Dinghy Sailing vs TackTracker Sailing
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.
TackTracker Sailing
This app helps sailors improve their racing performance by tracking GPS data, speed, and heading in real-time. It provides post-race analysis to compare performance against the fleet and identify areas for improvement.
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Speed and heading data
- Fleet comparison
- Course review
- Race management for committees
- Boat registration
- Performance analysis
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Run better races. Sail faster. Know why. TackTracker is the race management platform built for the way you actually race — from casual Wednesday night beer cans to competitive weekend regattas. For Race Committees Create a race in minutes. Share a join code and watch registrations roll in. TackTracker manages your countdown sequence, tracks the fleet from the committee boat, and logs every finish — no VHF chaos, no spreadsheets. When you're ready to restart the series, carry your fleet over with one tap. For Racers Find races near you, register your boat, and get on the water. TackTracker tracks your GPS trail, speed, and heading in real time so you know exactly how you sailed — not just where you finished. After the Race The real edge is in the data. Compare your elapsed time against the fleet, review your track against the course, and identify the legs that made or cost you places. Race after race, the picture gets clearer. Stop guessing. Start improving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: TackTracker Sailing at 4 against Dinghy Sailing's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 TackTracker Sailing. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Dinghy Sailing ships an update every 9 days, TackTracker Sailing weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinghy Sailing | TackTracker Sailing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gordon Aspin | Edward Hulseman |
Customer experience
Dinghy Sailing
TackTracker Sailing
In-app purchases
Dinghy Sailing
No in-app purchases
TackTracker Sailing
No in-app purchases
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