Windy.com gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, September 2026, rounded down to a band).
Windy.com by Windyty, SE is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Weather GrossingWindy.com at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-26. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A professional-grade weather visualization platform offering high-resolution radar, satellite imagery, and over 50 specialized maps for pilots, sailors, and outdoor enthusiasts. The app dominates the grossing charts in India, France, South Korea, and Russia, while maintaining top-three positions in free downloads across multiple major markets including Italy, Canada, and Brazil.
Similar apps: AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, Yr.no
App Store
App details
Tech stack
App privacy Measured
Windy.com’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 4 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Android app v51.2.1 · checked 27 Sep 2026
Windy.com downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 10k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 10k+ | 50M+ Measured |
| Other Android stores | 1k+ | – |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 50M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Windy.com's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Windy.com makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 2 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 3 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 4 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 5 | Donate 3 EUR/USD a month subscription | |
| 6 | Donate approx 5 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 7 | Donate approx 10 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 8 | Donate 6 EUR/USD a month subscription | |
| 9 | Donate approx 20 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 10 | Donate approx 50 EUR/USD subscription |
Hidden keywords
Windy.com shows up in App Store search (US) for 9 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 79k |
| Google Play | 4.8 ★ | 822k 11k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 902k |
What users say about Windy.com
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the app's accuracy and detailed visualization tools for specialized activities like flying, sailing, and fishing. While most reviews are highly positive, a minority report interface issues such as crashes on Apple Watch or iPad and non-intuitive location handling.
Mostly positive (92% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use.
What people like
- Features & content: “Always new and improving features”
- Ease of use: “Easy to use and understand”
- Useful: “Useful for pilots as well”
- Price & subscription: “I have been using Windy as a premium members for years - at work and ar play”
About Windy.com
While most weather forecasting apps rely solely on free global models, Windy has gone a step further by investing heavily in the most accurate weather models available, always at the highest possible resolution, to deliver you the most accurate forecasts in the world.
LIVE WEATHER APP - WEATHER RADAR & SATELLITE
(Now with Precipitation Type & Lightning tracker)
Radar is a highly valued tool for weather forecasting. To provide you with the most accurate radar imagery, we constantly expand our resources so that rain, snow, and storms don't catch you by surprise.
Trusted radar sources include NOAA, Met Office, Météo France, DWD, JMA, IMD, BoM & more.
The global satellite composite is created from NOAA, EUMETSAT & Himawari data.
MORE THAN 50 WEATHER MAPS
- Rain radar, Satellite and a unique combined layer of Radar & Satellite images (blue, infrared, visible)
- Hurricane tracker, Weather warnings & Extreme forecast
- Wind forecast: Wind speed, Wind gusts & Accumulation, models comparison, data from live Weather stations
- Temperature: Humidity, Pressure, Dew point, live data from Weather stations
- Rain: Thunder & storms, Rain accumulation, Thunderstorms, Precipitation type, CAPE-index
- Aviation: Clouds, Cloud tops, Cloud base, Visibility (LIFR, IFR, MVFR, VFR), Fog, Icing, Clear air turbulence, Thermals, Freezing altitude
- Marine Forecast: Waves, Swell, Wave power, Tide forecast, Currents, Sea temperature
- Solar activity: Solar power, UV index, Wet-bulb temperature
- Snow: Snow depth, New snow, Snow density
- Air Quality: Air Quality Index (AQI) with Pollen (CAMS), NO2, PM 2.5, Aerosol, SO2, Ozone layer, Surface ozone, CO concentration, Dust mass
- Soil moisture, Moisture anomaly, Drought intensity, Fire Danger, Fuel moisture
MORE THAN 15 WEATHER MODELS
Global weather models:
- meteoblue - AI forecast
- ECMWF
- GFS by NOAA
- ICON by DWD
Local weather models:
- HRRR by NOAA
- NAM by NOAA
- HRDPS by MSC
- ICON-EU by DWD
- ICON-D2 by DWD
- UKV by Met Office
- AROME-HD by Météo France
- ALADIN by CHMI
- NEMS by meteoblue
- MSM by JMA
- ACCESS-C by BoM
LIVE RAIN, STORM ALERTS & CUSTOM WEATHER ALERTS
Want to know before the storm hits near you while you hike, bike or spend time outdoors? You can now access live weather alerts or set up your custom weather alert for wind, sunshine, or new snow.
