Watch-first tracking · BreakOff v1.2
Fly the skydive.The logbook writes itself.
Your phone stays in the bag.
Track the jump from your Apple Watch and review it on iPhone after landing. Arm it once on the ride up and you come down with exit altitude, freefall time, canopy data, GPS and gear counts already written down.
- Exit altitude
- 14,996ft
- Freefall
- 1m 13s
- Under canopy
- 2,702ft
- Taps required
- 0
The problem
Nobody took up skydiving for the paperwork.
Years of progression, held together by memory Six jumps in, packing in the heat, someone's buying beer. The logbook gets "done later" — which means reconstructed on the drive home, if at all. The history you've spent years building is only ever as good as what you remembered to write down.
Phone-first apps ask the impossible Most skydiving apps need a phone you can't carry and taps you can't make. So they live in the packing area, not on the jump.
Gear admin drifts quietly Jumps on the canopy, jumps on this lineset, repack due, AAD service — all of it silently wrong the moment you stop updating it by hand.
One jump, start to finish.
A real logged jump, not a mockup. Step through it and watch the record build itself while the jumper does nothing but jump.
Climb · armed on the ground
0ft
One tap before boarding. BreakOff runs its jump check — which rig you're on, your break-off and deployment settings, whether the barometer is actually reporting. If something isn't available, it says so instead of guessing.
Being recorded
- Rig Own rig
- Break-off 5,000 ft
- Deployment 3,000 ft
- Dropzone Empuriabrava
- Exit altitude —
Exit · detected automatically
14,996ft
Nobody pressed anything. Sustained descent off the step is enough for BreakOff to mark the exit from barometric altitude and start the freefall clock — your hands never leave the job they were doing.
Being recorded
- Exit altitude 14,996 ft
- Aircraft Logged
- Time Stamped
- Freefall time running…
Freefall · zero interaction
9,200ft and falling
Seventy-three seconds of doing exactly what you came to do. The Watch is timing the skydive, sampling descent rate and holding heart rate for the debrief. You are not looking at it. That's the point.
Being recorded
- Freefall clock running
- Descent rate sampled
- Avg heart rate 86 bpm
- Max heart rate 130 bpm
- GPS track recording
Break-off · your number, your call
5,000ft
Break-off is logged as context for the debrief — never as a cue to act on. Your altimeter and audible are the altitude reference on this jump, exactly as they should be. BreakOff is writing things down, nothing more.
Being recorded
- Break-off 5,000 ft
- Freefall time 1m 13s
- Group size 4-way
- Jump type Tracking
Canopy · opening measured
2,702ft under canopy
The change in descent rate is what tells BreakOff you're open. Afterwards it can describe the opening properly — where it started, how much altitude it took, how long it lasted — and tells you how confident it is in that reading.
Being recorded
- Deployment 3,000 ft
- Under canopy 2,702 ft
- Opening analysed
- Canopy time timed
- Landing pattern on GPS
Landed · already written
0ft · jump #615
Before you've finished daisy-chaining your lines, the summary is on your wrist and the full entry is syncing to your phone. Your canopy and lineset counts have already gone up by one. Nothing left to remember, nothing left to reconstruct.
In your logbook
- Exit 14,996 ft
- Freefall 1m 13s
- Under canopy 2,702 ft
- Heart rate 86 / 130 bpm
- Canopy jumps +1
- Lineset jumps +1
Jump #615 · Skydive Empuriabrava · recorded with BreakOff v1.2 · profile shown by phase, not to time scale
That was the record. Here's the footage.
Two field demos: the Apple Watch moving through the phases during an actual jump, and the iPhone GPS debrief afterwards. No mockups.
Read this first
BreakOff is a jump tracker and logbook companion. It is not a backup altimeter, audible altimeter, emergency device, or life-saving system. Always use your certified altimeter and audible as your primary altitude reference on every jump, and follow your training, instructor guidance, DZ procedures and governing-body rules.
The skydiving app built to come with you.
Most skydiving apps are used before or after the jump, because a phone is the one thing you can't take with you. BreakOff runs on the Watch already strapped to your arm.
Phases detect themselves
Climb, freefall, canopy and landing are inferred from barometric altitude and motion — thresholds tuned against real jumps, not guessed at a desk. No buttons in the air.
