Your start line, on your wrist.
A modern race watch on the Apple Watch you already own. Schedule your start ahead of time, and let the watch bring itself back in time for the gun.
Built for the start line.
Countdowns from one to ten minutes, synced to the committee gun in a tap.
Dial the clock time of your start - 14:00 - ahead of time, and forget about it.
Every marker buzz now comes with a beep, and a horn on the gun.
Big taps and the Digital Crown - usable with cold, wet hands.
No signal on the water? No problem. Everything runs on the watch.
Every feature, no cost, while we’re in TestFlight. Sail the whole season.
Schedule it ahead of time.
Swipe to the Preset page, dial the clock time of your start with the Digital Crown, and tap Schedule. Set it before you head out, then put your wrist down and get on with your day.
Until the start is close the app sleeps, rather than burn through your battery on a number nobody is watching. For the closing stretch it holds itself awake, with every cue armed.
A long wait on a wrist is an accidental tap waiting to happen. Press and hold the centre of the screen for a second and a half to unlock it.
Whatever else is on screen, the time you’re counting to stays visible - through the countdown, and after the gun while the elapsed timer runs.
Now you can hear it too.
Every haptic cue now has a sound to match. Nothing about the timing has changed - the audio rides on the same cue system you already feel, so a countdown sounds exactly like it feels.
A long buzz and a double beep at fifteen, ten, five, four, three, two and one minute. Most get a short run-up five seconds before, so a small buzz always means a bigger one is coming.
Single beeps from fifteen seconds down to eleven, then a double beep on every second to zero.
A horn on zero, and the timer rolls straight into counting up. It’ll interrupt your music and hand it back a few seconds later.
It sounds backwards, so it’s worth saying plainly. Apple Watch plays its own system tone with every haptic, and those tones clash with the race cues - no app is allowed to suppress them. Silent Mode mutes the watch’s tones, keeps every haptic, and leaves RaceWatch’s own cues fully audible. It’s the recommended way to sail with the app, not a degraded one.
A closer look.
Made for your fleet.
A reliable start every Wednesday night, without another gadget to charge.
Run a clean sequence and keep the whole fleet on the same clock.
New to the start line? A countdown that’s impossible to get wrong.
Questions, answered.
Apple’s official app for trying beta apps. Install it free, tap our invite link, and RaceWatch appears on your watch.
Any Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later, paired to your iPhone. That’s it - no extra hardware.
Yes. Swipe to the Preset page, dial the clock time of the start with the Digital Crown, and tap Schedule. Set it ahead of time and the app rests in the meantime, bringing itself back for the run-in to your start.
Yes, we recommend it. Apple Watch plays its own tone with every haptic, and those tones clash with the race cues. Silent Mode mutes the watch’s tones, keeps all your haptics, and leaves RaceWatch’s own cues audible.
Nothing is lost. Countdowns are stored against the real start time and picked back up when you reopen the app. If the gun went while it was closed, it resumes on the elapsed timer - a race that started while you weren’t looking is still a race in progress.
It’s in open beta now. A full App Store release follows once the fleet’s feedback is in.
Completely free throughout the beta. We’ll be clear and fair about pricing long before anything changes.
No - RaceWatch is watch-only. Everything you need for a race runs right on your wrist.
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