Features & Capabilities

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 to the fullest these amazing weather products:
- Their compact, very quick to read format
- Their extremely 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
- Offline support – refresh data in the background so it’s available to consult when offline
- Part 107 readiness indication
- Decoding assistance, to help learn the format (it’s well worth the effort!)
- Home screen widget for quick access

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 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) 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.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
mbah
Downloads:
19
Version:
1.2.0 Last updated: 2025-11-06
Version code:
15
Creation date:
2025-11-05
Publisher country:
US US
Permissions:
  • android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Very high risk
  • android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE Low risk
  • android.permission.INTERNET Low risk
  • android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS Low risk
  • android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED Low risk
  • android.permission.WAKE_LOCK Low risk
  • android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE Safe
  • android.permission.VIBRATE Safe
  • com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE Safe
  • org.mbah.metarize.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Size:
19.98MB
Email:
ap*****@mbah.org
URLs:
Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Google Play Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-04
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Android app. Please use these information below to contact the Android app developer.
Developed by:
mbah
Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mbah.metarize
Email:
ap*****@mbah.org

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