XFoil vs Dinghy Sailing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XFoil
Connect to your electric hydrofoil board to customize settings like motor power and throttle curves. Access training videos, manuals, and customer support resources. Tune your ride for optimal performance and safety.
- Bluetooth LE board connection
- User setting customization
- Motor power adjustment
- Throttle curve tuning
- Safety feature configuration
- Training video library
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XFoil App connects to the XFoil Hydrofoil board via Bluetooth LE interface. This app allows you to customize and tune your user settings by adjusting the displayed user name on the remote control, set maximum delivered motor power, throttle curves, safety features and more. The app also includes a library of training and tutorial videos, online store links, manuals, and information where to obtain customer support.
Dinghy Sailing
This app provides sailing navigation instruments, replacing expensive digital equipment. Mount your device to your vessel to display up to eight instruments, including race timers and flags. Customize your display by enabling, disabling, and rearranging instruments.
- Replaces expensive digital instruments
- Displays up to eight instruments
- Race timer functionality
- Flag display
- Customizable instrument layout
- Vertical device mounting
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Dinghy Sailing is a useful tool for sailors. It can replace expensive digital instruments. Mount your iPad or iPhone to your vessel in a vertical position (either landscape or portrait). Dinghy Sailing displays up to eight instruments. Use the tabs to select the race timer, flags and instrument editor. You can enable/disable each instrument and drag to rearrange the order of the instruments on display.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dinghy Sailing at 5.0 against XFoil's 2.3. Dinghy Sailing also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). XFoil's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Dinghy Sailing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
XFoil ships an update every 6 weeks, Dinghy Sailing every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XFoil | Dinghy Sailing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PLX Devices, INC. | Gordon Aspin |
Customer experience
XFoil
Dinghy Sailing
In-app purchases
XFoil
No in-app purchases
Dinghy Sailing
No in-app purchases
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