Do I need a Veetr account?
You do not need a Veetr account to record a private trip or join race tracking through a boat invitation. Sign in when you want to share a personal trip online or manage boats and races on the website.
Choose what you want to do
| Feature | Account needed? |
|---|---|
| Use phone GPS and connect Veetr Vane for instrument readings | No |
| Record a private trip and review its route and readings on the same phone | No |
| Keep private boat profiles in the app’s Settings → My boats | No |
| Join a race and send tracking through an organiser’s boat invitation | No — you need a valid invitation and an eligible race |
| View a shared race, published results, or a shared trip link | No |
| Share a personal trip live or publish a saved trip by link or publicly | Yes — with a verified email and access to the selected boat |
| Manage an online boat profile, skipper access, or crew | Yes — with the appropriate boat permissions |
| Manage a series, prepare courses, or record official results | Yes — with the appropriate series permissions |
Why sharing needs a login
Publishing uploads your trip to Veetr so other people can view it. Your account identifies who is allowed to publish the recording and manage its sharing settings. It also checks that you have access to the boat attached to the trip.
Use that same account to change the shared trip’s title or visibility, or stop sharing and disable its link. Viewers do not need accounts. An account does not make a trip public automatically: you choose Anyone with the link or Public when sharing.
Before publishing, sign in, verify your email, and select a boat you have permission to use. A private boat saved only on your phone is not an online boat record and does not grant sharing access. Select an existing online boat or create one in the sharing flow; if it already exists, ask its skipper for access rather than creating a duplicate.
See Share your trip for the steps and what happens when an upload or a change to visibility is pending.
Why private tracking does not need an account
A private recording is stored on your phone. There is no shared online record to manage, so no login is needed. You can record with phone GPS, add readings from Veetr Vane, and review saved trips locally.
Private boat profiles are also stored on that device. Signing in does not automatically upload private trips or back them up. Keep or export recordings you want to preserve before removing the app or its data.
Why a race invitation is enough
The organiser’s invitation connects a phone to a particular boat in a series. That limited permission lets the phone join eligible races and send race tracking without creating a personal account. Open the invitation on the phone, choose the race in Races, and follow the readiness instructions.
No account does not mean private race tracking. Positions sent for a race can appear on its shared map and replay. The invitation does not give you permission to manage the boat’s crew, edit official results, or publish unrelated personal trips.
Race invitations and account access are separate. Accepting a phone invitation does not create an account or grant ownership of the boat. See the crew guide for invitation-based tracking.
When to create an account
If you only want private recordings or have a race-phone invitation, you can keep using the app without signing in. When you want to share personal trips, open Settings → Veetr Account in the app, sign in or create an account, and verify your email.
Use the same Veetr account on the website to manage the online boats and series you have access to. Boat and series permissions are separate: signing in does not automatically make you a skipper or referee. Creating a new series also requires series creation access.
An account is separate from the TestFlight or Google Play invitation used to install the beta app. Internet access and location permissions are still needed for the features that use them, whether or not you sign in.