Anchor Watch 4+
Guardian of your vessel
lukassen
Designed for iPad
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- £0.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Yachting Magazine: "probably the best dollar you've ever spent"
For more than a decade Anchor Watch has set the standard when it comes to guarding your boat and with over 40,000 users you know your boat is in safe hands.
"Anchor Watch" uses the GPS on your smartphone to monitor your boat's position. If the boat moves outside its limits, the program will alert you immediately. Not only on your device but on any device using your iCloud id.
No more sleepless nights, worrying whether your boat is dragging or not. Sleep sound knowing that a quick glance will assure you that all is ok. When you are onshore for dinner or a drink, you will receive an alert the moment your boat leaves the designated area. You can even track it in real-time.
The third generation of Anchor Watch has been rebuild from the ground up to provide the best user experience. It features sea maps navigation and nautical maps. It conserves bandwidth and still uses sophisticated GPS filtering, which avoids false alerts. You can also run it twice as long on the same battery.
Anchor Watch is meant to keep your boat safe, download now.
What’s New
Version 3.6.1
Persistent setting of anchor range
background updates on ios 16.4 and higher
change circle color on anchor down or diameter change
Pushover events now have maximum priority
Ratings and Reviews
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The new version appears to have lost several useful aspects of the version it has replaced:
The vessel sometimes ‘disappears’
No breadcrumbs are left as the vessel moves - this was quite useful.
The display shows Lat & Long but the box at top left just shows 2 rows of red dashes... what should be displayed here??
No distance and bearing to anchor is shown.
The ability to use range and bearing to adjust relative position of anchor appears to have disappeared. Dragging the anchor to a guessed position is not as useful.
Does the App now send message to another phone? This feature seems to have been lost?!!
Whilst accepting that developments are necessary, the new version seems a step backwards. Very disappointing.
Godsend! Straightforward and reliable.
This is the fourth anchor watch app I have downloaded and it really works! Unlike the others, frankly. The add on features are valuable too - calling out to another phone if the boat moves outside the circle you yourself define. Or changes heading. Strongly recommended.
1.1.2 has a bug in the radius - wait for the next version
The new developments are very welcome but the bug on the radar radius screen is now a very real problem. You can allegedly increase the swing radius to 200 meters, but it looks to be out by a factor of 10 i.e. it is only about 20m! So not a lot use as you would need to be in shallow water with a short scope for this to have a chance.
I would still like the ability to move the place on screen where you dropped the anchor.
I'm looking forward to version 1.1.3, in fairness to the guys they are pushing the fixes out fairly promptly.
App Privacy
The developer, lukassen, 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
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- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- Chris Lukassen
- Size
- 21.7 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish, Swedish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2023 Luky Soft
- Price
- £0.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Upgrade to offline maps £0.99
- Upgrade to dynamic Sea Maps £0.99