# About XC Connect

## Your XCSoar files, always ready to fly

XC Connect is a cloud sync service built for XCSoar users. Store your tasks, waypoints, airspaces, IGC logs, and glider profiles in one place and sync them directly into XCSoar's data directory via the companion [Android app](/app). XCSoar forks and variants like OpenSoar, XCSoar Jet, and Top Hat are supported too.

## What you get

- **Instant XCSoar sync.** The [XC Connect Android app](/app) syncs your cloud files straight into XCSoar's data directory, with no USB cables, no file managers, and no manual copying.
- **All your file types covered.** Tasks, turnpoint databases, airspace files, glider profiles, map files, and IGC logs, each organized in its own category and ready to download.
- **Smart Camera that reads your briefing.** Point Smart Camera at a printed task briefing in any language and get a draft XCSoar task back, with turnpoints, sectors, and start/finish heights included. Scan a SeeYou-style task QR code or public SeeYou Cloud task link for the same result, or scan an XC Connect QR code to add a shared file. Review before you save.
- **Share a file in seconds.** Send a link or show a QR code straight from the file menu, and the recipient can download it with no account needed. Trade tasks and turnpoint files with other pilots, or pull your IGC log right after landing to submit to a scoring system.
- **Push it in from your phone.** Show an upload QR code on the flight computer and scan it with your phone to upload a file directly from your phone to the flight computer's cloud.
- **Sign in with your phone.** Tap Sign in with QR code on the flight computer or on this website and scan the code with a phone where you're already signed in, so you don't have to type your password there.
- **Nothing overwritten by accident.** Protected files can't be replaced without warning, and any upload or download that would overwrite a file shows you a diff first.

## Perfect for

- Pilots who want a fast, wireless way to turn a paper briefing into a task, and to transfer tasks and IGC logs between their phone and flight computer
- Clubs managing a fleet of gliders who need a reliable way to keep navigation files up to date across all flight computers, without risking accidental overwrites of critical files
- Anyone tired of hunting for the right file on the morning of a flight

## How to get started

- [Create an XC Connect account](/register)
- Install the [XC Connect Android app](/app) on the device with XCSoar and select your XCSoar data folder in the app settings
- Sync files through the cloud!