# ASA's Sailing Challenge — user reviews > 161 indexed App Store user reviews of ASA's Sailing Challenge by American Sailing Association, rated 4.80/5 from 2,916 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/asas-sailing-challenge/id1109489005/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/asas-sailing-challenge/id1109489005.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,540 · 4★ 257 · 3★ 70 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of ASA's Sailing Challenge? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🎓 Excellent learning/review tool for sailing - 👍 Great for reviewing before going out on the water - 👍 Useful for visualizing sailing concepts - 👍 Simple and effective - 👍 Helpful in consolidating sailing knowledge - 👍 Fun and useful - 👍 Fantastic for newbies to sailing - 👍 Breaks monotony of lockdown **Cons** - 🐛 Trimming Task 2 is Impossible - 🔒 To limited and some controls overly sensitive - 💰 Underwhelming, not worth the price - 💰 All about money, too many in-app purchases - 🐛 Buggy, crashes frequently - 🔒 Port and starboard controls are flipped - 🔒 Limited play, super simple - 🔒 Boring, not engaging enough **Commonly reported bugs** - Trimming Task 2 is impossible - App crashes frequently - Port and starboard controls are flipped - Lessons teach incorrect sail/boat orientation **Most requested features** - More practice scenarios and environments - Ability to choose cockpit view - Incorporate more sailing elements like jib, spinnaker, waves, weather - Add sailing terminology lessons - Include more advanced sailing techniques like man overboard, reefing, etc. - Implement a first-person view option - Add sailing race mode - Provide more free sailing options without waypoints ## Newest reviews (13 of 161) ### 2/5 — Limited in scope and repetitive. *2026-05-23, version 4.1.0* Just like the title says. Could be updated with better experiences . ### 4/5 — Fun and informative *2026-03-11, version 4.1.0* ASA has done a good job putting sailing in to an app. Which is how so many people explore their world these days. As I teach people to sail, I’m interested to see if this is helpful for my students. Would love to see them expand the app to include racing and more advanced techniques! The apparent wind lesson could be improved. ### 3/5 — Trimming Task 2 is Impossible *2025-08-04, version 4.1.0* Overall the app can be very helpful to learn points of sail and to start to recognize the ripple of a mainsail and when to trim. The open water maps are sadly quite limited. The British Virgian Islands Tour approaches what my expectations were going in. Even after buying the expansions, I have felt like there is something missing. Great game and learning tool! Just please ease up the sensitivity on the second Trimming task (100% under 2 minutes). Also, any additional features or maps would be greatly appreciated, as I have seen no visible change in the app for as long as I have owned it. 🙂 ### 3/5 — To limited and some controls overly sensitive *2025-07-27, version 4.1.0* The game is sadly far too limited, especially with an up front cost. Open sailing is particularly disappointing and limited. The sail trim practice is overly sensitive, requiring exact position of the slider without corresponding visual feedback other than speed. There’s not much to learn here because you can’t really tell the sail trim position, especially the differences between similar points of sail. More functionality and better feedback within some of the modules is needed. ### 3/5 — So-so *2024-05-18, version 4.1.0* I’m not an experienced sailor, but while this was kind of useful for learning points of sail, a little bit of terminology, and very basic sailing concepts after a few hours at best you will have exhausted it. For 3.99 and in-app purchases to get variable winds or different boats it’s not worth it in my opinion. Save your money to buy a much more realistic sim like eSail if you are really interested in learning solid foundation stuff before you get out on the water or take courses to get a rating enabling you to charter boats. ### 4/5 — Simple and Effective *2024-05-13, version 4.1.0* About as educational as a phone-based tutorial can get. Maybe some improvements could be made with the interface to make it a little more realistic. Still, not a bad app for the price. ### 4/5 — Ben *2024-04-21, version 4.1.0* Really nice app. Just one comment: the apparent wind direction should change as a boat moves from slow to fast and additional trimming is needed. The app doesn’t seem to simulate that. ### 3/5 — Nice but buggy *2024-01-18, version 4.1.0* Some early challenges don't work. Supposed to click on various parts of the screen to answer questions but the app isn't responding. Must be a bug. Please fix! ### 2/5 — Boring *2023-01-02* Limited play super simple ### 5/5 — Very informative! *2022-11-26, version 4.0.9* I’ve learned a lot from this app. It’s helped me consolidate areas of my basic dingy sailing knowledge. This is a great tool for beginners. ### 5/5 — Not to be under valued! *2022-10-28, version 4.0.8* I’ve found this app great in helping me learn to sail. I was most impressed after letting my 10year old daughter play the game of sailing around a few times because when I finally took her sailing months later she had an amazing grasp of rudder abd sail positions relative to the wind purely from the game; theory parts excluded!! I actually think this has potential to be even better! ### 4/5 — A couple notes *2022-08-31, version 4.0.8* While I do think this game is amazing not only at teach the basics of sailing but is also just a downright fun game. I have two thing I would like to see improved. For one I’d like to see the in app purchases gone, I already paid for the app I’m not gonna pay more for basic things like wind variations. Second I’d like to see a first person view option, personally I think it helps with immersion. Which could help with learning ### 5/5 — Fun & useful *2022-08-27, version 4.0.8* This is useful and good mental exercise as well! Fun game and very good for practicing principles of docking, points of sail, maneuvering, and ATONs. Most er, inspiring (I guess you’d say), is the crunching sound just before your boat sinks! Love it although it seems to be bring out the sociopath sailor in me! Calling my therapist now. