
Wrist Cockpit
Vario & altimeter
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$3.99
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Wrist Cockpit turns your Apple Watch into a variometer and altimeter – for paragliding, hang gliding, gliding and ballooning.
CLIMB AND SINK
• Big vertical speed at a glance: green climb, red sink
• Vario tape with integrator (10, 20 or 30 s)
• E-vario sound like in a glider: pitch glides smoothly, climb chopped, sink as a steady tone
• Sound on/off with one tap or double tap (Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 and later)
• Adjustable thresholds and volume, vibration only if you like
ALTITUDE
• Altitude in m or ft, flight level at STD
• QNH (hPa) or ALT SET (inHg), set with the Digital Crown
• Auto-QNH from GPS or terrain elevation
FLIGHT
• Airtime with IGC recording (XContest, WeGlide, SeeYou)
• Share the IGC as a link via Messages or Mail – the recipient downloads the real .igc file
• Speed and track from GPS, time in UTC
BALLOON
• Envelope temperature from a Bluetooth envelope probe right on your watch
• Colour scale from blue (too cold – keep the balloon warm) to red (limit), selectable base warmth, vibration at the limits
MADE FOR FLYING
• Runs as a workout so the pressure sensor measures at full rate – even with your wrist down
• Complication for your watch face
• Standalone on the watch: no iPhone, no account, no ads, no tracking
Note: Wrist Cockpit provides flight information and does not replace certified instruments.
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What's New in Wrist Cockpit
1.0.2
November 3, 2026
More robust in flight: if the app crashes during a flight, the watch relaunches Wrist Cockpit on its own – measuring and vario keep running. A QNH you set is kept (6 hours, manual settings too). Auto-off now only applies while the app is in the background. IGC: GPS runs during Airtime, so the file now contains positions. The flight is uploaded only when you tap “Share IGC link”. Terrain elevation for Auto-QNH from a new source – without your exact position and never in the air. Airtime over one hour shown as 1h05, altitude in cyan.
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