Boat Partner vs Readmate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boat Partner
Manage all aspects of boat ownership, from scheduling and maintenance to logging trips and sharing expenses with partners. Organize contacts, track costs, and maintain a photo gallery, all with offline support. This app simplifies shared boat ownership and individual management.
- Calendar with partner rotation
- Cruise logging (engine hours, fuel, costs)
- Photo gallery with cloud sync
- Maintenance checklists
- Issue reporting with photos
- Partner messaging and forum
- Offline support
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RUN YOUR BOAT LIKE YOU MEAN IT. Boat Partner is the single app every boat owner needs. One place for your trip log, engine hours, maintenance, photos, weather, calendar and contacts. In 2.0 it comes with YachtBot, an AI host that knows your boat — and the part every owner needs is free. If you own a boat, this is your boat's home base. MEET YACHTBOT Talk to it like a boat radio. Hold and talk, or type. It answers out loud or in text. - Learns your boat from your photos: engine, electronics, panels, fittings. Everything it notices waits for your OK before it becomes fact. - Spots a trip in your photos and drafts the log. One tap to confirm. - Logs a trip, books the boat, files a report, records a service, or sets up the whole season from a conversation. - Opens with the one thing you want to know first: what's due, who has the boat, the weather at the slip. - You confirm, it writes. Anything that touches a record or reaches another person is a card you approve first. - 50 photo analyses a month. YachtBot is $24.99/month or $249/year and includes everything in Plus. YOUR BOAT, ORGANIZED — FREE - Trip Log: where you went, when you left and got back, every stop pinned on the map with notes for next time, hours per engine, fuel, distance. Drafts save on the phone. - Maintenance: a schedule that knows what's due by date or by engine hours, a history with cost, who did the work, and photos. A starter schedule is built in. - Engine and generator hours, kept current from your logs. - Photo gallery with automatic cloud sync, capture date and location. - Weather at your home port. - A calendar for your own plans. - Emergency and service contacts, marina info, and your boat's specs in one place. One boat. No card. WORKS WHEN YOU'RE ON THE WATER Full offline support. Log a trip and check the schedule without cell service at the dock. Everything syncs when you're back in range. WANT TO CUT YOUR BOATING COSTS? Add partners to your boat and split the expenses. Boat Partner handles the part that usually kills shared ownership: coordination. That's Plus. - Invite your partners. Everyone sees the same boat. - Shared calendar: who has the boat each week, color-coded, with trades. - Messages and boat notices with the boat as the thread. No more group text that nobody reads. - Issue reports with photos, assigned and closed where everyone can see. - Trip costs by the hour or by fuel, settled from the log. - How-to videos for your boat, plus a seamanship library. - As many boats as you run. SOLO OR SHARED — SAME APP Most owners start solo. Organize your boat, log your trips, build your photo history. If you add partners later, everything's already set up. Try a fully loaded demo boat first. BUILT BY A BOAT OWNER Built by someone who got tired of the same problems you have. THE PLANS Free: one boat, the trip log, maintenance, photos, weather and calendar. No card. Plus: your partners aboard, as many boats as you run. $9.99/month or $99.99/year, first month free. YachtBot: the AI host, with everything in Plus. $24.99/month or $249/year. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Everything you put into Boat Partner belongs to you. No ads, no selling your data, and you're never locked out of what you entered. Request a complete copy of your data anytime and it arrives in your email within 48 hours. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Plus and YachtBot are auto-renewing subscriptions. - Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://boatpartner.co/privacy
Readmate
This app helps you revisit and organize your saved book highlights and personal notes. It syncs with your reading history, allowing you to rediscover meaningful passages and share them as beautifully designed cards. Keep your favorite quotes accessible through widgets and search functionality.
- Sync WeRead highlights and thoughts
- Organize highlights by book
- Daily highlight reminders
- Search highlights and books
- Create shareable highlight cards
- Home screen widgets for highlights and bookshelf
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Some lines stay with you longer than the book itself. Every line you save means something to you. Revisit it later, and it may mean something different. Readmate brings them back. Sync your books, highlights, thoughts, and reading history from WeRead, and keep the words you once highlighted together on your own bookshelf. Revisit old highlights, read the thoughts you wrote at the time, find a line you remember, or turn a favorite passage into a card worth sharing. Sync your WeRead highlights & thoughts There is no need to organize everything you have already highlighted all over again. • Sync books, highlights, thoughts, and reading history from WeRead • Keep highlights and thoughts organized by book • Sync again to bring in newly saved highlights and thoughts • Return to books you have read from your bookshelf Your highlights. And the thoughts between. Sometimes what stays with you is not just the passage, but what you thought when you read it. • A note corner peeks out beside highlights with thoughts, pull it out to read what you wrote at the time • Switch to see what other readers wrote on the same passage, or browse all notes and reviews in Book Info • Tear off any note to copy the text, save it as an image, or share it Scroll through past highlights A line you highlighted does not have to be something you see only once. Scroll through your saved highlights in Readmate and rediscover words from your past reading. It might be something you highlighted yesterday, or a sentence from a book you finished years ago. Revisit a highlight every day Let something you once highlighted find its way back to you. • Set a daily highlight reminder • Rediscover a past highlight each day • Open Readmate directly from the reminder • Keep saved highlights and your bookshelf on your Home Screen with widgets You do not have to remember which book to open. A line you wanted to keep can simply show up again. Find the line you remember Remember a few words, but not where they came from? Search your books, authors, or highlight text to find the passage in your collection and return to the book it came from. Share the words worth keeping Some words are worth keeping. Some are worth passing on. • Turn highlights into beautifully designed cards • Choose from different templates, typography, and layouts • Adjust text size, line spacing, margins, and aspect ratios • Keep the book title, author, and attribution • Give longer passages room to breathe with multi-page or full-length layouts • Export cards and share them with other apps Keep highlights and your bookshelf on your Home Screen You do not have to open Readmate to view an old highlight again. Choose from different Daily Quotes and Bookshelf widget sizes and keep your books and saved lines where you can see them. A quick glance can bring back a book, a passage, or the reason you highlighted those words in the first place. Your reading stays on your device Readmate does not require an account. Your reading data is stored on your device. Your WeRead API key is securely stored in iOS Keychain, and highlight cards are rendered on device. Readmate currently supports WeRead, with more reading sources planned for the future. Some features require a one-time purchase. Readmate is an independent, unofficial product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Tencent or WeRead. WeRead and related names, logos, and trademarks belong to Tencent and their respective rights holders. Questions or feedback: hello@readmate.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Readmate at free against Boat Partner's subscription. Readmate also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (38 vs 8). Boat Partner's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Boat Partner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Readmate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Readmate holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 38 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Boat Partner's written reviews are positive against 89% of Readmate's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Boat Partner | Readmate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 89.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hard Candy, LLC | WHITESSPACE SDN. BHD. |
Customer experience
Boat Partner
Readmate
In-app purchases
Boat Partner
- Plus1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- YachtBot$24.991 Month
- Plus Annual$99.991 Year
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- YachtBot$249.001 Year
Readmate
- Lifetime$2.99









