Comparison

Regatta Manager vs Dinghy Sailing

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

Head to head
About

Regatta Manager

Features
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Regatta Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use race management solution designed specifically for sailing clubs to streamline all aspects of regatta management.  Regatta Manager scoring is fully RRS 2025-2028 compliant and approved by US Sailing. Here’s what it brings to your fingertips: • Design Race Courses: Visually plan courses on a map, drag and drop gates and marks, assign details like leave side, coordinates, pictures, and notes. Use Olympic and standard course template do dynamically configure courses and easily orient them to the wind direction. Use AR buoy finder mode to check buoy position, direction and distances. • Manage Fleets with Ease: Assign boats to classes, classes to divisions, and divisions to different rating systems (PHRF, ORC, IRC, ORR, ORR-Ez) both ToT and ToD. • Fully integrated ORC support: Just tap on the Download button to download all boats certificates and tap on the Assign button in Race/Rate view to assign to all ORC boats a coherent ORC rating index from the certificates such as one of the 5 band ratings or anything else supported by ORC. • Organize Races Efficiently: Pick courses, assign handicaps based on conditions, set starts and finishes, manage penalties, and review scoring—all within the app. • Visualize Key Data: See boats’ live positions, wind, and tide forecasts directly on the map. • Comprehensive and RRS compliant Scoring: Manage a full regatta series, automate scoring, and instantly publish live results to the web. • Simple Data Management: Import/export boat and race data and streamline web-based self-registration for competitors. • Live Mode: Manage your regatta in realtime from the committee boat with Starting Sequence countdown and flags indication, OCS Recording, Finish Recording, Abandon, Postpone and Recall flags, boat tracking through AIS Regatta Manager is an all-in-one, end-to-end race management solution designed to make your club’s regattas more organized, accessible, and enjoyable for organizers and sailors alike. Regatta Manager is a free and fully functional app and we're committed to keep the app totally free for Beer Can style regattas. The cloud infrastructure services that we offer anyway have their own infrastructure costs and we need to require a monthly or year subscription fee for advanced cloud functionalities and for allowing clubs to support unlimited number of Regattas and Races. Regatta Manager Service subscription support the following features: - Manage unlimited number of Regattas - Manage unlimited number of Races - Make all Regatta info visible on Cloud - Allows users to directly register on Cloud - Sync/Download from Cloud - Export/Import Regattas Standard Terms of Use (EULA) are applied and available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Replaces expensive digital instruments
  • Displays up to eight instruments
  • Race timer functionality
  • Flag display
  • Customizable instrument layout
  • Vertical device mounting
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Regatta Manager4 screens
Dinghy Sailing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dinghy Sailing at none against Regatta Manager's 2. Regatta Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Regatta Manager sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Dinghy Sailing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Regatta Manager ships an update every 3 days, Dinghy Sailing every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Regatta Manager versus Dinghy Sailing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRegatta ManagerDinghy Sailing
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPolar Sailing LLCGordon Aspin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Regatta Manager

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Year Subscription$99.991 Year
None

Dinghy Sailing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Regatta Manager free?
Regatta Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dinghy Sailing free?
Dinghy Sailing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Regatta Manager or Dinghy Sailing have ads?
Neither Regatta Manager nor Dinghy Sailing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Regatta Manager or Dinghy Sailing?
Regatta Manager ships an update every 3 days, and Dinghy Sailing every 9 days. Most recently, Regatta Manager was updated on October 27, 2026 and Dinghy Sailing on October 25, 2026.

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