IPolar Positive Reviews

IPolar App User Positive Comments 2024

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IPolar for Positive User Reviews

✓ Excellent sailing polar app for cruisersCan’t believe this is the first review. This is a simply excellent little app to generate polar diagrams for sailing boats from basic information about the boat. Unlike racing yachts and newer cruisers there are many cruising boats without this information from the manufacturer and it is quite a lot of work to derive it experimentally, beyond many casual sailors. So 5* for an inexpensive, intuitive and easy to use app which does exactly what it needs to do: generate a set of estimated sailing polars to use as a starting point for better sailing. One feature I would request, if development is still being supported, is to be able to generate a single polar graph with a summary of several sets of curves, say 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 30 kts for example. At the moment each wind speed has to be viewed one at a time which is fine if using the app but less useful on board when a single page printout would be useful. Although the entire data set can be exported as a simple csv file the common spreadsheets like Excel and Numbers provide absolutely no support for polar data plotting and it seems all of the (many) graph charting apps that do support polar diagrams expect the use of equations to generate the curves not an R/theta data set. Unbelievable, really, in this day and age and very frustrating when trying to handle this highly useful data. PDF output of the polar graphs and data table would also be useful, saves a lot of screen grabbing on the iPad. Finally, as a cutter owner, is it possible to include support for a cutter rig or at least an explanation of how to accommodate this sailplan in the sail area calculations? I have spread the word amongst fellow cruising boat owners who have been looking for something like this for years and encouraging them to buy it, so I hope more purchases and feedback follows..Grey DadVersion: 2.1.2

✓ Excellent ease of polar constructionSo, it is winter, but I thought, "What the heck", and bought this. I was instantly impressed. The calculation was pretty much spot on to my existing polars. I don't update everytime I am out, but with this and the ability to set a percentage of efficiency, it is going to be in my top 5 best "friend" apps. The ability to export into Weather4D Pro and optimize routes is great! The fact that is an iOS app and is intuitive out of the box just adds to my fondness of it. Since everyone I sail with either has an iPhone or iPad or both, I just have to show them once how to use it and they can then tweak it without bothering me while I am off shift. I am also seeing how I can take this with me when racing with others and help to improve their boats. The only thing I wish I could do is print my chart. While it is super elegant on the iPad, sometimes you want a printout in a page protector that can be stuffed in a pocket. Yes, I could install on my iPhone, but paper sometimes is just better on a boat. Otherwise, this is great!.MethedudeVersion: 1.0.0

✓ Good all round, affordable velocity predictionI really like this App. I've owned it for about a year and the Oct 7 update provided some really nice features. The App was very accurate with my C&C99. The polars generated for my new C&C115 are a little slower than actual speeds observed in real life; the data is still useful nonetheless. I recommend you consider this App if you want an easy to use, adjustable, inexpensive mobile VPP for your racer/cruiser. I don't think there's anything that comes close to iPolar..Mike KernVersion: 2.0.0