Clearance Compass vs moodSailor

Clearance Compass helps you navigate international arrivals with less stress, less paperwork, and less time spent searching for answers online. Built for cruising sailors, trawlers, and long-distance boaters, the app brings together practical port guidance, clearance information, and structured arrival steps in one place. Instead of piecing together entry rules from scattered articles, websites, and forum posts, you get clear, useful guidance designed for real journeys. With Clearance Compass, you can prepare for arrivals faster, understand formalities more easily, and move from port to port with greater confidence. Spend less time dealing with bureaucracy — and more time enjoying the voyage. Features include: - port-specific arrival and clearance guidance - country-specific entry information - practical, guided clearance steps - less paperwork stress before landfall - faster preparation for each destination - beginner-friendly information for real-world cruising - support for smoother port-to-port travel Clearance Compass is designed to make every arrival calmer, clearer, and easier. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://clearancecompass.app/privacy.html

moodSailor is a nautical navigation app for sailors, boaters, kayakers and anyone who spends time on the water. It works offline, runs on your phone, and respects your privacy. NAVIGATION - Man overboard: MOB button on every screen, alarm, bearing and drift area - COG, SOG, max and average speed - Distance travelled, current GPS position, magnetic heading - Compass: fixed or rotating mode - Head-up course-over-ground compass - Reorderable metric cards - Custom cockpit panels: your cards, your sizes - Regatta mode: course marks, start sequence with flags and countdown, over-early alert - Signal K and NMEA instruments on the cockpit: heading, depth, wind - TVMDC calculator, units converter and IALA region card MAP - OpenStreetMap base layer with OpenSeaMap nautical chart overlay - Official charts where a hydrographic office publishes one free: Norway, US, Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain - Offline tile caching: pick an area, layers and zoom - One-tap Map/Satellite view switch - Adjustable overlay opacity - Download tiles, weather, marine data and marks - Three rotation modes: north up, COG-aligned, compass-aligned - Follow mode with position marker and heading line - Route tool: draw, measure, save multi-leg routes - Route deviation watch: alarm when your heading leaves the course, even with the screen off - Anchor watch: circle or polygon around the drop point, alarm if the boat drags, all night - Navigational warnings: French AVURNAV, Canada, Croatia and relayed authorities; alert when one is nearby WEATHER, CURRENTS AND TIDES - Wind, ocean currents, waves and swell from Open-Meteo - Wave and swell height, direction and period - Choose the forecast sheet's weather fields - Animated particles or wind-barb arrows - Smooth heatmap with colour scale - Forecast time slider; hourly popover - Tide curve integrated in the sea-level row - Every recorded GPS point carries its weather, currents, waves and tide GPS TRACES - Recording interval: 1, 2 or 5 seconds - Background mode: keeps running with screen locked - Live trace coloured by speed - Resilient to GPS dropouts - Native iOS location manager for reliable background recording - Editor: mini-map, altitude graph, weather, currents, tide - Six denoising rules - Import via "Open With" from Files, Mail - Export to GPX, GeoJSON, CSV or KML POINTS OF INTEREST - Create, edit and delete POIs - Nautical marks: the full IALA set, incl. wreck and preferred channel - POIs on the map with type-specific icons - Mark detail pages: light rhythm, cardinal topmark - Lit marks flash their real light rhythm on the map and in the camera view - OpenSeaMap nautical marks: download as POIs, search by signal code - Export points, seamarks or your position as GPX, KML, CSV or GeoJSON AR POI FINDER - Live camera with augmented-reality POI markers - Compass ribbon with cardinal labels - Configurable distance range and marker size - Immersive full-screen mode - OpenSeaMap nautical marks and saved POIs visible in AR view - Camera detects the real horizon line - Night light ID: matches flash rhythm against charted lights AIS VESSEL TRACKING (optional) - Live nearby vessel positions on the map and in AR POI Finder - Course and speed indicators; collision awareness - Vessels rendered as kites under way and circles when stopped - AR vessels at real angular size - Status icons on vessel symbol - Predicted AR positions from last course/speed KNOWLEDGE - Built-in reference: glossary, beacons, ship lights, day marks, wind, magnetism, currents, tides - Search, sources, illustrations - Interactive tide tool: pick a point on the map - Morse & ICS signal flags: text->code/flag SETTINGS - 25 languages - Units: distance, speed, altitude, temperature, coordinates - Themes: light, system, dark - Weather model selector - Offline regions list with size and delete PRIVACY - No account, no ads, no tracking - Your data stays on your device - Train the fleet: opt-in sightings sharpen recognition