Anchor Alarm for Boaters User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience8.3% of reviews
Neutral8.3% of reviews
Negative experience83.3% of reviews

~ Based on 24 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Anchor Alarm for Boaters Safe?

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Is Anchor Alarm for Boaters Legit?

Anchor Alarm for Boaters appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Anchor Alarm for Boaters is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Remote function does not work

Installed on both my iphone and iPad. Paid for and activated remote monitoring. Restored purchases on my phone. Started an anchor session on iPad, I can see it in the remote monitoring screen but it doesn’t show in the remote monitoring on the phone.

Even the track sharing function is useless as when received on the phone by email or sms, it doesn’t show and map background.

Useless and waste of money. I tried using the support link. None of the links on the developer website work.
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Would not recommend

Alarm does not make a noise goes to snooze

Not usable

LIES

It says it will work in the background, but it does not! That is FALSE ADVERTISING!

Waste.

This DOES NOT run in the background. I tried using it all summer, it resets and asks you to re drop your anchor!! Terrible.

No stars

This app is supposed to run in the background. Which it doesn’t. I just set it last night and when I got up this morning it’s wanting me to drop the anchor? What a waste. Give this one a pass

Useless

Totally useless. Does NOT operate when the phone sleeps. You drift, no alarm.

App doesn’t work for me Either

Don’t waste your money no support from developer from the app, they want you to up Grade to higher level for $11.99 good luck with that when my $1.49 didn’t get me any thing and no way to get back

Not good

Don’t wAist your money

Sham

I can’t enable GPS positioning in settings or elsewhere so app is totally useless

Don’t waist a penny on this app

Purchased it and does not work on our iPhone.

App doesn’t work....

Do not waste your money on this app... it doesn't work... tells me to turn on location services and when you go to the app in settings, there is no selection for location services. I WANT MY HARD EARNED MONEY BACK !!!

Does not function as advertised.

I recently purchased this app with the hopes that it would alert me if I came off of anchor.
I noticed at one point my average drift according to the app well over 350 feet, this was impossible as I only have a total of 175 feet of Anchorline with less than 30 of it in the water, but never received any alerts or alarms. I was anchored in 10 feet of water and had 25 feet of Anchorline out, my drift was well over 15 feet, I intentionally set my anchor alarm for 5 feet and closed the app for several minutes during my drift and received no alerts or alarms.
I would not recommend this app or trusted dependability.
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Update

Please add an update, my iPad is going mad on iOS 11

Do not use this app

Just dragged anchor 300M and no alarm went off!!! Unreliable and dangerous app. Nearly ended up on the rocks

Help

I am having issues with the app and cannot find a place to write the developer. Please contact me because I need help. This is not a bad review because I like the app but I am having issues with it.

Poor and false alarms

Woke up last night to numerous false alarms as the app keeps presenting distances multiplied by 100 e.g.3583 for 35 metres this triggers the alarm.

On one occasion the app had stopped monitoring altogether.

A broken night, I will not be recommending this app for a peaceful night on the hook

Don't buy

This app is terrible. It works fine for a little while then all of a sudden it says you're drifting by 1000s of meters. Waste of money!!!

False alarms

17,000 ft drift common.

Unsuitable for serious boaters

This app requires cell ph service to function. If you're anchored in a remote area where there is no cell service, it will not work. If you're in an area where cell service is weak, a signal drop out will cause the app to stop functioning. Not good!

Poor

Poor value, says it monitors in the background but it doesn't. It only warns you once you wake it up