The people behind BreakOff
Built at the DZ.
Jump by jump.
Not a business plan. Just: does this watch on my wrist have a pressure sensor good enough to track a skydive?
From the founder
I'm Anubhav Sethi. I started skydiving in October 2023, and I'm now a C-licence jumper with 600+ jumps and a coach rating. Like everyone else, I finished jump days with a logbook I hadn't filled in and a pile of details I was quietly hoping I'd remember.
The Apple Watch question turned out to be the easy part — the barometer is good enough. The harder question came next, and it's the one BreakOff has been answering ever since:
What would a skydiver actually want from an app before, during and after a jump day?
That reframing is why BreakOff is Watch-first rather than phone-first. Your phone can stay in the gear bag. You are already wearing a watch. Everything else followed from taking that constraint seriously instead of designing around it.
What it is deliberately not
BreakOff is not trying to replace your altimeter, your audible, your AAD, your training or your judgement. It brings together flight recording, jump analysis and your skydiving history. That line matters to me, so the app says it out loud on the Watch before every jump — and it reports Unavailable rather than inventing a number when a sensor isn't cooperating.
Skydiving isn't just another sport. It runs on checks, habits, currency and progression. An app that pretends otherwise, or that quietly guesses at data, is worse than no app.
The habits came from elsewhere too
I'm also a PADI Staff Instructor, so structured training, checklists, safety culture and progression have been how I think for a long time. And I'm an endurance cyclist, which has probably shaped BreakOff more than I first realised: cycling teaches you that data is only useful when it helps you make a better decision. Not more noise — better records, cleaner review, real progression over time.
Still one person, still at the DZ
BreakOff is built by one skydiver and tested jump by jump. v1.3 is the clearest version of the idea so far: the redesigned, progression-focused logbook now adds faster in-person sign-off, nearby dropzone suggestions and Personal Trends, with the reliability work still underneath the interface where nobody sees it.
It's actively developed, and real jumper feedback keeps shaping what comes next. If BreakOff doesn't solve a workflow you care about, tell me the problem — the problem is more useful than the feature idea.
The background.
Kept honest by people who jump more than I do.
“BreakOff feels like it has been built by someone who actually understands jump days. The pre-jump flow, the Apple Watch tracking and the logbook all solve real problems skydivers care about.”
Carla Taboada
Skydive Empuriabrava · previously Skydive Dubai
Carla's feedback keeps the app grounded in real dropzone use rather than app-store theory — the climb, the dirt dive, the pack job, the missing signature, the gear admin, and the “I'll log it later” problem.