Plan Your Sail vs GSatSolar
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.
GSatSolar
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Connect: View all of your GSatSolar Series devices within range, select the unit you wish to connect to, and connect. Update firmware: Use the GSatSolar app to manage firmware updates from GSE, and to assign those updates to your GSatSolar Series device. Manage configurations: Modify the reporting settings and data collection options available to your GSatSolar device, and sync those changes with your units. Quick ID: Use your camera to ID your GSatSolar Series device. Great for when there are dozens or hundreds of devices in range.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Plan Your Sail at 13.0 against GSatSolar's 17.6. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plan Your Sail | GSatSolar |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Craddock | Global Satellite Engineering, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Plan Your Sail
No in-app purchases
GSatSolar
No in-app purchases
