Regatta Manager vs SailRaceAdmin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Regatta Manager
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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/
SailRaceAdmin
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SailRaceAdmin (SRA) grew out of necessity. Gone are manual timing and writing results on paper, and manually entering them into a scoring program, instead this app automates the whole process of timing and scoring and requires only that you press a button when a boat crosses the finish line. It also integrates the Ollie Box functionality which operates for 1 or 2 division, 3 and 5 minute starts. It also includes a “Drift Detector” which alerts you to issues with the committee boat anchoring before it’s too late. As of the latest release and in conjunction with SraBuddy it provides for the quick and accurate set up of the course itself. Finally it emails the race results to a club scorer who can directly read the results into SailWave and similar scoring back ends. For complete details see the app website https://sailingapps.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sailingapps.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Regatta Manager at every 3 days against SailRaceAdmin's every 2 months. SailRaceAdmin's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Regatta Manager sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and SailRaceAdmin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Regatta Manager ships an update every 3 days, SailRaceAdmin every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Regatta Manager | SailRaceAdmin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Polar Sailing LLC | Jeff Robinson |
In-app purchases
Regatta Manager
- Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Year Subscription$99.991 Year
SailRaceAdmin
- Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Annual14 Days trial$119.991 Year
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