Comparison

Vol vs OutDare

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

Head to head
About

Vol

This app helps paragliders track their progress, analyze strengths and weaknesses, and manage equipment maintenance. It provides exercises to improve skills and a logbook to record experiences and important information.

Highlights
  • Mental analysis of strengths and weaknesses
  • Six levels of progressive exercises
  • Flight logbook for experiences and memories
  • Paragliding equipment maintenance tracking
  • Centralized document storage
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Cette application comporte différentes rubriques : - Le mental : Identifier, analyser tes forces et tes faiblesses pour tirer le meilleur parti de tes expériences de vol - Exercices : Six niveaux d'exercices qui doivent te permettre d'y voir plus clair dans ta progression - Carnet de vol : Page après page, des souvenirs, des expériences et des informations importantes pour progresser - Matériel : Note les dates importantes pour entretenir et renouveler ton matériel de parapente - Documents : Pour éviter de chercher, rassemble l'essentiel et garde accessibles tes documents

About

OutDare

This app provides real-time flyability forecasts for paragliding sites, personalized to your wind preferences. It also offers flight recording, social features to connect with other pilots, and safety tools like SOS alerts.

Highlights
  • Real-time flyability verdicts
  • Smart weather alerts
  • Flight recording with live vario
  • 3D flight replays
  • Live Gaggle tracking
  • Automatic SOS alerts
  • Offline site maps
Features
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OutDare is the all-in-one paragliding app: know when and where to fly, record every flight, and share the sky with your friends, from your phone to your watch. Stop refreshing weather apps. OutDare reads the forecast for every flying site near you and tells you exactly when it's flyable, based on YOUR wind range, gust tolerance and minimum flying time. A WHOLE NEW LOOK Light, glassy and calm, across the app and on the web app on laptops. KNOW WHEN TO FLY • Flyability verdicts, green / yellow / red for today and the next 10 days, tuned to each site's wind directions and your personal limits. • It shows its work, every verdict names the one thing holding it back, and whose limit that is: yours or the site's. • Smart alerts, get pinged when a saved site turns flyable. Choose the days, the hour and how far ahead. • Where to fly today, on the Today screen: the best flyable spot near you. • Flyable Nearby: a map with numbered pins and a day strip. Search any town on Earth, or by drive time from 30 min to 3 h with real road times. • Share your Flyable list with your crew as a link anyone can open, even without the app. • Travel mode: pick where you sleep, see drive times to each site, set exact trip dates and get trip alerts. RECORD & RELIVE • Flight recorder with a live vario, route guidance and screen-free spoken callouts. • Never lose a flight: forget to press record and OutDare still quietly captures it. Rides up to launch are not logged as flights, and a real takeoff is never cancelled. • Signed IGC tracks with one-tap upload to WeGlide, DHV-XC and Leonardo, or send to XContest. • 3D replay, every flight filmed like a drone over the real terrain; share it as a film. • Your flying passport, countries, launches, records and your flight history on your profile. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN OutDare widgets, redesigned: your favourite site's verdict at a glance, plus a "Where to fly" widget with the best spot near you. ON YOUR WATCH Apple Watch and Wear OS: start and stop recording from your wrist, with a glanceable cockpit and a haptic vario you can feel. FLY TOGETHER • Live pilots worldwide, watch paragliders flying right now across the map (OutDare + the Open Glider Network), and share a live link anyone can open in a browser. • See who's at a launch and who's in the air, written in plain words on the map. • Groups, bring your club or school together with live chat, photos and pinned announcements. FLY SAFER • Automatic SOS, after a hard landing, OutDare can alert your emergency contacts and nearby pilots with your exact location, with a countdown to cancel false alarms. • Airspace and obstacle layers on your live and replay maps, with real height-above-ground. EVERY SITE, IN DEPTH • 14,000 community-curated sites across 135 countries and territories, bundled offline, so the map loads instantly. • Live wind stations near each site (OpenWindMap, METAR, MeteoSwiss, Holfuy and more). • Foldable sections, starred webcams per spot, pilot reports, community photos tagged takeoff, landing, access or caution, star reviews and landing zones. • Add missing sites and suggest corrections, confirmed by the community. YOUR AI WINGMAN • Ask OutDare, an assistant that knows your sites and pulls real forecasts. Ask "where can I fly this weekend?" MAKE IT YOURS Per-site and per-wing wind ranges, your units, your wing setup. 7 languages, favourites, logbook and settings backed up to your account. SUPPORT OUTDARE Optional: leave a tip or become a monthly supporter and get a heart badge. Nothing is locked, the app stays free. Built by pilots, for pilots. Note: OutDare provides forecast and informational guidance only. Always check live conditions on-site and use your own judgement before flying. The pilot is responsible for all flight decisions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Vol4 screens
OutDare4 screens

Verdict

The call

Vol and OutDare are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Vol versus OutDare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVolOutDare
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—11 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB122 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaeva GiacomettiOut Dare

Customer experience

Vol

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

OutDare

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Vol

No in-app purchases

None

OutDare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vol free?
Vol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OutDare free?
OutDare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vol or OutDare have ads?
Neither Vol nor OutDare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vol or OutDare?
Vol ships an update weekly, and OutDare weekly. Most recently, Vol was updated on November 4, 2026 and OutDare on October 31, 2026.

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