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The sailing logbook, reimagined

Your whole voyage.
One tap away.

Log manoeuvres, see SOG, COG and miles sailed — all on one screen, a thumb away. A logbook as calm as a good anchorage.

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Free to download — Premium is optional.

A Canadian voyage on the chart, coloured by speed
The status wheel while sailing: 6.2 knots, COG 247°, voyage and today’s miles
The log with status changes, manoeuvres and a sighting

How it works

One tap. Everything logged.

The status wheel sits under your thumb. One tap on the ring logs a status change — a calm countdown catches a slip of the finger before anything reaches the log.

Log without looking

Tap, let it confirm, keep sailing. Tack, gybe and reef sit in the plus ring right beside it.

Each colour runs through the whole app — track, statistics, PDF and watch.

The app’s status wheel: eight status symbols around SOG and COG

Choose a symbol — or the +.

Chart and track

Your chart. Even without signal.

Sailor’s Companion draws its own vector chart — with sea marks worldwide, sharp at every zoom. Download whole cruising grounds and the chart keeps working where the signal ends.

A general map with sea marks — not an official nautical chart.

An exact track. Every manoeuvre recorded.

Miles come from the path you actually sailed — never from straight lines between two entries. The track is coloured by speed or status, and every log entry sits on the chart as a dot.

A voyage in British Columbia, 167 nautical miles, coloured by speed
British Columbia · 167 nm
A day sail in Dalmatia, 35.5 nautical miles, with log dots
Dalmatia · 35.5 nm in seven hours

Whole cruising grounds offline Premium

Draw a rectangle around your cruising ground — base chart and sea marks land on your phone. You see the size before you download.

A new offline region over central Dalmatia, 145 MB

Find places. Drop markers.

Search bays, islands and harbours, offline too. Your own markers with symbol, colour and note outlast the voyage.

Place search for Hvar: town and island with distance and bearing
A custom “Anchorage” marker off Hvar on the chart

Measure a route — distance, bearing, ETA

Tap points onto the chart and measure leg by leg, with a live ETA at your speed. Up to six routes, each in its own colour.

Route caliper with distance and bearing for each leg
Caliper menu: reset, new measurement, choose measurement, delete

New · Voyage film

Your voyage as a film.

The app flies your route from above, over its own chart, with place names, days and miles. One day, the whole voyage or a time window to the minute — portrait for stories, post, square or landscape.

Canada 2026
  • Five colour schemes, ten camera heights
  • A still preview before the render
  • Presets for YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram

Premium A single day over the coastline is free. The whole voyage over the chart is Premium.

Safety

Sleep soundly. Act fast.

Anchor watch Premium

Set the swing circle on the chart. The app keeps watch, sounds a loud alarm if the anchor drags and shows the watch on your Lock Screen — at night, and in power-saving mode too.

  • Swing circle adjustable while the watch runs
  • Loud alarm with snooze
  • Silence it from your wrist

Setting the swing circle is free. Arming the watch is Premium.

Anchor watch armed: the swing circle with the boat’s movement
Anchor watch as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen

Person overboard

A long press on the MOB button marks the spot, starts the clock and guides you back with bearing and distance to the person.

Person overboard: bearing and 103 m back to the mark

Seamanship

Good seamanship, built in.

The weather report in your log

The forecast for your position, translated into Beaufort, Douglas and oktas — one tap files it in the log. When the next check is due, the app reminds you.

Offline, the last forecast stays in view — with its time.

A real forecast for Komiža with wind, waves, cloud and pressure

Observations with a swipe

Wind, sea, cloud, pressure and visibility — prefilled from the forecast, corrected with a swipe.

Weather observation Wind speed Wind direction Sea state · Douglas Cloud cover · oktas Pressure Visibility

Navigation lights

Your status knows whether you are sailing, motoring or at anchor — and shows the lights you must carry, with sunset and sunrise.

Sightings

Dolphins, whales, seals, turtles and seabirds — with species, count and position in the log, on the chart and on a page of their own in the PDF.

Logging a sighting: common dolphin, four animals
The species catalogue with common and Latin names

Logbook

A logbook that writes along.

Status changes, manoeuvres, weather and notes come together in order, with position, course and speed. You add only what only you know.

  • Place names filled in automatically — from our own chart, offline too
  • Press and hold for note, place name, time and position
  • Move time and place together along the track
  • Several logbooks for boats, crews and seasons Premium
  • Sign and lock entries Premium
The log with a sighting, sailing and mooring
Editing an entry: type, time, position, course and speed

From the boat, not the phone

Your boat’s instruments.

