Tally Tracker adapts to your activity. Each club picks its type, and the app turns on the right features automatically.
Dinghies, keelboats, and yacht cruising. The classic safety setup.
SUP, kayak, canoe, and dragon-boat sessions where the group sticks together.
Long-distance trips with a defined start and finish point.
Coastal walks, group swims, surf sessions — anything where you want a buddy roster on shore.
Powerboat training, RIB sessions, instructor-led trips — with the same live tracking and assistance flow as sailing.
Open-water swim sessions, training squads, and event swims with shore-side eyes on the group.
Windsurf, wing, kite, and surf sessions — with sensible defaults tuned for short, high-intensity time on the water.
What every sailor, paddler, and crew member can do on their own phone.
A single field for joining a club. Paste your club PIN for permanent member access, or use an event visitor code for one-off access to a single event — Tally Tracker figures out which is which.
Your session leader drops a pin on a full-screen map (slipway, clubhouse, beach access) so the whole group knows exactly where to meet before heading out — no more "where are you?" texts on the launch.
For journey activities, drop pins on a full-screen map for your start and finish points. Your route is then tracked with a live GPS breadcrumb trail so followers ashore and your safety contacts can see your progress.
Pre-register for an event and, if the club has set one up, tap straight through to join the event's WhatsApp group — instant comms for race-day briefings, weather updates, and last-minute changes.
Sign on again with a single tap using your details from a previous session — no need to re-enter your name, fleet, sail number, crew, or emergency contact every time you launch.
Your club can post notices that appear on every active session screen — weather changes, course updates, safety briefings — and clear themselves at midnight so yesterday's messages don't linger.
Going afloat alone? Skip the full club setup — pick a boat, choose your activity, set an expected return time, and tap Go Afloat. Your followers see you live; assistance is one tap away. Sessions auto-close after 12 hours so a forgotten tally-off doesn't linger.
One screen for everything that's active — clubs you're connected to, sessions you've joined, sailors you're spectating, and any tally-on in progress. A badge shows how many active items you've got, so you can jump straight back into the right portal.
Connect to as many clubs and sessions as you like — they all live side-by-side on your home screen. Useful if you sail at more than one club, or join one-off events on top of your home club.
Whenever you're tallied on, on duty as safety team, or on duty as beachmaster, Tally Tracker shows a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. Time on water, status, and key alerts at a glance — no need to open the app.
Search by club name or browse nearby clubs from the home screen. Once connected, your club is saved so future sessions are one tap away.
More than a binary "safe / unsafe" tally. Tally Tracker captures the realities of being on the water.
One-tap distress alert from any sailor's phone. Triggers an immediate priority alert to the safety team and notifies your registered emergency contacts.
Once help is requested, the sailor and safety team have a private chat thread — exchange location updates, status, and instructions while a rescue is underway.
Your club defines the sailing area on a map. If anyone drifts outside the boundary their pin turns red on the safety team map, and every change to the boundary is logged for audit.
You can't accidentally be afloat at two clubs at once. If you forgot to tally off elsewhere, the app blocks the new tally-on and tells you exactly where you're still signed on.
Sailors can flag Heading Ashore, On a Mothership, or Boat Abandoned — the safety team and beachmaster see the right information instead of guessing.
Live position updates, speed, and heading from every signed-on sailor. The safety team sees bearing and distance to each pin, so they always know where to head.
The full Watch app: tally on/off, share live GPS at 5-second updates, request assistance, and follow your voyage live from your wrist. It works independently of your iPhone using the watch's own GPS and cellular when available — perfect when your phone is in a dry bag.
Pressing volume up + down three times in rapid succession triggers an assistance request — even with your phone in a pocket or waterproof case. A confirm overlay prevents accidental triggers, but it's much faster than unlocking and tapping in an emergency.
Practise the emergency workflow safely. Demo Mode triggers a real-looking assistance request that your safety team, organiser and spectators can see and chat with — but no public broadcast notifications go out. Auto-clears after 5 minutes or when you end it.
For informal sailing days or small groups without a dedicated safety team, Self-Monitor mode lets sailors keep an eye on each other — everyone sees who's afloat, who's heading ashore, and any group assistance alerts.
Choose the right balance of fidelity and battery: Realtime (5-second updates, recommended for racing and journeys), Live (30-second updates), Snapshot (manual check-in only), or Assistance Only (location shared only when help is requested).
Every tally-on, status change, assistance request, geofence edit, and tally-off is timestamped. Ready for safety debriefs, insurance reports, or RYA audits.
Loved ones can follow your session live, so they don't have to keep wondering when you'll be back.
Generate a unique spectator code and share it with anyone you'd like to follow your session — they tap the link and see your live position, speed, and status without needing an account.