HURRICANE TRACKER FOR STORM TRACKING
With Windy's hurricane tracker, you can track the past and projected path of a hurricane or a storm. Windy doesn't rely on just one hurricane model, but will give you all the forecasts available for a storm or hurricane.
WINDY MADE FOR PILOTS
- 16 altitude levels from the surface to 13.5km/FL450
- 50k+ Airports searchable by ICAO and IATA, including runway info, decoded & raw METAR, TAF & NOTAMs
- Detailed Airgram and Meteogram: temperature and dew point, wind speed and wind gusts, pressure, precipitation, altitude cloud cover, freezing altitude
- Thermals forecast
- Route planner
Windy.com iPhone
Windy.com gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, September 2026, rounded down to a band).
Windy.com is #3 in Weather Free in United States and charting in 17 of 24 countries we track.
Updated 27 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026
Weather FreeWindy.com at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-26. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A professional-grade weather visualization platform offering high-resolution radar, satellite imagery, and over 50 specialized maps for pilots, sailors, and outdoor enthusiasts. The app dominates the grossing charts in India, France, South Korea, and Russia, while maintaining top-three positions in free downloads across multiple major markets including Italy, Canada, and Brazil.
Similar apps: AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, Yr.no
Windy.com on the App Store
App details
Tech stack
App privacy Measured
Windy.com’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 4 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Windy.com downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Windy.com's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Windy.com before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Windy.com makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 2 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 3 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 4 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 5 | Donate 3 EUR/USD a month subscription | |
| 6 | Donate approx 5 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 7 | Donate approx 10 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 8 | Donate 6 EUR/USD a month subscription | |
| 9 | Donate approx 20 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 10 | Donate approx 50 EUR/USD subscription |
Hidden keywords
Windy.com shows up in App Store search (US) for 9 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | WeatherFree | #3 |
| South Korea | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
 France | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
 Japan | WeatherGrossingWeatherFree | #3 |
 United Kingdom | WeatherGrossing | #2 |
 India | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
 Brazil | WeatherFree | #1 |
 Russia | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
 China | WeatherFree | #4 |
| South Korea | WeatherFree | #2 |
 Thailand | All AppsFree | #1 |
| United States | WeatherGrossing | #11 |
| Brazil | WeatherGrossing | #2 |
| Canada | WeatherGrossingWeatherFree | #2 |
| China | WeatherGrossing | #7 |
 Germany | WeatherGrossing | #4 |
| India | WeatherFree | #2 |
 Italy | WeatherGrossing | #2 |
| France | WeatherFree | #3 |
| United Kingdom | WeatherFree | #5 |
 Australia | WeatherGrossing | #3 |
| Russia | WeatherFree | #2 |
| Germany | WeatherFree | #5 |
 Saudi Arabia | WeatherGrossing | #2 |
| Italy | WeatherFree | #4 |
| Saudi Arabia | WeatherFree | #3 |
 Indonesia | WeatherFree | #3 |
| Australia | WeatherFree | #6 |
| Indonesia | WeatherGrossing | #4 |
 United Arab Emirates | WeatherFree | #3 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherGrossing | #4 |
| Thailand | All AppsGrossing | #86 |
Apps near Windy.com on the chart
Weather Free, around #3.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about Windy.com
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the app's accuracy and detailed visualization tools for specialized activities like flying, sailing, and fishing. While most reviews are highly positive, a minority report interface issues such as crashes on Apple Watch or iPad and non-intuitive location handling.
Mostly positive (92% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use.
What people like
- Features & content: “Always new and improving features”
- Ease of use: “Easy to use and understand”
- Useful: “Useful for pilots as well”
- Price & subscription: “I have been using Windy as a premium members for years - at work and ar play”
About Windy.com
While most weather forecasting apps rely solely on free global models, Windy has gone a step further by investing heavily in the most accurate weather models available, always at the highest possible resolution, to deliver you the most accurate forecasts in the world.
