Gaggle Paragliding, Ultralight1.72.20260926 - App Store

Gaggle is the best flight recorder for paragliding, paramotor (PPG), ultralights, and hang gliding. Record every flight, share your live location, fly with a precise variometer, and relive your flights with 3D IGC replays. Plan XC routes, monitor nearby airspaces, and explore a global paragliding map with weather at a glance, all in your language of choice!

Highlights
* Live Tracking & Safety: Share your live location; automatic emergency notifications; track nearby friends.
* Instruments: Variometer, altitudes (GPS/pressure), speed, wind, glide ratio, and more.
* Airspaces & Alerts: View airspaces (2D/3D, region-dependent) and get voice warnings for nearby aircraft.
* XC Navigation: Plan waypoints, follow routes, and score tasks (beta) for XC flying.
* 3D Flight Replays & Analytics: Replay flights in 3D, review stats, automatic upload to XContest; “Ask Gaggle” assistant.
* Imports & Exports: Import IGC/GPX/KML from popular tools like FlySkyHy, PPGPS, Wingman, and XCTrack to replay your flights; export available.
* Sites & Weather: Global paragliding map with site info, chats, and advanced weather forecasts.
* Community: Groups, messaging, meetups, leaderboards & badges.

Apple Watch
Get live telemetry on your wrist with the watchOS companion app while recording on your iPhone (Requires an active flight recording on your phone).

Free & Premium
Start free with recording, sharing and live tracking (no ads). Upgrade to unlock advanced navigation, 3D replays, voice cues, weather, leaderboards, and much more.

By installing and using Gaggle, you agree to the Terms of Use (EULA) available here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ and here: https://www.flygaggle.com/terms-and-conditions.html

