Comparison

SeaPeople vs Nargusta

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

Head to head
About

SeaPeople

This app connects boaters by allowing real-time trip tracking, sharing, and community messaging. Log your voyages, discover new routes, and coordinate meetups with other boat enthusiasts. It's designed for all types of vessels and water adventures.

Highlights
  • Real-time trip tracking and logging
  • Interactive sharing with photos and stats
  • Community messaging and map-based communication
  • Trip discovery and inspiration
  • Digital logbook with voyage history
  • Privacy controls for location sharing
Currently charting
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SeaPeople: Marine Weather, Boat Tracker, Trip Planner & Cruising Guide Built by Real Boaters SeaPeople helps you plan around the weather, discover where to boat, track every journey and build your personal digital logbook, powered by 16 million miles of real boating adventures. Whether you're heading out for an afternoon cruise, exploring a new anchorage, planning a coastal passage or crossing an ocean, SeaPeople brings marine forecasts and local knowledge together to help you make every trip better. Marine Weather & Departure Windows Plan your trip around the conditions that matter to you. • Explore 10-day forecasts for wind, waves and precipitation • See hourly forecast detail for the first 48 hours • Create a route on the map and view weather along your passage • Set your personal wind and wave limits • Compare departure windows and see when forecast conditions fall inside or outside your limits • Compare GFS, the European model and Google WeatherNext to see where forecasts agree and differ • Export your route and weather as a float plan to share with loved ones Discover Where to Boat Explore real boating destinations recommended by the people who've actually been there. • Discover marinas, anchorages, mooring fields and local favorites • Find hidden gems and popular destinations • Browse millions of miles of real boating routes • Check forecast conditions and shelter at anchorages • Learn what makes each destination worth visiting with LocalGuide • See where boaters go before and after every stop with RouteIntelligence Plan Better Boat Trips Turn community knowledge into your next adventure. • Explore routes traveled by other boaters • Save destinations for future trips • Build itineraries from real boating activity • Find stops along the way • Combine community knowledge with weather forecasts for your planned route Boat Tracker & Digital Logbook Track every trip with a single tap. No extra hardware required. • GPS boat tracking • Live trip sharing with friends and family • Distance, speed, duration and route statistics • Digital logbook for every adventure • Crew tracking and trip history • Organize every journey in one place Share Your Adventures Bring others along for the journey. • Share your route and forecast as a float plan before you leave • Share your location live while underway • Add photos and updates throughout your trip • Create a lasting record of every adventure • Choose who can see your trips and location Connect with the Boating Community Join a global community of sailors, cruisers and recreational boaters. • Connect with nearby boaters • Join boating groups and conversations • Exchange local knowledge and recommendations • Discover new destinations through the experiences of others Built for Every Boater Whether you sail, cruise, fish, paddle or explore by powerboat, SeaPeople is your companion for every day on the water. Built by lifelong mariners and powered by 16 million miles of real boating adventures, SeaPeople combines marine weather, a boat tracker, trip planner, cruising guide, digital logbook and boating community into one app, helping you spend less time searching and more time on the water. Plan with the weather. Learn from boaters who've been there. Keep every adventure. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Nargusta

Connect with fellow sailors for hospitality and local welcomes when traveling to new ports. Verified members offer guest moorings, club introductions, and local insights, fostering a community built on trust and the Corinthian spirit.

Highlights
  • Verified member network
  • Guest mooring offers
  • Club introductions
  • Local welcomes
  • Digital letter of introduction
  • Event presence sharing
  • Passage planning assistance
Features
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You sail somewhere new. Where you don't know anyone. With Nargusta, you already do. Nargusta is a hospitality network for sailors. Members are verified by phone, vouched for by fellow sailors, and offer one another what sailors have always offered: a guest mooring, an introduction at the club, a berth on a day sail, a knowledgeable local welcome. Every privilege is extended on honor, in the Corinthian spirit. Nothing here is commercial, and nothing is a booking. HOW IT WORKS Verify and set up. Sign in with your phone number, declare your clubs, your home port, and what you can offer. Discover hosts. Search near any port, or near your current position. See each member's clubs, their hosting record, vouches from other members, and club-verified badges earned through the web of trust. Send a request. Introduce yourself and your boat. Your host answers with a tap. Carry your letter. An accepted request produces a letter of introduction: who you are, your clubs, who received you. Add it to Apple Wallet and it is ready at any front desk, with a scannable link to the live letter. Letters are saved for offline reading, offshore or ashore. PLAN A PASSAGE Post a passage with your route and dates. Nargusta finds hosts within your chosen corridor of the rhumb line and lets opted-in hosts along the way raise a hand before you ever drop the hook. AT AN EVENT At a regatta or rendezvous, turn on event presence for a few hours. Other members who have done the same, within about two nautical miles, appear as nearby, and you appear to them. Positions are deliberately coarse, sharing is strictly mutual, and presence deletes itself when the window ends. BUILT ON TRUST Phone verification for every member. Club membership verified by fellow members or stewards. Hosting and guest records on every card. Block and report anywhere member content appears. Delete your account, and everything it touched, from inside the app. Nargusta is free to use, and every feature stays free. Members must be 18 or older. A letter of introduction is a record and a reference, offered in Corinthian spirit; it is not an official access pass, and nothing on Nargusta is a legal or binding agreement. Optional Supporter subscription: a yearly or monthly auto-renewable subscription that unlocks no features; it adds a Supporter pennant to your profile and helps cover Nargusta's running costs. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nargusta.com/privacy Fair winds.

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SeaPeople4 screens
Nargusta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nargusta at every 2 days against SeaPeople's every 5 weeks. Nargusta also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%). SeaPeople's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 2) and chart position (#109 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SeaPeople sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Nargusta sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for SeaPeople against 5.0 for Nargusta. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SeaPeople has 1.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of SeaPeople's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nargusta's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SeaPeople ships an update every 5 weeks, Nargusta every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
SeaPeople versus Nargusta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeaPeopleNargusta
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#109 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSeaPeople, Inc.james tannahill

Customer experience

SeaPeople

All ratings1,176 ratings
Positive98.8%
Neutral0.4%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews154 reviews
Positive90.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative7.8%

Nargusta

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SeaPeople

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Buggy and limited social tool
  • Tracking shows location when on land

Requested features

5 requests
  • More detailed instructions on the mapping feature
  • Add a mid-point to tracks
  • Sort logbook by date rather than order entered
  • Add a like and buy and sell section
  • Add markers on a map (layer) for spots where you can buy fuel, gas, water, supplies, ship chandler etc and allow people to write reviews and recommendations

Nargusta

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

SeaPeople

Subscriptions8
  • Monthly Plus$6.991 Month
  • SeaPeople+7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • SeaPeople Plus- Seasonal$19.993 Months
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  • Annual Plus$64.991 Year
  • SeaPeople+7 Days trial$64.991 Year
  • Seasonal Patron$74.996 Months
  • Annual Patron$149.991 Year
  • SeaPeople Patron+$490.001 Year
2 purchases

Nargusta

Subscriptions2
  • Supporter, monthly$4.991 Month
  • Supporter, yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is SeaPeople free?
SeaPeople is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nargusta free?
Nargusta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SeaPeople or Nargusta?
Nargusta is rated higher. SeaPeople averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Nargusta averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SeaPeople or Nargusta have ads?
Neither SeaPeople nor Nargusta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SeaPeople or Nargusta?
SeaPeople ships an update every 5 weeks, and Nargusta every 2 days. Most recently, SeaPeople was updated on October 27, 2026 and Nargusta on October 25, 2026.

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