What's new in SWAY 3.0
Logs every sail. Helps you decide underway.
DAME Design Awards 2026 nominee · Navigation & Communication.
SWAY 3.0 is the biggest update to the SWAY app since the SWAY Breeze came out. Every screen is new, the logbook and story pages are rebuilt, and for the first time SWAY helps you while you sail: with SteerClear AIS, autopilot control and live tracking.
New in SWAY 3.0
A new Logbook
Every trip becomes a story with its track, statistics, wind, your words and photos. Crew can edit the stories they sailed on.
Multi-trip replay
Play one trip or several in a row, so you see your whole holiday on the map.
Wind and speed
Charts for every trip. Underway, the live dashboard shows whether the wind is veering, backing, oscillating or building.
Your profile
Your miles, your tracks on a map and the places you sailed. Follow other sailors and share with a link.
SteerClear AIS
The AIS assistant for sailors. SteerClear AIS watches the commercial traffic around you and tells you plainly which vessels are closing and how close they will pass (CPA and TCPA).
When a vessel is closing, it suggests a course that clears it. The advice is wind-aware: it never suggests a heading in the no-go zone. With a connected autopilot you can send that course to the pilot after you confirm the turn.
SteerClear advises. The skipper decides. Keep a proper lookout.
Part of SWAY Plus.
Autopilot control (beta)
Steer your autopilot from your phone or tablet: standby, auto and wind mode, and course changes of 1 or 10 degrees. The app asks you to confirm every mode change, and greys out when the Breeze stops answering instead of showing old values.
Works with Raymarine and B&G autopilots on NMEA 2000. Autopilot control is in beta.
Part of SWAY Plus.
Live tracking
Have a Wi-Fi router with internet on board, such as Starlink or a 4G router? Then the Breeze shares your position and speed, so friends and family can follow your sail in real time. Your track is shown to you and the people who follow you, for up to 24 hours.
Part of SWAY Plus.
Why some features are in SWAY Plus
We don't like subscriptions either. That's why everything SWAY did before 3.0 stays free, for life: recording every sail, your logbook and stories, replay, the live dashboard and the AIS map. No ads, and we never sell your data.
The three new features are different. They work while you are sailing, and they keep needing work after the release. SteerClear AIS and autopilot control have to be tested and kept up to date for more boats and more autopilots. Live tracking runs on our servers for every boat that shares its position.
Many makers pay for new features by bringing out new hardware, so you have to buy a new device to get them. We think it is better to keep your Breeze and add new features with an update, for as long as the hardware can handle them.
SWAY is made by a small team of sailors. SWAY Plus pays for that work, so we can keep improving the free app as well. If you don't need these features, you don't need SWAY Plus.
SWAY Plus costs €16,99 a year for one SWAY Breeze, bought in the app. You can cancel any time in the App Store or Google Play; Plus stays active until the end of the year you paid for. It keeps working at sea without internet for about 15 days, and it never switches off in the middle of a passage.
Get SWAY 3.0
- Update the SWAY app from the App Store or Google Play.
- Connect to your Breeze and install the latest Breeze firmware: Breeze › Breeze settings › Firmware › Update firmware. AIS and autopilot control need the new firmware.
- Want the new underway features? Open You › Settings › SWAY Plus subscription.
New to SWAY? The SWAY Breeze is €99.
SWAY is an aid to navigation. It does not replace the boat's own instruments, a proper lookout or good seamanship.