What it does
Everything below is shipped and working today — nothing aspirational. Weather, the logbook and the community are free. The risk engine is Premium.
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The risk engine
Ten diseases and pests, each with its own published model. It produces dated infection events with deadlines — never a score out of 100.
- Ten threats modelled: downy mildew, powdery mildew, botrytis, black rot, phomopsis, anthracnose, sour rot, grape moth (four species, selected by geography), Pierce's disease and trunk disease.
- Infection events, not scores. Published epidemiological models — temperature × leaf-wetness response surfaces — produce dated, checkable events, each written as one sentence with a deadline.
- Biogeography: pests that don't occur at your location are not assessed — and the app says so, and says why. "Not present here" is never shown as "no risk".
- Phenology, not calendar: growth stage from degree-day accumulation on the BBCH scale, season phase from phenology — so both hemispheres work, and every timestamp is read in the vineyard's own time zone.
- Site adjustment: elevation, slope, aspect, cold-air drainage and soil drying all modify the assessment.
- A treated risk doesn't vanish — it shows as "mitigated — protected until Friday". The risk stayed real; your action is what changed.
- One engine, shared: the identical code runs in the app and on the server that sends pushes, so a notification can never disagree with the screen.
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Weather
All weather is free: hourly and daily forecast, seven days of history and all eight alert types — at your vineyard's exact coordinates.
- Hourly and daily forecast plus a 7-day history, at the vineyard's coordinates — not a regional average.
- Eight alert types: heavy rain, extreme heat, frost, strong wind, rapid temperature drop, hail, drought stress and high humidity.
- Frost with real severity levels — FAO critical-temperature tables by tissue and growth stage — with the radiative vs advective distinction, a dew-point gate and cold-air drainage.
- Spray windows: hour-by-hour suitability over the next 48 hours from delta-T, wind, temperature and rain — with the reason named when no hour is suitable.
- The weather-to-risk analysis — which factors are driving each disease — is the one weather surface that is Premium.
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Treatments & the record
Logging is central, not a side feature — and the legal spray record it produces is free, whatever your subscription.
- Every protective treatment names the disease or diseases it targets — mandatory — and mitigates only those.
- Protection tracked per block: protected / expiring / expired, decaying by product class, washed off by rain. Cover lapsing before the next risk is itself an alert.
- A full compliance record per spray: EPPO codes, BBCH stage, authorisation number, active substances, dose, area, pre-harvest interval, re-entry interval, wind at application, applicator identity and justification.
- Per-record validation with honest "Missing: …" lines. The pre-harvest interval computes the earliest legal harvest date and blocks harvest with a countdown.
- Export as CSV, XML and the Portuguese Caderno de Campo Único layout. PDF and JPEG are deliberately refused — not machine-readable under Reg. (EU) 2023/564 — and the app says why.
- Records stay accessible whatever the subscription state.
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The winter half
Half the year happens when every competitor goes quiet. SOSVine works in January.
- Pruning readiness per block — chill satisfied? rain within 48 hours? — with go / take-care / blocked verdicts and a one-tap "block pruned".
- Wound protection: cut susceptibility decays on a published healing curve, and the app alerts when rain is forecast onto open wounds.
- Winter chill in Dynamic Model chill portions, measured against the requirement of the varieties actually planted.
- Season review (Premium): infections that occurred, sprays versus advised intervals, resistance-group rotation with repeated substances flagged, and "what to do differently" — the November artefact a grower shows their consultant.
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Community
What your neighbours confirm in their rows feeds the model that watches yours.
- Report sightings with severity and photo; browse a list and a clustered map of nearby reports.
- Anonymous, with a 14-day expiry and early close.
- Nearby confirmed reports feed the risk model — the network effect.
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Notifications that respect attention
A push marks a change, not a state. If SOSVine is loud, something changed.
- Episode-based alerts: one push per day, then a digest. Escalations always get through; critical pierces the budget; quiet hours are honoured.
- An optional daily report at the hour you choose (Premium).
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Where it works
Wherever grapes grow.
- Six languages — English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, German — with metric and imperial units.
- Around 60 wine countries with localised names, both hemispheres, every timestamp in the vineyard's own time zone.
- iOS and Android.
The split
What's free, what's Premium
Free
- ✓ One vineyard
- ✓ All weather: forecast, history, all eight alert types incl. frost
- ✓ Spray windows
- ✓ Treatment logging + full logbook + compliance export
- ✓ Community: report and see nearby
- ✓ Honest disease teaser (names flagged, nothing more)
Premium — €49.99/year
- ✓ The disease & pest risk engine: severity, evidence, deadlines
- ✓ Recommended actions and mitigation tracking
- ✓ Disease risk push alerts
- ✓ Daily report
- ✓ Season review
- ✓ Multiple vineyards