Maritime Master vs Curb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maritime Master
This app provides a comprehensive suite of 88 professional maritime calculators for navigation, celestial observation, tides, stability, weather, engineering, and more. It's designed for maritime professionals and enthusiasts, offering offline functionality and citing all formulas with their official sources.
- 88 professional maritime calculators
- Offline functionality
- Navigation calculations
- Celestial observation tools
- Stability and cargo calculations
- Unit converters
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CalcDeck is the complete calculation toolkit for life at sea. It brings 88 professional maritime calculators into one beautifully designed iOS app, covering navigation, celestial observation, tides, stability and cargo, weather, engineering, safety, commercial voyage work, yacht and small craft performance, regulatory compliance and unit conversion. Whether you are a Master Mariner, deck officer, marine engineer, maritime cadet, yacht skipper or weekend sailor, CalcDeck replaces a shelf of reference books, a scratch pad and a pocket full of single-purpose apps. Every formula is cited with its textbook or IMO source, so you can verify the working and trust the result. CalcDeck is built by Maritime Master, the team behind COLREG Master, Nav Lights and IALA Buoyage, and is engineered to the same professional standard trusted by cadets and officers worldwide. What is inside Navigation (12 calculators): great-circle and rhumb-line distance, course to steer, ETA, set and drift, three-point fix, running fix, dead reckoning, cross-track error, waypoint bearing, speed-time-distance, departure and DMP, Mercator sailing. Celestial (8 calculators): sight reduction, meridian passage, altitude corrections, sunrise, sunset and twilight times, Polaris latitude, compass error by amplitude, azimuth of the sun, and chronometer error. Tidal (6 calculators): tidal height by the rule of twelfths, secondary port corrections, tidal streams, height at a given time, time at a given height, and clearance under bridges. Stability and Cargo (9 calculators): GM and list, trim and draft survey, free surface correction, deadweight and displacement, cargo load, block coefficient, TPC and MCTC, and final draft after loading. Weather (6 calculators): true wind, apparent wind, relative humidity, dew point, Beaufort scale conversion, and barometric trend. Engineering (10 calculators): fuel consumption and ROB, daily fuel burn, propeller slip, shaft power, specific fuel consumption, bunker density correction, trim tank transfer, admiralty coefficient, engine load, and voyage fuel planning. Safety (5 calculators): distance off by vertical sextant angle, horizon distance, dipping range, turning circle, and stopping distance. Yacht and Small Craft (5 calculators): hull speed, sail area to displacement, displacement to length, capsize screening, and ballast ratio. Commercial and Voyage (6 calculators): voyage cost, laytime, demurrage, freight rate per tonne, charter economics, and port disbursements. Regulations and Compliance (6 calculators): MARPOL discharge limits, SOLAS LSA requirements, STCW rest-hour compliance, load line zones, ballast water exchange, and garbage record categorisation. Unit Converters (12 calculators, all free): distance, speed, temperature, pressure, volume, mass, area, power, energy, angle, time and fuel. Every unit a mariner needs. Why CalcDeck CalcDeck works fully offline, so there is no signal, no signup and no interruption when you need an answer at sea. It is a native SwiftUI app designed for iPhone and iPad on iOS 17 and later, with a clean navy and gold Maritime Master design, dark mode support, favourites, and a Calc Pad that lets you pin your most-used tools for instant access on watch. There are no advertisements, no tracking and no subscriptions. Free and Pro You can try CalcDeck at no cost. All 12 unit converters and a selection of essential calculators in every professional category are included free. Unlock the full 85-calculator suite with a single one-time in-app purchase that is yours forever across all your devices. Who it is for CalcDeck is used by deck officers and Masters on coastal and ocean passages, by marine engineers calculating fuel, power and performance, by maritime cadets preparing for OOW, Chief Mate and Master examinations, by yacht skippers and RYA students, by cruising sailors, by pilots, harbourmasters and port operations staff, and by naval architects, surveyors and marine consultants.
Curb
This app helps you manage your mobile data usage and improve digital wellbeing by limiting internet speeds for specific applications. It also allows developers to simulate various network conditions for app testing.
- Cap video and streaming bandwidth
- Throttle social media and video
- Simulate network conditions (2G, 3G, LTE)
- Set custom download/upload bandwidth
- Add latency, jitter, and packet loss
- Editable presets and live control
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Curb slows your iPhone or iPad's internet speed on-device — to save mobile data, beat doomscrolling, or test your apps on a bad connection. Everything runs locally. No accounts, no servers, no analytics. SAVE YOUR MOBILE DATA Streaming, autoplay and background sync quietly burn through a data plan. Put a ceiling on how fast data-hungry apps can pull, and a heavy video stream settles for a lighter quality on its own. • Cap video and streaming bandwidth so you stay under your monthly data allowance • Throttle just social media and video on mobile data, while maps, messaging and banking stay full speed • Stretch a limited or pay-as-you-go plan further, and avoid bill shock when roaming abroad • Set a gentle limit once and forget it — no per-app meters to babysit FOCUS AND DIGITAL WELLBEING Speed is a habit. Make the feeds that pull you in feel slow, and the urge to scroll fades. • Slow down social media, video and streaming while keeping the rest of your connection usable • Choose what to throttle: Everything, Only these (focus mode — slow just a chosen list), or All except these (keep the essentials fast) • Toggle ready-made bundles for Social media, Video and streaming, and News, or add your own domains • Make endless scrolling tedious enough to put the phone down FOR DEVELOPERS AND QA Test how your app behaves on a bad connection without leaving your desk. Curb is an on-device alternative to a desktop network link conditioner, shaping real traffic on the device itself. • Simulate real networks with one tap: 2G EDGE, 3G, 4G LTE, DSL, Bad Wi-Fi and Satellite • Set custom download and upload bandwidth • Add latency, jitter and packet loss to reproduce flaky conditions • Adjust bandwidth live while the tunnel runs — no reconnect needed • Watch a real-time throughput chart with current rates plus session totals HOW IT WORKS Curb uses a local packet-tunnel built on Apple's Network Extension. Your traffic is shaped on the device and never leaves it for any server of ours. There is nothing to sign in to. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • 100% on-device — no Curb servers • No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics • Nothing about your browsing is collected or shared EDITABLE PRESETS AND LIVE CONTROL Every preset is fully editable. Tune download and upload speed, latency, jitter and packet loss, then save your own. Switch between presets instantly, and nudge the limits while a session is live to find the exact feel you want. DESIGNED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD A clean, native, universal app with light and dark themes. Note: Curb configures a local VPN profile on your device to shape traffic. This VPN stays on-device and is never used to route your data through external servers. Use of this app is subject to Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA), available in the App Store under "License Agreement" and at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Curb at 100% against Maritime Master's 0%. Curb also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). Maritime Master's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Maritime Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Curb sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Curb holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Maritime Master's written reviews are positive against 100% of Curb's.
Maritime Master ships an update daily, Curb every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maritime Master | Curb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MARITIME MASTER LIMITED | Zippy IT Solutions Ltd. |
Customer experience
Maritime Master
Curb
In-app purchases
Maritime Master
- CalcDeck Pro$14.99
Curb
- Curb Pro$3.99









