# HM50: Load Manifest & Check-In — Heli, cat, boat & shuttle ops

> Heli, cat, boat & shuttle ops (iPhone/iPad app by Ray Munselle.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hm50-load-manifest-and-check-in/id6826401819 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ray Munselle](https://appshunter.io/developer/1861881709)
- Category: Business, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-04
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is HM50?

For heli-ski and snowcat operators, raft and fishing outfitters, and shuttle companies. HM50 runs the day: who's going, on which load, boat or run, and whether it fits, from the first booking to the printed manifest.

Build the day on the office iPad or Mac; guides, pilots and drivers carry the same plan on their iPhone or iPad. Move someone at the office and it's on every phone within seconds; check-ins at the scale flow back too. Synced through your own iCloud with the Operator plan.

Free for one load a day, planned up to 7 days ahead.

Pick your business at setup and HM50 uses your words: loads, boats or runs; riders, guests or passengers; guides or drivers. Then switch on only what you use: lodging and pickups, a check-in scale, rental gear, a fishing licence question. Each kind of vehicle is limited by seats, by weight, or both.

BOOK PARTIES
• Book seats for a party over one day or up to two weeks; name people now or later
• Month and week calendar showing how full each day is
• Lodging and pickup times: each stop, who to collect and when
• Import people and bookings from a CSV or Excel file, or link the Google Sheet behind your booking form

BUILD LOADS AND RUNS
• Drag people from the pool onto a load, boat or run, or seat them with a tap
• Helicopters: a weight bar turns amber, then red, as a load nears max gross, and says how many pounds over
• Snowcats, boats, rafts, buses and vans: checked against their seats (or their weight too, if you choose)
• Guides and drivers count once; a snowcat or boat guide takes a seat, a bus driver doesn't

CHECK-IN AT THE SCALE (heli and snowcat)
• Weigh each rider with their bag and gear; Save & next moves to the next person
• Each load switches from estimates to real weights at its first weigh-in
• HEAVY flags, walk-ups added at the scale

RENTAL EQUIPMENT
• Ski operations: sizes and a suggested ski length and DIN for each renting rider; the shop tech records the DIN set, and a change in weight, boots or ability asks for a re-check
• Boats, rafts and fishing: tick the rental gear each guest needs from your own list, and whether they have a fishing licence or need one
• The manifest totals each item for the shop and lists who still needs a licence

THE MANIFEST
• One tap to a PDF: every load, boat or run with its vehicle, guide or driver, seats, weights where they apply, meals, phones and emergency contacts, plus equipment, gear & licences and pickup pages
• Print, AirDrop or email it

MADE FOR THE OFFICE AND THE FIELD
• iPhone, iPad and Apple-silicon Macs, including side-by-side check-in on iPad and a layout made for the opened iPhone Duo
• Starts empty, with a "Try with sample data" button to practise first
• Your data stays on your devices and your own iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking.

A PLANNING AID
HM50 estimates load weights to help you plan. It is not a weight-and-balance calculation: the pilot in command remains responsible for weight and balance, performance and every load. Suggested DIN settings are a starting point only: a qualified ski technician sets every binding by the shop's own standards.

SUBSCRIPTIONS
• Free: one load a day, planning up to 7 days ahead, on one device
• Solo, $29/month: no limits, on one iPhone, iPad or Mac
• Operator, $79/month: also share with your staff through iCloud
• Operator (12 months), $399/year: Operator, billed yearly
• Staff you invite don't need a subscription.

Prices are in US dollars; the app shows your local price. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings, or in the app under Setup → Subscription.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://republicoftech.co/hm50/#privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Operator (12 months) | $399.00 | per year |
| Operator | $79.00 | per month |
| Solo | $29.00 | per month |


## Is HM50 safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess HM50.

## Is HM50 legit?

HM50: Load Manifest & Check-In has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for HM50 is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6.1 — 2026-11-12

Sharing with your staff works better:
• Changes from another iPhone or iPad now show right away, without closing and reopening HM50.
• Sync now sends everything waiting, including changes made while the company was read-only.
• A staff phone set to read-only stops editing at once and says so.
• After you stop sharing, Invite staff starts sharing again for the same company.

### 1.6 — 2026-11-11

• Two iPads editing the same load or guest no longer overwrite each other: each keeps the part it changed, so an aircraft change, a weigh-in or day notes made on one device stay put when the other saves.
• Weigh-ins count for the trip they were taken on. A returning guest starts unweighed on their next trip, with their last weight shown as a hint.
• "Flown" asks first when a load is over its limit or someone isn't weighed yet.
• Printed manifests continue a long load onto the next page instead of cutting off names.
• A guide with no weight entered now counts at the planning weight.
• Subscriptions: a card retry no longer turns staff devices read-only.
• Sync problems such as full iCloud storage are now shown on the Sync screen.
• Loads near their limit say NEAR MAX, and OVER MAX past it, on screen and on printed manifests, not just in red.
• Clear weigh-in and Remove open seat ask before they act.
• Changing a booking's dates keeps lodging nights you set by hand, and saving again after an error no longer books the party twice.
• Importing a guest list flags adult weights under 90 lb that look like kilograms.
• Better VoiceOver on load cards and the guest pool.

### 1.5 — 2026-11-11

• Siri speaks your business: ask about groups, boats or runs, not only loads ("What's the next boat in HM50"), and log another run, trip or loop.
• Siri asks before it changes anything ("Mark Load 2 as flown?"), so it never ticks the wrong load on a guess.
• More ways to ask: "How many loads are scheduled today", "What are the show times" and "Go to check-in", each in HM50.
• New help topic, Using Siri: the phrases for your business type, and tips.
• The run log uses your word: runs for heli and snowcat, trips for boats, loops for shuttles.

### 1.4 — 2026-11-10

• Run log: after a load has gone, tap its tick to log each extra run. The times show on the load card, at check-in and on the manifest. Undo the last run or untick from the same menu.
• Show-up times: set when each party is due at the office, for every day or just one. They show on the calendar day, when building a load, and on their own manifest page (also in the PDF).
• More Siri: "Log a run in HM50", "Show-up times in HM50", and "Open manifest in HM50" (or Go to, or Show) for any tab.
• Loads page: a day with one load uses the full width, and load card headers fit better on iPad.

### 1.3 — 2026-11-09

• Ask Siri: "Check-in status in HM50", "How are today's loads in HM50" or "What's the next load in HM50". The same shortcuts show in Spotlight and the Shortcuts app, with no setup.
• Tick a load when it goes (Flown, Left or Launched, to match your business). The time shows on the load and on the manifest, and gone loads move to the bottom of check-in. Untick if you tapped by mistake.
• Mark a load as gone by voice: "Mark a load as left in HM50".

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