This New iPhone App Could Save Your Summer Road Trip

Wayther is a navigation app for iPhone designed to help travelers plan road trips around the weather.

Published July 9, 2024

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When planning a road trip, one of the big unknowns is the weather. It’s unpredictable as is, but as you drive through different parts of the country, the weather obviously changes as well. And it can have a big impact on road conditions, traffic and general time in the driver’s seat. So, how do you plan for it?

That’s the problem that Wayther, a new iPhone app, is attempting to solve.

Road Trip Weather: Wayther

Road Trip Weather: Wayther

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As first reported by TechCrunch, Wayther is a new navigation app specifically designed to help travelers plan road trips around the weather. Its unique forecasting feature gives you weather information along your route, allowing you to plan around it. The app allows you to plan your trip up to 10 days in advance.

Wayther works similarly to Apple Maps or Google Maps in that when you type in a starting point and a destination, it gives you three different routes. There are features to help you avoid tolls and highways, as well as pick the date and time of your road trip, too.

Wayther iPhone app — Once you pick a route, the app will show you weather information that you’re expect to pass through all along the route.

Where Wayther differs is that it also shows you forecasted weather along those three routes during the times you’re expected to pass each location. In addition to the weather, the app also shares expected visibility and road conditions.

If you want to make sure you’re at a specific location along your route at a specific — say to watch the sunrise or sunset — the app lets you plan around that, too.

Price and Availability

Wayther isn’t a free app, but it does offer a pretty generous free trial period: you can use the app to plan three different trips for free. After that, you’ll have to choose one of the subscription plays: $2/week, $3/month or $15/year.

The app works in all countries where Apple’s Weather app is available.