# Sailing Companion — The one-stop sailing solution > The one-stop sailing solution (iPhone/iPad app by Bernd Ulrich Bornhauser.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sailing-companion/id6769843695 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Bernd Ulrich Bornhauser](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896692997) - Category: Sports, Travel - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 26 MB - Languages: American English, Albanian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Hungarian and 10 more - Released: 2026-05-20 - Data updated: 2026-08-19 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sailing-companion/id6769843695/reviews.md ## What is Sailing Companion? Key Features: - GPS Tracking: Continuous recording with background support. Pause and resume any time. - Navigation: Set and edit waypoints and navigate along the route, with sound and voice notifications. - Digital Logbook: Capture position, weather, maneuvers, engine readings, photos and voice notes — all on the timeline of your trip. - Live Cockpit: Customize your own digital cockpit and select from 12 sailing metrics — large, glanceable digits that work in bright sunlight. - Anchor Alarm: Drop a virtual anchor, set a radius, and let the app watch for drift — even when your phone is asleep. Power-saving function in low battery mode. - Export & import your trips for backup and sharing with other Sailing Companion users via an open archive file format (.sca) - also works via AirDrop - Export your trip data as printable PDF logbook or as GPX, CSV or JSON for importation in your favorite map tools and apps (e.g. Google Maps). - Social media content generation: Create stunning trip sharing cards or videos with trip data overlay - for your favorite social channels. - MOB functionality with immediate switch to emergency navigation mode and safety relevant extra. features. - Dark Mode: Switch to Dark Mode to save energy and reduce overheating of displays in bright sunlight. - NEW: Apple Watch support with a subset of above features, optimized for the use on your wrist. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6.6 — 2026-08-12 **New** - Measure distances on the map: tap to drop points and see the distance of each leg plus a running total at the top. Works with or without an active trip, on both the standard and OpenSeaMap charts. - Name your positions: add a location name to any logbook entry, with tap-to-fill suggestions based on where you are. Names appear in the entry and in your PDF logbook. - Faster trip replay: play back your track at 4× and 8×, in addition to 1× and 2×. - Customizable Navigation tiles: long-press either metric tile to choose from SOG, SOG AVG, HDG, COG, CTS, DTW, TTW, DTD, TTD and HEEL. - Show or hide waypoints on the map with a new button — toggles your waypoints and route together. - Choose your logbook map: export the PDF with either a vector or a satellite chart. **Improved** - The line to your active waypoint is now dotted for easier readability. - Trip durations over 24 hours now show as days and hours on shared photos and videos. - Anchor Watch: the swing circle is now a clean outline, and the drift trail uses smaller dots that fade with age. - Cleaner logbook PDFs — the speed legend moved to the top-left so it no longer covers the map credit, and the "Entries" heading always stays with the first entry. - Cockpit data (SOG, COG and position) now appears reliably on video and photo overlays. - Anchor logbook entries no longer show meaningless course and speed. - Deleting large trips no longer freezes the app — it now runs in the background with a progress indicator. ### 1.6.5 — 2026-07-22 New: Weather tool: Worldwide forecasts for your current position or any place you search — wind and gusts, waves, temperature, pressure, cloud cover and humidity. Interactive chart with 24-hour, 3-day and 7-day views; tap anywhere on it to read the exact values at that moment. Includes a 7-day outlook, your choice of forecast model (ECMWF, GFS, ICON, Météo-France and more), and pull-to-refresh. Improved: COG is now calculated from your actual track instead of the raw GPS course. Phone GPS often freezes or drops its course reading at low speed — typically right after a tack — which could display a badly wrong heading. In on-the-water testing with two phones recording simultaneously, gross errors fell from over a third of readings to virtually none. VMG and the Apple Watch display benefit from the same fix. Also improved Logbook entries: field labels stay visible while you type, position is shown in nautical degrees/minutes/seconds, and values are easier to read. Tools are now listed alphabetically. Daily trip statistics show the weekday (Mon, Tue, …). ### 1.6.4 — 2026-07-09 New Weather tool — worldwide forecasts (wind, gusts, waves, temperature, pressure, cloud) for your current position or any place you search. Interactive chart: tap to read exact values, switch between 24h/3-day/7-day and wind/temperature/waves, plus a 7-day outlook. Choose your weather model and pull down to refresh. One-tap weather in the logbook — a "Use current weather" button fills a log entry's wind, pressure, waves, visibility, cloud cover and temperature. Photos full screen — tap a logbook photo to view it full screen, zoom, and save or share it. Improved Anchor Watch: Dropping the anchor now arms the watch automatically and records an "Anchor" logbook entry with position. Alarm also flashes the flashlight, adds a large Silence button, and won't re-trigger for 10 seconds after you silence it. Cross bearing: observed position with one-tap copy, white bearing lines that read clearly on satellite, and a fix for a rare camera freeze. Various fixes and refinements. ### 1.6.3 — 2026-07-07 Enhancements - Anchor Watch now logs automatically: dropping and weighing anchor each create a logbook entry with your GPS position, using a new "Anchor" entry type. - Cross Bearing: your observed position now shows the full coordinates on two lines with a one-tap Copy button and a confirmation. - Cross Bearing: bearing lines are now white for much better readability on satellite charts and blue water. Fixed - Cross Bearing: fixed a rare issue where the camera preview could turn white and stop updating. ### 1.6.2 — 2026-07-05 New tools - Cross bearing — take two compass bearings through the camera, plot your position fix on a nautical chart with distances, and save it to the logbook. - Expense Splitter — record trip costs and who paid, split them among the crew, attach receipt photos, and instantly see who owes whom. Cockpit & metrics - New metrics on iPhone and Apple Watch: Heel angle, VMG (to the active waypoint), Trip distance and Trip duration. - Heel-angle calibration for any mounting position, with a "capsized" readout beyond ±90°. - Change a tile's metric with touch-and-hold to pick from a menu — swiping still works — and a cleaner layout without the page dots. - A one-time tip shows how to switch metrics the first time you open the cockpit. Navigation & maps - Logbook entries (including cross-bearing fixes) now appear as markers on the Navigation map and on your trip maps. - Measurement rings now switch to white in dark mode for better contrast on dark charts. - Music now ducks before spoken announcements like "Waypoint reached." Apple Watch - Sound and haptic feedback when you reach a waypoint or destination. - Storm / pressure-drop alert you can acknowledge right on your wrist. Trips & logbook -Add Skipper, Co-Skipper and Crew when starting a trip — now shown in the trip details and included in the PDF and other exports. ## Related topics [yet another sailing app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/yet-another-sailing-app) · [t minus sailing timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/t-minus-sailing-timer) · [us sailing skill up](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/us-sailing-skill-up) · [sailing doodles crew](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/sailing-doodles-crew) · [sailing doodles](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/sailing-doodles) · [gps coordinates sailing](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/gps-coordinates-sailing) · [sailing navigation](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/sailing-navigation) --- *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 2026-08-19.*