Anchor Watch vs PredictWind Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anchor Watch
This app provides a reliable anchor alarm for boaters, ensuring peace of mind while anchored. It offers features like remote monitoring, critical alerts, and historical anchorage data, all within an intuitive interface. Enjoy enhanced safety and convenience on the water.
- Set anchor with one click
- Advanced mode for tight spots
- Remote Watch functionality
- Critical Alerts for silent notifications
- Dynamic Island and Lock screen integration
- Anchorage history
- Drag and drop anchor adjustment
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A simple yet powerful anchor alarm. It let's you sleep well knowing an alarm will go off if your vessel is dragging it's anchor. Anchor Watch is a modern fully featured anchor alarm app with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface: - In it's simplest form you can set your anchor with 1 click - If anchored in a tight spot, use the advanced mode to allow for more room in one direction - Remote Watch — Keep a lookout, even off the boat - Will alert you even if your phone is on silent using Critical Alerts - See your anchor position in the Dynamic Island and Lock screen without even opening the app - Keeps a history of all your anchorages in case you want to revisit - Set your anchor by pointing your phone towards your hook - Drag and Drop to move the anchor if you didn't get it exactly right Anchor Watch offers world-class privacy — no third-party analytics, ads, or tracking. To enable Remote Watch, your location data is securely stored in a private container on Apple’s servers, fully protected by your iCloud account. Neither we nor any third party ever have access to your data. Anchor Watch is free for the 10 first alarms, after that a small subscription is required, this helps fund future updates to the app and to keep it up to date. If you choose to subscribe payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Privacy policy: https://highhillbits.com/anchor-watch/privacy Terms of use: https://highhillbits.com/anchor-watch/terms Proudly made onboard, off the coast of Norway.
PredictWind Tracker
Automatically update your personalized GPS tracking page for real-time location sharing. Ideal for boaters, it allows friends and family to monitor your position and route with weather or satellite maps. Link to add blogs and videos for a permanent record of your journey.
- Automatic GPS tracking updates
- Real-time location sharing
- Weather and satellite map overlays
- Add blogs and video links
- Personalized tracking page
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This app is designed to automatically update your personalized PredictWind GPS tracking page, ideal for Starlink users or those on LTE/cellular connections. Record and share your tracks to friends families and followers so they monitor your boats position and route in real time with weather or satellite maps. Link through to add blogs, video links for a permanent record of your journey. Note: You need a PredictWind GPS tracking page to use this app. To set up a PredictWind GPS tracking page contact https://www.predictwind.com/contact-us Terms & Conditions: https://www.predictwind.com/about-us/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.predictwind.com/about-us/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Anchor Watch at 4.8 against PredictWind Tracker's 4.4. Anchor Watch also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 7). PredictWind Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Anchor Watch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and PredictWind Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Anchor Watch holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 7 respectively.
Anchor Watch ships an update every 5 months, PredictWind Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anchor Watch | PredictWind Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | High Hill Bits AS | PredictWind Limited |
Customer experience
Anchor Watch
PredictWind Tracker
In-app purchases
Anchor Watch
- Monthly$0.491 Month
- Yearly$4.991 Year
PredictWind Tracker
- PredictWind Tracker 1 Month7 Days trial$49.001 Month
- PredictWind Tracker 3 Months7 Days trial$99.003 Months
- PredictWind Tracker 12 Months7 Days trial$249.001 Year
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