Set up at the dock.
Read weather offshore.
Beamback delivers GRIB forecasts over your Garmin inReach or ZOLEO as ordinary satellite texts. Set it up at the dock once. After that, every forecast is three steps.
At the dock, with WiFi
Three steps you never repeat. Do them before you leave — the pairing round-trip confirms everything works while you can still fix it.
Get access
Beamback is in invite-only beta. Got a beta code? Redeem it at beamback.io/redeem — email in, sign-in link back, no password, no card. No code yet? Request beta access and we’ll invite you as spots open.
Pair your messenger
One message from the device proves it’s yours. Nothing is installed on it and nothing changes about how it works.
Get the app
Free, and it works fully offline.
Offshore, radio off
The loop you’ll run on passage. The app works fully offline — the only thing that touches the satellite is the text messages.
Draw a box, get a request
In the Beamback app, tap two corners around your route. Pick wind, pressure, rain or waves, the model and how far ahead. The app shows the satellite-message count before anything is sent, then hands you a short request text like
GFS:49N,43N,08W,03W|1,1|24|WIND
You don’t type any of that — the app builds it, ready to send.
Text it from your messenger
Send that request from your inReach or ZOLEO the way you’d send any message. The forecast comes back in the same thread as a few texts of coded data. On a real inReach in July 2026: under two minutes.
Paste it back, read the weather
Copy the replies into the app and the chart draws itself. Scrub it hour by hour, tap any point for the numbers. The basemap lives inside the app, so all of this works with the radio off.
The only kit is the messenger you own
The app runs on iOS, Android and in the browser. Satellite airtime stays on your own plan, billed by your provider — the app always shows the message count first.
No code? Request beta access