Comparison

SeaSmart vs YachtSync

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

Head to head
About

SeaSmart

This app helps seafarers manage their time, documents, and favorite locations. It features a seatime calculator, a calendar for tracking sea days with custom statuses, document storage with expiry reminders, and a place to save favorite locations.

Highlights
  • Seatime calculator with automatic totals
  • Calendar for tracking sea days with custom statuses
  • Document storage with expiry reminders
  • Save and organize favorite locations
  • Notifications for document expiry
Features
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SeaSmart – Seafarer Assistant Your crew expenses, sea time and documents, sorted in one app built for life at sea. SeaSmart helps yacht crew and seafarers handle the paperwork that comes with every contract: claiming expenses, logging sea service, keeping certificates valid and remembering what matters, on board, travelling or at home. CONNECTED TO YOUR YACHT • Join your yacht with an invite code from your captain or purser • Send receipts to your purser in one tap – with photos and totals • Follow every claim: changes requested, sent for payment, paid • Message your purser directly on each claim CREW EXPENSES: -Scan or import receipts with your iPhone camera -SeaSmart reads the merchant, date and amount for you to check before saving -Group receipts by trip: Going to Work, Going Home or Other Expenses -Every receipt keeps its own currency (EUR, USD, GBP and more), with totals per currency -Create a professional PDF report with every receipt image, plus an Excel file your purser can work with -Email the report with Apple Mail and receipts are marked as submitted automatically -Once you've been paid, mark receipts as Paid and clear them in one step -Receipts are stored on your iPhone and are not uploaded to our servers SEATIME LOG Log each voyage with vessel name, joining and leaving dates. SeaSmart counts your sea days automatically and shows your yearly and total sea service at a glance. CALENDAR Mark days at sea, at anchor, on watch or outside the country, and review them by month, year or all time. DOCUMENTS AND REMINDERS Save certificates, visas, medicals and other documents with their expiry dates. Get reminded before they run out, with clear colours showing what's fine, what's coming up and what's due. Add simple reminders too, with or without a document. SAVED PLACES Save ports, agents, offices, restaurants and other useful spots with Apple Maps, organised by category. HOME DASHBOARD See your sea days this year, days outside the country, upcoming renewals, your next reminder and your expense totals as soon as you open the app. SEASMART PRO Upgrade to SeaSmart Pro for: Unlimited Crew Expenses receipts and PDF + Excel reports Unlimited SeaTime entries, documents, reminders and saved places Cloud backup of your SeaTime log with Sign in with Apple, and restore on a new iPhone Try Crew Expenses for free with your first receipts and a free PDF report. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION SeaSmart Pro is a monthly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless you turn auto-renew off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Any free trial offered to eligible new subscribers ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://seasmart.uk/privacy

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YachtSync

Features
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Sending your certificates to a crew agent should take a minute, not an evening of renaming files. YachtSync files them all, tracks what expires when, and exports the lot named the way the agent asked. Free for crew. Always. TRY IT WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Tap Try it first and start adding certificates. No email, no card. Add an email and password when you are ready, and everything you added stays with you. SCAN INSTEAD OF TYPING Photograph a certificate or upload a PDF. The AI reads the title, expiry date, document type and issuing authority. You check it and save. Bulk upload adds a whole batch in one go. The free plan includes 10 AI scans a month, 500 MB of storage and unlimited certificates, and needs no card. Adding certificates by hand is always unlimited. KNOW WHAT IS ABOUT TO EXPIRE Every certificate colour-coded at a glance. Teal for valid, amber for expiring soon, red for expired. A six-month renewal timeline shows what is coming, so you can book the course before it fills up. Push notifications 90, 30 and 7 days before an expiry date, plus reminder emails at 90, 60, 30, 14 or 7 days. WIDGETS Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your next expiry, your valid, expiring and expired counts, and your sea time. Names stay hidden while your phone is locked. THE CERTIFICATES IT KNOWS 77 types, with rank and refresher variants. STCW, Certificates of Competency for deck, engineering and electro-technical, medicals including ENG1, Cayman and Marshall Islands, GMDSS, RYA, HELM, ECDIS and WSET. Competency variants follow the MCA's own structure. One Certificate of Competency card holds every endorsement you hold, OOW Unlimited to Master Unlimited, EOOW to Chief Engineer, the way your physical certificate holds them. SEA TIME, DAY BY DAY Set your vessels up once, sign on, then tag each day as sea days, watchkeeping, standby, shipyard or onboard non-qualifying. Recurring mode fills days forward, so you do not have to open the app daily. Onboard service and qualifying sea service stay as two separate totals, the standby and shipyard caps are applied to the qualifying figure, and raw days sit beside credited days. Export as PDF or CSV, and your totals feed the Careers tab, which shows the gap to your next ticket. It is your own record, not an MCA-recognised testimonial, and YachtSync does not verify or countersign sea service. SEND IT THE WAY THEY ASKED Set your file naming format once and every certificate downloads with the right filename. Export the whole portfolio as a ZIP in a few taps, then send it to an agent, a captain or a recruiter. COVER PAGE FOR YOUR FOLDER Generate an A4 cover sheet for the front of your physical cert folder. Every certificate listed and colour-coded, with a blank column to write in which folder page each one lives on. SHARE WITH NO SIGNAL Certificates save to your phone as you add them, so you can share one at sea with no signal. Sign in on a new phone and everything is there. TRAINING DIRECTORY Search 300+ listed training providers and their course dates from inside the app, then click through to book. Needs a connection. PRIVACY We never sell your data. Scanning sends the document to our AI provider, Anthropic, to read the dates, and under their terms it is not used to train their models. Read what we collect and who processes it at yachtsync.uk/privacy. Your physical originals stay with you. YachtSync tracks them, it does not replace them. Privacy Policy: https://yachtsync.uk/privacy SUPPORTING YACHTSYNC Optional, and it unlocks nothing. YachtSync is free for crew, with every feature available to everyone. Supporters get 50 AI scans a month instead of 10, and a badge, because every scan is a paid call to our AI provider. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Built by a working superyacht officer who started out dockwalking in Antibes. Questions or feedback: admin@yachtsync.uk

Screenshots

SeaSmart4 screens
YachtSync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SeaSmart at none against YachtSync's 6. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. YachtSync sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SeaSmart asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SeaSmart versus YachtSync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeaSmartYachtSync
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB105 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developerpavlo bizhokYachtsync LTD

In-app purchases

None

SeaSmart

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

YachtSync

Subscriptions5
  • YachtSync Supporter$1.991 Month
  • YachtSync Supporter$4.991 Month
  • YachtSync Pro — Monthly$7.991 Month
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  • YachtSync Supporter$9.991 Month
  • YachtSync Pro — Annual$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • YachtSync Pro — Lifetime$139.99

Questions

Is SeaSmart free?
SeaSmart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is YachtSync free?
YachtSync is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SeaSmart or YachtSync have ads?
Neither SeaSmart nor YachtSync shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SeaSmart or YachtSync?
SeaSmart ships an update every 3 weeks, and YachtSync every 3 weeks. Most recently, SeaSmart was updated on November 3, 2026 and YachtSync on November 9, 2026.

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