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Forecasts in social context
Scan public spot potential on the map, choose Celsius or Fahrenheit, then open your personal forecast with bookings, observations, comments, and followed riders attached to the same day.
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Stream updates around real sessions
Follow riders, see who rode, notice new comments and mentions, get Android push notifications for visible feed updates, and keep the conversation attached to real places and real days.
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Private rider chat
Search existing chats or riders from the Chat inbox, open a direct chat from another rider's profile, and keep private messages member-only.
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Spot pages worth sharing
Discover windsurf, kitesurf, wingfoil, parawing, surf, foil, and pumping locations with practical details, launches, local knowledge, activity hotspots, and privacy-safe public session previews.
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Hotspot map over time
Replay recent months on the spots map and see session bursts reveal which places are active as the season moves.
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Stats beyond the activity file
Understand performance by rider, spot, activity, time, distance, speed, favorite places, regular buddies, gear usage, and personal records, then focus on a year or open the matching month history page.
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Gear catalog and quiver memory
Browse water sports brands and models, compare detailed variant specs with inline field guidance, filter category specs like volume or sail range, keep your equipment organized with the right item photo, follow rider quiver additions, track new years and updates for favorite model families, transfer gear to another rider with validation, and share usage stats for gear items and models.
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Search Anything
Open the quick search, type a few words, and move across spots, launches, riders, chats, brands, gear, help, settings, and app actions without hunting through menus.
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Profile QR codes for the beach
Open your rider page or settings to show a printable QR code with the Pétole logo, so friends can scan straight to your public profile.
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Guided help with progress
Use the in-app help section to understand spots, gear, sessions, forecasts, photos, maps, sharing, notifications, and the checklist of first actions worth trying.
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Sessions that keep the full story
Record a foreground GPS track from the app, import GPX, TCX, or FIT files when you use another tracker, review track insights for speed runs, planing or glide, route coverage, wind-relative legs, stops, and turns, export GPX from saved sessions, and place photos back on the track map when their capture time matches the GPS log.
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Trusted live sharing
When you choose it for a recording, selected trusted riders can follow a high-level point history and latest shared position, with missed-heartbeat, still-active, low-battery, and manual SOS alerts routed through Pétole notifications.
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Respectful by design
Built for passionate riders, with explicit opt-in location sharing, revocable trusted access, and no dependence on generic social networks.