Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker vs StepClash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker
Track your performance across over 30 water sports with detailed metrics like speed, distance, and wind conditions. Analyze your sessions, compare gear, and connect with a community of water sports enthusiasts. Offers advanced features for dedicated athletes.
- GPS tracking for 30+ water sports
- Detailed speed, distance, and duration metrics
- Wind, weather, and tide forecasts (Pro)
- Heart rate and gear logging
- Session history and progress tracking
- Live location sharing (Pro)
- Integration with Apple Watch, Garmin, Coros, Suunto
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Waterspeed is a GPS tracker for sailing, wingfoil, windsurf, SUP, kayak and 30+ other water sports. Record every session on the water and see your speed, distance and track in detail. WIND ALERTS AND FORECASTS • Wind alerts: pick when you want to head out, and Waterspeed tells you when the wind is right, with time to get ready (Pro) • Wind, weather and tide forecasts for the spots near you (Pro) • Wind history and spot conditions (Explore+) MEASURE • Speed, max speed, average speed, distance and duration • Best speeds over 2 s, 10 s and 500 m (Pro) • Your track on the map, with speed shown along the route • Heart rate from your watch, wind, strokes and foiling time • Tacks and gybes analysis, foiling efficiency (Pro) • VMG (velocity made good) and true wind angle (Ultra) • Polar charts and performance against target speeds (Ultra) • Upwind/downwind and port/starboard analysis, legs and runs, gains and losses in distance and angle (Ultra) • Countdown timer for race starts (Pro) • Session history and progress over months and seasons WORKS WITH YOUR DEVICES AND APPS • Apple Watch: record your session right from your wrist • Garmin, Coros, Suunto and Vakaros: your sessions sync into Waterspeed automatically • Strava and GPS-Speedsurfing.com: send your sessions there automatically (Pro) SPORTS Sailing (dinghy, keelboat, catamaran), wingfoil, windsurf, kitesurf, foil, efoil, pumpfoil, SUP, kayak, canoe, downwind, powerboat and 30+ water sports. IMPROVE • Log your gear (boards, sails, wings, foils, boats) and compare sessions • Challenges and leaderboards with the community • Share sessions with friends LIVE SHARING • Live location sharing, so people on shore can follow you (Pro) PLANS Free to download and record. Pro unlocks full stats, history and sync. Ultra adds advanced sailing and racing analysis: VMG, true wind angle, polars, legs and runs. Waterspeed Pro and Ultra are monthly or yearly subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple account and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. One subscription works on all Apple devices linked to your iCloud account. Waterspeed can export activities to Apple Health. We love hearing from the community: support@waterspeedapp.com Terms of Service: https://www.waterspeedapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.waterspeedapp.com/privacy
StepClash
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Your step count is already being measured. StepClash makes it a race. Create a race, share the join code, and watch the board move all day. Steps come from Health on your iPhone and Apple Watch, so there is nothing to log and nothing to remember — you walk, the number climbs, the standings sort themselves out. A LEAD THAT MEANS SOMETHING Steps typed into Health by hand, or written by another app, still appear on your board — clearly marked, and not counted. Only what your iPhone or Apple Watch actually recorded goes towards a race. Everyone can see the same thing, so nobody has to take anybody's word for it. BUILT AROUND THE DAY, NOT THE CLOCK Today's figure stays provisional until midnight in the race's own timezone rather than yours, so a race with friends in another country still finishes fairly. Standings freeze 36 hours after a race ends, which leaves room for a watch that syncs late. WHAT YOU GET • ON AIR — today's live figure, and exactly where you stand • RACES — start one, or join with a code. Sign-ups close at the first whistle, so nobody joins once they can see who is winning • SQUAD — the people you race against • ME — your card, your best day, and what you get told about YOUR HEALTH DATA STAYS YOURS Raw Health samples never leave your phone. StepClash sends one number per day per race — the total — and nothing else. No advertising, no trackers, no selling anything to anyone. Walk more because someone you know is walking more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StepClash at none against Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker's 10. StepClash also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. StepClash asks for nothing beyond the download.
Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker ships an update every 10 days, StepClash daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker | StepClash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Waterspeed Technologies Limited | Lorenz Bohlander |
In-app purchases
Waterspeed Sailing GPS Tracker
- WS Monthly subscription14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- WS Quarterly subscription14 Days trial$7.993 Months
- Waterspeed Ultra Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Waterspeed Ultra Monthly$19.991 Month
- WS Yearly subscription14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Waterspeed Ultra Yearly1 Month trial$99.001 Year
- Waterspeed Ultra Yearly14 Days trial$199.001 Year
StepClash
No in-app purchases
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