# Hooked: Remote Anchor Alarm — GPS Anchor Watch & Drift Alert

> Digital anchor watch for boats, providing real-time tracking and drift alerts. (iPhone/iPad app by Kylee Davis.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hooked-remote-anchor-alarm/id1666392079 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kylee Davis](https://appshunter.io/developer/1666392081)
- Category: Navigation, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 66 App Store ratings · 71 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 41 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France)
- Released: 2023-01-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hooked-remote-anchor-alarm/id1666392079/reviews.md

## What is Hooked?

Let's Hook Your Boat Down!

Hooked is your trusty digital anchor watch. It keeps a sharp eye on your boat's position, sounding the alarm if it drifts beyond your comfort zone. Enjoy the same peace of mind whether you're on deck or ashore, without draining your device's battery.

Key Features:
 * Real-time Tracking: Watch your boat's movements like a hawk. Colorful trails make it easy to see where you've been.
 * Remote Command Center: Control your anchor session from anywhere with an internet connection. Pause, adjust, or relocate your session with ease – it's all up to you.
 * History Buff: Review past anchor sessions to analyze your boating patterns.
 * Customization Galore: Tailor Hooked to your preferences. Adjust units, track appearance, and even the alarm volume.
 * Share the Love: Let friends and family keep an eye on your boat too.
 * Smart Connectivity: Hooked plays nice with other devices. Connect to your chart plotter for more accurate GPS data and to view depth and wind speed.
 * Energy Efficient: Hooked is designed to be gentle on your device's battery, ensuring it lasts as long as you need it.
 * GPS Savvy: Hooked intelligently filters out unreliable GPS signals, preventing false alarms.
 * Low Battery Alert: Never be caught off guard. Hooked warns you when your device is running low.

Note: Remote monitoring requires two Hooked-equipped devices with internet access and a Hooked Premium subscription for the boat-based device. For a cheaper option you can also subscribe to Hooked Essential which enables remote notifications (comparable to Anchor Pro’s “Anchor Premium”).

Ready to drop anchor with confidence? Hooked is your go-to companion for worry-free boating.

Privacy Policy:
https://hookedanchor.com/privacy

Terms of Use:
https://hookedanchor.com/terms-of-use

## Key features

- Real-time boat tracking
- Remote anchor session control
- Past anchor session history
- Customizable settings
- Share boat location
- Connect to chart plotter
- Energy efficient design
- Smart GPS filtering

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hooked Premium (Monthly) | $2.99 | per month |
| Hooked Premium (Yearly) | $17.99 | per year |
| Hooked Essential (Yearly) | $4.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Hooked?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Remote monitoring is awesome
- 🚀 Improves reliability constantly
- 🤝 Responsive developers
- 🛰️ Seamless Apple device connection
- ⏱️ Support resolved issues quickly
- 🌟 Better than Anchor Pro
- 📡 Shares anchoring position
- 🗺️ Satellite view option
- 💯 Best app purchase
- 😴 Peace of mind
- 📱 Remote monitoring with second device
- 🔌 Connects to boat electronics (NMEA)
- 🔊 Loud alarm
- 🎯 Accurate
- ✨ Modern and responsive
- 📈 History of distance and bearing
- ⚡ NMEA data display
- ✅ Reliable
- 💯 Best of its type
- 💰 Worth paying for
- 🌍 Sailing the world
- 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Divided household tech compatibility
- 👍 Great tool for cruisers
- 💯 Exactly what was needed
- ⚓ Live aboard use
- 📲 Easy transfer between devices
- 🧑‍🏫 Sailing instructor use
- 🧘‍♀️ Sleep easy at anchor
- ✅ Simple and accurate
- 💡 Clever and thoughtful
- 🚀 Keeps getting better
- ⚓ Must-have for overnight anchors
- 📲 Easy to set alarm on phone, transfer to iPad
- 📡 Streams boat info to phone
- ⚙️ Easy to configure settings
- ✅ Works flawlessly
- 👍 Highly recommended
- 💯 Best anchor alarm
- 🌈 Color gradient on tracks
- 📍 Ability to see where others have anchored
- 👍 Invaluable for alleviating stress
- 🚀 Fixed bugs quickly
- 💡 Clean user interface
- 💰 Free version useful
- 👏 Super impressed
- 👍 Great app BUT...
- 💯 Best one out there
- 💡 Innovative remote monitoring
- ✅ Solves a real problem
- 🚀 Fast and easy
- 🌟 Genius remote monitoring
- 🤝 Great support
- 💡 Pure genius
- ✅ Peace of mind
- 👍 Great anchor monitor app
- 💯 Best anchor alarm - peace of mind

