SailFreeGPS

FredB

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About this app

Hello,

✓ SailFreeGPS displays current location, course (COG), speed (SOG), max speed, Trip distance, speed average and magnetic compass.
✓ SailFreeGPS displays COG and SOG history (6h) to help you to see trim effect on your sails.
✓ SailFreeGPS filters GPS information for more accuracy (average of an amount of last measures you can set).
✓ SailFreeGPS can share your position, COG, SOG to your friends.
✓ SailFreeGPS helps you during Man OverBoard maneuver (MOB). It stores the location and lead you to it.
✓ SailFreeGPS displays your track on google map (24h).
✓ SailFreeGPS helps you during Regatta with its countdown timer and its departure line
✓ You can store up to 8 waypoints and activate a GOTO function with ETA (Estimated Time to Arrival computation)
✓ You can save/load track to/from GPX/KML file
✓ You can calculate distance and heading
✓ You can use it on every boat, motor or sail boat.
✓ You can now activate an anchor alarm or a course alarm.

I am an amateur sailor who has decided to create this app after a Transatlantic cruise.
I add periodically functionalities to this app when I have some spare time.

Do not forget to calibrate your compass for better results.

Please send me an email for any question or problem : [e-mail]

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List of features of Premium Version

Premium version DOES NOT CONTAIN ADS.

GPS INFO Tab:
✓ Double click on SPEED will reset trip, max and ags speed
✓ Long click on COURSE to display compass
✓ Double click on coordinates to display/hide position

Graph Tab:
✓ Double click COG graph to switch to full screen mode

MOB Tab:
✓ Displays of relative bearing of the MOB
✓ Displays of tack angles
✓ Double click graph to switch to full screen mode

Waypoint Tab:
✓ Up to 200 Waypoints
✓ Displays of relative bearing of Waypoint
✓ Displays of tack angles
✓ Double click graph to switch to full screen mode

Map Tab:
✓ Displays of SOG and COG (speed & course)
✓ Your track segments are displayed according to your speed

Anchor alarm:
✓ Anchor area can be a polygon and you can adjust its shape

Regatta Tab:
✓ "Gun Button" allows to round seconds to nearest minute
Ex: 4:03 => 4:00 or 3:58 => 4:00
✓ Enter exact start time up to the second
✓ Displays of time to kill/save continuing the same way (speed and course)
✓ Displays of ideal speed to cross the line at 0:00 on the same course!!!

Settings Tab:
✓ Displays reverse color (white on black back)
✓ You can select Hybrid map
✓ Select on which duration is calculated the speed scale of your track: last 5min, 15 min or all the track
✓ Select your tack angle value. It will be displayed on MOB and WAYPOINT tabs

Exit:
✓ Ask to save the track before Exit

Ratings and reviews

An excellent app which I use almost every time I go sailing, and will be especially useful now that I am racing. Fred has done an excellent job loading this app up with features without making it so bloated that it's hard to use. He also is very responsive if you're having any problems with it, so before leaving a bad review, email Fred. He'll be happy to help!

Totally agree with Erik Stielow - lots of nice features but it needs a start/stop button. Been suggesting that for months and get nothing but pushback from the developer. Still no start/stop sail button. The most logical thing this app could have and it doesn't have it. Today I went for sail, opened the app, sailed around for a couple hours & closed the app. Nothing is saved - trip is gone. It didn't even tell me that it wasn't going to save it. Lame.

Makes no sense to me. Unusable. This app seems to have a lot of features and might work great for some people but the UX is totally beyond me. I go to Routes. It says "no route selected". But there's no way to add a route. I'm racing offshore courses with a preset route that I'd like the app to load after the 5 min start sequence. It can't seem to do that. In back to using SailDroid and entering the waypoints manually each time I arrive at one.

What's new

Bug fix for regata