Comparison

Sail Tactician vs PadelMob

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

Head to head
About

Sail Tactician

This app transforms your Apple Watch and iPhone into advanced sailing instruments. It provides live data, records every sail, and offers post-sail analysis to help you improve your performance on the water.

Highlights
  • Live sailing instruments on watch and phone
  • Records every sail with track and speed
  • Post-sail analysis and replay
  • Race start countdown and mark pinning
  • Customizable boat profiles
  • Coached workouts for sailing maneuvers
Features
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Whether you race every weekend or sail for the joy of it, Sail Tactician turns your Apple Watch and iPhone into sailing instruments: live numbers on the water, every sail recorded, and a clear look afterwards at what went well and where to find speed. INSTRUMENTS ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR PHONE Speed, heading, course and distance at a glance, sized to read on a moving boat. A live compass with your no-sail zone drawn from your own boat's angles. The app tracks the wind as you sail and tells you when you're lifted or headed. Build your own screens, full-width stacks or grids up to 8-up. Sail with the watch alone, the phone alone, or mount the phone and run it from the watch. EVERY SAIL RECORDED Press Start and the whole outing is saved: your track, speed, heading and heart rate, with heel and trim when the phone is mounted. Black Box shows nothing but the clock and still records in full. Every session is kept on every tier. SEE HOW IT WENT Every sail lands on a map, colored by speed. Replay it, see your speed over time, a polar diagram of how fast you sail at each angle, port vs starboard, upwind vs downwind, and every tack and gybe timed. The Coach shows what went well and where you lost time, one finding at a time. Trim or clip a session; the original is never touched. The watch shows the same analysis cards. FOR RACERS Start strong: ping the pin and committee boat for distance to line, time to line, time to burn and the favored end. The countdown speaks every minute from ten and every second from 30, with a long tone at the gun. On the course, VMG with a target heading and tack and gybe calls. Pin each mark with one press as you round it, on the watch, the Ultra's Action button or the phone, and the app works out the course after the race. Lock a screen to stay class-compliant. Share a race with the sailors you raced against and compare boat-on-boat on iPhone. FOR DAY SAILS AND CRUISES Choose Cruise and just press Start: no countdown, no line. See sunset, the forecast, and GPS and battery readiness before you leave, and your distance, top speed and season totals when you're back. TRAIN WITH A COACH Pick a workout and the coach calls it a word at a time (TACK, GOOD, HEAD UP), spoken from the watch or the phone, with a tap on the wrist. It counts your reps and scores each one against your own usual turn. Tap any drill to learn the maneuver. Eleven presets or your own. Training is marked beta. KNOW YOUR BOAT Over fifty classes built in, including ILCA 7 (Laser), Optimist, Melges 24, J/70, Etchells, MC Scow and Nacra 17, each with its own upwind and downwind angles, or define your own. Save your boats with sail number, hull length and rigging notes. Mounted, the phone reads live heel and trim. FREE TO SAIL, PRO TO GO DEEPER Free to download and sail with: countdown timer, cruise mode, Black Box, compass, live speed and heading, pinning marks, your first five recorded sessions and five imported races with full analysis, tacking drills, and import and export. Pro is one subscription, monthly or yearly, unlocking start-line tactics, VMG and wind shifts, every drill, race sharing and comparison, and your full history. FOLLOWS YOU EVERYWHERE Sessions sync privately between your devices over iCloud. Sign in with Apple is optional. Speeds in knots, MPH or km/h; distances in nautical miles, miles or kilometers. Export STX, GPX, CSV, KML or TCX. Import STX, and in beta FIT, GPX, CSV, TCX, Vakaros VKX and NMEA 0183. Capsize and knockdown detection requires the iPhone mounted to the boat. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PadelMob

Features
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The club-agnostic, social padel app. Track matches, verify scores, see your stats — wherever you play, whoever you play with. Over 80% of padel matches played in the UK never get recorded. If you're not booking through Playtomic, your results don't exist. No match history. No stats. No proof you played. PadelMob changes that. Log your padel matches at any venue — private clubs, sports centres, lead booker courts, anywhere — and your mates verify the score. That's a real result. TRACK YOUR PADEL MATCHES Record sets and scores in seconds. Build a complete match history that doesn't disappear into a WhatsApp thread. Every match, every venue, every partner — all in one place. SEE YOUR PADEL STATS Win rate by partner. Head-to-head records. Performance over time. All tracked automatically from verified padel matches. Know who you actually play best with. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Add mates with a simple friend code. Invite players to matches so everyone's on the same page. See what your circle is playing. VERIFIED BY THE PEOPLE YOU PLAYED WITH When two or more players confirm the score, the match is verified. No self-reported stats. Real padel matches, confirmed by real people. WORKS ANYWHERE YOU PLAY Not tied to Playtomic or any booking system. Private club with no app? Sorted. Lead booker court? Sorted. PadelMob works wherever you play padel — because your matches should count regardless of where the court is. WHAT PADELMOB DOES - Record padel match scores quickly - Track win rate, match history, and partner stats - Add friends and build your padel network - Verify results with the people you played with - See your progress over time WHAT PADELMOB DOESN'T DO Court bookings. This is a padel match tracker and social platform for players, not a venue management tool. Free. No ads. Built by a padel player. Got feedback? We're building this with real players and shipping improvements fast.

Screenshots

Sail Tactician4 screens
PadelMob4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PadelMob at none against Sail Tactician's 2. PadelMob also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sail Tactician sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PadelMob asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sail Tactician ships an update weekly, PadelMob every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Sail Tactician versus PadelMob: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSail TacticianPadelMob
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGraham HutchinsonMichael Sinnott

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sail Tactician

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$4.991 Month
  • Sail Tactician Pro$29.991 Year
None

PadelMob

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sail Tactician free?
Sail Tactician is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PadelMob free?
PadelMob is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sail Tactician or PadelMob have ads?
Neither Sail Tactician nor PadelMob shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sail Tactician or PadelMob?
Sail Tactician ships an update weekly, and PadelMob every 5 days. Most recently, Sail Tactician was updated on October 30, 2026 and PadelMob on October 30, 2026.

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