Comparison

Afloat Plan Home vs PathCheck SafePlaces

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

Head to head
About

Afloat Plan Home

This app allows water sports enthusiasts to submit a plan for their activity, including details about their watercraft and emergency contacts. It tracks your location and sends alerts if you don't return on time, with offline capabilities and a first aid guide.

Highlights
  • Submit float plans via text
  • Watercraft description
  • Emergency contact notifications
  • 10-minute location tracking
  • Offline GPS data archiving
  • SOS eVDSD signal control
  • On-water first aid guide
Features
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Afloat Plan Home for anyone who boats, kayaks, canoes, jet skis, or paddles Purpose: To submit a plan while recreating on the water. Let others know you arrived home safely. Have someone search for you if you don’t come back. Submit via text message all the details of your planned water sports activity. Choose 5 contacts to receive a description of your boat, kayak, jet ski, paddleboard, or canoe. Setting up the app is easy, and you only do it once. • Enter your name, address, phone number, and contact information. • Complete the description of your watercraft—hull numbers, registration, size, and colors. • List your emergency contacts so they are contacted if you are late and do not end your trip. File a float plan in just a few easy steps. Type in your starting location, what your destination is, and what the arrival or return time are. When you push submit, it sends a description of your watercraft, with your starting location and a Google map link, to your contacts. During the course of your activity, your location will be captured every 10 minutes and stored in the cloud. The app continues to acquire your GPS location via satellite and track your trip even when you are out of LTE range. When you are out of range, trip location data is archived locally on your smartphone or tablet. As soon as you reenter LTE range, your offline trip locations are synchronized with the cloud. In the event you don’t end your trip at the scheduled time, the app will send a notification for you to end your trip. After 15 minutes, it will remind you again to end your trip. If after 30 minutes you have not ended the trip, the app will send your trip map to your contacts with route information and your last known location. If you have a Sirius Signal model C-1002 SOS eVDSD, you can test and turn on your signal remotely. The app also shows the light’s battery status. The app also includes an offline interactive looped audio first aid treatment guide for common on-water emergencies.

About

PathCheck SafePlaces

This app helps notify users of potential COVID-19 exposure and supports contact tracing efforts in select jurisdictions. It privately records visited locations and provides updates from local health authorities.

Highlights
  • COVID-19 exposure notification
  • Private location saving
  • Contact tracing support
  • Updates from healthcare authorities
  • Open-source privacy-by-design tools
Features
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PathCheck SafePlaces is the official app published by PathCheck Foundation to aid in COVID-19 exposure notification and contract tracing in the following jurisdictions: Haiti, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Teton County, Wyoming. PathCheck (formerly COVID Safe Paths) can privately save the places you visit and store them on your phone. Subscribe to Healthcare Authorities in your area for information about COVID-19 near you, where available. Receive alerts from your local Healthcare Authority with information about potential exposure to COVID-19. We are a global movement to develop free, open-source, privacy-by-design tools for residents, public health officials, and larger communities. The PathCheck program has spun out of initial privacy-first research conducted by MIT and TripleBlind, into a newly created non-profit called PathCheck Foundation, established with the initial purpose of supporting global rollout of the PathCheck app and associated tools for contact tracers and healthcare authorities. The goal of PathCheck is to help enable the reemergence and re-opening of economies and communities. Through global partnerships, we are prepared to support public health officials everywhere in the effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Screenshots

Afloat Plan Home4 screens
PathCheck SafePlaces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PathCheck SafePlaces at 4.4 against Afloat Plan Home's 3.3. PathCheck SafePlaces also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PathCheck SafePlaces holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 57 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Afloat Plan Home's written reviews are positive against 67% of PathCheck SafePlaces's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Afloat Plan Home ships an update every 2 months, PathCheck SafePlaces every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Afloat Plan Home versus PathCheck SafePlaces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfloat Plan HomePathCheck SafePlaces
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (15 ratings)4.4 (57 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1557 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB38 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSirius Signal, LLCPath Check, Inc

Customer experience

Afloat Plan Home

All ratings15 ratings
Positive53.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

PathCheck SafePlaces

All ratings57 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative12.3%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Afloat Plan Home

No in-app purchases

None

PathCheck SafePlaces

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Afloat Plan Home free?
Afloat Plan Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PathCheck SafePlaces free?
PathCheck SafePlaces is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Afloat Plan Home or PathCheck SafePlaces?
PathCheck SafePlaces is rated higher. Afloat Plan Home averages 3.3 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while PathCheck SafePlaces averages 4.4 from 57 ratings.
Do Afloat Plan Home or PathCheck SafePlaces have ads?
Neither Afloat Plan Home nor PathCheck SafePlaces shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Afloat Plan Home or PathCheck SafePlaces?
Afloat Plan Home ships an update every 2 months, and PathCheck SafePlaces every 2 weeks. Most recently, Afloat Plan Home was updated on October 24, 2026 and PathCheck SafePlaces on October 17, 2026.

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