iPad and iPhone Sailing and Yachting Apps
iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Sailing, Boating and Yaching Apps
App Categories: Maps and Charts | Weather and Tides | Sailing | Yacht Charter | Accessories
In our continuing goal of bringing you information that is helpful for your next yacht charter - we've been keeping tabs (and using!) many of the great iPhone apps available for Sailing, Boating and Yachting.
Maps and ChartsMaps and Charts are perhaps the most essential (and one of the most amazing) uses of the iPhone for yachting especially if you're bareboating. These programs pack amazing features into the iPhone. |
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iNavX marine navigation |
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| iNavX marine navigation offers US waters marine charts (Included detailed chart coverage: West Coast, Gulf Coast, East Coast, Great Lakes, Alaska, Hawaii, and Virgin Islands) Boatbookings opinion -a must have for navigation in the US, fantastic tool, very highly rated by users on iTunes. We hope they will launch worldwide! | Approximately $50 | GPSNavX |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes |
Navionics Nautical Charts |
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| Navionics offers charts for nearly all of the key yachting regions for the amazing price of about $10 per region (Regions include Mediterranean, US East Marine, etc). Boatbookings opinion - fantastic value, suberb tool. Works great on the iPad's bigger screen! | Approximately $10 | Navionics iPhone Apps |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes |
Google Earth |
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| Google Earth - maps of the entire world, plus images of pionts of interest and local businesses. Also includes Google Ocean with points of interest below the sea. Boatbookings opinion - this game changer just keeps getting better. Wish it had depth readings, however. | Free | Google Earth for iPhone |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes
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Panoramio |
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| Panoramio - Pictures of virtually everywhere - user generated. Can be uploaded directly from the iPhone and geocoded to the place it was taken. Boatbookings opinion - excellent for getting images of places you'll be visiting. Image quality varies significantly, however. | Free | Panoramio for iPhone |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes - no camera Ipad? Yes - no camera
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Weather, Tides and General Yachting Information iPhone AppsApps to plan weather, currents and tides as you never could before, and to have yachting information you need always available in seconds |
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Aye Tides |
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| AyeTides An iPhone app that displays tides and currents in ports worldwide. Boatbookings opinion - amazing that you can have all the world's tides in your iPhone, forever, for $10. | $9.99 | AyeTides iPhone App- Hahn Software LLC |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes
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YachtWeather |
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| A slick weather App that provides key information to help plan your day on the water: temperature, wind direction and speed, wave height, wave length, wave period, storm risk, precipitation risk, humidity, pressure, etc. 6 hour forecasts. Boatbookings opinion - Exellent App - and free so just get it! |
Free | Esrion AG |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes
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Boating Weather |
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Boating Weather gives you simple and effective weather reports for planning your day out on the water. |
$1.99 | Blue Whale |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes
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Yacht Captain's Toolbox |
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This app replaces several books, manuals, study guides and other boating resources in one easy to use application. All the data is stored on your phone - no connection required Boatbookings opinion - nice to have all this reference information in one place |
$4.99 | Expedition Research LLC |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes
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Sailing iPhone AppsApps for the sailor, both professional and amateur, where the iPhone does the work of products far more expensive. |
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Wind Meter |
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| Wind Meter - iPhone app that estimates the speed of the wind by measuring the volume of the wind on your iPhone microphone. Boatbookings opinion - user reviews have been spotty, some say it's great, some say the readings are not accurate in low winds. Give it a try - it's worth a buck! | $0.99 | Wind Meter |  |
Ipod Touch? No Ipad? No |
SailMaster |
