Comparison

SailboatData vs STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SailboatData

Access a comprehensive database of production sailboat specifications offline. Compare models, search by detailed criteria, and save favorites with personal remarks. Ideal for buyers and marine professionals alike.

Highlights
  • Offline sailboat database access
  • Side-by-side model comparison
  • Search by detailed specifications
  • Save favorite sailboats and designers
  • Add personal remarks to models
  • Sync favorites and remarks via iCloud
Features
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The world’s most recognized database for production sailboat specifications. This is the must-have app for those looking to purchase a sailboat as well as for DIYers, sailmakers, yacht brokers, marinas, riggers, and all other marine professionals. Unlike our website, the app allows access to our database without the need for an internet connection. After downloading, you can experience the full app functionality for the first 2 hours. After that, continue on with the free basic version or subscribe to keep full access. This costs as little as a good coffee (for a yearly subscription, our cheapest option) and supports us adding more useful features and extend the database. The current features include: • Scrollable list containing over 9,200 sailboat models. • Side-by-side sailboat model compare. • Scrollable lists with all designers, builders, and associations. • The scrollable lists have an alphabetic index for quick access. • Each list has a name search bar which updates the list as you type. • Ability to select sailboats, designers, builders, and associations as your favorite. • Toggle button to quickly switch between showing all or only your favorites. • Ability to add your personal remarks for each sailboat model. • Favorites and remarks are shared between all your devices using Apple iCloud. • Refined search by LOA, LWL, Hull type, Keel type, Displacement, Beam, Draft, Rig type, Years Built and all our Ratios. • Ability to sort the refined search results on any of the search parameters. • Settings to personalize displayed units and other features. As you scroll through the sailboat list and look at sailboat and designer details, the corresponding images are downloaded via internet. Once an image has been downloaded it is stored on your device; the maximum storage used is about 500MB.

About

STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD

This app provides musicians with a comprehensive practice panel featuring tools for playing along with music, recording performances, tuning instruments, practicing chord progressions, and using a precise metronome. It offers synchronization features for playing together and can be controlled remotely from an Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Audio analysis (key, chords, tempo, bars)
  • Looping and speed adjustment
  • Recording and playback
  • Precise tuner with harmonics
  • Chord pairing practice
  • Atomic time metronome
  • Real-time tempo feedback
  • Multi-device synchronization
Features
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STEADYWATCH™ is a practice panel for musicians, with a button for everything, on iPhone and Apple Watch. TRACK: Play along with your music • Import audio files from the Files app. Each is analysed on your iPhone for its key, chords, tempo and bars. • See the chord now and the next one, in time with the music. • Loop any passage from A to B, snapped to the bar, with no gap. • Slow it down without changing the pitch, or transpose it up or down. • BEAT starts the track exactly on the shared beat. REC: Record yourself • A one-bar count-in on the beat, then your take, already in step with TEMPO. • Every take becomes a track: loop it, slow it down, see its chords. NOTE: A precise tuner that shows the harmonics of every note you play. CHORDS: Practice chord pairings • Pairings drawn on the circle of fifths, each in its own colours. • Turn the pairing to see how the chords connect, and play them in time. TEMPO: A metronome on atomic time • Beats sit on the same clock as every other device, so two phones (or a phone and a watch) stay in step. • It listens to you play and tells you whether you're ahead of or behind the beat. SPECTRUM: See the sound of what you play. PLAY IN TIME TOGETHER • SYNC shows a session QR code. Scan it on another device to share the tempo, bar and chord pairing. APPLE WATCH • A tuner and a haptic metronome on your wrist, in step with your iPhone. • A remote for the iPhone on its stand: play and pause, skip, loop, change the speed or key, and record, while your hands stay on the instrument. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics. What the microphone hears, your takes and your tracks stay on your device.

Screenshots

SailboatData4 screens
STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD4 screens

Verdict

The call

SailboatData and STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of SailboatData's written reviews are positive against 0% of STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD's. SailboatData also leads on ratings volume (301 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.2). STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SailboatData sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SailboatData has 301 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of SailboatData's written reviews are positive against 0% of STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SailboatData ships an update every 3 weeks, STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SailboatData versus STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSailboatDataSTEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (301 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings301 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.5 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVMG Media, LLCNathaniel Vazquez

Customer experience

SailboatData

All ratings295 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

SailboatData

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Monthly Access$0.991 Month
  • 3 Monthly Access$1.993 Months
  • 6 Monthly Access$2.996 Months
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  • 12 Monthly Access$3.991 Year
1 purchases

STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD

One-time1
  • STEADYWATCH™ PRO$4.99

Questions

Is SailboatData free?
SailboatData is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD free?
STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SailboatData or STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD?
STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD is rated higher. SailboatData averages 4.8 out of 5 from 301 ratings, while STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SailboatData or STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD have ads?
Neither SailboatData nor STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SailboatData or STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD?
SailboatData ships an update every 3 weeks, and STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD every 5 days. Most recently, SailboatData was updated on November 11, 2026 and STEADYWATCH™ HANDHELD on October 30, 2026.

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