MetService Marine

Name: MetService Marine
Rating: 3 (453 reviews)
Author: Meteorological Service of New Zealand

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand

The MetService app for New Zealand marine weather forecasts and maps

Features & Capabilities

The MetService Marine app offers comprehensive New Zealand marine weather forecasts designed for smartphone users. Sponsored by Maritime NZ, this free app provides crucial information including recreational and coastal marine forecasts, severe weather warnings, tide times, and detailed rain radar imagery updated every 7.5 minutes. Additionally, users can access 3-day rainfall forecast maps complete with wind barbs and surface pressure maps to plan their marine activities safely. The app allows users to select and save a default location as their home screen for quick access. Note that the app focuses on specified marine forecasts and does not include surf and beach forecasts or unsupported marine maps. It is optimized for smartphones and is not supported on tablets. For full terms of use, visit www.metservice.com/about/application-terms.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Weather Navigation & Mapping

By:

Meteorological Service of New Zealand

Downloads:

157,690 32

Rating:

3.00

(453)

Version:

1.1.1 Last updated: 2023-03-29

Creation date:

2014-01-05

Publisher country:

Email:

fe*****@metservice.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-13

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 172,682 ▲ 1,455

Other platforms

MetService Marine (v1.2.0)

4.60

(6,406)

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Developed by:

Meteorological Service of New Zealand

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metservice.marine

Email:

fe*****@metservice.com

Website:

http://www.metservice.com

User Reviews

Users appreciate the app's comprehensive marine weather data and its usefulness for boating and fishing. However, consistent problems persist including server connectivity failures, inability to change the home location especially for South Island users, missing or broken radar controls, and poor interface design like unreadable text and inconvenient navigation. Despite some recent updates fixing certain features, long-standing issues like connectivity and home location bugs undermine user experience.

Pros

Provides comprehensive marine weather information including tides, rain radar, and forecasts.
Useful for fishing and boating activities with easy access to tide data.
Recent updates restored some lost functionalities like continuous rain radar movement.
Contains all necessary maritime weather data in an easy-to-use interface for some users.
Improved app experience noted by some users after updates.

Cons

App frequently fails to connect to the server, causing loading errors and crashes.
Home location setting is buggy, especially unable to set or change from Auckland or select South Island locations.
Poor reception and connectivity issues in marine areas limit app usability on boats.
Critical features like rain radar play bar and surface pressure chart sliders are missing or non-functional.
UI issues such as unreadable text due to poor color contrast and inconvenient navigation requiring excessive swiping.

Recent reviews

Loads as far as the first ad, and then crashes. Used to be fantastic. But in the past year or so it's stopped working on my phone. Reinstalling the app doesn't fix the issue.