moodSailor
Nautical navigation, offline
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your waypoints. On the horizon. Weather, currents and tides on every GPS point. Interactive tide tool, hourly popover. 25 languages, free.
moodSailor is a nautical navigation app for sailors, boaters, kayakers and anyone who spends time on the water. It works offline, runs on your phone, and respects your privacy.
NAVIGATION
- Man overboard: MOB button on every screen, alarm, bearing and drift area
- COG, SOG, max and average speed
- Distance travelled, current GPS position, magnetic heading
- Compass: fixed or rotating mode
- Head-up course-over-ground compass
- Reorderable metric cards
- Custom cockpit panels: your cards, your sizes
- Regatta mode: course marks, start sequence with flags and countdown, over-early alert
- Signal K and NMEA instruments on the cockpit: heading, depth, wind
- TVMDC calculator, units converter and IALA region card
MAP
- OpenStreetMap base layer with OpenSeaMap nautical chart overlay
- Official charts where a hydrographic office publishes one free: Norway, US, Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain
- Offline tile caching: pick an area, layers and zoom
- One-tap Map/Satellite view switch
- Adjustable overlay opacity
- Download tiles, weather, marine data and marks
- Three rotation modes: north up, COG-aligned, compass-aligned
- Follow mode with position marker and heading line
- Route tool: draw, measure, save multi-leg routes
- Sketches: draw freely on the map in eight colours, save by name, export as KML or GeoJSON
- Route deviation watch: alarm when your heading leaves the course, even with the screen off
- Anchor watch: circle or polygon around the drop point, alarm if the boat drags
- Navigational warnings: French AVURNAV, Canada, Croatia and relayed authorities
WEATHER, CURRENTS AND TIDES
- Wind, ocean currents, waves and swell from Open-Meteo
- Wave and swell height, direction and period
- Choose the forecast sheet's weather fields
- Animated particles or wind-barb arrows
- Smooth heatmap with colour scale
- Forecast time slider
- Tide curve integrated in the sea-level row
- Every recorded GPS point carries its weather, currents, waves and tide
GPS TRACES
- Recording interval: 1, 2 or 5 seconds
- Background mode: keeps running with screen locked
- Live trace coloured by speed
- Resilient to GPS dropouts
- Native iOS location manager for reliable background recording
- Editor: mini-map, altitude graph, weather, currents, tide
- Six denoising rules
- Import via "Open With" from Files, Mail
- Export to GPX, GeoJSON, CSV or KML
POINTS OF INTEREST
- Create, edit and delete POIs
- Nautical marks: the full IALA set, incl. wreck and preferred channel
- POIs on the map with type-specific icons
- Mark detail pages: light rhythm, cardinal topmark
- Lit marks flash their real light rhythm on the map
- OpenSeaMap nautical marks: download as POIs, search by signal code
- Export points, seamarks or your position as GPX, KML, CSV or GeoJSON
AR POI FINDER
- Live camera with augmented-reality POI markers
- Compass ribbon with cardinal labels
- Configurable distance range and marker size
- Immersive full-screen mode
- OpenSeaMap nautical marks and saved POIs visible in AR view
- Camera detects the real horizon line
- Night light ID: matches flash rhythm against charted lights
AIS VESSEL TRACKING (optional)
- Live nearby vessel positions on the map and in AR POI Finder
- Course and speed indicators
- Vessels rendered as kites under way and circles when stopped
- AR vessels at real angular size
- Status icons on vessel symbol
- Predicted AR positions from last course/speed
KNOWLEDGE
- Built-in reference: glossary, beacons, ship lights, day marks, wind, magnetism, currents, tides
- Search, sources, illustrations
- Interactive tide tool: pick a point on the map
- Morse & ICS signal flags: text->code/flag
SETTINGS
- 25 languages
- Units: distance, speed, altitude, temperature, coordinates
- Themes: light, system, dark
- Weather model selector
- Offline regions list with size and delete
PRIVACY
- No account, no ads, no tracking
- Your data stays on your device
- Train the fleet: opt-in sightings sharpen recognition
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Sketches: draw on the map with one finger; save in Waypoints; export KML/GeoJSON
- Waypoint editor: decimal degrees, minutes or seconds; grouped mark-type picker
- Wind particles now coloured by wind speed, no background; white-on-colour stays a Map setting
- Wind colours and particle speed now match the legend, in your speed unit
The developer, Société Française d'Infonuagique, 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.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- SOCIETE FRANCAISE D'INFONUAGIQUE
- Size
- 91.7 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 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+
- Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
- © 2026 moodXplore