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| Sailmaster - Professional sailing tools at a fraction of the cost. The SailMaster app provides all the information needed to optimize sailing and racing performance, including: Boat Speed, Waypoints/Course, Lift/Header, Digital Compass, Count Down Timer, Angle of Heel, Tidal Info and Course Plotting. Boatbookings opinion - User reviews are not good so far, they all agree it's a great idea but it needs to work better | $11.99 | Sailmaster |  |
Ipod Touch? No Ipad? TBD |
Yacht Charter iPhone AppsApps that help you charter a yacht from your iPhone |
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Boatbookings.com |
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| Boatbookings.com - iPhone app that with special charter deals, charter yacht search, dayboats near you, news, blog and boatbookingsTV. Boatbookings opinion - it's our app, so we can't really comment except to say that we will be adding lots of great features in the future! | Free | Boatbookings |  |
Ipod Touch? Yes Ipad? Yes |
iPad Waterproof CasesTo bring your favorite toy with you on your chartered yacht, you need one of those waterproof cases to protect your dear Ipad. Perfect for all wet situations, these cases make you feel safe on every yacht and enable you to securely use the available applications while navigating on sea. |
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The Waterproof WaterGuard |
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This waterproof case has been released by TrendyDigital and will protect your iPad with a plastic that is UV stabilized. It gives you complete access to all the features of the iPad, including the touch sensitive screen and the speakers sound system, and is the best option so far for protecting your favorite tech device against extremely wet situations. |
$19.99 | TrendyDigital or on Amazon.com |  |
Ipod Touch? No |
Other Cool, General Interest AppsApps that help you charter a yacht from your iPhone |
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Personalised News |
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| FlipBoard - This award winning app assembles all of your news, finance, sports, social media and other feeds into a beautiful, personalised magazine that looks great on the iPad. Reading is simply "flipping" through the pages. You can easily set the feeds you want to see, and it loads and formats the complete articles Boatbookings opinion - this is what the iPad is all about - a fantastic app. Put our blog and twitter feeds into it, to keep you up to date on our news and articles. |
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Ipod Touch? No Ipad? Yes |
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If you know of other cool iPhone apps for Sailing, Yachting, or Boating - or even those that yachting people would enjoy, please let us know and we'll add them to the list! Just send us and email to techie at boatbookings.com - and we'll add them to this page
Contact Us!
Most of our Charter Consultants are fairly handy with technology and can also help you decide how to use mobile computing to enhance your next charter. Feel free to contact us and we will be happy to propose yachts, destinations and itineraries, as well as technologies, that will make for the best charter of your life!
Robert Said:
“Simple Charts which I use on both my iPhone and iPad is a great little app that packs in both a real-time on the water navigation solution using the NOAA raster chart set as well as a real-time NOAA marine weather feed. I simply love this app and would recommend it to anyone.”
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Larry Edwards Said:
“Unpreceded realism and level of detail indeed. Fun sailing sim called `Little Sailor`.”
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Martin Said:
“You should try/add this incredible simulator. Highly educational! itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-sailor/id430948592”
JoniFili Said:
“Magellan gps iPhone toughcase. More GPS, more battery life, IPX7 water proof.”
Arild Said:
“I would add MID Wifi (iPhone/iPad) to the list. Useful and easy-to-use app that shows basic GPS stuff, wind, depth, speed and heeling. There is also cheaper version without NMEA available. These apps can be found at: www.veerasolutions.com/midwifi”
PoisonD Said:
“Check out The Boater`s Toolkit on the iTunes app store. It has customizable two level checklists to get you out on the water quickly without forgetting anything. It also has a GPS speedometer, shopping lists, location tagging, and a module to store information about your boat such as serial numbers, oil types, filters, and any misc items you need when you are at the store. Additionally there is a module to store rider settings for people who ski.”
DNDistribution2011 Said:
“We`d like to inform the readers of this forum of the availability our waterproof hard cases for iPad and iPad2.”
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paul Said:
“Looking for an app on he Iphone just to show me speed to ground and, calculating from tides, speed over water”
Lori Shay Said:
“Geetings! I recently purchased sailing training apps for beginners at Apps4Sailing.com Thye run on all Apple devices including Mac. Thought your readers may want to know about these.”
Boating Weather Said:
“Please include our Boating Weather App - perfect for planning your day out on the water!”
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