Comparison

BRASS MONKEY vs Maritime Logs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BRASS MONKEY

Monitor and control your smart car refrigerator remotely. Check temperature, voltage, and adjust settings like temperature and power status directly from your smartphone.

Highlights
  • Remote temperature monitoring
  • Voltage display
  • Temperature setting
  • Fridge on/off control
Features
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By connecting the smart car refrigerator through the APP, you can check the temperature of the refrigerator, voltage and other information, as well as temperature setting and turning the fridge off/on.

About

Maritime Logs

Features
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MaritimeLogs is a personal voyage logbook for tracking hours, tasks, roles, vessels and goals, built for anyone serious enough about their time on the water to keep a proper record. Deckhands, masters, engineers, yacht crew, fishing crews, recreational sailors, and people working toward marine certifications. MaritimeLogs is your personal record, not a regulator's official logbook. Formal sea service is verified separately by your employer, flag state or certifying body. But the data you capture maps directly onto the fields required by Maritime NZ Sea Service Records (SRL), MCA testimonials, USCG sea service letters and similar official forms. Print it, have your master sign it, and your formal paperwork becomes quick and accurate to complete. PAY ONCE, OWN IT One payment and it's yours. Nothing to renew, nothing to cancel, no account to lose. LOG A VOYAGE IN SECONDS Start and end times with automatic hour calculation. Day and night hours split automatically, or on the real local sunrise and sunset if you turn on Solar mode, calculated on-device with the NOAA astronomical algorithm. Location is read only when you tap Quick Fill, and never stored. EVERY DETAIL THAT MATTERS LATER Vessel, primary role, voyage type, area, master on watch, tasks performed, goals progressed, people assisted, lessons learnt. Twelve real-time validation rules stop a bad entry before it's saved. GOALS YOU DEFINE Set targets in hours, days, or any unit you choose, sea days toward a milestone, watchkeeping hours, days on a particular vessel, tows completed, training runs. The dashboard shows live progress, so you always know exactly where you stand without doing maths in a notebook. REPORTS WORTH SIGNING PDF reports filtered by date, vessel, role or voyage type, ready for a signature, an employer, or your own audit trail. CSV export for spreadsheets. Share straight from the app. YOURS, COMPLETELY No backend, no analytics, no tracking. Everything lives on your iPhone or iPad and goes nowhere unless you export it yourself. Full backup and restore for moving to a new phone, and CSV import if you're coming from a spreadsheet or another app. One purchase. Yours forever. Requires iOS 18 or later.

Screenshots

BRASS MONKEY3 screens
Maritime Logs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BRASS MONKEY at Free against Maritime Logs's $2.99. BRASS MONKEY also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Maritime Logs's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 40 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BRASS MONKEY is free to download; Maritime Logs costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BRASS MONKEY ships an update every 40 months, Maritime Logs fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BRASS MONKEY versus Maritime Logs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBRASS MONKEYMaritime Logs
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElectus Distribution Pty LtdRobert Love

In-app purchases

None

BRASS MONKEY

No in-app purchases

None

Maritime Logs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BRASS MONKEY free?
BRASS MONKEY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maritime Logs free?
Maritime Logs costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do BRASS MONKEY or Maritime Logs have ads?
Neither BRASS MONKEY nor Maritime Logs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BRASS MONKEY or Maritime Logs?
BRASS MONKEY ships an update every 40 months, and Maritime Logs fortnightly. Most recently, BRASS MONKEY was updated on September 19, 2026 and Maritime Logs on September 13, 2026.

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