Wakeboard Camera: WakeTracker
Auto gimbal filming and zoom
Free
Your gimbal becomes the camera operator: it finds the rider, pans, zooms and records, while you keep both hands on the wheel. No account, no signal, no cloud.
The camera follows the rider. You drive.
WakeTracker turns your iPhone and a DJI Osmo Mobile 5 into a camera operator
that stays on the rider behind the boat — so whoever is driving can keep both
hands on the wheel and still come home with the footage.
WHAT IT DOES ON ITS OWN
• Follows the rider. The app drives the gimbal over Bluetooth and keeps the
rider framed through cuts, spray and wake crossings.
• Starts and stops recording by itself, from the boat's speed over GPS. Nothing
to press when the pull begins.
• Brings the camera back after a fall — waiting first, because the crash is
usually the best take of the pass — and finds the rider again for the restart.
• Zooms to keep the rider the right size in frame, and opens up when they go big.
WHEN YOU WANT IT BACK
Touch the joystick on the gimbal handle and control returns to your hand
immediately. Recording keeps going, because whatever ruined the framing may
have been the best part of the pass. The app also brakes itself if the gimbal
starts to oscillate — there is no panic button on screen on purpose: with the
phone shaking on the tower, a button you have to aim at is not a panic button.
FROM YOUR WRIST
An Apple Watch app puts the same buttons on your wrist: find the rider, level
the camera, mark a moment, record, release the gimbal. The watch taps you when
the rider disappears with the boat still at speed. A Garmin Fenix works too,
through the Garmin Connect app.
THE SESSION, WRITTEN DOWN
Riders, rope length, stance and boat ballast, per session. Passes and tricks
counted as they happen, with a per-pass line — time, distance, wake crossings.
A run log you can export from inside the app or straight from Files, if you
want the numbers behind a session.
QUALITY
1080p at 60, 120 or 240 fps and 4K at 30 or 60, depending on what your iPhone
offers — the app asks the device and shows you what it got, including whether
the zoom is optical or a crop. Portrait and landscape, level either way, with
the phone hanging upside down under the gimbal on the boat's tower.
PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
No account, no login, no analytics and no tracking. The app makes no network
requests at all. Videos go to your camera roll; run logs stay in the app's
folder on your iPhone, and leave it only if you share them yourself.
The only third-party code in the app is Garmin's Connect IQ SDK, there so the
app can reach a Fenix through the Garmin Connect app on the same phone. It does
not open network connections either.
WHAT YOU NEED
• A DJI Osmo Mobile 5 gimbal
• A solid place on the boat to mount it — a tower works best
• Bluetooth and Location turned on
No gimbal? Tap "Record without tracking" on the first screen: automatic
recording, format, zoom and session logs all still work.
WakeTracker is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by DJI. DJI and
Osmo Mobile are trademarks of their respective owner, used here only to say
which hardware the app talks to.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
WakeTracker now speaks English — every screen, the mounting guide, the watch
app and the permission prompts. Portuguese is still there: pick the language in
Settings.
The developer, Marcos Leal, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Marcos Leal
- Size
- 28 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Portuguese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Marcos Leonel Leal