Sailing Quiz HD vs Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sailing Quiz HD
Enhance your maritime knowledge with interactive lessons and quizzes covering navigation, safety, and regulations. This app is ideal for sailors, yachters, and boaters of all levels to prepare for exams or refresh their skills. Learn and practice essential sailing concepts anytime, anywhere, even offline.
- Interactive lessons and quizzes
- Covers chartwork, safety, buoyage, and more
- Offline functionality
- Questions, pictures, and animations
- Regularly updated content
- Suitable for beginners and experienced sailors
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Sailing Quiz HD by Nautica SIA is the perfect app for sailors, yachters, and boaters who want to brush up on their chartwork, safety, buoyage, light's and shapes, sound signals, meteorology, GMDSS, and anchoring skills. With interactive lessons and quizzes, this app is a great tool for sailing education, whether you're a beginner or an experienced sailor. With more than 10 years of sailing education and a plethora of new captains, miles, and waves, Sailing Quiz HD has established itself as the go-to app for sailing education. It's an interactive learning tool for seamen, sailing, and motorboat captains that you can use to prepare for tests, refresh your knowledge before heading out to sea, or simply practice your sailing skills. One of the best things about Sailing Quiz HD is that you can use it offline, even on a plane, making it a great tool for brushing up on your sailing skills before you reach your desired sailing or power yacht charter destination. The app features questions, pictures, animations, and learning resources, as well as a help section. Sailing schools also find this app useful for testing their students, and the test is frequently updated with new questions. Currently, the following themes are available in the app: Safety International Code of Signals (Signal flags) Anatomy of a yacht Terminology 101 Sailing theory Points of Sail Seamanship Knots Pilotage Buoyage Buoyage at night Light characteristic Navigation 101 Route planning Meteorology 101 High's and Low's Ship's Lights & Shapes Sound signals GMDSS The app is designed to help you prepare for your sailing lessons, exams, and bareboat charter. You can use it to learn and refresh your knowledge of colregs and other sailing regulations. With the anchoring lesson, you can also practice your anchoring skills, which are crucial for safe and enjoyable sailing. Sailing instructors also find this app useful as a teaching aid, and it's popular among sailors, yachters, and boaters in the USA, Canada, Europe and Worldwide. Download Sailing Quiz HD now and improve your sailing skills today! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Master
Learn maritime navigation rules with an interactive system designed for effective retention. This app breaks down complex regulations into manageable sections with visual aids and mnemonics. It revisits incorrect answers and provides instant graphical feedback, making the learning process intuitive and efficient.
- Interactive learning system
- Step-by-step rule guidance
- Mnemonics and memory aids
- Interactive visuals
- Graphical feedback on answers
- Practice section with progress tracking
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Master-Nav is a progressive COLREGS learning system developed by a Master Mariner. The COLREGS are notoriously difficult to learn and retain — Master-Nav makes it significantly easier through an interactive system built around how your brain actually works. Instead of guessing through random question banks, Master-Nav guides you step by step through every rule from start to finish. Wrong answers are revisited until the rules stick — properly. Complex regulations are broken down into learnable chunks — bite-sized sections supported by mnemonics, memory aids and interactive visuals designed around how the brain actually retains information. Every incorrect answer is shown graphically alongside the correct one — immediately clear, no confusion. And with a single tap, the relevant COLREGS rule is accessible from any question at any time. Master-Nav covers COLREGS Parts A to D — General, Steering & Sailing, Lights & Shapes and Sound & Light Signals — plus Annex IV Distress Signals. Over 1000 questions in multiple formats, with a dedicated Practice Section that tracks right, wrong and unanswered so you always know where to focus. COLREGS — the easy way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Master at 97% against Sailing Quiz HD's 44%. Master also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Sailing Quiz HD's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On device support and iOS requirement 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
Sailing Quiz HD is free to download; Master costs $1.99 up front. Sailing Quiz HD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Master asks for nothing beyond the download.
Master holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Master has 94 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Sailing Quiz HD's written reviews are positive against 97% of Master's.
Sailing Quiz HD ships an update every 3 months, Master fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sailing Quiz HD | Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 4.7 (94 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 96.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 94 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nautica SIA | Peterjohn Chisholm |
Customer experience
Sailing Quiz HD
Master
In-app purchases
Sailing Quiz HD
- 1 Month$4.991 Month
- 1 Year$22.991 Year
Master
No in-app purchases
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