Tradewind Lite

Tradewind Lite is the free edition of Tradewind, a sea chart that lives on your Stream Deck. Every key is a window onto one sea: ports on islands, open water between them, and ships sailing from key to key across the gaps. It trades while you work, and it goes on trading while the computer is off.

THREE PORTS — Saltmere, Brightwater and Kestrel, on Home Waters. Tap a port and then Route, and tap where its ships should sail: from then on they carry each port's goods to the other, and gold comes ashore with every one. A route that brings a port what it wants pays double.

FROM A HAMLET TO A CAPITAL — Tap Upgrade for a level, hold it for more. Ports are rebuilt as they grow, and every stage brings a berth for one more route.

THE FOG — Kestrel lies in the fog at first. It lifts in its own time, or hold to sail in sooner.

YOUR OWN TIME OF DAY — Dawn, noon, the golden hour, and night with lamps in the windows and lanterns on the ships. It reads your clock.

IT TRADES WHILE YOU ARE AWAY — Up to three days, and the captain's log says what happened.

THE FULL TRADEWIND ADDS — Greystone and Oakhollow, expeditions beyond the chart, and new seas: Spice Reach, North Ice, Pearl Banks and on, where everything earns double. A Lite sea is not carried over to the full edition.

No ads, no purchases, no account, no network.

macOS 12 or newer and Windows 10 or newer, with the Stream Deck app 7.6 or newer. Needs four keys; best on eight. The Infobar action needs a Stream Deck Neo.

A backup that survives a crash

Tradewind Lite now keeps its own backup of your sea on your computer, alongside Stream Deck's copy.

If a forced restart or a crash leaves Stream Deck's copy empty or out of date, Tradewind Lite brings your sea back by itself.

Your sea is backed up the first time this version starts, so there is nothing to do.

Your sea, its ports and its routes sail on.