Comparison

Swabbie vs Sylvan Smart

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Swabbie

This app helps boat owners manage maintenance schedules, track engine hours, and organize inventory and provisions. It also logs passages, provides checklists, and monitors fuel consumption. A customizable dashboard offers an overview of key information.

Highlights
  • Maintenance scheduling
  • Engine hour tracking
  • Inventory and parts cataloging
  • Provisioning with expiry monitoring
  • Cruising log and passage recording
  • Customizable checklists
  • Fuel log and consumption tracking
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Swabbie is the all-in-one boat management app built for cruisers, liveaboards, and serious sailors who want to stay on top of every system, spare part, and sea mile. MAINTENANCE & SCHEDULING Set up your boat's systems and components — from propulsion to plumbing — and create maintenance tasks with calendar and engine-hour intervals. Swabbie automatically schedules what's due so nothing falls through the cracks. Log completed work with parts used, costs, and notes. ENGINE HOURS TRACKING Track hours on your main engine, generator, and any other equipment. Engine-hour-based maintenance schedules update automatically as you log runtime. INVENTORY & PARTS Catalog every spare part, tool, and consumable aboard. Organize by zone, location, and container so you can find what you need — even in the depths of the lazarette. Set minimum stock levels and get low-stock alerts. Scan barcodes to add items quickly. Import existing inventories via CSV. PROVISIONS Track food, drinks, and supplies with expiry date monitoring. Scan barcodes to look up product details automatically. Know exactly what's aboard and what's running low before your next provisioning run. CRUISING LOG Record every passage with departure and arrival ports, weather conditions, wind, waves, and barometer readings. Add passage notes and port logs. Map snapshots are generated automatically for each destination. CHECKLISTS Pre-built templates for pre-departure safety, engine start, docking, and watch handoff — or create your own. Run checklists and track completion history. Pin your most-used checklists to the dashboard. FUEL LOG Log every fill-up with volume, price, location, and engine hours. Track fuel costs over time and see consumption trends at a glance. DASHBOARD A customizable home screen with widgets showing overdue maintenance, upcoming tasks, low stock alerts, expiring provisions, fuel summaries, engine hours, your last passage, and active checklists. Add, remove, and reorder widgets to match how you use your boat. BOAT PROFILE Store your vessel's details — make, model, year, LOA, draft, air draft, displacement, fuel and water capacity, HIN, registration, MMSI, and call sign — all in one place. Add a banner photo that appears across the app. ORGANIZED BY YOUR BOAT'S LAYOUT Create zones (Engine Room, Galley, V-Berth), locations within each zone, and containers within locations. Every inventory item and provision can be pinpointed to its exact spot aboard. ICLOUD SYNC All your data syncs seamlessly across iPhone and iPad via iCloud. Update engine hours on your phone in the cockpit and see it instantly on your iPad at the nav station. BACKUP & RESTORE Export complete backups as JSON files to any folder. Restore from backup at any time. Enable automatic backups for peace of mind. CSV IMPORT Migrating from spreadsheets? Import your maintenance logs, cruising logs, and inventory via CSV so you're up and running fast. Swabbie was designed by cruisers, for cruisers. No subscriptions. No ads. Just a clean, focused tool that helps you keep your boat — and your peace of mind — shipshape.

About

Sylvan Smart

Features
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Using the mobile phone to unlock the lock reduces the inconvenience of the user passing the entity key, and makes the lock more and more convenient to use.

Screenshots

Swabbie4 screens
Sylvan Smart3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Sylvan Smart at 13.0 against Swabbie's 18.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Swabbie versus Sylvan Smart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwabbieSylvan Smart
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB358 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHudsucker Industries LLCG D Rutter ltd

In-app purchases

None

Swabbie

No in-app purchases

None

Sylvan Smart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swabbie free?
Swabbie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sylvan Smart free?
Sylvan Smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Swabbie or Sylvan Smart have ads?
Neither Swabbie nor Sylvan Smart shows ads.

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