LIVE WEATHER APP - WEATHER RADAR & SATELLITE
(Now with Precipitation Type & Lightning tracker)
Radar is a highly valued tool for weather forecasting. To provide you with the most accurate radar imagery, we constantly expand our resources so that rain, snow, and storms don't catch you by surprise.
Trusted radar sources include NOAA, Met Office, Météo France, DWD, JMA, IMD, BoM & more.
The global satellite composite is created from NOAA, EUMETSAT & Himawari data.
MORE THAN 50 WEATHER MAPS
- Rain radar, Satellite and a unique combined layer of Radar & Satellite images (blue, infrared, visible)
- Hurricane tracker, Weather warnings & Extreme forecast
- Wind forecast: Wind speed, Wind gusts & Accumulation, models comparison, data from live Weather stations
- Temperature: Humidity, Pressure, Dew point, live data from Weather stations
- Rain: Thunder & storms, Rain accumulation, Thunderstorms, Precipitation type, CAPE-index
- Aviation: Clouds, Cloud tops, Cloud base, Visibility (LIFR, IFR, MVFR, VFR), Fog, Icing, Clear air turbulence, Thermals, Freezing altitude
- Marine Forecast: Waves, Swell, Wave power, Tide forecast, Currents, Sea temperature
- Solar activity: Solar power, UV index, Wet-bulb temperature
- Snow: Snow depth, New snow, Snow density
- Air Quality: Air Quality Index (AQI) with Pollen (CAMS), NO2, PM 2.5, Aerosol, SO2, Ozone layer, Surface ozone, CO concentration, Dust mass
- Soil moisture, Moisture anomaly, Drought intensity, Fire Danger, Fuel moisture
MORE THAN 15 WEATHER MODELS
Global weather models:
- meteoblue - AI forecast
- ECMWF
- GFS by NOAA
- ICON by DWD
Local weather models:
- HRRR by NOAA
- NAM by NOAA
- HRDPS by MSC
- ICON-EU by DWD
- ICON-D2 by DWD
- UKV by Met Office
- AROME-HD by Météo France
- ALADIN by CHMI
- NEMS by meteoblue
- MSM by JMA
- ACCESS-C by BoM
LIVE RAIN, STORM ALERTS & CUSTOM WEATHER ALERTS
Want to know before the storm hits near you while you hike, bike or spend time outdoors? You can now access live weather alerts or set up your custom weather alert for wind, sunshine, or new snow.
HURRICANE TRACKER FOR STORM TRACKING
With Windy's hurricane tracker, you can track the past and projected path of a hurricane or a storm. Windy doesn't rely on just one hurricane model, but will give you all the forecasts available for a storm or hurricane.
WINDY MADE FOR PILOTS
- 16 altitude levels from the surface to 13.5km/FL450
- 50k+ Airports searchable by ICAO and IATA, including runway info, decoded & raw METAR, TAF & NOTAMs
- Detailed Airgram and Meteogram: temperature and dew point, wind speed and wind gusts, pressure, precipitation, altitude cloud cover, freezing altitude
- Thermals forecast
- Route planner
Latest updates
Windy.com - Weather Forecast Android
Windy.com - Weather Forecast gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, September 2026, rounded down to a band).
Windy.com - Weather Forecast is #1 in Weather Grossing on Google Play in United Kingdom and charting in 15 of 15 countries we track.
Updated 27 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Weather GrossingWindy.com - Weather Forecast at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-26. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Windy.com is a free, ad-free weather visualization app offering multiple global and local forecast models, radar, and satellite data for pilots, outdoor athletes, and weather enthusiasts. The app holds the #1 spot in Weather Grossing charts across diverse markets including Italy, UAE, India, South Korea, France, Indonesia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the UK, indicating strong monetization performance despite its free base model.
Similar apps: AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, Yr
Windy.com - Weather Forecast on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Android app v51.2.1 · checked 27 Sep 2026
Its iPhone app is built with Cordova too: one codebase ships to both stores.
