Dinghy Sailing vs SailTrace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Replaces expensive digital instruments
- Displays up to eight instruments
- Race timer functionality
- Flag display
- Customizable instrument layout
- Vertical device mounting
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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.
SailTrace
This app uses GPS to precisely track sailing races, offering detailed analytics on speed, maneuvers, and wind conditions. Review race replays, compare your performance with other boats, and identify areas for tactical improvement.
- Hyper-accurate GPS tracking
- Race replays and analysis
- Fleet performance comparison
- Speed analytics maps
- Automatic maneuver detection
- Wind data integration
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SailTrace records your sailing races on your iPhone so you can replay what happened, review your stats, and compare with other boats. Start recording before the race, put your phone away, and go sailing. Stop recording when you’re done. Your replay and stats will appear automatically. Recording is available on iPhone. You can also review your races on the web. RECORD AND REPLAY FOR FREE Record your sail with your iPhone. Replay where you sailed and review your speed and distance. COMPARE WITH OTHER BOATS USING PRO Replay your race alongside the other boats that recorded. Compare your starts, speed, and distance sailed. Follow the routes each boat took and see where your gained and lost on the fleet. PRO FOR YOUR GROUP Clubs, teams, fleets, and event organizers can sponsor Pro for their sailors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Dinghy Sailing at free against SailTrace's ad-supported. Dinghy Sailing also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). SailTrace's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dinghy Sailing against 5.0 for SailTrace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Dinghy Sailing ships an update every 9 days, SailTrace every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinghy Sailing | SailTrace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gordon Aspin | FirstByte |
Customer experience
Dinghy Sailing
SailTrace
In-app purchases
Dinghy Sailing
No in-app purchases
SailTrace
No in-app purchases
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