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional GPS lock issues
- 🐛 Some room for improvement
- 🐛 Connection interruptions
- 🐛 Lack of reliability
- 🐛 False alarms
- 🐛 GPS not updating on iPad
- 🐛 Difficulty finding drop anchor button
- 🐛 Needs alarm for GPS failure
- 🐛 Remote monitoring only with same Apple ID
- 🐛 Cannot form non-circular swing areas
- 🐛 Needs graphics when no internet
- 🐛 Needs cached graphics offline

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Occasionally struggles with losing GPS lock
- iPad built-in GPS sometimes doesn't update
- Some interruptions of connection
- Bug causing incorrect longitude value and app crash
- Seems to only paint the swing on the map sometimes
- Difficulty finding the drop anchor button

**Most requested features**

- Compatibility with Android
- Apple Watch app
- Ability to share remote monitoring with other Apple IDs
- Ability to form non-circular swing areas (e.g., pie slice, freeform)
- NMEA live wind data integration
- Support for Garmin GPSMAP plotters
- Graphics based on GPS when no internet
- Cached graphics when offline
- Apple Watch support to set, pause, stop
- Alarm if GPS fails to update
- Support for NMEA connection to Vesper Cortex

## Recent user reviews (10 of 71)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hooked-remote-anchor-alarm/id1666392079/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Kept us hooked (and anchored) 🎣

*2026-08-01*

Been running Hooked on the hook all season and it just works: set your alarm radius, drop your anchor, and it quietly keeps watch while you actually enjoy being out there. No fussy setup, no false alarms dragging me out of a dead sleep at 2am, no battery-melting nonsense running in the background. It does exactly the one job it exists to do, and it does it flawlessly.

Only “bug” I’ve found is entirely my own fault: I keep forgetting to start the dang thing until we’re already anchored and settled in with a drink (which is on me, not Hooked 🤣). If I had one wish it’d be a little nudge or a “hey, you’ve stopped moving, want to start an alarm?” prompt so people like me get saved from themselves.

Highly recommend to anyone who spends nights at anchor. It’s earned a permanent spot on my home screen.

**Developer response:** Hi there! Thank you so much for the stellar review-hearing that it's earned a permanent spot on your home screen is a big compliment!

We love the thought of a smart nudge when you've settled in, we’ll look into how we can add something like that in a future update.

Thanks for trusting Hooked to keep watch while you enjoy the water!

### 2/5 — Poor GPS Link

*2026-07-28*

Doesn’t update the location very well. The map shows the updated position but the graph doesn’t

**Developer response:** Hi Dash Thieves,
Thanks for the review! If the map is updating, your GPS link is active, but it sounds like you're running into an issue with the graph data refreshing properly.
We want to make sure everything is working seamlessly on your boat. Please reach out to us at hookedanchorapp@gmail.com with a few more details so we can investigate and get this resolved for you.
Safe sailing, Kylee & Scott

### 3/5 — Manque fonctionnalité

*2026-07-28*

Dommage qu’on ne puisse pas repositionner l’ancre à la distance exacte du bateau et au relèvement voulu. 
Avec ces fonctionnalités j’aurais mis 5 étoiles.
De plus il faut payer la version premium pour pouvoir tester les notifications à distance (contrairement à ce qui est indiqué dans le tableau de l’application)

**Developer response:** Bonjour,

Merci pour votre retour.

Nous sommes un peu surpris par votre remarque sur l'ancre, car l'application permet déjà de repositionner l'ancre ainsi que d'ajuster le rayon d'alarme de manière précise. Pourriez-vous nous contacter directement par e-mail afin de nous expliquer plus en détail ce qui vous manque ou ce qui vous bloque à ce niveau ?

Concernant les notifications à distance, elles sont bien incluses dès la version Essentiel (et pas uniquement Premium), conformément à notre tableau comparatif.

