# Rodewatch: Anchor & Race — The sailor's wrist watchman > The sailor's wrist watchman (iPhone/iPad app by BERKE KAHRAMAN.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rodewatch-anchor-and-race/id6796814335 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [BERKE KAHRAMAN](https://appshunter.io/developer/1843240615) - Category: Navigation, Sports - Price: Free (on sale, was $29.99) - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB - Languages: American English, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Italian, Japanese and 4 more - Released: 2026-08-13 - Data updated: 2026-09-07 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rodewatch-anchor-and-race/id6796814335/reviews.md ## What is Rodewatch? The anchor alarm that can tell you whether it was actually watching. Every anchor app shares one silent failure: it can lose the GPS fix, get suspended by the system, or quietly stop — and you find out in the morning, if at all. Rodewatch is built around that problem. THE NIGHT REPORT — new in 1.1 Disarm in the morning and Rodewatch shows you the night it actually kept: • The minutes the watch was blind — measured from real events, not guessed from gaps in a file • The arc you truly swung, and how much of the circle you set was ever used • Furthest and average distance from the anchor, and every alarm, with the time it happened • The whole night as a GPX export The question at breakfast is "did we drag, or did the GPS wander?" Until now no anchor app could answer it, because none of them remembered the night. The recorder is architecturally separate from the alarm. A build gate fails if the alarm engine ever learns the recorder exists — a full log, a rejected fix or a thinning pass cannot change what the alarm decides. The alarm is a safety feature and nothing was allowed to sit between it and your wrist. ANCHOR WATCH — free, and staying free • Drop the pin over your anchor, set the swing radius with the crown, sleep. • A sailing workout session keeps the watch alive with the screen off; GPS runs continuously. • Accuracy-aware alarm logic — confirmation over 2, 3 or 4 consecutive fixes, plus hysteresis — cuts false alarms from GPS noise. • Swing map plots your recent track around the anchor. No charts, no servers, fully offline. RACE START — free • 5-3-1 sequences with sync-to-the-minute, haptic cues every minute, at 30s, 10s and 5-4-3-2-1 to GO. MAN OVERBOARD — free • One tap marks the spot; live bearing and distance guide you back. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE The app contains no networking code of any kind. Not "we don't sell your data" — there is no code that could send it. Your position never leaves the watch. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no third-party SDK. RODEWATCH PRO The anchor alarm, drag detection, swing map, scope helper, race timer and man overboard are free and stay free. Pro adds the Night Report: blind minutes, the true swung arc, resolution history and GPX export. Monthly or yearly, with a free trial. Rodewatch is an aid to good seamanship, not a substitute for it, and not a navigation, distress or rescue system. Always keep a proper watch and carry the safety equipment your waters require. Overnight anchor watch draws battery like a workout session does; top up before a long night. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://berkemd.github.io/wristsuite/rodewatch/privacy.html Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-08-27 Eleven lines on the night report — the distances from the anchor, the swing circle, the alarm and fix counts, the resolution — stayed in English whatever language your watch was set to. They are translated now, in every language Rodewatch speaks. On a watch that had just been set up, the purchase options sometimes came back empty. Rodewatch now gives the App Store up to 15 seconds to answer instead of 1.6. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-22 The morning-after report now speaks your language. • Eleven rows on the night report — furthest from anchor, average, swing circle, alarms, length, arc covered, blind minutes, fixes kept, resolution — were still in English whichever language you use. All of them are translated now. • The share title of an exported night is translated too. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-22 • The Rodewatch Pro screen no longer opens empty when the App Store is slow to answer. It waits, retries up to three times, and says plainly if the store really cannot be reached — instead of showing an error before it has even asked. • Norwegian is declared correctly again. In 1.1 the language code was silently dropped from the app's own declaration, so Norwegian was missing from the list of languages the app speaks. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-21 Night Log — the anchor watch now keeps a record of the night: how far you actually went, whether the alarm ever fired, and how long it lasted. Rodewatch Pro adds the swing arc covered, the minutes the watch was blind, and GPX export. The anchor alarm, swing map, rode-scope helper, race timer and MOB are unchanged and stay free. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-14 No release notes. ## More apps by BERKE KAHRAMAN - [Forgn: Prior Art Search](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forgn-prior-art-search/id6761314575) - [POYWX: Signal Cascade](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/poywx-signal-cascade/id6777477818) - [Skry: Sky Readings & Journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skry-sky-readings-and-journal/id6790419436) - [Daylume: Golden Hour & Sun](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daylume-golden-hour-and-sun/id6796813768) - [Trailhome: GPS Return](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trailhome-gps-return/id6796813984) All apps by BERKE KAHRAMAN: https://appshunter.io/developer/1843240615 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*