Installation
Antivirus warning message
During installation, your antivirus, browser, or Windows may display a security warning. This is normal because the application is not popular enough to be recognised by antiviruses.
You can safely ignore the warning and continue the installation. However, if you want to take no risks, you can:
- Check the source code on GitHub
- Compile the application yourself from sources
Changelog
🆕 October 2025 | RowingBeacon v1.20.2
New Features
Configuration Export/Import
- Export your local configuration (rowers, boats, routes)
- Easily import your configuration on another computer
- Facilitates deployment and backup of your configuration data
Internationalisation
- Support for 9 languages: French (FR), English (US, GB, CA, AU, NZ), German, Italian and Dutch
- Interface automatically adapts to your system language
August 2025 | RowingBeacon v1.18.0
New Features
Coach supervision tracking
- New "supervised by coach" field at the end of each outing
- Display in session history
- Integration in application statistics
- Also present in CSV exports
Other improvements
- New Linux build available (untested, feedback welcome)
- Fix: season selection display bug resolved
April 2025 | v1.16 → 1.17
Statistics improvements
- New club statistics page with redesigned interface and new chart
- Active season selection for all statistics to compare your stats between seasons
- Redesigned rower statistics interface
- Redesigned boat statistics interface
March 2025 | v1.14 → 1.16
General improvements
- Add rowers with predefined category and type
- UI improvements
- Level system clarification
- Simplified level system configuration
January 2025 | Improvements v1.0.0 → v1.14.0
New level system!
You can now restrict outing records for a boat to certain rowers.
- A category (J10 to Senior) and a type (leisure or competition) can be defined for each rower (optionally)
- A minimum required category (J10 to Senior) and a minimum type (leisure or competition) can be defined for each boat
- The restriction logic can be configured based on boat type (1x, 2x, 4x/-, 8-) and allows to alert the user or completely block the outing if level conditions are not met
General improvements
- Statistics: Added club-wide statistics
- Start an outing: Replaced "End date" field with "Estimated duration"
Session history
- Ability to delete a session
- History now remains intact when a boat / route / rower is deleted
Routes
- Route selection is now optional when creating an outing
- If no route is configured, the "Route" field is now hidden
Boats
- Boats are now grouped by type
- Display boat incidents in info modal
- Added search field
- Ability to add boats in bulk with predefined type
Rowers
- Ability to make bulk changes to existing rowers
Rower statistics
- Added most used boats
- Added most frequent partners
December 18, 2024 | Improvements v0.14 → v1.0.0
- Added per-rower statistics (number of sessions, total duration and duration per session)
- Added comparative statistics between rowers or between boats
- Interface improvements
December 12, 2024 | Improvements v0.11 → v0.14
- SQLite implementation for efficient processing of millions of sessions
- Improved export for your sessions in 4 different formats (Excel XLSX, ODS, JSON & CSV)
- Improvements to route / boat / rower management interfaces
- Automatic app launch at computer startup (optionally)
- Improved password security
November 2024 | Improvements V0.8 → v0.11
- Added incident recording feature at end of session
- Added incident history consultation feature
- Added feature to quit app without losing data