One app, every wind sport.
Choose your sport
WindUp ships with tuned templates for the disciplines below. Tap a sport to see suggested wind thresholds, gear ranges and the alarms WindUp pre-builds for you.
Kitesurfing
Catch your session the moment the wind hits.
Sailing
Plan a sail when wind is right, not when forecast guesses.
Windsurfing
Plane on the first puff. WindUp alarms before others arrive.
Wing Foiling
Smaller wind window. Bigger reward. Don't miss the lull-end.
Surfing
You don't want wind. You want the moment it stops.
Paragliding
Light winds, low gusts. Safety first, then the flight of your life.
Drones & RC Pilots
Fly in your manufacturer's wind limit. Land before you can't.
How much wind does each sport need?
The right wind is a different number for every discipline — and for two of them, the goal is less wind, not more.
Kitesurfers and windsurfers chase the strong end of the scale; wing foilers sit in a narrower mid-range; sailors and paragliders want it lighter and, above all, steady. Surfers and drone pilots flip the whole thing — they want wind to drop. That's why one generic "it's windy today" alert is useless: 12 knots is a dream wing-foil day and a wasted kite day. The table below is the ideal band WindUp pre-loads for each sport, so your alarm fires on your number, not a forecast's vague "20-ish."
| Sport | Ideal wind | What that wind is like |
|---|---|---|
| Kitesurfing | 15–25 kt | Fresh to strong breeze (F4–F6) — powered on a mid-size kite. |
| Windsurfing | 15–35 kt | The widest window — planing from a fresh breeze to a near gale. |
| Wing foiling | 12–22 kt | A tight mid-range; enough to pump onto foil without getting overpowered. |
| Sailing | 8–20 kt | From a gentle breeze that fills the sails to a lively, well-heeled reach. |
| Paragliding | 5–15 kt, low gusts | Light and, critically, smooth — gust spread matters more than raw speed. |
| Surfing | Under 8 kt (or offshore) | You want it calm or blowing offshore to clean up the wave face. |
| Drones & RC | Under your craft's limit | Fly below the manufacturer ceiling; land before gusts push past it. |
Two things move these ranges in the real world: gusts and rider weight or gear. A steady 18 knots and a gusty 18 knots are different sports — paragliders and beginners feel gust spread far more than the average number, which is why WindUp watches live station data rather than a smoothed forecast. And a 60 kg rider is powered where a 90 kg rider is barely moving, so treat every range as a starting point and shade it to your kit. Not sure what to rig once the wind is right? The kite size and wing size calculators turn your weight and the live wind into a gear size, and the wind speed converter reads any forecast back in knots, mph, km/h or m/s.
Pick your sport. Set one alarm.
Free on iOS and Android. WindUp does the rest.