Windy.com - Weather Forecast downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Windy.com - Weather Forecast's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
On Android app stores
The same app (com.windyty.android) on every Android store we track. Known Android installs: at least 63M (Google Play band + AppGallery count).
| Store | Installs | Rating | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Play | 50,000,000+ | ★ 4.8 (822k) | Open ↗ | |
| Huawei AppGallery | 13M | ★ 5.0 | 51.2.1 | Open ↗ |
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Windy.com - Weather Forecast before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Windy.com - Weather Forecast makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 2 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 3 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 4 | Windy Premium subscription | |
| 5 | Donate 3 EUR/USD a month subscription | |
| 6 | Donate approx 5 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 7 | Donate approx 10 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 8 | Donate 6 EUR/USD a month subscription | |
| 9 | Donate approx 20 EUR/USD subscription | |
| 10 | Donate approx 50 EUR/USD subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 15 countries.
Apps near Windy.com - Weather Forecast on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about Windy.com - Weather Forecast
From the 100 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's comprehensive data, accuracy, and multiple forecast models for outdoor activities. However, recent updates have caused dissatisfaction regarding removed features in the free version and a steep learning curve.
Mostly positive (88% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and regular updates.
What people like
- Useful: “It is very helpful for me”
- Updates: “it is very perfect to know and update the current weather around us”
- Features & content: “Das hier ist das Echte Tool”
- Price & subscription: “coz its free, i cant afford to pay”
About Windy.com - Weather Forecast
Whether you are tracking a tropical storm or potential severe weather, planning a trip, pursuing your favourite outdoor sport, or you just need to know if it will rain this weekend, Windy provides you with the most up-to-date weather forecast around.
The uniqueness of Windy lies in the fact that it brings you better quality information than the other weather apps’ pro-features, while our product is absolutely free and even without ads.
Powerful, smooth and fluid presentation makes weather forecasting a real pleasure!
All forecast models at once
Windy brings you all the world’s leading weather forecasting models: global ECMWF, GFS and ICON plus local NEMS, AROME, UKV, ICON EU and ICON-D2 (for Europe). Furthermore NAM and HRRR (for the USA) and ACCESS (for Australia).
51 weather maps
From wind, rain, temperature and pressure to swell or CAPE index, with Windy you will have all convenient weather maps just at your fingertips.
Satellite & Doppler radar
Global satellite composite is created from NOAA, EUMETSAT, and Himawari. The image frequency is 5-15 minutes based on area. Doppler radar covers large parts of Europe, America, Asia, and Australia.
Point of interests
Windy lets you display observed wind and temperature, forecasted weather, airports around the World, collection of 55 000 weather webcams and 1500+ paragliding spots right on the map.
Fully customizable
Add your favorite weather maps to quick menu, customize color palette on any layer, access advanced options in the settings. All that makes Windy the weather geek’s tool of choice.
Features and data sources
✅ All leading weather forecast models: ECMWF, GFS by NOAA, ICON and meteoblue mLM
✅ Several local weather models NEMS, ICON EU and ICON-D2, AROME, NAM, HRRR, ACCESS
✅ High-Res satellite composite
✅ Forecast model comparison
✅ 51 global weather maps
✅ Global weather radar network with precipitation type
✅ 16 altitude levels from the surface to 13.5km/FL450
✅ Metric or imperial units
✅ Detailed weather forecast for any location (temperature, rain and snow accumulation, wind speed, wind gusts and wind direction)
✅ Detailed Airgram and Meteogram
✅ Meteogram: temperature and dew point, wind speed and wind gusts, pressure, precipitation, altitude cloud cover
✅ Altitude and Time zone info, Sunrise and Sunset time for any location
✅ Customizable list of Favorite spots (with the option to create mobile or e-mail alerts for upcoming weather conditions)
✅ Nearby weather stations (Real-time observed weather - Reported wind direction, wind speed and temperature)
✅ 50k+ Airports searchable by ICAO and IATA, including runway info, decoded & raw METARs, TAF and NOTAMs
✅ 1500+ Paraglidi
What's new
Forecast Predictability - reliability per forecast day
Premium: custom default model, 1h steps & view (waves, meteogram)
Compare Forecasts - extended for meteogram (cloud & rain) & waves
Improved Icing & Clear Air Turbulence with flight level range
Fire Danger - hourly updates with wind particles
New Flexi & Hourly Widgets - redesigned, easy migration
Radar is back for Balearic Islands
Smaller app size for better performance
Tons of other fixes