Version History - Quicker variometer response on phones without a pressure sensor, plus a setting to hide the automatic Lift Assist display.
- More reliable flight imports and exports, including better handling of malformed IGC files and cancelled file pickers.
- Fix bug where screen did follow pilot in spectate when locked on.
- Fix bug where a chat message was not read as an audio cue.
- Fix bug where language would revert to English when opening Ask Gaggle.
- Fixes for achievement sheets, maps, location permissions, and community feed loading.
- Fixes the app not loading on older iOS versions 1.72.20260926 Sep 26 - Completely rebuilt variometer with multiple tone profiles, spatial audio, and more
- New thermal assistant, thermal rising column, and ridge assist custom instruments
- New windsock and powerlines custom instruments
- Smooth animations for various custom instruments
- Multiple bugs fixed 1.72.20260917 Sep 21 - Improved elevation caching
- Retry XContest uploads if they fail
- Announce airspaces without vertical limits
- Improved recording start and stop when offline
- Improved audio cue session management
- Improved some traffic categories
- Fixed recording sharing with friends not showing when sharing is set to groups 1.72.20260910 Sep 14 Custom recorder layouts are here! Create multiple layouts with one or many screens, with custom backgrounds. With 63 instruments (in multiple sizes) and counting, available in light/dark mode with optional glass, the combinations are endless! Try it out today under Recorder Settings > Custom Layouts. 1.72.20260828 Aug 31 * Prevent false recorder landings from invalid GPS motion
* Fix SoftRF FLARM devices from sending duplicate traffic updates
* Other minor improvements and bug fixes 1.72.20260818 Aug 21 * Fix some flights not showing in the community feed
* Fix subscription not updating after hitting Restore Purchases 1.72.20260816 Aug 17 * Improvements to advisories audio cues, including summarizing and removing unnecessary warnings
* Disable advisory audio when disabled in advisory settings
* Move advisories below airspaces in the map detail bottom sheet
* Additional improvements to recording recovery 1.72.20260811 Aug 12 * Optimize explore map marker rendering and limit airports
* Additional optimization of airspace advisories
* Fix live tracking not showing in the home screen
* Fix advisory banner rendering behind camera cutout 1.72.20260805 Aug 6 * Further improve advisories UI and performance on the map
* Additional optimization of airspaces
* Recorder screen optimization
* Variometer improvements
* Fix recording upload bug 1.72.20260803 Aug 4 * Live competition spectator view!
* Fix sunset audio cue date rollover
* Improve airspace sync and performance
* Improve advisories audio cues
* Add ability to hide advisories from anywhere
* Fix stale landing location for emergency alerts
* Various bug fixes and other small improvements 1.72.20260801 Aug 2 * NEW! XContest live tracking added
* Recording upload and backup improvements
* Minor NOTAM improvements
* Improve 3D replay loading
* Various other small bug fixes and improvements 1.72.20260715 Jul 28 * Standardize bottom navigation bar behaviour
* Remove duplicate Ireland airspace
* Improve performance of advisories list
* Improve IGC uploads when malformed
* Fix manual flight log wing/engine selection bug
* Various other small bug fixes and improvements 1.72.20260702 Jul 6 * New! Airspace advisories (NOTAMs) with audio cues
* Add competition leaderboard management tools
* Bluetooth equipment support reactivated
* Recover incomplete flight data from backups
* Fix challenge scoring bug while replaying a flight
* Fix bug where profile data could become stale
* Fix personal airspace audio cues
* Many other small improvements and bugs squashed 1.72.20260623 Jun 24 * Bluetooth equipment temporarily disabled due to technical issue
* Challenge UI and translation improvements
* Add traffic size customization in settings
* Show airspaces when placing a challenge
* Allow negative altitude values consistently
* Fix ghost icons in recording and weather visualizer
* Fix some airspaces not rendering correctly 1.72.20260612 Jun 12 * Minor bug fixes and other improvements 1.72.20260602 Jun 4 * Fix Sign in with Google bug
* Other minor bug fixes and improvements 1.72.20260529 May 29 * Ask Gaggle improvements
* Smoother recording replays
* Fix missing wind information in recording view
* Fix truncated flight descriptions in manual flight logs
* Fix power line audio cues
* Fix obstacle corridor width resetting 1.72.20260524 May 25 * NEW: iOS Live Activity when recording
* Center community airspace contribution review on the selected airspace
* Lower minimum zoom so community airspace previews render correctly
* Personal airspace upload improvements
* Fix climb-rate decimal truncation on the main recording screen
* Fix pilot wing colors in live tracking 1.72.20260515 May 18 - NEW! Community Airspaces: Interactive editor with community contribution and moderation
- Improve performance of airspace layer
- Improve performance of explore map
- Fix bug where personal airspace upload rejects altitude with SFC 1.72.20260429 May 3 * Added per-task centerline visibility
* Improved unsupported file import messaging
* Improved WearOS connection and recovery
* Various small bug fixes 1.72.20260416 Apr 20 * NEW! Revamped profile page with filters
* Increase challenge leaderboard initial load to 100
* Improve performance of airspaces when zooming
* Fix some data not streaming from external bluetooth devices
* Fix recorder start hanging when internet connectivity is poor
* Various other improvements and bug fixes 1.72.20260408 Apr 9 * Improve paragliding competition scoring for stopped tasks and start/restart logic
* Refine paragliding competition reporting and exports
* Add submission deadlines and manual task rescoring for paragliding competitions
* Refine scoring for obstacle courses to handle start gate edge cases
* Add challenge score in the recording view
* Add EGT for compatible bluetooth devices
* Other minor bug fixes 1.72.20260320 Mar 23 * Upgrades to competition and obstacle editors
* Cancel join requests and admin pending visibility
* Edit meetup registration fields
* Show score during challenge flight replay
* Fixed achievement graph month selection drift
* Fixed weather forecast day timezone mismatch
* Other minor improvements and bug fixes 1.72.20260314 Mar 16 * NEW: Paragliding competition leaderboard creation tool
* New audio cue announcing sunset
* Show takeoff and landing time in recording view
* Improve flight cards still processing
* Fix grounded traffic announcement bug
* Fix incorrect flights shown in monthly stats 1.72.20260310 Mar 10 * NEW! Challenges
* Add flight stats and achievement filters
* Add route import default radius selection
* Obstacle course pilot masking for competitions
* Fix group join error
* Fix replay replay score overlay flicker
* Fix login input interaction on web
* Fix bug where changing the replay speed of flights jumps back to start 1.72.20260303 Mar 10