Boating Logbook: Skipper app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 6544 ratings )

Sports Navigation
Developer: Axel Le Pennec

Free

Current version: 2023.8, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 15 Aug 2013
App size: 19.15 Mb

Skipper is a simple yet powerful boating logbook app for iPhone and iPad. It allows you to automatically keep a permanent record of all your activities at sea. If you love sailing or boating, Skipper is the perfect app!

Features:
• Record your boat trips with your iPhone or iPad*
• Keep an eye on your real-time position (latitude/longitude), course and speed
• See trip duration and distance at every moment
• Auto record your trips as soon as you leave your initial GPS position
• Log everything about your activities: weather (automatically downloaded), crew members, boat, departure/arrival places, sails used, engine hours, incidents, repairs, and more
• Access accurate stats around your trips like distance, duration, average speed and top speed
• Relive your adventures with beautiful maps and review your chronicles over time
• Search your logbook for name, notes or place and filter by crew member, boat, wind force and direction
• Import GPX files
• Securely store all your trips on your device and protect your entire boating history
• Nautical, metric and imperial units of measurement support
• Alternate app icons - Jazz up your device Home Screen
• Clean & playful design
• Dark mode support

Skipper is designed and developed by just me, Axel, an independent developer from Paris (France).
Dont hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. Im always happy to hear from you.

Notes:
• *Only the Wi-Fi + Cellular iPads have a built-in GPS, the Wi-Fi only iPads dont have a built-in GPS.
• Skipper cannot be used as replacement for Automatic Identification System (AIS).
• Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease your device’s battery life: it is recommend to connect the device to a power outlet when possible.
• GPS is completely independent of any Wi-Fi or Cellular data connection.
• An Internet connection is required to download weather forecast and maps.
• Maps provided by Apple.
• Weather is provided by Apple

Pros and cons of Boating Logbook: Skipper app for iPhone and iPad

Boating Logbook: Skipper app good for

Great app! Ive been using it in the past months in the Indian Ocean, mainly Mauritius and La Reunion, and it works perfectly! It helps you keep track of your sailing activity, and also gives you useful infos such as weather and speed.

I always use this application to track my navigation. Navigation and weather data are accurate and relevant. Really easy to share with my friends and family. It’s worth the price.

Some bad moments

This app worked until I upgraded to iOS7. Do not purchase until they fix it.

Have used Skipper for over a year to track my rowing on San Francisco Bay. Great maps, satellite views and ability to share to Facebook, Twitter etc all directly from iPhone. Thanks Skipper!

If youre a boater of any kind then buy this app! Sailors will certainly take delight but it would still be enjoyable for a motor on the lake. I spent a long time looking for a decent weather app for sailing. I still hadnt found anything that beat listening to the radio until now! I found this app on Product Hunt where it is called a "Runkeeper for your boat". True, and I think Im really going to enjoy that feature! But it also is the best marine weather app, and that feature is just thrown in! Beautiful interface, very useful app. Glad theres a sailing savvy developer out there with a good eye for design.

Really liked it before this last update now it is totally unusable had to delete it to the cloud were it lives hoping for the old app to return

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