Hi all, I have been building an iPhone app called OnWind for my own sessions and it has got to the point where I would be glad of some other people trying it at their spots, it is free, there is no account to set up and nothing is being sold.

It takes the forecast models and the nearest weather station for your spot and blends them into one answer against the wind range you set, so it tells you on now, not yet, too light or offshore rather than leaving you to add up the numbers, then it scores each model against what the station measured so the forecast for your beach improves the more it is used. It also tracks a session by GPS with the screen off, and from that it works out top speed, best 10 seconds, the speed sailing categories, gybes and tacks, time on the foil and which kit you were on, so over a season you can see what is working.

It is a beta so there will be things that are wrong, I ride in Sydney so that is where it has had the most use and I am not sure how well it goes elsewhere, the measured wind is strongest in Australia with other countries covered where their weather services publish stations. It is iPhone only for now and needs iOS 17 or later.

To get it tap this link on your iPhone, it will ask you to get Apple’s TestFlight app first and then installs OnWind, updates come through on their own after that: testflight.apple.com/join/qmHQZWyD

There is more about it with screenshots here: faispace.com.au/onwind

Feedback can go on the issues and ideas board inside the app under More, or to [email protected]. If you give it a go, can you let me know whether the verdict matched what you found on the water?