SafeAnchor.Net Anchor Alarm User Reviews

SafeAnchor.Net Anchor Alarm

Barkin Takmaz

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Server - Remote mode

The server does not always connect with remote, frustrating and lowers confidence.

Haha4444555

5 months ago

Poor anchor alarm

Anchor alarm only sounds once as a notification and waits for acknowledgment. So if you sleep through it won’t sound again. You can’t rely on this app for anchoring.

SteveMD2020

4 years ago

Response from developer

Dear Steve, You can easily change this setting in Sound And Notifications page on the device settings. So it will never stops playing until your action.

Drag alerts

I keep getting drag alerts when clearly the boat has not moved...

Sassi Kat

4 years ago

Great app except

This app is great, but setting the anchor after the fact is so ridiculously unusable that it makes the entire app worthless if you forgot to bring your phone to the bow when dropping the anchor.

qwertme

4 years ago

not very reliable

I’ve noticed app freeze sometime ,and you need to restart it.
No need to say you can’t rely on partially working app for that matter ! What I did I get another one more reliable.

GeoGold

5 years ago

Response from developer

Kindly upgrade the latest version in order to fix the issue. It is related the memory usage of some iPhone devices. It is working now without any issue.

Not Reliable...but a well planned app

I downloaded this to monitor remotely, it’s one of the only anchor alarm apps that allows real-time tracking via another device. This is a fantastic feature. Unfortunately the app on my iPhone and two other iPhones will freeze. We live aboard our yacht and our anchor position is vital to our safety. This is a secondary anchor alarm to supplement our main chartplotters anchor alarm which is rock solid, however even as a backup, it has to work. Any freezing or crashing is simply unacceptable for something so important. If the developers can get that issue worked out, this will be the best alarm app on the store by miles.

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s.v providence

5 years ago

Response from developer

Kindly upgrade the latest version in order to fix the issue. It is no more freeze or unexpected crash. It is reliable.

Not accurate enough

Good app idea and easy enough to use but I set the alarm at 30m radius and it kept going off even though we were still in the same place.
Our position was moving in the app purely because of the GPS variations.

Ryans review

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. It is using simple moving average in order to eliminate the error caused by poor GPS signal.

Terrifying

I really needed this to work in Lady Musgrave lagoon on the Great Barrier Reef and it did nothing but give false alarms to the point where it kept me awake all night and I ignored it when we did drag. Way worse than useless.

Cautious Sailor

5 years ago

Response from developer

It uses gps location update of the device and accuracy completely depends on the device model.

Don’t waste your money

I was looking forward to using this app after reading the reviews but lets give an honest review under practical application. I sail/anchor in Mexico where there is little cellular coverage in remote places. The first night we used it the alarm went off at 2 a.m., after checking my other anchor drag apps we determined we had not moved at all. The next day went to check our position and the app had lost my position all together and I had to set to last position. I used the app for three weeks straight every day and it frequently just lost our position and had to be reset to last position, I had to set the position manually every time, and the use of the app is not intuitive as you would expect it to be. It would be nice to have the app always be on so you could quickly glance at your position and know everything is ok but it goes to sleep and most time just loses you position. This app is frighting enough I would even like my money back and I will not use this in the future.

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Single-D

6 years ago

Response from developer

Background mode must be enabled for the app in order to prevent this issue. Kindly send an email to support team if you need further assistance.

Useless

I set up to alarm. If you have the app open and are looking at the screen, it will give visual messages. I want something that makes noise. If you rely on this, the noise will be your keel on rocks. Would like my money back.

Steve42425353

6 years ago

Response from developer

The app follows device sound level on lock screen. Notification must be enabled in order to get very loud alarm sound. Kindly go to device Setting-> safe anchor -> Notifications Then enable sound and all notification. You will get very loud alarm sound even if your device is locked.