# Sailing timer tactical — user reviews > 14 indexed App Store user reviews of Sailing timer tactical by Pieter Oskam, rated 3.80/5 from 6 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sailing-timer-tactical/id1592526758/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sailing-timer-tactical/id1592526758.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Where is the app???? *2025-05-25* Purchased but where is the app? Can’t download ### 1/5 — Battery parasite *2025-01-27* Never get to actually use the app. I tested on land and discover there is no way to turn the program off. It stay on all the time using GPS and draining the battery. Have turn the Apple Watch off completely to get get it to stop. Waste of money and time. Completely worthless. **Developer response:** Open the app drawer and swipe the app to kill it. Enabling GPS in the background is essential for the app to work. The app is free, so no money wasted. ### 1/5 — Missing Seconds *2024-05-05, version 1.3* How do you get the seconds to display? It only shows the minutes? ### 1/5 — Possibly a great app *2024-04-13, version 1.3* This is a really easy to use app and could be great but on the Ulltra the seconds don’t show, only the minute number is displayed. The countdown timer shows, for example 5:… The whole minute seconds are displayed as … except for 11 which appears OK. The voice countdown in the last min is great but would love the option to have voice alerts in the other mins too. Would be 5 stars if the seconds would display. ### 3/5 — Works well. *2025-07-12* But disappeared from my watch and phone incompatible? ### 3/5 — Won’t connect to Apple Watch Ultra 2. *2024-05-31* Used this app for a couple years on my old Apple Watch and worked fine. Upgraded to Apple Watch Ultra 2 and it didn’t sync to the new watch with the rest of my apps, also not on the uninstalled app list. Support page was not helpful, how can I sync the app on the new watch? ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-06-11, version 1.4* This is a really easy to use app and could be the best app I’ve used on the watch. The best thing is that the countdown is always shown. Not so on other apps where the display stops if your wrist doesn’t move and when you glance down you see the wrong time, not so with this app, time is always there to be seen correctly. The voice countdown in the last min is great but would love the option to have voice alerts in the other mins too. Would be fantastic to be able to export the track off the watch. Would also be great if it record session into health or work out so the data of each race was retained. Oh and sometimes if the race is long (hours) it only shows the hours as that’s all that fits on the screen. ### 4/5 — Great app! *2023-03-30, version 1.0* Thanks for the great app you developed. I love it very much. It’s much better than all the paid ones out there. Quick request: I can’t stop the watch face auto rotation. ( ultra 9.4 ) Pls show the seconds when counting down. ### 4/5 — I really like the app, would love to request some features. *2022-09-07* Hi Pieter, I really like your app, but I race dinghy’s and we use a 3 minute start sequence. It would be great if I could adjust the start timer length. **Developer response:** Cory, You can adjust the time by rotating the crown. So when the timer is stopped, you can set it to whatever minute you want. I often set it to 6 minutes because that is when AP is lowered ### 5/5 — A great app as standby/secondary on a big boat, or primary for single hander *2024-08-03, version 1.4* Used during a regatta when the prime boat compute was misbehaving. And then used extensively since then as it’s such good simple feedback. ## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Easy to Use and See with your Hands Full *2024-07-25* App is great! It is very easy to use. Helpful info on the display screen when glancing down. I have created a watch face I can select on race days that has an Apple timer that counts down to our fleets 5 minute horn. I added this app to that watch face as well for fast access. It does open from watch face but all that is shown on the face is - - If you can add a an app face so the icon shows that would be fantastic. Works as is with the dashes but an icon on the watch face would be way better. Overall it’s a great app and free. Thank you for your time and effort developing it for us. **Developer response:** Hi! Thanks for the review. I dont have experience with complications but I will try to add it ### 5/5 — Great app. Works exactly as described. *2024-07-22, version 1.4* This is a very handy watch app that is simple to use for start line distance and timer. Was a helpful aid for us this weekend when we had some technical issues with Expedition and onboard instruments. One nice extra would be a time to burn feature, that shouldn’t be too difficult to implement if the GPS signal gives a stable enough speed? ### 5/5 — Very good *2024-04-30, version 1.3* It’s a very good app, clear and very useful. There is an email or something to ask support? Is it possibile to see and analyse the Track after the workout, exporting it on a iPhone or iPad, for example in Strava or similar? ### 5/5 — Ottima app per regate *2022-10-30, version 1.0* Ottima per la partenza, peccato che indichi solo i m alla linea e non il time to line. Utile anche la traccia della barca per capire come si va sul campo di regata. --- *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 2026-08-15.*