Smart Waters vs MOB
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Waters
This app revolutionizes yachting by connecting industry professionals and centralizing boat information. It fosters collaborative relationships and streamlines the entire yachting experience.
- Connects yachting industry players
- Centralizes boat data
- Streamlines yachting experience
- Fosters synergetic relationships
- Unprecedented yachting application
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Smart Waters is an unprecedented application that streamlines your yachting experience by changing the rules: it connects key players of the yachting world, centralizes boat data as never before and enables the birth of synergetic relationships.
MOB
This app duplicates your chartplotter's MOB button on your Apple Watch. It records your precise GPS location at sea, even without an internet connection, and guides you back to it. It's ideal for training or emergency situations, especially in low visibility.
- One-touch MOB button duplication
- Records GPS point at sea
- Works without internet
- Displays course, distance, and time to point
- Corrects MOB position
- Useful for training and emergencies
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This app duplicates the MOB button on your Chartplotter. It works without an iPhone or internet connection and can be launched with one touch on your Apple Watch. It takes a GPS point at the sea according to your direction and speed, and time delay for finding the signal. This way it always saves the exact GPS point where you pushed the button. It is constantly showing the true course to the point, distance to the point, and time at the water, since the point was set. The graphics in the app will help you see your position towards the point. If you fail to pick the person from the water you can correct his position by resetting position, while passing by. This application can provide essential assistance during training MOB on the water, especially at night or in restricted visibility conditions. All the coordinates are saved in the Watch memory and will be uploaded to iCloud. This way the last point is always saved in the memory of the watch and you will get your data even after the app restart.
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Verdict
Smart Waters and MOB both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of MOB's written reviews are positive against 25% of Smart Waters's. MOB also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Smart Waters's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Smart Waters is free to download; MOB costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Smart Waters against 5.0 for MOB. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of Smart Waters's written reviews are positive against 100% of MOB's.
Smart Waters ships an update every 10 days, MOB every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Waters | MOB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Code Gears Ltd | Gleb Semerenko |
Customer experience
Smart Waters
MOB
In-app purchases
Smart Waters
No in-app purchases
MOB
No in-app purchases
