Comparison

Escape Alcatraz Tri vs WindWaterSail Forecast

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

Head to head
About

Escape Alcatraz Tri

Track participants in real-time during the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. Get live updates on times, paces, and places, with interactive course maps and push notifications for progress. Share your experience and stay informed with event details.

Highlights
  • Real-time participant tracking
  • Live course map
  • Multiple participant tracking
  • Push notifications
  • Event information
  • Social sharing
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The Sokin Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon App will provide you with all the information you need throughout your weekend in San Francisco! Highlights: - Participant times, paces, estimates, and places in real-time - Interactive course map & live map tracking - Easy tracking of multiple participants at the same time - Push notifications as progress is made on course - Event info and messaging - Social sharing & notifications

About

WindWaterSail Forecast

This app provides detailed wind and water condition forecasts for water sports enthusiasts. It synchronizes tide, current, and wind data on a single timeline, helping users identify optimal conditions for activities like sailing and foiling. Users can set custom alerts for ideal wind strengths and receive notifications up to three days in advance.

Highlights
  • Synchronized wind, tide, and current data
  • Forecast grid with wind and gusts
  • High/low water, max flood/ebb, and slack times
  • Day, week, and multi-day views
  • Coastal Waters Forecast with advisories
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Customizable conditions alerts
Features
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WindCurrents shows you the two things that decide a day on the water — what the water is doing and what the wind is doing — on one screen, on one time axis. Pick a launch site or any NOAA station and you get the tide or current curve with wind stacked directly beneath it, sharing a single cursor. Drag across the chart and both readings move together, so a max ebb sits right above the breeze that will be blowing against it. WHAT YOU GET - Tide and current charts from NOAA CO-OPS, the same predictions the agency publishes. Night is shaded, flood fills above the zero line, ebb below, and arrows show which way the water actually sets. - Wind on the same axis, colored by strength, plus a forecast grid showing wind and gusts through the day. - High and low water, max flood, max ebb and slack, with the phase you are currently looking at marked. - Day, week and multi-day views — jump to today, the coming weekend, or any date. - The National Weather Service Coastal Waters Forecast for the marine zone nearest you, with any small craft advisory brought to the top. - Sunrise and sunset, so you can see whether a good window lands in daylight. CONDITIONS ALERTS For wind sports, WindCurrents scores every half hour of the forecast and tells you when it is worth going out — and, just as usefully, when it is not. Windows are graded by the gear they suit, because 13 knots is a good day on a foil and a wasted trip on a small sail. Set the lightest wind you will bother with and nothing below it gets flagged. Optional notifications give you up to three days' warning. Crissy Field in San Francisco is scored against published local guidance — slack going into the ebb, the wind sector that works, and the flood-plus-southwest combination that makes it hard to get back to the beach. Everywhere else uses general wind-sport criteria, and the app tells you which it used. COVERAGE Anywhere NOAA publishes predictions: roughly 3,500 tide stations and 4,400 current stations across the United States. Ninety-three launch sites ship with the app across nineteen regions, and you can plan from any station whether or not a launch site is listed. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There is no sign-up, no analytics and no advertising. Nothing you do in the app is sent anywhere. Your location, if you allow it, is used only to draw your position on the map and is never transmitted. Free, with no subscription and nothing to unlock. IMPORTANT Tide and current predictions are astronomical only. They take no account of wind, river runoff or barometric pressure, all of which move real water. Conditions scoring is a planning aid, not a forecast and not a safety verdict. Check conditions yourself before you launch. Data from NOAA CO-OPS, the National Weather Service and Open-Meteo. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of them.

Screenshots

Escape Alcatraz Tri4 screens
WindWaterSail Forecast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Escape Alcatraz Tri at Free against WindWaterSail Forecast's $9.99. Escape Alcatraz Tri also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). WindWaterSail Forecast's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 13 months). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Escape Alcatraz Tri is free to download; WindWaterSail Forecast costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Escape Alcatraz Tri against 5.0 for WindWaterSail Forecast. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Alcatraz Tri has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Alcatraz Tri ships an update every 13 months, WindWaterSail Forecast every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Escape Alcatraz Tri versus WindWaterSail Forecast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape Alcatraz TriWindWaterSail Forecast
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (74 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings74 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDilltree IncNils Albertsen

In-app purchases

None

Escape Alcatraz Tri

No in-app purchases

None

WindWaterSail Forecast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escape Alcatraz Tri free?
Escape Alcatraz Tri is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WindWaterSail Forecast free?
WindWaterSail Forecast costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Escape Alcatraz Tri or WindWaterSail Forecast?
WindWaterSail Forecast is rated higher. Escape Alcatraz Tri averages 5.0 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while WindWaterSail Forecast averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Escape Alcatraz Tri or WindWaterSail Forecast have ads?
Neither Escape Alcatraz Tri nor WindWaterSail Forecast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Escape Alcatraz Tri or WindWaterSail Forecast?
Escape Alcatraz Tri ships an update every 13 months, and WindWaterSail Forecast every 9 days. Most recently, Escape Alcatraz Tri was updated on November 9, 2026 and WindWaterSail Forecast on November 6, 2026.

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