BlueCruise vs NaviLog

BlueCruise is a smart sailing companion and automatic logbook designed to make marine navigation, boat maintenance tracking and everyday sailing easier to manage. Built for real-world sailors, BlueCruise combines automatic sailing logs, marine weather forecasts, sailing route planning, boat performance analysis (polars), anchor watch alarm and live boat tracking in one connected app. Whether you enjoy coastal sailing, offshore trips or weekend cruises, BlueCruise helps you stay organized, informed and safe on the water. KEY FEATURES • Automatic Sailing Logbook: Smart trip tracking with route maps, speed, wind data and sea conditions • Boat Maintenance Tracker: Engine hour log, service reminders and maintenance schedules • Boat Performance & Polars: Advanced polar analysis based on your real sailing data • Marine Weather & Forecasts: Live weather overlay, wind speed and wave height for route planning • Sailing Route Planner: Easy route creation with weather integration and ETA estimates • Live Location Sharing: Share your live boat position via a simple web link – no app required for family & friends • Anchor Watch Alarm: Sleep soundly with reliable GPS anchor alarm and drift tracking • Sailing Statistics: Voyage history, total nautical miles, engine hours and sailing analytics • Onboard Tools: Practical sailing utilities, photo/video overlays with speed & location DESIGNED FOR SAILORS BlueCruise is tailored for sailboats, yachts and recreational boating, prioritizing clarity, ease of use and practical onboard decision support. Note: BlueCruise provides smart companion tools for voyage tracking and planning, but is not intended to replace official nautical charts or certified marine navigation systems. APP SECTIONS • Home: Live sailing overview, GPS speed and cockpit data • Route: Interactive sailing route planning and weather overlay • Logs: Automatic voyage history, track playback and sailing statistics • Polar: Performance charts and wind analysis • Tools: Anchor watch, boat maintenance and onboard utilities • Connect: Live boat tracking and social sailing features SHARED BOAT ACCOUNTS BlueCruise works seamlessly across all your devices. Everything syncs automatically. • For Couples & Crews: Stay connected with your partner on separate phones – both have full access to navigation, logs and anchor status. • For Boat-Sharing & Partnerships: Ideal for shared boat ownership (2-4 co-owners). Track shared engine hours, automatically log trips and keep maintenance updates instantly synced across all partners. BlueCruise supports English, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian with automatic language detection. Developed independently by sailors for sailors through real-world testing on the water.

NaviLog — The Digital Logbook for Skippers NaviLog turns your phone into a complete sailing logbook: automatic GPS track recording, a physics-based anchor alarm, one-tap man-overboard marking and a barometric storm warning — all working 100% offline and without an account. Your logbook belongs to you: it is stored locally on your device, not in someone else's cloud. AUTOMATIC GPS TRIP LOGGING • Start a trip and NaviLog records your route in the background — screen off, no internet needed • Distance in nautical miles or kilometers, duration, average and maximum speed • Smart GPS filtering removes outliers for clean, accurate tracks • Notes, weather and crew for every leg of your voyage • Engine hours counter per trip and per yacht ANCHOR ALARM (ANCHOR WATCH) • Physics-based swing circle calculated from chain length, water depth, bow height and boat length — not just a plain radius • Supports tide, mooring type and even a second anchor • Pre-alarm, GPS-loss alarm and low-battery warning • Adjust anchor position and chain length while the watch stays armed • Wind and swing history recorded for every anchorage MAN OVERBOARD (MOB) • One tap marks the position instantly and guides you back with live bearing and distance • Works with or without an active trip recording WEATHER & STORM ALARM • Marine weather and wind forecast for your current position (online) • Pressure-drop storm warning from your phone's built-in barometer — works completely offline, far from any coverage SEA CHARTS & OFFLINE MAPS • OpenSeaMap seamark overlay: buoys, lights, fairways on the map • Download chart regions before you cast off and review your tracks offline (Pro) FOR SKIPPER & CREW • Crew, skipper and yacht profiles, official crew lists • Checklists with templates (departure, safety briefing, engine check …) • Sea-miles certificates for licence training and charter proof EXPORT & BACKUP (PRO) • Complete logbook and sea-miles certificate as PDF • Tracks as GPX for OpenCPN, chart plotters and other apps • CSV import/export of trips, crew, yachts and anchor history MADE FOR NIGHT WATCHES • Night-watch mode in red-on-black to protect your night vision • Dark mode, fully localized in English and German PRIVACY FIRST • No account, no ads, no tracking of your behaviour • Your logbook data is stored only on your device • Optional online features (weather, place names, map tiles) contact their services only when you use them WHO IS NAVILOG FOR? Sailors, skippers, charter crews, motorboaters and liveaboards — for coastal cruising, blue-water passages, regattas, sailing school and logging licence miles. If you have ever asked for the best free sailing logbook app with an anchor alarm that works offline, this is it. NaviLog is free as a full logbook with GPS tracking, anchor alarm and MOB. A single one-time purchase unlocks Pro (PDF/GPX/CSV export, crew lists, templates, offline chart download) — no subscription, ever. Note: NaviLog is a logbook and an aid to good seamanship — it does not replace official navigation equipment or safe anchoring practice.