SailingWatch vs Tacktiq

SailingWatch is the race companion for sailors — a precise start sequence, a real start line, live tactics, and your whole session on a map. Built for dinghies, keelboats and yachts, on iPhone and Apple Watch. THE START, NAILED EVERY TIME • A big, readable countdown with a sweep ring that drains as the gun approaches. • Sync to the committee boat in one tap, or fine-tune with −1 / +1 minute. • The final minute turns red so you always know how long you have. • Start, pause and resume right from the cockpit. A REAL START LINE • Ping the pin and the committee-boat ends to set the line. • See the line bias and your live distance to the line. • Time your approach instead of guessing. LIVE TACTICS • Capture your port and starboard tack angles. • A compass and layline call tell you if you're lifted, headed, or on the groove. • Make the smart call on when to tack. WIND AT A GLANCE • A 6-hour wind forecast strip for your exact location — speed, direction and gusts. • Know what's coming before you leave the dock. EVERY SESSION, ON A MAP • Automatic GPS recording while you sail — speed, heading and full track. • Review past sessions grouped by month. • Replay any track on the map with distance, duration and top speed. SHARE YOUR SAIL • Export a standard GPX file. • Create a video animation of your track to share. • Send your sessions straight to Strava. ON YOUR WRIST • The Apple Watch app puts the timer, start line and live data on your wrist — sail with your phone in your pocket. MADE YOURS • Save your boat profile — class, sail number, polar and hull length. • Choose your units for distance, speed and temperature. • A clean, high-contrast black-and-blue design that stays readable in bright sun. Whether you're lining up for the gun on a club Wednesday or training for the season, SailingWatch keeps the start, the line and the tactics one glance away. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Tacktiq turns every sail into data you can actually use. Record your session, see exactly where you gained and lost speed, and come back faster next time — whether you're club racing, training, or chasing a personal best. Built for keelboats and dinghies, Tacktiq reads your GPS track and boat motion to show the numbers that win races: boat speed, VMG, percentage of polar, tack and gybe quality, heel and trim, and how the wind and current moved you around the course. • RECORD EVERY SAIL Unlimited session recording on every tier — free, forever. Start from your phone or Apple Watch and Tacktiq logs your full track, speed, heading and heel, even with the screen locked. • SPEED AND VMG See your boat speed and VMG against your polar targets, broken down by leg and point of sail. Instantly spot the angles where there's more speed to find. • POLARS FOR YOUR BOAT Build a polar for each boat, import one, or let Tacktiq learn your real numbers from the sessions you sail — so every comparison is tuned to your boat, not a generic curve. • TACK AND GYBE ANALYSIS Automatic maneuver detection grades every tack and gybe on how much speed you kept through the turn — the thing that actually costs you places — plus recovery time, so you know exactly which maneuvers to drill. • START LINE TIMER A proper racing countdown (5-4-1-0, 3-2-1-0, 2-1-0 or custom) with spoken and horn callouts at every signal. Tap once to sync to the committee's gun. Pro adds a Smart Start Line: ping each end to get the favored end and line bias, your distance to the line, and time-to-burn so you hit the line at full speed right on the gun. • APPLE WATCH Start and control sessions from your wrist, watch live speed, VMG and timing, and feel the whole start sequence through haptics — with the countdown and metrics mirrored live between phone and watch. • WIND, CURRENT AND TIDE Enter the wind yourself or let Tacktiq pull it automatically. Pro layers in marine data — waves and modeled ocean current — and draws a drift diagram showing how the tide set you off your ground track. • RACE ANALYSIS A wind-shift timeline with your tacks marked, so you can see whether you tacked on the headers or gave away the lift — plus laylines, start-line bias, and upwind/downwind point-of-sail breakdowns. • AI SAILING COACH (PRO) Ask the Session Analyst about any sail and get specific, on-the-water advice built from your own data and conditions — like a coach who reviewed every second of your track and told you exactly what to work on. • TRACK YOUR PROGRESS (PRO) Cloud sync and backup across devices, session compare, full-track replay, venue heatmaps, and progression-by-condition — so you can watch yourself get faster in each wind band across a whole season. • FREE VS PRO Recording is always unlimited and free — capture as many sessions as you like and review your speed, VMG, tacks and gybes on every one. Tacktiq Pro unlocks cloud sync and backup, the AI coach, marine wind/wave/current data, the Smart Start Line, and the full analytics suite (progression, heatmaps, session compare, best-in-condition comparison, and more). • WHO IT'S FOR Racers fighting for the podium, sailors learning to trim faster, and coaches and crews who want objective feedback instead of guesswork — on any boat, at any venue. Whether you're figuring out why you're slow upwind or shaving seconds off your starts, Tacktiq gives you the feedback loop the fast sailors have: sail, measure, adjust, repeat. Download Tacktiq and start turning water time into boat speed. Privacy Policy: https://tacktiq.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://tacktiq.com/terms.html