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.
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Always been a FlySkyHy fan. (Fan lol) but I have to admit, I've use this sporadically and was not impressed until lately. The features of this app are extraordinary! I use a Chest-mount for my iPhone so I can look down and see the instruments quite easily. Being able to see other airplanes, Paramotor pilots, wind speed and direction are pretty cool. I've been playing around with the fuel level and fuel consumption part of the app so being able to see my fuel level is quite amazing.I have been forgetting to press start for the auto record that allows us to record a flight so maybe the developers can have an auto feature that turns on Gaggle when we gain altitude and speed like a paramotor launch or a notification that pops up that says it looks like you're flying do you want to turn on Gaggle?I will continue to use this and get my students to use this also. Very simple and easy to use and the air space feature is extraordinary. I definitely recommend
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the well written and descriptive review Shawn! Because Gaggle focuses on so much more than just recording flights I don't really want start the flight recording monitoring immediately upon opening the app. There is also the fact that pilots can choose their equipment before a flight and I want to leverage that screen in future even more to show weather briefings and NOTAM information. What I personally do is start the recording while doing my pre-flight. That way I know Gaggle is ready and it will only start recording once I go fly, even if that is 20 minutes from now. I hope this makes sense and I look forward to chatting to you on your podcast at some point 😃. Have a great day!
Great app only one complaint
ceeeejaaayy
For paramotoring this app is amazing. Not only does it log your flights but gives you your ground speed and an easy way to make it back to your takeoff location. Only thing I think is super super selfish of and wrong of the company is the new power line feature will only warn you about power lines if you pay for the most expensive subscription. I seriously can’t comprehend why anyone would be so selfish and greedy that they would only give you the audio alert that can potentially save your life, if you pay for the most expensive monthly membership they offer. I understand we should not fly low and that we can’t rely on that to always work but they have the ability to possibly save someone’s life and won’t do it unless you pay them for the most expensive membership. That’s why I gave them 4 stars and not 5.
Developer Response
Hi ceeeejaaayy, thanks for the detailed review. We put the feature behind our top subscription to cover the expense of processing and maintaining the power line data. Subscriptions also help us cover the cost of developing and maintaining Gaggle. If you would like to try out the feature, please email us at hello@flygaggle.com, and we will give you a free trial to our Adventurer plan.
Official App of Mojo’s Flight School
RyanJPotter
This app is essential for anyone flying a powered paraglider. It is feature rich, always being improved, and reliable. We insist that all of our students use it, along with our alumni, and it has helped us locate someone that had a motor out in a field one evening that didn’t have communications. All of our instructors use this personally, along with our students, which helps us to track hours on our equipment, their equipment, and ensure everyone safety. Gaggle has our highest recommendation!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the review!
Missing a Few Features but has Potential!
mgarthur14
This app is exactly what this community needs but it is lacking a few features. Below is a list and I hope the developers take a look!1. An airspace map you can use without route planning. There are apps that do this, but it would be nice to have it all under one app especially since it’s already a feature in flight and in route planning. 2. Map that shows previous flights (combined with the airspace map even). Stacking them as to not clutter. And a toggle airspace’s and other things off and on. 3. A way to search nearby pilots. Privacy is king I know but it would be nice to have a feature where you can find local pilots since this is a niche sport. Maybe even a way to see local meetups on the map and message people involved. I realize there’s a private group feature but it would be nice to have public options other than posting flights publicly. Hope it gains a few more features!!
Developer Response
Hi mgarthur14,Thank you so much for the review!These are great ideas, thank you. We will add it into our backlog to be added into Gaggle in the coming months as development capacity becomes available.
- Add FAI championships with loads of customisation
- Complete redesign of groups and meetups
- Flyability on the Explore map and a new Flying Sites card on Home
- Faster map loading and reworked airspace advisories
- Add a developer portal, for API and Agents
- Custom pilot markers
- Improved power lines display on all maps
- And so much more, check out the changelog at flygaggle.com!
Version 1.72.20261028
The developer, Viszen, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
Identifiers
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Information
Seller
Viszen Pty Ltd
Size
183.2 MB
Category
Sports
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