Connect the app over the boat’s Wi-Fi to NMEA 2000, NMEA 0183 or Signal K — wind, depth, heading and speed then come from the boat.

Navigation panel

Wind, depth, current, rudder and autopilot on a compass rose that turns with the boat.

Navigation panel with wind, depth, speed through water and current, live from the boat

AIS nearby

Vessels around you on the chart, with a heading predictor and a detail card that states the closest approach. Set a distance and the app warns you when a vessel comes inside it — an aid, not a watchkeeper.

AIS vessels with course predictors, detail card with closest approach 0.7 nm in 9 minutes

Alarms on any value

Put a bell on depth, wind or battery, choose the range and one of nine tones. The last hours of history are one drag away.

Depth alarm from 3 m with sound and notification

iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Wherever you look.

Chart and log side by side

On iPad the chart sits beside the log. With Premium, iPhone and iPad stay in sync over iCloud — one device records, the other follows.

iPad with the chart, the voyage and the log panel

The status wheel on your wrist

Status, SOG and COG at a glance, tack and gybe under your thumb. The Watch app is included.

Apple Watch: status wheel with SOG 6.2 kn and COG 90°

SOG, course and ETA on your Lock Screen

The Live Activity shows speed, course, today’s miles and the ETA right on your Lock and Home Screen — with tack and jibe for the crew. One glance is enough.

The Live Activity under sail: SOG, course and today’s miles, with buttons for tack and jibe

Memories

Every voyage stays.

Your voyage in numbers

Distance, time under sail and engine, speeds and the whole voyage on the chart — for the voyage or any single day.

Statistics: 35.5 nm in 7 hours, time by status
Distance by status, hour by hour
Voyage poster from Biograd na Moru to Žirje

The PDF logbook Premium

Print-ready and in your language: a cover with the crew, the voyage overview on the chart, every day with a table and a mini chart, and statistics to close. Plus GPX, CSV and KML for Google Earth.

PDF: cover page with boat and crew
PDF: voyage summary with statistics
PDF: voyage overview on the chart, 167 nautical miles

Made to share

Graphics of your voyage for social media — the chart or the numbers, one tap away.

A share graphic with the voyage chart
A share graphic with nautical miles and time by status

The live link

Family and friends follow your voyage in their browser — no app, no account, end-to-end encrypted. Updated once a day for free, live with Premium.

sailorscompanion.com
A shared voyage in the browser: the track round Vancouver Island, anchorages and stats, updated live

That lovely bay from last year — found in an instant

Sailor’s Companion remembers the places of your past voyages all by itself. Your favourite spots stay at your fingertips — captured automatically and found again whenever you want.

The chart with the places of past voyages

On board

Supplies and battery in hand.

Fuel, water & battery at a glance

Keep an eye on diesel, fresh and black water and your batteries — with levels, a runway projection (“11 days to go”) and a gentle reminder when it’s time to top up.

Resources: water, diesel, black water and battery

Power saving

Five switches decide what the app does less often at anchor — Lock Screen, track detail, AIS checks and the live link. When the boat lies still, the GPS sleeps on its own. The anchor watch always stays wide awake.

The power-saving dialog with five switches

Premium

Sail for free. Premium when you want more.

The status wheel, track, logbook, weather, statistics, instruments and Apple Watch are free, with no account. Premium unlocks the tools that reach beyond a single voyage.

Always free

  • Status wheel and manoeuvres
  • Track and chart with sea marks
  • Logbook with weather and sightings
  • Statistics and share graphics
  • NMEA 2000, Signal K and AIS
  • Apple Watch and Live Activity
  • A voyage film of one day
  • Live link, updated once a day

With Premium

  • Offline charts of whole cruising grounds
  • Anchor watch
  • PDF logbook and KML
  • A film of the whole voyage over the chart
  • Multiple logbooks
  • iCloud backup and sync between iPhone and iPad
  • Signed logbook
  • Live link in real time

Monthly or yearly, cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Your logbooks stay yours — even without a subscription.

In your language

Aboard in 11 languages

Sailor’s Companion speaks your language — app, interface and PDF voyage report in eleven languages.

Ready for your next voyage?

Sailor’s Companion — the logbook that sails along. Offline, beautiful, one tap away.

Download on the App Store

Free on the App Store. For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.