Wind Bubble

Wind Bubble

See where the wind hits you, on top of your navigation app.

Mickael MAGNIEZ Navigation Sports & Health

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Description

Wind Bubble floats a small dial on top of your navigation app and shows where the wind hits you
relative to your direction of travel: headwind, crosswind or tailwind.

The dial is locked on your heading — the top is always where you are going — and a coloured marker
sits on the ring at the angle the wind comes from: red straight in your face, amber across, green
pushing you along.

Features:

* Floating bubble over any app, draggable, tap to expand a short summary
* Live wind, gusts and temperature from Open-Meteo (no account, no API key)
* Head/tail and crosswind components, with the side it blows from
* Speed in km/h, mph, m/s or knots
* Adjustable refresh interval, bubble size and opacity
* No tracking, no analytics, no advertising

Your position never leaves the device except as coordinates rounded to a coarse grid, sent to
Open-Meteo to fetch the local wind.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What’s new (1.0.1)

- Reproducible build: the F-Droid APK is now the one signed by the developer, so you can switch between F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid and GitHub without reinstalling

Anti-features

Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.

  • TetheredNet

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.0.1 current
c130d432aebce500…
2026-09-16 1.5 MB API 26

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • Precise locationDetermine the location via GPS.
  • Approximate locationDetermine the location via the network.
  • Display over other appsDraw content on top of other apps.
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • windbubble.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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