Your friends and family can pin sailors they care about across multiple clubs, then check in any time to see who's afloat, where, and how long they've been out.
When you've enabled live location, followers see your position, speed in knots, and direction of travel — perfect for parents, partners, or anyone tracking a long voyage.
Followers can open a full-screen analysis with a speed-over-time chart and a colour-coded route map (blue = slow, green = medium, red = fast). Peak speed, average speed, total distance, and breadcrumb count all in one glance.
Once you're following a sailor, you can share that access with anyone else — partner, grandparents, the kids — with a time-limited link, so the sailor doesn't have to share their code multiple times.
Toggle Live Updates on the spectator portal to get push notifications for the moments that matter — tally-on, tally-off, status changes, and assistance requests.
Sailors choose what spectators see — toggle heart rate, speed & route, battery level, GPS accuracy, and live map position individually. The safety team always sees everything.
A timestamped timeline of the sailor's session — tally-on, status changes, heading-ashore, assistance, tally-off — so followers can see the full story of a day on the water.
More accurate tracking, better insight, and integration with the gear you already own.
Pair a Bluetooth chest strap (Garmin, Polar, Wahoo and more) and your live BPM and heart rate zone are automatically shared with the safety team and your followers.
External Bluetooth GPS devices like Garmin GLO and Bad Elf work automatically — pair them in iOS Settings and Tally Tracker uses the higher-accuracy data straight away. Ideal for racing and voyage tracking.
Your full GPS trail, recorded automatically while afloat. Colour-coded by speed and viewable on the safety team map, the spectator portal, and your own session history.
Cycle between Standard (road map), Satellite/Aerial (imagery), and Nautical (OpenSeaMap chart overlay with buoys, channels, and navigation aids) on every map in the app.
Every tally-off produces a summary of your session: total distance in nautical miles, max speed, average speed, and time on water. Saved to your session history for every activity type.
Where the Watch app leaves the iPhone behind, it falls back on the watch's own GPS and cellular for position updates — so you stay tracked even when your phone is somewhere dry.
A redesigned profile that grows with you — every boat, every session, every club, in one place.
The new profile splits cleanly into four tabs. Sessions for your history, Kit for your saved boats and equipment, Clubs for everything you're connected to, Account for personal details.
Save every boat, board, vessel and craft you sail — class, sail number, rig type, name. Equipment is categorised automatically (sailing boats, boards, vessels, craft, other), with collapsible sections so it stays tidy.
Your profile shows total sessions, hours on the water, distance covered, and boats registered. Tap the stats pill for a full breakdown across every club and activity type.
Every session is saved with date, club, duration, distance, activity type, route map, speed data, and any photos taken. Tap any session for the full detail; tap "View Full History" for the lot.
Set your emergency contact name and phone once on your profile — visible to the safety team and beachmaster across every club and session you join, so they can act fast if needed.
Snap photos during a session and they're attached to the session record — visible on your history and to followers in the spectator portal.
A shared directory of recognised sailing and paddling classes — so when a sailor joins your club, their boat type is already in the system with the right logo and details.
Lasers, RS Aeros, ILCAs, Wayfarers, Toppers, dragon boats, sea kayaks, SUPs and more — already in the registry with class logos.
Classes can be flagged as youth fleets so junior sessions filter cleanly and youth-specific reporting works out of the box.
Don't see your class? Anyone can submit a fleet for review — our team approves it and it becomes available to every club worldwide. Submit a fleet →
A full GPS-driven race management module — courses, marks, start/finish lines, gates, automatic crossing detection, live leaderboards, and race-by-race playback. Sold as the Race Officer Portal annual add-on on top of the TallyTracker subscription.
Lay marks on the map, set start and finish lines, use templates (windward/leeward, triangle, trapezoid), and let gate marks auto-pair as you place them.
GPS breadcrumbs detect line crossings between the actual line endpoints, plus mark roundings within tolerance — results updated live on the leaderboard.
Real-time positions, lap progress and speeds, plus single- and multi-boat playback at variable speed for protests, debriefs, and coaching.
Built for the way clubs actually run. Here's what sets us apart.
Sailor, safety team, beachmaster, admin — every role is built into the same iOS app. No separate logins, no extra hardware. Switch role in a tap.
Run multi-day regattas, taster sessions, and one-off events with their own visitor codes — alongside normal club sailing, with no separate setup.
Upload your club logo and accent colour. Members, safety crew, and beachmasters all see your club's identity throughout the app.
Your sailor profile, joined sessions, "Sailors I Follow", and recent sessions sync across every device you sign in on.
Sailor, safety team, beachmaster, and admin — each has its own purpose-built section of the app.
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