01 WEAR OS
Skyvw Altimeter The instrument. Barometric altitude above the ground, colour-coded by band, the way back to the dropzone, and whether you still glide there from where you are. Vibrates at the pattern thresholds, never on the ground.
ABOUT
Instruments for
the way down.
Skyvw is a small family of tools for skydivers: an altimeter on your wrist, a map that knows where home is, and a logbook that fills itself in. Your sky view.
Three surfaces, one product
02 ANDROID
Skyvw The phone. Jump Day recording you start yourself, the live map, and the logbook in your pocket. It can show altitude from the phone's own sensors, but it does not pretend to be an altimeter.
03 WEB
Skyvw Log The logbook. Jumps arrive from the wrist on their own, with the weather they were made in, the places they happened, and the people who were on the load. Replayed from exit to landing.
The ladder
Altitude on the watch is never just a number — it is a band, and the band has a colour and a job. The dial, the ring and the alarms all read from the same ladder, so what you glance at and what buzzes your wrist can never disagree.
Each band's ceiling, in metres above ground level. Six of them are alarms, and you set their heights yourself.
- EXIT Climb and spot above 3 000
- FREEFALL The long part 3 000
- BREAK-OFF Track away 1 500
- PULL NOW Deploy 1 000
- HARD DECK Last reserve chance 700
- VIND Downwind 300
- BAS Base leg 200
- FINAL Final approach 100
- GROUND No alarms down here 5
The dial
One number, as large as the glass allows, in the colour of the band you are in. The ring around it is the jump itself — every phase from exit to landing, drawn to the peak of this jump rather than the moment. Shown here running the app's built-in simulator.
The map
Vector tiles on the watch: water, obstacles, airfields, the aircraft nearby, and home. Eight colour themes, down to near-black for OLED, because a map you read at altitude is not the map you read on a desk.
The menus
Circles all the way through. Every setting's icon sits in a ring, and a toggle's state is the ring itself — lit when it's on. Changing anything takes a deliberate hold, so a sleeve can't flip a setting mid-jump.
What this is not
Skyvw Altimeter is not certified as a primary altimeter, and it is not an AAD. Jump with your real altimeter and your real procedures; this is a second opinion on your wrist, not a replacement for either. It runs on consumer watches with consumer barometers, and it can be wrong.
Everything it knows, it shows — including when a reading is stale, when the pressure reference is guessed, and when it has no fix at all. That honesty is the feature.
Made by a jumper
Skyvw is built by a skydiver, around the questions that actually get asked in the air: how high am I, where is home, and do I still get back from here? It is early access — things move, things break, and every release is cut from what has already flown.
OPEN SKYVW LOG The watch app installs from GitHub Releases