Comparison

Dinghy Sailing vs Tacktiq

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

Head to head
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.

About

Tacktiq

Analyze your sailing performance with detailed data on speed, VMG, and maneuvers. Build custom boat polars and receive AI-driven coaching to improve your racing strategy and execution. Track your progress over time and optimize your sails.

Highlights
  • Unlimited session recording
  • Speed and VMG analysis against polars
  • Customizable boat polars
  • Automatic tack and gybe analysis
  • Start line timer and Smart Start Line
  • AI Sailing Coach (Pro)
  • Progress tracking and cloud sync (Pro)
Features
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Tacktiq turns every sail into data you can actually use. Record your session, see exactly where you gained and lost speed, and come back faster next time — whether you're club racing, training, or chasing a personal best. Built for keelboats and dinghies, Tacktiq reads your GPS track and boat motion to show the numbers that win races: boat speed, VMG, percentage of polar, tack and gybe quality, heel and trim, and how the wind and current moved you around the course. • RECORD EVERY SAIL Unlimited session recording on every tier — free, forever. Start from your phone or Apple Watch and Tacktiq logs your full track, speed, heading and heel, even with the screen locked. • SPEED AND VMG See your boat speed and VMG against your polar targets, broken down by leg and point of sail. Instantly spot the angles where there's more speed to find. • POLARS FOR YOUR BOAT Build a polar for each boat, import one, or let Tacktiq learn your real numbers from the sessions you sail — so every comparison is tuned to your boat, not a generic curve. • TACK AND GYBE ANALYSIS Automatic maneuver detection grades every tack and gybe on how much speed you kept through the turn — the thing that actually costs you places — plus recovery time, so you know exactly which maneuvers to drill. • START LINE TIMER A proper racing countdown (5-4-1-0, 3-2-1-0, 2-1-0 or custom) with spoken and horn callouts at every signal. Tap once to sync to the committee's gun. Pro adds a Smart Start Line: ping each end to get the favored end and line bias, your distance to the line, and time-to-burn so you hit the line at full speed right on the gun. • APPLE WATCH Start and control sessions from your wrist, watch live speed, VMG and timing, and feel the whole start sequence through haptics — with the countdown and metrics mirrored live between phone and watch. • WIND, CURRENT AND TIDE Enter the wind yourself or let Tacktiq pull it automatically. Pro layers in marine data — waves and modeled ocean current — and draws a drift diagram showing how the tide set you off your ground track. • RACE ANALYSIS A wind-shift timeline with your tacks marked, so you can see whether you tacked on the headers or gave away the lift — plus laylines, start-line bias, and upwind/downwind point-of-sail breakdowns. • AI SAILING COACH (PRO) Ask the Session Analyst about any sail and get specific, on-the-water advice built from your own data and conditions — like a coach who reviewed every second of your track and told you exactly what to work on. • TRACK YOUR PROGRESS (PRO) Cloud sync and backup across devices, session compare, full-track replay, venue heatmaps, and progression-by-condition — so you can watch yourself get faster in each wind band across a whole season. • FREE VS PRO Recording is always unlimited and free — capture as many sessions as you like and review your speed, VMG, tacks and gybes on every one. Tacktiq Pro unlocks cloud sync and backup, the AI coach, marine wind/wave/current data, the Smart Start Line, and the full analytics suite (progression, heatmaps, session compare, best-in-condition comparison, and more). • WHO IT'S FOR Racers fighting for the podium, sailors learning to trim faster, and coaches and crews who want objective feedback instead of guesswork — on any boat, at any venue. Whether you're figuring out why you're slow upwind or shaving seconds off your starts, Tacktiq gives you the feedback loop the fast sailors have: sail, measure, adjust, repeat. Download Tacktiq and start turning water time into boat speed. Privacy Policy: https://tacktiq.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://tacktiq.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Dinghy Sailing4 screens
Tacktiq4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dinghy Sailing at none against Tacktiq's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tacktiq sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Dinghy Sailing asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dinghy Sailing against 5.0 for Tacktiq. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dinghy Sailing versus Tacktiq: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDinghy SailingTacktiq
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGordon AspinGYBE DIGITAL LLC

Customer experience

Dinghy Sailing

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tacktiq

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dinghy Sailing

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tacktiq

Subscriptions2
  • Tacktiq - Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Tacktiq - Annual$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Dinghy Sailing free?
Dinghy Sailing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tacktiq free?
Tacktiq is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dinghy Sailing or Tacktiq?
Dinghy Sailing and Tacktiq are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Dinghy Sailing or Tacktiq have ads?
Neither Dinghy Sailing nor Tacktiq shows ads.

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