American Explorer vs Cast About Compass

American Explorer is the official onboard app for American Cruise Lines, providing easy access to daily schedules, shore excursions, dining menus, ship information, and more. Designed to keep you informed and connected, American Explorer helps you make the most of every moment of your cruise.

Paste in or forward your confirmations from your emails. Watch your trip build itself. Forward a cruise booking, a flight, a hotel, a rental car — from any line, any agent, any airline — and Compass reads it and lays your trip out day by day. Ports and sailing times. Check-in and check-out. Confirmation numbers, seat assignments, the lot. You don't type any of it. Most travel apps make you a data-entry clerk before they help you. This one doesn't. BUILT FOR THE COMPLICATED TRIPS Fourteen ports and a flight home. A tour with three hotels and a train between them. The trip that changed twice before you left. That's what Compass is for, not a weekend away. Every day sits in order, with what's happening and when. Where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what you've already booked. One screen. No hunting through a folder of emails at the pier. EVERYTHING IN YOUR POCKET, EVEN OFFLINE Passports, visas, insurance, booking numbers — all in one place, and readable when the ship's Wi-Fi gives up on you. Which it will. A JOURNAL YOU'LL ACTUALLY KEEP Write a couple of lines. Add the photos you took that afternoon. It quietly turns into something worth reading years later, and you never had to set anything up. SEND A POSTCARD FROM THE ROAD Pick a photo from this morning, write a line under it, and it's in their inbox before dinner. No stamp, no three-week wait, no post office in a language you don't read. BRING WHOEVER'S COMING WITH YOU Your travelling companion sees the same trip and can add to it. Anyone else you invite can look without changing a thing. No more forwarding the same email six times. REMEMBER THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE PLACES The couple from dinner on night three. The guide who was worth every penny. Snap a photo, add a name, and they're still there next year when you're trying to remember it. WHAT IT COSTS Your first month is free and nothing is held back — every feature, the whole time. After that it's $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Cancel from Settings in two taps, whenever you like. Cast About Compass is made by Cast About Travel, for people who take real trips.