Anchor Alarm, remote control, proximity alarm, traffic, heading alarm, weather, history, ratings, distress, NMEA, AIS, private & bay chat, notifications, logbook, widgets
Your Ultimate Anchoring Companion: AnchorSafe
AnchorSafe offers the ultimate anchor alarm app for sailors to transform your anchoring experience while staying connected with others. AnchorSafe is the only app that lets you monitor your anchor remotely from shore free from hassle with drift alerts, boat proximity alarms, boat traffic alarms, AIS vessel tracking, and a community of sailors watching out for each other with extensive notifications.
- Anchor Alarms for Peace of Mind: Sleep soundly knowing you'll be alerted instantly to any drag or drift.
- Custom Anchor Alarm Zones, manual anchor set at any location or relative to current location.
- The Ultimate Remote Anchor Alarm & Monitoring: Your virtual presence on the boat. See exactly what you would see as if you were looking at the host device on your boat, including all events & status messages. Receive crucial alerts/notifications anywhere.
- Information Widgets on boat, anchor, nearby boat, overlayed on screen
- Remote Anchor Monitoring of your boat by your on-watch Duty friends.
- Real-time Drift Lines: Visually confirm your anchor's hold with clear, on-map drift lines.
- Proximity Alerts: Stay safe and avoid surprises with instant notifications if nearby vessels get too close.
- Smart Heading & Swing Detection Alerts: Benefit from intelligent, learning-based insights into your boat's movement for more secure anchoring.
- Bay Watch, boat traffic alerts: Effortlessly monitor boats entering or leaving your chosen anchorage.
- Explore anchorage ratings and reviews, share your own discoveries to help fellow sailors.
- Anchorage History: Keep a detailed record of your anchoring spots, including conditions and performance, for future reference.
- Distance measurement tool.
- Enhance collective safety! Assign an "on-duty" sailor for your boat, or even be "on-duty" for several other boats, a cooperative watch system. On-Duty sailors can also watch over your boat remotely.
- Integrated Weather: Access real-time weather updates directly within the app for informed decision-making.
- Local wind estimation: Our micro AI model analyzes the boat's shifting position relative to the original anchor point over time for all boaters to benefit.
- Explore anchorage ratings and reviews, share your own discoveries to help fellow sailors.
- Private chats: Engage with the sailing community through direct messaging, public anchorage-based chats, social sharing or calling directly from the app.
- Bay Chats: Join and monitor crucial discussions and local insights from any location.
- Automatic Captain’s Logbook: AnchorSafe’s Automatic Captain’s Logbook transforms every voyage into detailed, living record, with PDF exports
- NMEA WIFI Gateway Integration: Access your boat’s instrumentation network including AIS data.
- AIS Integration: AnchorSafe AIS Integration, giving sailors a powerful new layer of situational awareness
- Powerful Notification System & Event Logs: Stay informed with a robust notification system and detailed logs of all important events.
- Distress Notifications: allow you to broadcast emergency messages to nearby vessels.
- Low Battery & Connectivity Warnings: Never be caught off guard.
- Geospatial Search : See all boats, sailors, ratings, and anchor history around you with powerful, geographically relevant search.
- Effortless Discovery: Utilize detailed search functionality to quickly find sailors, boats, and the perfect anchorages.
- Service boats such as waste pump-out, supermarket, etc. utility vessels are included.
- Ease of Use: Navigate intuitively! See all these objects directly on the map and simply click to view details, interact, or chat
- Under development: AnchorSafe permanent boat hardware companion for geofence alarms
AnchorSafe—sail smarter, sleep sounder.
Auto-Renewable Subscription Terms: By subscribing to AnchorSafe Pro or Platinum, you agree to the Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
If you are a boat owner and don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars just to see where you are and measure the distances, this is the app for you. Does almost anything you need when at sea. Keeps you safe and provides planning for your sailing adventures.
Developer Response
Thank you very much. More to come , a teaser: automatic captain logbook
Excellent
JLee7888
Excellent for boat owners. Very easy to use and functionality exactly what I was looking for.
Too much PII
Jam-Bagels
Too hard to sign up--too much PII. I don't wanted marry you, so I'm not going to tell you everything.
Developer Response
Sorry to hear about your experience. We use phone authentication solely to protect accounts from malicious activity and ensure secure access. Your phone number is only used for verification and is never shared with other users. Once verified, you can manage your privacy preferences in your profile settings, including choosing not to share your number within the system. We continuously explore new ways to safeguard user privacy, and our platform is certified under both Apple and Google privacy protections.
New release
- Anchor settings visual helper on set/reset
- Easier UI for set/reset with multiple UI options
- Anchor Reset for remote connections
- Bug Fixes on Overlay widgets
- Set/Reset anchor with relative distance, relative angle
- Flexible always‑on set/reset anchor functions on screen
- Protection Zone view before you set/reset your anchor with relatives
Previous Release
- Overlay screen widgets for Boat, Anchor, Nearby, Set Anchor, Logbook, Speed
- Anchor set/update: Relative distance/angle to current position
- Fix NMEA Configuration Help page
Earlier
- NMEA as the source of GPS location
- NMEA Data display, added barometer, COG
- Easy Anchorage ratings system & UI
- Easier user profile creation
- Fix Wind shift detection
- Captain's logbook improvements:
- EXPORT route to PDF & share,
- Log all NMEA data,
- Plot captains notes, events,
- Events auto logged
- New subscription model. Just buy lifetime
Version 2.9.1
The developer, Oguz Uncu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
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Information
Seller
canali-tech pte. ltd.
Size
94.8 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
