Helmsman's Kit vs Nav Tools

This app combines the essential features you need in the cockpit of your yacht, optimized for easy and fast usage. • Display of a spherical compass as you are used to. • Man-over-board button, display direction/distance with compass. • Anchor watch with forwarding to a second device. • Bearing compass. • Charts with sea signs. • Offline charts by caching of all chart access. • Weather overlay: wind, waves, temperature, pressure. • Tracking optimized for boats. • Full access to and export of the tracks in standard format (GPX). • Post images of your tracks on social media. • Marine instruments display with the standard values: Position, Heading, Speed over ground, Course over Ground, Heel, Log, Average speed, Time. No account or registration required, even not for forwarding the anchor watch alarm to a second iPhone or iPad!

The Nav Tools app is a mobile navigation toolbox for air and watercrafts which is always at hand on your iPhone. It uses full power of device’s internal sensors data (gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer) along with GNSS information for calculating all navigation parameters what provides very high update rate, instant response and indication smoothness. With Nav Tools app you can: - Display main navigation information including heading (based on GNSS course / magnetic heading / true magnetic heading), ground speed, altitude, coordinates, navigation session statistics (total time, moving time, passed distance, average speed, distance to start point) and destination point navigation parameters (distance, azimuth, course, reach time); - Display various times (system time, local time, UTC time) and launch different timers (count up, count down, count down with auto repeat); - Switch between various units of displayed parameters; - Search and save POIs (destination points) for fast access navigation (multiple search options are available); - Activate navigation back to start point by pressing just one button; - Enable multiple virtual screens and select which indicators to display on each screen. Switching between screens is made by simple swipe; - Perform adjustment of indicators appearance to make them fully correspond to your needs. List of indicators: - Multi parameter indicator (ground speed / altitude / heading); - Heading indicator (with indication of direction to destination point); - Chronometer (with multiple time display modes and timers); - Navigation session info indicator; - GNSS info indicator; - Device status info indicator; - Destination point navigation info indicator.