OutDare vs Canopy Flight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OutDare
This app provides real-time flyability forecasts for paragliding sites, personalized to your wind preferences. It also offers flight recording, social features to connect with other pilots, and safety tools like SOS alerts.
- Real-time flyability verdicts
- Smart weather alerts
- Flight recording with live vario
- 3D flight replays
- Live Gaggle tracking
- Automatic SOS alerts
- Offline site maps
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OutDare is the all-in-one paragliding app: know when and where to fly, record every flight, and share the sky with your friends, from your phone to your watch. Stop refreshing weather apps. OutDare reads the forecast for every flying site near you and tells you exactly when it's flyable, based on YOUR wind range, gust tolerance and minimum flying time. A WHOLE NEW LOOK Light, glassy and calm, across the app and on the web app on laptops. KNOW WHEN TO FLY • Flyability verdicts, green / yellow / red for today and the next 10 days, tuned to each site's wind directions and your personal limits. • It shows its work, every verdict names the one thing holding it back, and whose limit that is: yours or the site's. • Smart alerts, get pinged when a saved site turns flyable. Choose the days, the hour and how far ahead. • Where to fly today, on the Today screen: the best flyable spot near you. • Flyable Nearby: a map with numbered pins and a day strip. Search any town on Earth, or by drive time from 30 min to 3 h with real road times. • Share your Flyable list with your crew as a link anyone can open, even without the app. • Travel mode: pick where you sleep, see drive times to each site, set exact trip dates and get trip alerts. RECORD & RELIVE • Flight recorder with a live vario, route guidance and screen-free spoken callouts. • Never lose a flight: forget to press record and OutDare still quietly captures it. Rides up to launch are not logged as flights, and a real takeoff is never cancelled. • Signed IGC tracks with one-tap upload to WeGlide, DHV-XC and Leonardo, or send to XContest. • 3D replay, every flight filmed like a drone over the real terrain; share it as a film. • Your flying passport, countries, launches, records and your flight history on your profile. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN OutDare widgets, redesigned: your favourite site's verdict at a glance, plus a "Where to fly" widget with the best spot near you. ON YOUR WATCH Apple Watch and Wear OS: start and stop recording from your wrist, with a glanceable cockpit and a haptic vario you can feel. FLY TOGETHER • Live pilots worldwide, watch paragliders flying right now across the map (OutDare + the Open Glider Network), and share a live link anyone can open in a browser. • See who's at a launch and who's in the air, written in plain words on the map. • Groups, bring your club or school together with live chat, photos and pinned announcements. FLY SAFER • Automatic SOS, after a hard landing, OutDare can alert your emergency contacts and nearby pilots with your exact location, with a countdown to cancel false alarms. • Airspace and obstacle layers on your live and replay maps, with real height-above-ground. EVERY SITE, IN DEPTH • 14,000 community-curated sites across 135 countries and territories, bundled offline, so the map loads instantly. • Live wind stations near each site (OpenWindMap, METAR, MeteoSwiss, Holfuy and more). • Foldable sections, starred webcams per spot, pilot reports, community photos tagged takeoff, landing, access or caution, star reviews and landing zones. • Add missing sites and suggest corrections, confirmed by the community. YOUR AI WINGMAN • Ask OutDare, an assistant that knows your sites and pulls real forecasts. Ask "where can I fly this weekend?" MAKE IT YOURS Per-site and per-wing wind ranges, your units, your wing setup. 7 languages, favourites, logbook and settings backed up to your account. SUPPORT OUTDARE Optional: leave a tip or become a monthly supporter and get a heart badge. Nothing is locked, the app stays free. Built by pilots, for pilots. Note: OutDare provides forecast and informational guidance only. Always check live conditions on-site and use your own judgement before flying. The pilot is responsible for all flight decisions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Canopy Flight
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Canopy is the paragliding logbook you open after you land. Log every flight — record it live with your iPhone's GPS and barometer, or import tracks from your flight computer (IGC, GPX, and TCX supported). Then relive it: Canopy replays your flight over a real 3D terrain map in Apple Maps, with your track color-coded by climb rate so you can see exactly where the lift was. FLIGHT RECORDING • Record flights live using GPS + barometer for accurate altitude, speed, and duration • Your track is preserved even if a recording is interrupted UNIVERSAL IMPORTS • Import IGC, GPX, and TCX files via AirDrop or the Files app • Works with XCTrack, FlySkyHy, Flymaster, Oudie, Garmin, and other flight computers 3D FLIGHT REPLAY • Review your track over real 3D terrain in Apple Maps • Color-coded by climb rate: strong lift, light lift, glide, and sink • Play, pause, and scrub with a live readout of speed, altitude, sink rate, and glide ratio STATISTICS & CHARTS • Distance, duration, max/avg altitude, climb/sink rates, glide ratio, ascent/descent • Interactive altitude, speed, and climb-rate charts YOUR LOGBOOK • Flights grouped by month, searchable, with favorites and tags • Manage your gliders, harnesses, and flying sites • Precision track trimming to clean up GPS noise at takeoff/landing • Export your full logbook as CSV, or share individual flights as TCX PRIVATE BY DESIGN Canopy is 100% offline-first. No accounts, no cloud sync, no trackers — your data stays on your iPhone unless you choose to export or share it. Canopy isn't a flight computer — it's built to complement one. Fly with the instrument you trust, then open Canopy on the ground to log, replay, and understand your flying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: OutDare at weekly against Canopy Flight's every 3 weeks. OutDare also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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.
OutDare ships an update weekly, Canopy Flight every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OutDare | Canopy Flight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Out Dare | Apurva Mehta |
In-app purchases
OutDare
No in-app purchases
Canopy Flight
No in-app purchases