It admits what it doesn't know
If the barometer isn't reporting or wind data can't be fetched, the jump check says Unavailable rather than inventing a number. Honest gaps beat confident fiction.
Help that waits until you're down
Off-landing assistance is confirmation-first and only reachable on the ground. It never fires by itself and never interrupts an active jump phase.
Everything you'd have tried to remember later.
The record is waiting before you're back at the packing mat. Open it to settle an argument about exit altitude, or in five years to see what your hundredth jump actually looked like.
Where you standLifetime total, currency, freefall hours and the gear that needs attention — on open.
What the jump wasExit, canopy, freefall time, heart rate, wind and the GPS track — plus how the opening went.
Where it's goingFreefall per jump, exit altitude trends and progression across all time, this year or 90 days.
Swipe for more →
A logbook that survives 600 jumps
Move by month or year, search across every year at once, and keep exact lifetime numbering even while you're looking at a slice of it.
Gear that counts itself
Canopy and lineset totals move with each saved jump. Dated lineset history, reserve repack and AAD service reminders, rental days kept apart from your own rig.
Records you can take with you
Sign-off fields for in-person verification, and PDF or CSV export by selection, month, year or the whole logbook.
Who's behind it
“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 helps shape BreakOff, and her feedback keeps it 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.
Listed in USPA's Digital Logbook Apps resource
BreakOff's Watch tracking, structured logbook, verification workflow and alignment with SIM 3-1 are documented on USPA.org.
No server holding your jumps
There is no BreakOff backend. Your logbook lives on your devices and in your own iCloud — we never receive it, because there is nowhere for it to go.
Two ways back from a lost phone
iCloud backup plus independent local and iCloud Drive snapshots, so a reinstall can recover your history even if CloudKit sync hasn't caught up.
Analytics never sees a jump
Logbook records, GPS tracks and Health data are excluded from analytics entirely. What's measured is installs and subscriptions — never where or how you jumped.
BreakOff is built by one skydiver — a C-licence jumper with a coach rating who got tired of logging jumps from memory — and tested jump by jump at the dropzone. Read why it exists.
Track your first jump free.
Not a demo, not a watermark — one real tracked jump, saved to a real logbook, so you can judge the whole flow before paying anything.
Free
$0
No account, no card
- Your first Watch-tracked jump, yours to keep
- Full phase detection on the jump itself
- The complete post-jump debrief for that jump
- Further tracked jumps need Pro
BreakOff Pro
$7.49 / month
or $74.99 / year — saves $14.89, about 17%
- Unlimited tracked and manual jumps
- Gear, lineset history, repack and AAD reminders
- Progression stats and canopy-opening analysis
- PDF and CSV export, backup and restore
US App Store prices · Apple shows your local price, trial eligibility and renewal terms before confirmation · Full pricing detail
Before you download.
Do I need my iPhone on the jump?
No — that's the whole idea. Start the jump from Apple Watch and leave the phone in your gear bag. The tracked jump syncs back to the iPhone app once you're down and the two are near each other.
Can I use it instead of an altimeter or audible?
No. BreakOff is not a certified altimeter, audible altimeter or emergency device, and it is not built to be one. Use your certified instruments and your normal procedures on every jump.
What do I need to run it?
An iPhone on iOS 26 or later, and an Apple Watch on watchOS 26 or later with a working barometric pressure sensor. The barometer is what makes phase detection possible, so it isn't optional.
I already have hundreds of jumps. Does that work?
Yes. Enter your existing jump count during setup and BreakOff numbers everything from there, so jump #615 stays jump #615. Month, year and all-years navigation is built for histories that size.
What happens to my logbook if I stop paying?
Your jumps stay on your device and in your own iCloud — they are yours, not ours. Export to PDF or CSV any time, with or without a subscription active.
Does it track wingsuit or other disciplines?
Wingsuit is supported as a jump type you can tag, not as a discipline-specific tracking mode. Phase detection is tuned for belly, freefly and tracking profiles.
Wheels down
Your next jump can log itself.
Download free, arm it before you board, and see the whole thing work on a real skydive — the first tracked jump is yours to keep either way.
Requires iOS 26+ and watchOS 26+ with a barometric pressure sensor