Scirocco vs WayPointMaster

Scirocco is the only app you need for your boat: real-time navigation, marine weather, vessel management, maintenance, insurance policies and documents. It works offline and needs no account: waypoints and tracks stay on your phone even offshore, with no signal. Whether you have a RIB, a sailboat or a motor yacht, Scirocco is with you at sea and ashore. FREE, WITH NO TIME LIMIT • Navigation with compass, ETA and routes that go around the coastline • Navigation sessions with a summary and a shareable card • GPS tracks with statistics and GPX export • Place search • Up to 20 waypoints • Marine weather: wind, gusts, waves and tides for 7 days • Navigation, waypoints and tracks offline, no account needed SCIROCCO PRO Free trial, then a weekly or annual plan: • Unlimited waypoints • Vessel with engines, fuel consumption and fuel cost • Scheduled maintenance with notifications • Insurance policies with expiry reminders • Boat and engine documents • iCloud sync across all your devices NAVIGATION • Compass with direction, distance and arrow to waypoint • Speed in knots, ETA and fuel estimate in real time • Direction guidance: starboard, port, abeam • Proximity vibration at 200m, 100m and 50m from destination • Real-time route on satellite map MARINE WEATHER • Wind in knots with direction and Mediterranean wind names • Gusts, wave height, swell and water temperature • Hour-by-hour forecast for 7 days, with wind and tide charts • High and low tide times and currents • Search any place and save your favorite spot • The latest forecast stays available with no signal WAYPOINTS • Save points on the map with a long press • Import GPX, scan photos with OCR or paste coordinates in any format • Organize in folders, search by name, filter favorites • Share via WhatsApp, iMessage or export as GPX • Receive coordinates from other apps — Scirocco detects them automatically YOUR FLEET • Register all your vessels with photo, builder, model and length • Add multiple engines per boat with brand, model, HP and consumption • Over 90 preconfigured engines with real fuel data • Range and fuel cost calculation for every trip • Export and import boats in .scirocco format for backup or sharing MAINTENANCE • 21 built-in templates for boat and engine service • Schedule future maintenance and get reminder notifications • Track engine hours at each service • Complete history of all work performed INSURANCE • Store boat and engine insurance policies with full details • Scan documents: OCR fills in the fields automatically • Attach photos and PDFs of your policy • Notifications 7 days and 1 day before expiry DOCUMENTS • Licenses, certificates, registration papers, power declarations and more • Associate each document to a boat or specific engine • Inline preview for images and PDFs GPS TRACKS • Record every trip in background with adjustable interval • Statistics: distance, duration, average and max speed • Automatic track recovery after crash or restart • Export as GPX to share your routes — Scirocco Pro subscription — • Free trial, then a weekly or annual auto-renewing plan • Price and duration are shown in the app before purchase Payment is charged to your Apple ID account on confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://simonsruggi.github.io/app-policies/scirocco/PRIVACY

WayPointMaster is an offline GPS instrument for the helm. It shows live course and speed, stores waypoints, records tracks, and steers you to a mark or along a saved route — with no account and without sending your location to a server. Built for small-craft and coastal work: large monospaced readouts, day and night screens, and everything stored on the iPhone. THE BRIDGE (FREE) • Course over ground (COG) and speed over ground (SOG), with compass heading when the GPS course is stale • Bearing (BRG), distance (DST), time to go, and ETA while navigating • Coordinates in decimal degrees, degrees–decimal minutes (DDM), or degrees–minutes–seconds (DMS) • GPS status you can trust: OK, weak, poor, lost, plus horizontal accuracy and a warning when the fix is old • If Location is denied, a clear screen explains why GPS is needed and opens iOS Settings • Mark a waypoint from a live, accurate fix — not from a dead last-known position • Waypoints listed as WP (name), with categories (anchorage, fishing, pier, hazard, other), notes, search, and sort • Navigate to a waypoint: steering arrow, arrival alarm (default 50 m, adjustable) • Follow a saved track along its recorded points • Record tracks with time and distance intervals; average speed ignores time spent stopped • Export waypoints and tracks as GPX via the system Share sheet • Day / night display, optional auto day–night, optional keep-screen-on • GPS modes: Precise (navigation accuracy) or Economy (saves battery) • Speed in km/h or knots; distance in kilometres or nautical miles • Languages: English, Ukrainian, German, French, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Simplified Chinese, or follow the iPhone LIFETIME (ONE-TIME IN-APP PURCHASE) • Import GPX: waypoints (wpt), tracks (trk), and routes (rte) • Optional background GPS so the live fix and an open track can continue when the app is not in front A 7-day trial of the extra features starts on first launch. After it ends, the bridge, your waypoints, and your tracks stay fully usable. Restore Purchases is in Settings and on the paywall. PRIVACY AND LOCATION WayPointMaster has no developer backend, no ads, and no tracking. Precise location is used only on the device for course, speed, marks, navigation, and logs. Background / Always access is off until you turn on Settings → GPS → Background GPS. While it is on, iOS shows the system location indicator. Coordinates stay on the phone unless you yourself export or share a GPX file. Support and the privacy policy are in Settings 1. WayPointMaster is an instrument, not a chartplotter: it does not include nautical charts or official notices to mariners. Use it with your own paper or electronic charts and good seamanship.