Motoskies

There’s a particular kind of optimism that comes with planning a long ride. You check the forecast for your starting point, it says partly cloudy, and you go. Two hours in, somewhere on a mountain pass, the sky turns the colour of old iron and the rain arrives — not as a drizzle, but as a full commitment.

Motoskies was built to solve exactly that problem.

What Motoskies does

Most weather apps answer a simple question: what’s the weather like here, now? That’s useful if you’re planning a picnic. It’s not enough if you’re planning a 300-kilometre motorcycle trip across three valleys and two mountain ranges.

The real question for a rider isn’t about where you are — it’s about where you’ll be, and when.

Motoskies takes your origin and destination, calculates the route, and then samples the weather at every significant point along the way — factoring in your estimated arrival time at each waypoint. You see not just today’s forecast, but the forecast for your specific position at your specific moment in time.

The result is displayed directly on the map, with each segment of the road colour-coded:

• Green — safe conditions, go for it
• Yellow — caution, rain or wind worth watching
• Red — danger, significant precipitation or strong winds ahead

The details that matter

It follows the road. The colour overlay traces the actual road geometry — not straight lines between points. If your route curves through a valley, the colours curve with it.

It accounts for your speed. A waypoint 200 kilometres away isn’t just geographically distant — it’s temporally distant too. Motoskies calculates your estimated arrival at each point and fetches the forecast for that exact hour, so a storm that passes through at noon doesn’t affect your colour-coding if you won’t arrive there until 4 pm.

It handles very long routes gracefully. Planning a multi-day crossing? The app samples up to 200 waypoints evenly distributed along the route and — if the trip is particularly long — suggests splitting it into legs for a more granular forecast.

Three metrics, one map. Switch between precipitation, temperature, and wind speed overlays with a tap. The same route tells a different story when you’re looking at cold snaps versus crosswinds.

Tap any waypoint for the full picture. Every pin on the map opens a detail card with precipitation probability, temperature, and wind speed for that exact point and time.

Privacy, by design

Motoskies doesn’t have an account system. It doesn’t collect analytics. It doesn’t know who you are.

Location access is used only to set your starting point — it’s never stored or transmitted. Saved routes live on your device. The only data that leaves your phone are the waypoint coordinates sent to Open-Meteo (a free, open weather API) to fetch the forecast, and the route request to Apple Maps.

That’s it.

Available soon

Motoskies is a free download on the App Store, available in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian. It requires iOS 17 or later.

Whether you ride a motorcycle, cycle to work, or just hate being caught in the rain — plan your route, read the sky, and go.