What's New

Will it be rideable, and how sure are we?

Every day card on the dashboard, on the web and in the iPhone app, now answers that in plain words: Likely on, Probably on, Could be on, or the same three for off. Open the pill and you get the reasoning: a confidence score out of 100 and the four things that built it. It is the question we think a rider actually has when they look at Thursday and start moving things around.

Four things feed the score. How far out the day is sets the base, because forecast skill falls off with range. Then three checks move it up or down: whether the independent weather models agree on the wind during your session hours, whether the last day of forecast updates have kept telling the same story or kept changing their mind, and how well forecasts at that spot have actually verified against its weather station. That last one is new and spot specific, and it covers wind speed, direction and gusts up to a week out: if same-day forecasts at your home beach tend to miss by several knots or thirty degrees, the pill says so.

The "how sure" part is measured, not guessed. For every spot with a station we now track how often forecasts at each range that called rideable wind for your activity were confirmed by the station. A spot where day-ahead calls of 12 knots or more verify four times in ten does not get "Likely on", whatever the models say that morning.

The trend arrow has been rebuilt too. It now looks at every saved update from the last 30 hours rather than just one from a day ago, it can tell you a day is turning after a run in the other direction, and it ignores the false moves that used to appear when the high-resolution model took over from the global one two days out.

A forecast that has been improving is not more likely to keep improving. Each model run is a fresh best estimate and already knows what the earlier runs knew, so the direction of recent changes says very little about the next one. That is why the arrow is now a detail inside the confidence pill rather than the headline. What does predict a good call is whether the runs agree with each other, whether the models agree with each other, and whether this spot has a track record.

The spot record is the part that gets better with time, since every day the station reports adds to it. Ranges beyond two days out start filling in from today and firm up over the coming weeks, and the hit rate needs a few weeks of rideable calls before it speaks with any authority. Until then those lines say so rather than guess.

Web now. iPhone in the next TestFlight build. Tap any verdict pill to see the confidence score, the four factors and the trend detail. New accounts now start with session hours that follow daylight at each spot; fixed hours remain a profile option.

WindSensei is on Apple TV

The forecast now lives on the biggest screen in the house. The new Apple TV app puts live observed conditions and the full hourly forecast side by side for every spot you follow, so you can check the wind from the couch before you load the car.

Leave it running and ambient mode takes over, slowly cycling through your spots. Every bar of the forecast strip shows the wind speed, gust, and hour at a glance, and the two-week overview strip gives you the shape of the whole fortnight. Your preferred riding window is highlighted, and you can page through the days with the Siri Remote.

When friends are out riding, their live sessions show up right on the TV. Select one to see the details while they are still on the water. Season stats made the trip too, so your year on the water finally gets the big-screen treatment.

Free. tvOS 18+. Same beta as iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac.

Follow a friend

Wind sports are better with company. You can now follow other riders on WindSensei and see when they are on the water. Visit a friend's profile page and hit Follow, on the web or in the iOS app.

Accounts can be private, so following works like you would expect: if someone's account is private, they get a follow request they can approve or deny, from either the web or their phone. You stay in control of who sees your sessions.

Once you follow someone, the Friends Live card on your dashboard shows who is out riding right now. Live sessions also show up on the Apple Watch complication and on Apple TV, so a friend scoring it at your home spot is hard to miss.

Ask Claude or Codex where to ride

WindSensei now plugs into your AI assistant. Add it as a connector in Claude (web, mobile, Desktop, or Claude Code) or OpenAI Codex, then ask things like “where should I kite this weekend around southern Ontario?” or “any wingfoil-worthy wind near Toronto tomorrow?”

The answers come from your account, not generic weather. Spots are scored with your activities, wind ranges, and session hours, and you get specific rideable windows in each spot's local time, ranked by wind quality for that launch.

Setup takes one URL and a Google sign-in. There is no API key to copy, and you can revoke access from your assistant's connector settings at any time. A second, read-only connector covers public spots without any sign-in, if you just want to try it.

Custom connectors in Claude require a paid Claude plan.

Search for a spot, and it appears

WindSensei used to only know about spots someone had already added. Search for your secret local and get nothing back. Not anymore.

Now, when you search for a spot that isn't in WindSensei yet, we build it for you automatically. An AI discovery pipeline finds the launch, pins the coordinates, and works out which wind directions actually work there, validated against real geography rather than guesswork.

You get notified when your spot is ready, usually within minutes. No forms, no waiting on us to add it by hand. Just search, and the forecast follows.