Plan Your Sail vs Sail Trails
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plan Your Sail
Visualize predicted tide and current conditions along sailing routes for specific dates and times. This tool helps optimize sailing trips by avoiding strong currents and low tide hazards. It utilizes NOAA data for the United States.
- Predict tide and current conditions
- Visualize conditions along routes
- Select optimal dates and times
- Utilizes NOAA data
- Works in the United States
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Sailing in areas with significant tides and currents requires good planning. It's no fun to sail against strong currents, and even less fun to run aground coming into a cove on low tide. Plan Your Sail lets you see predicted Tide and Current conditions along pre-defined routes at different Dates and Times. This helps you quickly pick the best date and time to take a particular sailing trip, or alternately, to pick the best trip for a specific day. Plan Your Sail uses NOAA data for tides and currents and, as such, works only in the United States. Plan Your Sail is not to be used for Navigation.
Sail Trails
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- Routes show when it's storm season and when it is the best time to go. - Port data shows monthly rain and Max/Min temperature averages. - View tracks and wind speed of tropical storms that occurred between 2000-2020. - Wind climatology show average wind per month collected from sattelite data. Also view pilot data collected from on-site observation from 1850-1970. - Layers allow you to see Sattelite Imagery, Bathymetry, AIS Density, Time Zones, Lightning Strikes, and Population Density maps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Plan Your Sail at every 2 months against Sail Trails's every 5 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plan Your Sail ships an update every 2 months, Sail Trails every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plan Your Sail | Sail Trails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Craddock | Two* States* Away* |
In-app purchases
Plan Your Sail
No in-app purchases
Sail Trails
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Plan Your Sail free?
Is Sail Trails free?
Do Plan Your Sail or Sail Trails have ads?
Which is updated more often, Plan Your Sail or Sail Trails?
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