# Metarize

> Weather

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6747735216](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6747735216)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6747735216`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Pierre-Marc Fournier
- **Category:** Weather
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-27
- **First published:** 2025-08-05
- **Size:** 33 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metarize/id6747735216)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://metarize.mbah.org/privacy.html](https://metarize.mbah.org/privacy.html)

## Description

Metarize is a powerful tool to consult two iconic aviation weather products — METARs and TAFs — and use them for a variety of missions beyond aviation.

It leverages the properties of these weather products:
- Their compact, very quick to read format
- Their high quality, on which millions of lives depend
- Their global availability in a standard format

… and provides features to make them useful for a variety of critical missions
- Push notifications
- Discovery of local stations (using GPS or a map location)
- Monitoring and reporting of the integrity and recency of the data using visual color codes
- Offline support – refresh data in the background so it’s available to consult if connectivity is lost
- Part 107 readiness indication (“go”/”no-go” badge to assist with take-off decisions based upon visibility and cloud ceiling height)
- Decoding assistance, to help learn the format (it’s well worth the effort!)

More subtle design goals – some of these are still actively being worked on:
- Chain of trust – report any element that puts the integrity or recency of what it displayed in question
- Latency – use the lowest latency source possible
- Resiliency – make the app resilient to failures
- Security-minded – require no permissions beyond internet access (optionally use more permissions, see below)
- Tactical-friendliness – low light color scheme

Permissions:
- Internet – required, to download weather data
- Location – optional, to automatically display nearby stations
- Notifications – optional, for push notifications

Background-fetching (offline support) – this feature makes the app periodically (every 15 minutes in most cases) download an up to date METAR or TAF for each favorite station/product combination. If the device goes offline, the last data fetched will be available.

## Rankings

- #1,676,241 — Overall

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6747735216)