Comparison

TrackNautic vs SailViewer

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

Head to head
About

TrackNautic

Features
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TrackNautic is the app for the way you sail. Cruising, racing, dinghy or board: tell it what you're sailing today and it shows only what you need. Record your outings, make better calls on the water and share every mile with the people you sail with. MADE FOR YOUR KIND OF SAILING • Cruising: an anchor alarm that watches for dragging, a target with course, distance and arrival time, marinas and tides. • Racing: a tactical panel with laylines, your boat's polars and tack calls, a start line with distance and time to the line, and the race live for anyone watching from shore. • Dinghy: tactics, speed peaks and club sessions, with a ranking of who was fastest. • Board (windsurf, kite, wing): big speed numbers and live 2, 5 and 10-second peaks. NUMBERS YOU CAN READ IN THE SUN Speed, heading, target and whatever your mode needs, in big numbers you can read in sunshine, through spray and with gloves on. One tap and you're recording. And if you like, voice navigation calls out the numbers. A SAILOR'S CHART Marks and buoys, marinas, weather stations with their live wind and your track on the chart. Set a target or a waypoint and sail to it. RELIVE EVERY OUTING Your outings saved with the track coloured by speed, moving time, average, peaks and manoeuvres. Replay them like a film, share them with your crew or publish them in Sailings. And whenever you like, create a card or a video for social media. THE WIND, BEFORE YOU HEAD TO THE MARINA Your favourite stations with the current wind as soon as you open the app, nearby stations in one tap, and seven-day forecasts and tides. SAILING IS BETTER TOGETHER • Feed: the outings of the people you follow, with their track and numbers. • Live session: share your position with a link and compete in the session ranking. • Meetups: pick a spot, a day and a time, and let people join. When it starts, everyone is in the same session. • Crew: find a boat to crew on, or crew for your boat. • Rankings by discipline and your personal records. YOUR CLUB AND YOUR REGATTAS Find your club and ask to join: its station with the current wind, its regattas and meetups in your calendar, and the members who are on the water. Enter regattas and follow the results. EVERYTHING YOURS, IN ORDER Your boats and boards with their details, your records and achievements, your calendar of renewals and your sailor card with a QR code so others can follow you. APPLE WATCH Record from your wrist with speed, heading and peaks on the watch face, join a live session, and the outing reaches the app on its own. NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM Recording works without coverage and your outing syncs when you're back online. START IN A MINUTE Three questions and you're sailing: how you sail, what you sail and what you want to do today. Free. Recording your outings, the community, meetups and regattas cost nothing. Some advanced features, such as live records and peaks or the anchor alarm, are Premium. TrackNautic does not replace instruments or official nautical charts: always sail with care. Viento · Mar · Vela.

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SailViewer

Features
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SailViewer turns sailing GPS and instrument logs into an interactive debrief on iPhone and iPad. Import a supported sailing file, choose the logs you want to open, and explore the race from several angles: • Track views with boats, courses, selections, and optional map backgrounds • Tables and graphs for comparing selected values • Polar analysis for speed and angle relationships • Start, Race, Boat, and Maneuvers views when supported by the data • Local image sharing from supported analysis windows SailViewer includes synthetic sample logs. Samples start closed, so you decide when to open them. You can import SW2, SLV, GPX, KML, NMEA, VTK, FIT, VKX, supported CSV sources, and supported ZIP archives. Your imported sailing files stay on your device unless you explicitly share them. Ordinary iPhones, including large iPhones, have permanently free local access and do not require weekly license checks. All iPads, including iPad mini, and this iPad app running on an Apple-silicon Mac are free through 31 December 2026. These devices require an internet connection for initial activation and at least once every seven days. Free access ends on 1 January 2027 at 00:00 UTC, when a paid subscription will be required. Purchasing will require a future app update; this release cannot take payments. There is no automatic charge. If access expires, your local library is retained. Optional error reports and usage summaries are off by default. Support reports are sent only when you choose to send them, and original sailing logs are not attached automatically. This is the new SailViewer app and is separate from the legacy SailViewer/TruSailViewer product. Automatic transfer from the legacy app is not promised; keep your original files and import supported formats into this app.

Screenshots

TrackNautic4 screens
SailViewer3 screens

Verdict

The call

TrackNautic and SailViewer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TrackNautic versus SailViewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackNauticSailViewer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB28 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGlobunet Soluciones Tecnologicas SLMaster Sailing jdoo

In-app purchases

None

TrackNautic

No in-app purchases

None

SailViewer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrackNautic free?
TrackNautic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SailViewer free?
SailViewer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrackNautic or SailViewer have ads?
Neither TrackNautic nor SailViewer shows ads.

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