Sailor's Companion
Sailing logbook, track & log
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What's New in Sailor's Companion
1.7.0
September 27, 2026
Sailor’s Companion 1.7 — your track film, the way you want to see it, and a track that honestly shows where something is missing. • Track film with a preview — the export is a page of its own now, with a still at the top that follows every setting. Ten preview stills per film page like the Photos app, and a tap shows them full screen. You see what the film will look like before the render, not after. • Track film, your way — boat and track colour from fourteen shades, five colour schemes for water and land, and the detail map instead of the contour if you like, the same one as on the Track tab. Ten camera heights run from the whole voyage down to a little over two hundred metres across the frame — close enough for a berthing manoeuvre — and up close the track follows the recording finely. If you want, the film ends by climbing away over the whole route. • Track film, up close — besides Day and Voyage there is now Time: from–to, to the minute, so the harbour entrance or a person-overboard manoeuvre becomes a short film of its own. Pick a length between 15 and 90 seconds. Presets for YouTube, WhatsApp Status and Instagram, each light and dark, set format, resolution and quality; the approximate file size shows beforehand. Downloaded regions now appear in the film, the PDF chart and the shared chart image too. Day and Time over the contour are free; the whole voyage and the detail map are Premium. • Fill in the track — if iOS closed the app or the signal was gone, a piece of the track is missing. Until now the chart drew a straight line across it, as if the boat had sailed it that way. Now the gap is dashed and carries a red warning triangle: tap it and tell the app what the boat did there — a straight line or along a dividers route, with the right status. The average speed beside it is the plausibility check. Several gaps in one section fill in one go, with a code confirmation and Undo, in any logbook that is not locked. While a gap is open its miles do not count — the app does not know what happened there. • Forgotten status — cast off without changing the status and the stretch now shows in grey along the ground you actually covered, with a yellow call sign. One tap, one status, and it stands in colour and in the miles. A walk ashore with the phone no longer triggers the hint, and a hint that does not fit can be dismissed for good. • Pictures and films land in your photo library automatically — track map, voyage statistic and track film. The app only asks to add; nothing is read. Switch it off under Settings → Preferences. • Now in Spanish, too — the app speaks eleven languages. ¡Bienvenidos a bordo! Also: built for iOS 27; the anchor watch’s Live Activity appears on every iPhone from iOS 16.2, sector lights show one light circle instead of two, and the first iCloud sync no longer creates duplicates. As always: offline-first, one thumb, out at sea.
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Sailor's Companion Premium
PDF & KML export, multiple logbooks, iCloud backup
