Binnen Skipper
5 lakes: chart, trips, weather
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Five lakes, one app: Chiemsee, Lake Starnberg, Ammersee, Tegernsee and Brombachsee – with an offline chart, logbook, anchor watch, weather, water level and webcams.
Binnen Skipper is your digital companion on five Bavarian lakes: Chiemsee, Lake Starnberg, Ammersee, Tegernsee and Großer Brombachsee. Made by sailors for real life on the water – prepared separately for every lake, clear and easy to use.
“Chiemsee Skipper” is now “Binnen Skipper”: the app is free of charge, and your Chiemsee stays exactly as it was – with all trips and settings. Anyone who bought the app before keeps the full feature set.
FREE – AND STAYING FREE
Safety costs nothing here. No purchase prompt ever sits on top of a running warning.
• Nautical chart with your position – offline in the app, works without reception
• Anchor watch with a loud alarm – guards the boat overnight
• Man overboard: mark the position instantly or after the fact
• Official severe-weather warnings from the German Weather Service and storm-warning-light alerts – for all five lakes
• Emergency numbers, water rescue, distress signals and an emergency plan
• Current weather, water level and water temperature
• Harbours, moorings, slipways and crane spots, steamer piers and points of interest
• Bearing to your destination and “nearest safe harbour” with heading
• Right-of-way rules, nature and quiet zones – with a warning when you enter
• Record trips – with distance, duration, speed, crew and notes, unlimited and kept for good
• Backup and restore
• The lake switch itself: all five lakes are free to use
WITH PRO – ONE PAYMENT, NO SUBSCRIPTION
• The whole logbook – open every trip, not just the three most recent
• ICON-D2 and ICON-EU forecast models from the DWD in detail
• Sailing window and wind alert – when the wind suits you today
• All webcams – see what it really looks like before you set off
• Widgets on your home screen – water level, temperature, weather and camera
• Trip insights and season totals – weather, distances, times
• Water level and temperature over time, as a curve
• Pass trips on – as GPX or as an image to share
• Virtual regatta – set your own course, sail it, score it by Yardstick
• Measure distances and plan a route
• Several boats and a maintenance log
• Photos on saved places
• Alternative app icons – the lake designs
The purchase covers all five lakes and every future lake in Germany.
ABOUT THE LOGBOOK, SO THERE IS NO MISUNDERSTANDING
Everything is recorded and kept – unlimited and for good. Without Pro you can open the three most recent trips; older ones stay visible in the list, with date, distance and duration, and carry a lock. Nothing is deleted.
SEVEN DAYS OF PRO TO TRY
Once per device you can try the full feature set for a week – without payment details. It ends by itself, there is nothing to cancel.
ALSO
• Message history: read every warning and notice at your leisure
• UV index with its own screen – today to the day after tomorrow, plus the week
• Sun and moon times, regatta calendar with an entry in your calendar
• A guided tour on first start – explains the lake switch and the widgets
• Wall of Fame: implemented suggestions and who brought them in
• Fully in German and English, light and dark design
• Freely selectable units (knots/km/h, nautical miles/km, °C/°F)
Data sources: DWD/Bright Sky (weather and warnings), Open-Meteo (UV), GKD and HND Bavaria (water), map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
All content consists of simplified summaries for general information only. It does not replace official nautical charts, official navigation or your own seamanship – information may be inaccurate or incomplete. The storm-warning lights are not an official warning system; the warnings of the German Weather Service prevail. Use is at your own risk.
We would love your feedback – just write to us right inside the app!
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Chiemsee Skipper is now Binnen Skipper – with five lakes: Chiemsee, Lake Starnberg, Ammersee, Tegernsee and Großer Brombachsee. The app is free from now on; the full feature set can be unlocked with a single payment, no subscription. Anyone who bought the app before keeps everything.
Also new: a message history for every warning, sailing window with wind alert, trip insights with season totals, GPX export, boat management with a maintenance log, UV index and a guided tour on first start.
The developer, Skipperfriends, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Andrea Ammelung-Hildebrand
- Size
- 127.1 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Binnen Skipper Pro $12.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Titus Hildebrand
