Comparison

ISF Watchkeeper 4 vs IDEA Cloud

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

Head to head
About

ISF Watchkeeper 4

This app helps seafarers track and manage their work and rest hours, ensuring compliance with international maritime regulations. It automatically tests timesheets against STCW and MLC 2006, providing real-time alerts for non-conformities and offering a cloud-based solution for easy access and team collaboration.

Highlights
  • Automatic compliance testing
  • Predictive calculation engine
  • Real-time alerts and notifications
  • Live compliance status monitoring
  • Electronic timesheet signing
  • Cloud-based collaboration
  • Offline functionality
Features
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ISF Watchkeeper 4 mobile app enables seafarers to record their work and rest hours on smartphone and tablet. Timesheets are automatically tested against STCW, MLC 2006 and other international and local regulations for compliance purposes. The predictive calculation engine helps manage work and rest hours compliance for you, keeping you notified of up coming non-conformities and helping you remain compliant. Cloud-based and totally cross platform, ISF Watchkeeper 4 provides seafarers with an efficient yet simple mobile solution that is full of great innovations, showing live compliance status, allowing real time tracking and testing, whilst making it easy to log hours of work and rest, and plan-ahead to avoid regulatory breaches. - Works on or offline - Syncs to ISF Watchkeeper 4 Web App for real-time collaboration across teams - Realtime alerts and notifications of upcoming non-conformance - Monitor your live Compliance Status - Electronic timesheet signing and verification - Manage your work schedules - Automatically log hours by your work schedule - Manage vessel joining and leaving - Copy logged hours across multiple days - Reporting Dashboard - Cloud based, no vessel installation required - Simple, intuitive User Interfaces A truly global brand, accepted by Port State Control and recognised as the gold standard work and rest hour solution, ISF Watchkeeper is developed in partnership with the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), whose members include over 80 percent of the global merchant fleet and who have represented the industry at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) for more than 50 years. No more printing: you can electronically sign and lock timesheets and have them available on your mobile or online for inspection as per IMO guidelines for the signing, tracking and verification of electronic certificates. Your data is synced to the cloud and accessible via the ISF Watchkeeper 4 web app, offering seamless team collaboration and powerful management and reporting functionality from the shore. Furthermore, our dedicated support team are on hand to assist at every turn, getting you up and running and ensure your software operation runs smoothly. The app is packed full of innovative features, benefitting from constant development and evolution by working alongside professionals in the industry and harnessing the decades of experience working extensively in the shipping industry. ISF Watchkeeper 4 is the smart way to help operators comply with the requirements of the ILO (MLC, 2006) and IMO International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW).

About

IDEA Cloud

Features
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The IDEA Cloud app is your tool to communicate with your IDEA YACHT vessels. See shared Snag List information and snags, receive notifications of new Snag List entries or new comments on an item, and allow the vessel to share information with you back at base. The perfect way to organise your workflows on board and with shipyards, management companies and owner’s offices.

Screenshots

ISF Watchkeeper 44 screens
IDEA Cloud3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: IDEA Cloud at 13.0 against ISF Watchkeeper 4's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 7 level
ISF Watchkeeper 4 versus IDEA Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterISF Watchkeeper 4IDEA Cloud
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size40 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIT EnergyIDEA Data Solutions GmbH

In-app purchases

None

ISF Watchkeeper 4

No in-app purchases

None

IDEA Cloud

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ISF Watchkeeper 4 free?
ISF Watchkeeper 4 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IDEA Cloud free?
IDEA Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ISF Watchkeeper 4 or IDEA Cloud have ads?
Neither ISF Watchkeeper 4 nor IDEA Cloud shows ads.

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