Afloat Plan Home vs Wakespeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Wakespeed
This app provides a simple and reliable way to configure, update, monitor, and diagnose your Wakespeed Advanced Regulator. It offers pre-defined parameters for various components and an expert mode for advanced customization.
- Configure, update, and monitor WS500 Pro via Bluetooth
- Pre-defined parameters for alternators, batteries, and BMS
- Save and retrieve configurations
- Share configurations with others
- Import configurations
- Expert Mode for advanced customization
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The Wakespeed App allows for simple and reliable configuration, updating, monitoring, and diagnostics of your Wakespeed Offshore WS500 and WS500 Pro Advanced Regulator. Create configurations using Wakespeed's 100's of built in of pre-defined, manufacturer recommended configuration parameters for batteries, alternators, and BMS's; select the brand and models you are using from three easy-to navigate screens to create a customized configuration for your regulator -- just pick-n-go. 'Expert Mode' allows the configuration to be further refined and customized, including adjusting the Charge Profile and accessing some of the more advanced options and capabilities. Once you have created your configuration it may be saved for later retrieval, shared with others via the built in 'share' tools (Email, messaging, etc), or sent to your WS500 / WS500 Pro Alternator Regulator. Connect your iPhone or iPad to your WS500 Pro using Bluetooth to configure, monitor, update, or take logs. With your WS500 regulator 'share' your configuration with a Windows based PC and use the Wakespeed "Universal Configuration Utility" (downloadable at http://www.wakespeed.com/technical ) and a USB cable. Alternatively you can share the configuration to an Android based phone for direct transfer using an OTG adapter. Configuration and updating can even be done before the WS500 / WS500-Pro is installed by powering it through the USB port. Key features include: · Configure, Update, Monitor your WS500 Pro using Bluetooth directly from yoru iPhone or iPad. · Simple 'pick from the list' of 100's of pre-defined Alternators, Batteries, and BMS's to create a reliable and optimized configuration for your install · Save and retrieve configurations for later use. · Share configurations with others using built-in share tools · Import configurations which have been shared with you for use, modification, and/or sending to your regulator. · Share the configuration for later transfer using a Windows based transfer tool. · Advanced 'Expert Mode' allows for modification of pre-defined values, as well as access to advanced features. For more information on this application, supporting tools, as well as the WS500 Advanced Alternator Regulator, visit http://www.wakespeed.com Email: support@wakespeed.com if you have any questions or need technical support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Afloat Plan Home at 3.3 against Wakespeed's 2.2. Afloat Plan Home also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Wakespeed's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Afloat Plan Home holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Afloat Plan Home's written reviews are positive against 33% of Wakespeed's.
Afloat Plan Home ships an update every 2 months, Wakespeed every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Afloat Plan Home | Wakespeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (15 ratings) — better | 2.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sirius Signal, LLC | Dragonfly Energy Corp. |
Customer experience
Afloat Plan Home
Wakespeed
In-app purchases
Afloat Plan Home
No in-app purchases
Wakespeed
No in-app purchases
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