How to use Waterspeed for the first time

Written by Massimiliano Picchi
Updated 2 months ago

Waterspeed helps you to track your water sports and improve your performance. You can use it in real-time and, after the recording, to review and analyze data and statistics.

Before to start you can check the weather forecast, get Wind Speed, Gusts, Beaufort Wind scale from your favorite spot, and verify Tides.

Real-time use:

- on iPhone, choose your sport and click on START. You will see instant speed (click on Speed to change and see Speed Avg), Distance, distance from the starting point, the total duration, and the map. You can also click on the Speedometer icon and see big numbers instead of the map.

- on Apple Watch, choose your sport and click on Start. You can also select what to see in real-time, from the settings page or by tapping on the numbers on the screen. You can also use Siri, or the Action button if you have an Apple Watch Ultra.

- On Apple Watch, you can also select to lock the screen, to receive an alarm every KM (or other different distances), to save the Workout and the Route on the Apple Health, to get a sound when started.

- On Apple Watch, to Pause your activity you can click together Side button + Crown (from ver. 6.18, press twice). You will see the page becoming orange while paused.

On both devices, you can also use a Countdown tool for your races.

Review & Analyses mode:

On your Apple Watch, go on the Settings Page and click on Diary. Usually, tracks are automatically synced with your iPhone.

On your iPhone, open the Statistics page to get a graph of your performances over a period.

On your iPhone, click on Diary. Here you can filter your activities and calculate totals. Click on a track to see details, graphs, heart rate, and speeds. Move the point with the slider or point with your finger to see details point by point, or tap the map with your finger to select a point. From the icon in the right upper corner, choose "Adjust track" to put 2 Marks and Cut/Amend your track (for example, if you forgot to stop the recording at the end of the activity).

Use the icons on the map to: see a satellite map, see only a partial map, go full screen. Click on the Play button to see an animation of the performance.

Click on Splits, to see speeds by single distance (eg. every Km).

You can also Merge 2 or more tracks, Compare 2 tracks, Clone a track, Export as an Image, and more. You can automatically remove the Max speed, in case it is wrong or Clone & Remove Spikes if the GPS was not working properly.

You can save your Equipment and also set up your default equipment per sport, to have it saved automatically (check the Settings tab).

Finally, share your activities (don't forget to use #waterspeedapp) on Social, send manually to Strava (if you login from the Settings tab it will upload automatically), export as GPX or Excel/CSV to upload, Relive, Garmin, Google Earth, etc. or take a photo and save on your track. You can also have native integration with Strava, Garmin and GPS Speedsurfing.

For Subscribers and Pro version users:

If you purchased and activated a subscription, you can login (from the Settings tab) and upload everything in the cloud, so you will never lose your data and you can automatically sync with your iPad, to use a bigger screen to review and manage your activities and stats.

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