Build 15 went to iPhone, iPad and Mac. It replaces the app’s shell: the tabs, or the sidebar on Mac, are Home, Stations, Charts and Search (⌘1 to ⌘4).
Home
- A date strip with the time in UTC, and an overview of how many new soundings are waiting.
- Freshness for each station’s newest run: fresh within 6 hours of its cycle time, aging within 18, then stale.
- Sections for runs ready to analyze, runs to jump back into, favorites and stations to explore.
- On iPad and Mac, a widget grid: the latest sounding, freshness, auto-fetch and the next model cycles. The countdown is to the nominal cycle hour, not to when the data lands.
Stations
- Catalog. Sondex ships with 1,081 stations, 1,051 ASOS sites and 30 NWS offices, and the models each one carries. First launch loads it from the app instead of the IEM API, and Station Catalog can refresh it from the server.
- The Stations tab filters My Stations, NWS and ASOS, can show favorites only, and clusters NWS and ASOS pins separately.
- A station’s screen lists the runs you’ve downloaded, the latest run of each model to download in one tap, and an archive of past runs by date.
- Search covers the whole catalog, by name, ID or state.
Charts
- On iPad, Charts is a three-pane view.
Mac
- The Mac build needs macOS 26.
Known issues
- Saving a new station from Add Station crashes the app.
- On Mac, Jump to Current Time and Share Chart in the menus don’t do anything.