HomePort vs Adel Mostafa Software
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomePort
This app provides essential maritime knowledge and tools for sailors preparing for promotions and interviews. It offers distance education courses accessible offline, designed by experienced seafarers for effective learning.
- Maritime knowledge source
- Distance education courses
- Offline access
- Interview preparation
- Seamanship information
- Accessible learning
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Homeport App is an information source for mariners (navigators & engineers) which is based on good seamanship of working seafarers. The main aim of our App is to provide access to the relevant information and tools for your future promotion. Working officers took part in the creation of this application, which will allow you to get access to the key details of a fine seamanship in an easy and modern way. Distance education makes seafarers control their maritime training which is especially suitable for everyone in the maritime industry since you as a mariner often spend time away from home. Our courses let seafarers study whenever, whereever and however they choose – even without access to the Internet. All our articles are presented to you in a simple, practical and easy-to-read format. This maritime knowledge application provides quality education to marine students in the most effective and helpful way! This app will help future sailors in preparation for interview in various perspective companies. We would like to announce a quite new application where seafarers of all ranks will find useful and reliable information.
Adel Mostafa Software
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Adel Mostafa app is a must have application for my sons and fellow naval officers and any other person interested in celestial navigation as a science to benefit from to help them to calculate the time of occurrence of any natural phenomenon for a sailing ship Therefore, the navigator resorts to applying the method of successive approximation. It features Rhumb Line (Lat. & Long.), Rhumb Line (T.Co. & Dist.), Compass Error (Time Method), Compass Error (Amplitude Method), Star Chart, Meridian Passage, Sun Sight, Sun Run Sun, Star Sight, Universal Method, Egyptian Method, Unknown Star Identification, Equation of Time; Coordinates of the Sun & Aries, Prayer Time. The results are within 10-15 seconds which is accurate enough for sea.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Adel Mostafa Software at none against HomePort's 10. Adel Mostafa Software also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. HomePort sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 3 months. Adel Mostafa Software asks for nothing beyond the download.
HomePort ships an update every 4 months, Adel Mostafa Software every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomePort | Adel Mostafa Software |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 245 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleksii Fisai | Olymp Soft FZE |
In-app purchases
HomePort
- Interview Engineer$7.993 Months
- Full Interview Navigator$7.993 Months
- Engineer Pro 3 months$7.993 Months
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- Pro Version of 'Third Mate'$9.993 Months
- Pro Version of 'Second mate'$11.993 Months
- Engineer Pro 12 months$14.991 Year
- Pro Version of 'Chief Mate'$14.993 Months
- Pro Version of 'Third Mate'$19.991 Year
- Pro Version of 'Second mate'$22.991 Year
- Pro Version of 'Chief Mate'$34.991 Year
Adel Mostafa Software
No in-app purchases
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