Wingfoil · Parawing · Downwind · Windsurf · Kitesurf · Sail

know exactly
how fast you went
— and why.

OpenWater is a GPS speed and technique tracker for wingfoiling, downwinding, windsurfing, kitesurfing and sailing. Open source. Works offline. No account, ever.

Download for iPhone, Watch & Apple TV View source on GitHub
Free Open source No account Works offline Nothing leaves your device
OpenWater session map showing a wingfoil track with every speed category

WingfoilingParawingingDownwindingWindsurfingKitesurfingSailing

960
spots in the guide
116
countries
14
speed categories
0
data collected

speed, measured properly

Every category the speedsurfing community actually uses: 2-second peak, best 10 seconds, 5×10s average, 100 m through 10 km, nautical mile, alpha 500, 30-minute and 1-hour averages — plus any custom distance you add, applied retroactively to sessions you already recorded.

Speeds come from the receiver's Doppler measurement and are computed on the continuous track, not snapped to the nearest GPS fix — because one second of slop is ten metres at twenty knots.

2 s10 s5×10 s100 m500 mAlpha 5001 NM1 hr
Full-screen session map with flights drawn bold, slow sections faded and falls marked
The Runs view — each run in its own lane, stacked in time

runs, unstacked

An hour of winging in a bay is forty passes through the same water — drawn as one line, it's unreadable. The Runs view drops the map entirely: one lane per run, stacked in time, so nothing overlaps. Your session reads top to bottom like a score.

Session replay

watch it back

Replay the whole session with a playhead, speed heatmap and live readout — and see exactly where every flight, gybe and fall happened.

Session replay with a playhead, speed heatmap and live readout
Charts showing wind angles, gybe analysis, polar curve and time on foil

angles, gybes and time on foil

Wind direction worked out from your own track — no weather service, no internet.

Polar curve, VMG upwind and downwind, tacking and gybing angles.

Gybes and tacks detected and scored: entry speed, minimum speed, recovery time, and whether you stayed on the foil.

Time on foil, number of flights, longest flight, takeoff speed.

Port versus starboard comparison — see the side you've been quietly avoiding.

For downwinders: glides detected from the pump-and-glide rhythm, longest glide, link rate and swell period.

your record book

Personal records screen listing best speeds for every category
Personal records for every speed category.
Trends screen charting progress across sessions over time
Trends across every session.
Sessions list with each recorded session stored on device
Your full session history, on device.

record on your watch or your phone

Start a session in one tap. The Apple Watch app runs standalone — it doesn't need your phone nearby, or even installed.

Built for the water

Water Lock engages automatically, and the session keeps recording with the screen off and your wrist down. Seven live screens: speed, splits, totals, wind angles, foil time, controls, and a racing start countdown.

Crash-safe recording

Your track is written to disk continuously, so a flat battery or a crash costs you seconds, not your session.

Honest numbers

Every session is graded for GPS quality. Detected gybes and jumps carry a confidence score, and the raw samples are always kept so you can check anything.

Apple TV

check the wind from the couch

The whole conditions picture on the big screen — wind, radar, tide and the webcams for the coast you're on and the spots you've starred. The Apple TV app records nothing; it's for deciding whether to go.

OpenWater on Apple TV: a wind map of Long Island's east end with wind arrows and a readout of 11 knots SSW gusting 18 over Montauk
Five-day wind outlook for Montauk comparing the ECMWF, GFS, ICON and GEM forecast models against their blend
Five days of wind from every major model, with the blend drawn bold.
Grid of beach webcams near Montauk, sorted by distance
Every webcam nearby, sorted by distance.

A wind map you drive with the remote

Forecast wind drawn over your stretch of coast. The D-pad pans, Select zooms, and the crosshair gives the full report — wind, gusts, weather, waves and tide — for wherever it rests.

See when the models agree

The five-day outlook lays ECMWF, GFS, ICON and GEM over each other, so a forecast every model believes looks different from one only a single model does.

Cameras, radar and your spots

Webcams that tvOS can play, play; the rest show a QR code that opens them on your phone. Rain radar and a board of your starred spots round it out.

Privacy

your data is yours

Import anything

GPX, TCX, FIT and CSV — bring your history from Garmin, Coros, Suunto and most other apps.

Export everything

GPX, TCX, CSV, GeoJSON, or a complete lossless archive. Sharing trims the start and end of your track by default — those are usually your car or your home.

No account, no server

No sign-up, no tracking, no analytics in the app. Nothing leaves your device unless you send it. The complete source — including every analysis algorithm — is public on GitHub.

find your next spot

The OpenWater Foil Spot Guide maps 960 foiling launches across 116 countries — with conditions, launch access, wind meters, webcams, tides and local guides for every spot, from the Gorge to the Med.

Browse the Spot Guide

get on the water with OpenWater.

Free for iPhone, Apple Watch and Apple TV — now on the App Store.

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