Coming soon to the App Store

Point · Scan · Understand

Read the sky
like a pilot.

Point your phone at the clouds. WxrExplorer names what you’re looking at, explains what it means for flight, and lays the official weather around you in plain language.

Coming soon to theApp Store Try the demo

Made by a flight instructor (CFI, CFII, MEI) for student pilots and instructors.

LIVE
Pick a sky, then tap SCAN

Demo with drawn sample skies. In the app, the scan runs on your phone’s camera, and photos never leave the phone.

How it works

  1. 1

    Point

    Hold your phone up to the sky. Fronts, hazard areas, pilot reports and nearby airports appear where they actually are around you.

  2. 2

    Scan

    Tap Scan. The cloud model on your phone suggests the cloud type, with its confidence and a second guess when it isn’t sure.

  3. 3

    Understand

    Learn what that cloud means for flight: likely altitude, turbulence, icing, ceilings and what the sky is likely to do next.

Everything a pilot in training looks at, in one place

Cloud scan

The ten main cloud types, plus contrails and clear sky, with what each one means for your flight. A storm warning comes up whenever a scan looks like towering or storm cloud.

Weather in the sky

Surface fronts, SIGMETs and AIRMETs, and turbulence and icing pilot reports from the last two hours, placed in the camera view in the direction they are.

Airports, decoded

Airport reports and forecasts in plain words, rated against your personal minimums. The best runway and its crosswind against your own limit, a forecast timeline, winds aloft and density altitude.

Charts

Radar, satellite, surface analysis and prognostic charts, icing, turbulence, ceiling and visibility. Each one marks where you are.

Learn

Short lessons tagged to the knowledge areas you’re tested on, a daily quiz built from today’s real weather, and read-aloud.

Alerts

Optional alerts when a new hazard appears near your home field, or when it drops below your minimums.

Sample screens with example data.

Made for training

Student pilots

Connect what you read in the handbook to the sky above the airport. See the cloud, the report and the forecast side by side.

Flight instructors

A teaching aid for ground lessons and preflight talks. Point at the sky together and talk through what it means.

VFR and instrument pilots

Set your own minimums and crosswind limit, and see at a glance where today’s weather sits against them.

Weather comes from official U.S. government sources (the National Weather Service and NOAA). WxrExplorer explains it but never changes it.

Simple pricing

Free

$0

  • Everything for 3 hours after your first scan each day
  • 10 scans a day
  • Resets at midnight
  • Safety warnings always on

Pro

$9.99/month

or $99.99/year · 7-day free trial

  • Unlimited scans
  • Every tab, sky layer and tool, all day
  • Cancel anytime in your phone’s subscription settings

Prices in U.S. dollars. Pro will be bought inside the iPhone app.

An educational aid. Not for flight planning or navigation.

  • Weather comes from official government sources, but it can be late, missing or wrong, and the app can misread it.
  • A cloud scan is an estimate from one photo. It can be wrong, and a clear or calm reading never means it is safe to fly.
  • Nothing in WxrExplorer is a legal determination. Flight categories, minimums comparisons and alternate checks are yours to make from official sources.
  • Always get an official weather briefing before every flight. As pilot in command, the decision to fly is yours.