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MOGUWIND - Cycling Wind Direction & Forecast

· v2.6.2
★★★★★ (77) ↓ 1,000 downloads 4 Free

About

"The absolute best I have ever seen." (Review in Connect IQ) WHAT PEOPLE SAY (Review and Social Media) - "The best and most accurate app of its kind. Several paid alternatives don't even come close." - "One of the best and most useful things I've installed on my Garmin." - "Perfect for pacing my effort on a set route, and for deciding on the fly on a ride without one." MoguWind shows the wind in real time on your Garmin screen, kilometre by kilometre, and after the ride it proves how much it held you back. Add it as a data field on any screen, on its own or next to your other data. It turns the wind into one more number you train with, like power or heart rate. THE ARROW A large arrow points where the wind is going: straight up means a tailwind pushing you along. It changes colour with the situation: green tailwind, red headwind, amber crosswind. Using your GPS heading, MoguWind works out exactly how the wind hits you, anywhere in the world. Clean screen, eyes on the road. ON SCREEN - Arrow: where the wind is going, relative to your heading. Rotates with you. - H/T: headwind or tailwind component - CROSS: crosswind component - Wind speed and gusts, cardinal direction, and where the wind will shift over the next hours - Temperature - Two configurable fields: Speed, Avg Speed, Power, HR, Cadence, Distance, Elapsed Time, Ascent SUN MODE (high contrast) Off / On / Auto. Auto switches on by itself on clear, high-UV days using the forecast. White background, black text, solid arrow when the wind is strong, hollow when it's light. Readable in full sun, even with polarised glasses. OPTIONAL WIND EXTRAS Wind rose, net effect in km/h, wind watts (the power the wind costs or gives you), and gust lines when it blows hard. POST-RIDE IN GARMIN CONNECT Every second is saved to your FIT file. No external apps, no subscription. 5 graphs: wind speed, headwind/tailwind, crosswind, wind direction, airspeed. 8 summary metrics: avg wind, avg and max headwind, max tailwind, % headwind/tailwind/crosswind, and Wind Balance from -100 (all against you) to +100 (all in your favour), near zero on a loop. Finally understand why the same power gives you different speeds, and know whether you were slow or the wind was just awful. IN THE PRESS - "The new free app for Garmin that turns wind into another data point for your training." Brujula Bike - "Precise wind data, kilometre by kilometre. No subscriptions, and free." Ciclosfera DATA SOURCES Open-Meteo (primary, updates about every 5 minutes) and Garmin Weather (fallback). If the connection drops, MoguWind keeps the last reading for up to 4 hours and tells you how old it is. SETTINGS - 11 languages, and the settings page shows in your phone's language - Metric or imperial (km/h, mph, m/s, knots), temperature in C or F - Sun mode: Off / On / Auto - Toggle the four wind extras on or off - Font size: S / M / L - FIT recording: Full, Essential or Off - Choose what goes in each configurable field COMPATIBLE DEVICES (24) Edge 520 Plus, 530, 540, 550, 820, 830, 840, 850, 1030, 1030 Plus, 1040, 1050, Explore, Explore 2; fenix 6 Pro, 6S Pro, 6X Pro (Pro / Sapphire / Solar variants only, not the base 6 or 6S); fenix 7, 7S, 7X; fenix 8 (43mm / 47mm); Forerunner 955, 965. BUILT BY AND FOR THE COMMUNITY Free. No accounts. No subscriptions. No ads. Most features exist because someone asked for them. Got an idea or found a bug? Write to me. This app is yours too. DISCLAIMER Wind data comes from external weather services and may vary with your location, terrain and how fast conditions change. Do not use this app for critical safety decisions. Always use your own judgement.

What's new

VERSION 2.6 -- POST-RIDE WIND ANALYSIS IN GARMIN CONNECT When the phone disconnects, previous data stays visible for up to 4 hours instead of disappearing after 10 minutes. Battery optimization The waiting screen now shows Last update Xh ago when previous data was fetched at some point. Fixed a label overlap bug on Edge 1030 Plus, 1040 and similar devices with 8 or more fields. Narrow slots now show only the arrow, avoiding overlapping CROSS, NE and H/T labels. Added a new FIT Recording option with Complete, Essential and Disabled modes, so MoguWind can be combined with other CIQ fields that also write FIT streams without hitting the 16 stream limit. The Spanish language setting now overrides the device locale for FIT field names, addressing review number 6. Improved arrow stability when stopped. Below 1 m/s, GPS track is no longer used because it is too noisy, so the app falls back to compass direction. Improved compact layout on small screens such as Edge 530 and Explore 2. User configured data fields now appear when set. Your ride data now tells the full wind story. MoguWind 2.1 records every second of wind data into your FIT file. After your ride, open Garmin Connect and everything is there -- no export, no third-party app, no extra steps. NEW: 5 GRAPHS IN GARMIN CONNECT -------------------------------- - Wind Speed over time - Headwind / Tailwind over time - Crosswind over time - Wind Direction over time - Airspeed -- your real speed against the air (ground speed + headwind). When this line separates from your speed line, that's the wind. NEW: 8 SUMMARY METRICS ----------------------- - Avg Wind Speed - Avg Headwind - Max Headwind - Max Tailwind - % Headwind / % Tailwind / % Crosswind - Wind Balance: one number from -100 (full headwind) to +100 (full tailwind). Now you know. NEW: CUSTOMIZABLE DATA SLOTS ----------------------------- Two fields on screen (left and right). You choose what goes in each one: - Speed, Avg Speed, Power, HR, Cadence, Distance, Elapsed Time, Ascent NEW: OPEN-METEO AS PRIMARY WEATHER SOURCE ------------------------------------------ Free, accurate, no API key needed. Just install and ride. 1. Open-Meteo (primary) 2. OpenWeatherMap (backup, optional key) 3. Garmin Weather (fallback) UPDATED: FONT SIZE ------------------ One setting, three options: Small, Medium, Large. Done. As always -- free, no accounts, no subscriptions. If you have ideas for what's next, reach out. You've shaped this app from day one.

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Compatible with 53 devices
Updated Jul 19, 2026
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