Si l'application vous a demandé de passer à Premium, il s'agit sans doute d'un problème d'affichage ou d'un bug d'activation que nous aimerions régler au plus vite.

Écrivez-nous à hookedanchorapp@gmail.com pour que nous puissions faire le point ensemble et vous aider.

Bonne navigation,

Kylee et Scott

### 5/5 — Better than Anchor Pro

*2026-07-17*

I have used Anchor Pro for over three years and really like it. 

However, Hooked looks and feels like Anchor Pro but does anchor repositioning much better and the remote monitoring is Awesome.

### 5/5 — Gets better and better

*2026-06-21*

I’ve been using Hooked for the last year as my ‘go to’ anchor alarm. The developers are improving reliability and adding genuinely useful features all the time, plus they’re very responsive to queries and feedback. Excellent.

### 5/5 — Best there is

*2026-06-03*

Easy to use, connects you apple devices seamlessly. Leave a iPad on the boat and see live data on your phone!
I did contact the support for an issue I had, it got resolved within minutes! Awesome team!

**Developer response:** Thanks so much for your thoughtful review! If you ever have any suggestions, please feel free to reach out to us. Safe sailing!

### 5/5 — Très très bien

*2026-05-06*

Très agréable à utiliser

**Developer response:** Bonjour! Merci de votre revue.

Cette option existe déjà dans les réglages. Vous pouvez activer une alarme quand le niveau de batterie diminue à moins de 20%. Vous pouvez aussi ajuster le pourcentage si vous voulez par exemple une alarme quand le niveau atteint 10%.

Bon ancrage !

### 5/5 — Better than Anchor Pro

*2026-04-11*

I have used Anchor Pro for over three years and really like it. 

However, Hooked looks and feels like Anchor Pro but does anchor repositioning much better and the remote monitoring is Awesome.

### 4/5 — Shares anchoring position!

*2026-03-10, version 1.3.8*

Currently, this is the best solo anchoring app available. It allows you to share entering position with another device so you can leave your phone and get notifications. There is some room for improvement.

### 5/5 — Excellent Free App

*2026-03-05*

I have been using Hooked for a few years. It’s simple, easy, and accurate. I like their satellite view option, in clear waters you can see your track line and reference distance to rocks/reefs.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review!

## Frequently asked questions about Hooked

### What does Hooked do?

Hooked functions as a digital anchor watch for your boat. It continuously monitors your vessel's position and will sound an alarm if it drifts beyond a predefined safe zone. This allows you to have peace of mind whether you are on deck or ashore.

### What are the key features of Hooked?

Key features include real-time tracking with visual trails, remote control of anchor sessions, the ability to review past anchoring history, extensive customization options for units and appearance, sharing capabilities with friends and family, smart connectivity with chart plotters for enhanced GPS data, and an energy-efficient design to conserve device battery.

### How much does Hooked cost?

The app offers different subscription tiers. Hooked Premium is required for full remote monitoring with two devices, while Hooked Essential enables remote notifications, similar to other premium anchor alarm services. Specific pricing details are available within the app.

### What devices is Hooked compatible with?

Hooked is designed to be compatible with various devices, especially when it comes to its smart connectivity features. It can connect to your chart plotter for more accurate GPS data and to display depth and wind speed, enhancing its functionality for boaters.

### When would I use Hooked?

You would use Hooked anytime you anchor your boat and want to ensure it stays within a safe area. This is particularly useful when you are away from the helm, sleeping, or enjoying other activities on or off the boat, providing an essential layer of security and peace of mind.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.8 — 2026-07-16

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 1.4.7 — 2026-07-07

• Anchorage Heatmap — see where boaters anchor most with a live popularity overlay on the map (Premium)
• Export Sessions — download your anchoring history as a CSV file for analysis or archiving
• Performance improvements — faster rendering and lower memory usage throughout the app

### 1.4.6 — 2026-06-19

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 1.4.5 — 2026-06-15

• Advanced notification options: configure per-category controls for local, remote, and critical alerts, with custom thresholds for wind speed, depth, and stale GPS
• Status check-in notifications to confirm your device is still actively monitoring your anchor
• Bug fixes and improvements

### 1.4.4 — 2026-05-18

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

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