Anchor Basic vs Anchor Hub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anchor Basic
This app provides a reliable anchor alarm for boats, offering drift warnings and low battery alerts. Users can pause the alarm and resume monitoring later, or set the anchor by current location, bearing, and distance. It also allows remote monitoring of other users' Anchor Plus alarms.
- Drift warning alerts
- Low battery alarms
- Pause and resume alarm function
- Set anchor by location, bearing, or distance
- Remote monitoring of Anchor Plus alarms
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A fully functional anchor alarm designed for iPhone & iPad. - Simple and reliable with user selectable units, drift warning and low battery alarms. - Pause the alarm and take your device with you; simply continue drift monitoring when you return. - Set the anchor at the current location or a bearing & distance to the anchor. - Use Anchor Basic to remotely monitor Anchor Plus. Go ashore for dinner and monitor your friends Anchor Plus alarm using Anchor Basic. - If you like this version, try Anchor Plus with a host of additional features
Anchor Hub
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Anchor Hub is a mobile app to monitor your boat position and you can set an alert notification if your boat moves to outside of allowed circular position. You can save the monitoring record for your own history and also share them to others with rates and notes. This app includes the feature to search the shared records on a map. This will be useful for searching an anchorage when a boater is exploring in unfamiliar water. This app also includes a way to monitor a boat position remotely. This feature requires 2 devices with this app installed and the internet connections to both devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Anchor Hub at Free against Anchor Basic's $0.99. Anchor Hub also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Anchor Hub is free to download; Anchor Basic costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Anchor Basic ships an update every 2 months, Anchor Hub every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anchor Basic | Anchor Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roy Cadman | Quinn Sakunaga |
In-app purchases
Anchor Basic
No in-app purchases
Anchor Hub
No in-app purchases









