moodSailor

moodSailor is a nautical navigation app for sailors, boaters, kayakers and anyone who spends time on the water. It works offline, runs on your phone, and respects your privacy. NAVIGATION - COG, SOG, max and average speed - Distance travelled, current GPS position, magnetic heading - Compass dial: fixed or rotating mode - Head-up course-over-ground compass; large, legible gauges on tablets - Reorderable metric cards: keep what matters on top - TVMDC calculator and IALA region card MAP - OpenStreetMap base layer with OpenSeaMap nautical chart overlay - Official charts where a hydrographic office publishes one free: Norway, US, Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal - Offline tile caching: pick an area, layers and zoom range - with size estimates - One-tap Map/Satellite view switch - Adjustable overlay opacity - Download tiles, weather, marine data and marks together - Three rotation modes: north up, COG-aligned, compass-aligned - Follow mode with position marker and heading line WEATHER, CURRENTS AND TIDES - Wind, ocean currents, waves and swell from Open-Meteo - Wave and swell height, direction and period - Choose which weather fields appear in the forecast sheet - Animated particles or normalised arrows (NOAA wind barbs) - Smooth heatmap with colour scale - Time slider through the forecast; hourly popover with mini graphs - Tide curve integrated in the sea-level row - Weather and marine data cached separately; purge anytime - Every recorded GPS point carries its weather, currents, waves, swell and tide GPS TRACES - Recording interval: 1, 2 or 5 seconds - Background mode: keeps running with screen locked, persistent notification - Live trace coloured by speed (blue to red, threshold configurable) - Resilient to GPS dropouts; banner alert - Native iOS location manager for reliable background recording - Editor: name, duration, distance, mini-map, altitude graph, weather, currents, tide - Six denoising rules - Import via "Open With" from Files, Mail, Nextcloud - Export to GPX, GeoJSON, CSV or KML POINTS OF INTEREST - Create, edit and delete POIs with custom colours - Nautical marks: buoy, lighthouse, beacon, cardinal - POIs on the map with type-specific icons - Tap a mark or waypoint for a detail page: position, light rhythm, cardinal quadrant and topmark, live bearing - OpenSeaMap nautical marks: download as POIs, search by signal code AR POI FINDER - Live camera with augmented-reality POI markers - Compass ribbon with cardinal labels and 5° ticks - Logarithmic distance scaling; configurable distance and marker size - Immersive full-screen mode; drag to reorder layers - OpenSeaMap nautical marks and saved POIs visible in AR view - Camera detects the real horizon line; marks and vessels lock to it even when heeling - Night light ID: matches flash rhythm against charted lights AIS VESSEL TRACKING (optional) - Live nearby vessel positions on the map and in AR POI Finder - Course and speed indicators; collision awareness (CPA / TCPA) - Vessels rendered as kites under way and circles when stopped - AR vessels at real angular size; AIS-confirmed lock to the boat outline - Status icons on vessel symbol and badge - Predicted AR positions from last course/speed; stale fixes dashed; off-screen chevrons KNOWLEDGE - Built-in reference: glossary, beacons, ship lights, day marks, wind, magnetism, currents, tides - Search, sources, illustrations - Interactive tide tool: pick a point on the map - Morse & ICS signal flags: text->code/flag, speaker or torch; point camera at a blinking light to decode live SETTINGS - 24 official EU languages - Units: distance, speed, altitude, temperature, coordinates - Themes: light, system, dark - Weather model selector (Auto, AROME-HD, ICON-EU, IFS, GFS) - Offline regions list with size and delete PRIVACY - No account, no ads, no tracking - Your data stays on your device - Train the fleet: opt-in sightings sharpen recognition, free; erase anytime