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Underwhelming *2025-02-05, version 4.1.0* I was very excited to try this app. . . Unfortunately I had to pay for it and then pay for a boat upgrade and then pay for weather. Unbelievably boring game that you will master in no time. Waste of money! ### 1/5 — No bueno *2024-11-17, version 4.1.0* Save your money practically paying for a demo even if the whole app was open would be disappointing even still though they want you to pay 2$usd per variable boat wind joke ### 1/5 — All about money *2023-07-29, version 4.1.0* I’ve had this app a while and over time they keep putting more and more restrictions on it to where it is pointless to have without having to not only purchase the app but purchase all the in-app purchases. Basically you are limited to one boat and 1mph sailing speed until you spend more money…after just purchasing the app. Why not just charge more for the app and include it all. Plan on spending more than the app to make it useful. ### 1/5 — Save your money *2023-04-15, version 4.1.0* Way too basic to be entertaining. I would not consider this a tool to aid in learning to sail. Really annoying after paying fee to play there’s another fee to see different sea states. Why pay more if the current value can’t be seen. ### 1/5 — Buggy garbage, save your money! *2023-01-30, version 4.1.0* Buggy garbage, should be free but it’s not and they nickel and dime you, just like every other ASA product. No refunds, even for a lousy app. You should be ashamed of yourselves and take up power boating! ### 1/5 — Not shareable *2022-11-13, version 4.0.9* We bought it only because it was shareable among our family sharing plan. Well it isn’t. It was purchased on the main person’s phone but it was the rest of the family that needed it and now we can’t use it. Very disappointed! ### 1/5 — Complete waste of money. *2022-09-09, version 4.0.8* Too basic to be educational or fun. They want you pay extra for every little thing like turning on variable winds. Give me a break. Shameful. ### 1/5 — Boring……. *2021-11-15, version 4.0.8* Boring……… ### 1/5 — Confusing lessons - serious errors in app *2021-05-26, version 4.0.8* First lesson teaches one thing and illustrates another: incorrectly picturing that the right side of the boat as Port/red, and the left side as Starbord/green. I’m new to sailing, but even I know that when facing the bow/front, the Port side of the boat faces left and Starbord is right. As you continue and are asked to label the points of sail, all the points are also mislabeled their opposites, right and left. ### 1/5 — Money gone *2020-10-13, version 4.0.5* I bought the all products bundle within the app yesterday. Today it says I need to re buy it. Surely you shouldn’t have to re buy wind angles every time you play? If that is how you have designed the game it needs fixed or else you are just money grabbing. If it’s just a glitch I would like my all products bundle back because the game isn’t nearly as good without it!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Solid practice tool *2026-02-14, version 4.1.0* Must download if you’re abeginner or even a skipper who want to brush up on skills ### 5/5 — Best app I have ever used *2026-01-20, version 4.1.0* This app makes me whole. I’ve never been more satisfied. But dolphin functionality is limited. I also wish there was an option for a 70 ft sailboat and stormy weather. A giant evil whale could be a good addition. ### 5/5 — Excellent learning/review tool for sailing *2025-06-04, version 4.1.0* The physics of sailing are well represented in this app. Basic concepts are presented simply. Practice is realistically modeled. Highly recommended! Could have more practice scenarios. ### 5/5 — Great for learning *2025-05-25, version 4.1.0* Great for reviewing before you go out on the water especially for thinking of scenarios. Always best to be on the water but this is great review. ### 5/5 — Asa sailing for kids and teens to learn how to get better at sailing *2025-02-25, version 4.1.0* Very good ### 5/5 — A useful app to help visualize basics *2024-06-16, version 4.1.0* This app is very useful to help visualize sailing concepts that can seem less straightforward in books. It simplifies, and clarifies the learning experience! ### 5/5 — So cool *2024-06-09, version 4.1.0* Awesome ### 5/5 — Amazing *2023-07-31, version 4.1.0* An incredible app. It is so useful and such a fun way to learn and practice. Get it. ### 5/5 — So good! *2023-07-05, version 4.1.0* I am learning so much from this app it is not laggy at all I definitely recommend ### 5/5 — Great tool! *2023-05-23, version 4.1.0* This was recommended to me a few months ago, and I finally got it. Why did I wait so long?!?! This is a wonderful teaching tool and great way to learn all of the complicated aspects of sailing. I already feel better equipped! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*