Comparison

Should I Sail vs DocWeave

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

Head to head
About

Should I Sail

Features
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Should I Sail? answers the question every skipper asks before leaving the dock — and keeps watching the water after you do. Tap anywhere on the sea and get an instant, colour-coded verdict: Yes · Challenging · Requires Safety Gear · Only if You Must · No. The answer is tuned to your boat, so a 50-ft cruiser and a dinghy get different calls in the same conditions — and you can see exactly which factors drove the score. Free to download. Sign in free to unlock the full toolkit for a day at a time with Pro Days, then go Pro when you’re ready. MARINE WEATHER, ANYWHERE Hourly forecasts for any point of sea worldwide: wind and gusts, wave height and direction, swell, current, visibility and rain. Scrub through 24 hours and 9 days with everything updating instantly, and read directions at a glance on the compass-rose overlay. Set a condition alert on a departure and get notified if the forecast turns before you leave. PLAN ROUTE Drop waypoints, pick a departure time, and the app scores every leg, works out arrival times from your cruising speed and warns you if a leg crosses land. Save routes, revisit them, and share any route with a link so the crew can see the plan. DEPARTURE CHECKLIST (new) A skipper-grade pre-departure checklist built for your boat type — weather, documents, safety gear, engine, rig, deck, crew briefing and last look. Tick items off at the dock, add your own, reorder sections, and keep going with no signal: ticks sync when you’re back online. ON THE WATER Your boat pin follows live GPS with heading and real-time speed over ground. The OpenSeaMap nautical overlay adds depth contours, buoys and hazard markers right on the chart. TRACK RECORDING Record your sail in the background — it survives the app being closed or the phone sleeping. Finish to see distance, duration, average and top speed, then turn the track into a saved route in one tap. Recording stops automatically when you reach shore. ANCHOR WATCH Place the anchor, enter your chain length, and rest. The app pulls water depth from the GEBCO global database, calculates your safe swing radius and watches for drag continuously with the screen off. A full-screen alarm fires the moment you stray outside the zone. MY SPOTS Star the anchorages and launch points you return to and check them in a tap. MADE FOR EVERY CREW 16 languages including Hebrew and Arabic with full right-to-left layout. Large text, high-contrast and bold modes. Have a code from your sailing club or partner? Enter it for bonus Pro months. Terms of Use: https://shouldisail.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://shouldisail.com/privacy

About

DocWeave

This app transforms PDFs, images, and scanned documents into editable text and structured content. It utilizes an on-device AI model for offline processing, preserving your privacy by keeping all data local. Export your recognized content in various formats for easy reuse.

Highlights
  • Scan paper documents
  • Capture scrolling webpages
  • Recognize tables and formulas
  • Export to PDF, Markdown, EPUB
  • On-device AI processing
  • Offline recognition
  • Resume interrupted tasks
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Turn PDFs, images, and paper documents into structured content you can actually edit and reuse. DocWeave runs an AI document recognition model locally on your device. Import PDFs or images, scan paper documents, book pages, and lecture notes with your iPhone or iPad, or capture scrolling webpages and long articles through screen recording. Once the local model is installed, recognition works without an internet connection, and your documents never need to be uploaded to a server. What It Can Do • Scan Paper Documents Automatically detect and continuously capture pages on iPhone and iPad, then add them to the processing queue. Ideal for book pages, lecture notes, receipts, and temporary documents. • Capture Scrolling Content Record scrolling webpages or long articles and automatically stitch them into a long screenshot. Before recognition, you can remove ads, duplicate sections, and irrelevant content. • Understand Complex Layouts Go beyond plain text. DocWeave can recognize paragraph structures, tables, LaTeX formulas, code blocks, and algorithm blocks. • Export in Four Formats Generate reconstructed PDF, Markdown, EPUB, and MinerU packages in one pass—ready for reading, editing, archiving, or further processing. • Preview as Recognition Progresses View structured results as soon as each page is completed, so you can follow the progress and check the reconstructed layout. • Resume After Interruptions If a model download, page capture session, or large document recognition task is interrupted, continue from the saved progress instead of starting over. • Keep Documents on Your Device Model inference, page images, and recognition results are stored locally. Unless you choose to export, share, or send them to another app, your recognized content stays on your device. From capturing paper and importing files to understanding complex layouts and exporting reusable content, DocWeave keeps the entire document workflow on your device. First Use An internet connection is required to download the local recognition model, which is approximately 2.5 GB. The download begins only after you confirm it and can resume if interrupted. Once installed, the model can perform recognition offline. Device Requirements On-device AI recognition requires an A14 / M1 chip or newer and at least 6 GB of RAM. Requirements differ by recognition engine: • OvisOCR2 (faster, lower memory usage): a device with at least 6 GB RAM; keep at least 3 GB of free RAM before loading the model; model files are about 0.6–1 GB (varies by device). • MinerU (full-featured, supports reconstructed PDF export): a device with at least 8 GB RAM; keep at least 5 GB of free RAM before loading the model; the model file is about 2.5 GB. Note: free RAM is not storage; you also need enough storage for the model files and recognition results. Recommended devices: • iPhone 12 Pro / 13 Pro, iPhone 14 or newer (MinerU requires iPhone 15 Pro or newer) • iPad mini (A17 Pro) • iPad Air (M1) or newer • iPad Pro (M1) or newer • Mac with Apple silicon and at least 8 GB of unified memory Devices before A14 are not supported, e.g. iPad Pro (2018/2020, A12X/A12Z chip). Camera scanning and rolling-screen recording capture are only available on iOS/iPadOS. The macOS version supports importing PDFs and images via file picker, drag and drop, or paste.

Screenshots

Should I Sail4 screens
DocWeave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Should I Sail at 15.1 against DocWeave's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Should I Sail sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year and DocWeave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Should I Sail ships an update every 2 weeks, DocWeave fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Should I Sail versus DocWeave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShould I SailDocWeave
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEran Yanikov巍 赵

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Should I Sail

Subscriptions1
  • Should I Sail Pro$49.991 Year
1 purchases

DocWeave

One-time1
  • Integration Pass$1.99

Questions

Is Should I Sail free?
Should I Sail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocWeave free?
DocWeave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Should I Sail or DocWeave have ads?
Neither Should I Sail nor DocWeave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Should I Sail or DocWeave?
Should I Sail ships an update every 2 weeks, and DocWeave fortnightly. Most recently, Should I Sail was updated on October 20, 2026 and DocWeave on October 11, 2026.

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