Comparison

Sail Sim vs Skymar

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

Head to head
About

Sail Sim

Features
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You wake on the beach of a small island with a 36-foot sloop at anchor offshore. The island is real. It is somewhere on Earth. Nothing aboard tells you where. SAIL is a single-handed ocean passage played in real time. One second in the game is one second in the world. Set a course, choose your canvas, put the phone down, and return when the weather, the boat, or the sky needs you. NAVIGATE BY THE REAL SKY There is no chart plotter and no satellite fix. Measure the sun, moon, Polaris, and navigational stars with a sextant. Guard the chronometer. Check the compass. Carry your position forward by dead reckoning, knowing that unseen current and instrument error are quietly pulling it away from the truth. SAIL A PHYSICAL BOAT Trim six sail plans to a changing wind. The boat heels from the force on the canvas, makes leeway, drifts with ocean currents, and suffers when you carry too much sail. The live polar diagram shows where she can go and how fast. A sailing coach explains what an experienced hand would notice—and why it matters. CROSS A LIVING OCEAN Weather grows from a simulated pressure field instead of a list of scripted conditions. Trade winds, westerlies, doldrums, squalls, swell, haze, and falling pressure all belong to the same world. The coast you raise over the horizon is drawn from the same real-Earth data the hull can strike. SURVIVE THE PASSAGE Water is finite. Food runs down. Rest, health, fresh provisions, fishing gear, medicine, sailcloth, repair stores, hull condition, and the bilge all matter. Rain can save you. A gale can dismast you. An island can feed you—if you find it. LEARN AS YOU GO No sailing knowledge is assumed. The in-game handbook uses animated diagrams to explain sail forces, points of sail, reefing, weather, latitude, longitude, dead reckoning, wayfinding, and survival. The coach teaches in the moment, then gets out of the way. MAKE THE VOYAGE YOURS Begin as a castaway on one of thousands of real islands, or take on a historic passage: a trade-wind Atlantic crossing, Bligh's open-boat journey, the James Caird in the Southern Ocean, or Slocum's long Pacific leg. Your log records the course, weather, miles, sights, decisions, and consequences hour by hour, then turns the voyage into a chart worth keeping. The ocean will keep moving when you close the app. Sail when a decision matters.

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Skymar

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Take control of a harbor crane in Skymar: Port Simulator. Pick up containers, carry them across the dock and place them in matching color zones aboard the ship. You have 90 seconds: make every move count. LOAD WITH PRECISION Line up the hook, grab your cargo and guide it to the right loading bay. Match colors, work around stacked containers and plan your route to keep the operation moving. SIMPLE TOUCH CONTROLS Move with the virtual joystick on the left and use the red button on the right to grab or release a container. The crane handles lowering and lifting the hook automatically, so you can focus on positioning and timing. ONE MORE ROUND Aim to load all 36 containers before the timer ends. Improve your handling, beat your best result and compare scores on the global leaderboard. An internet connection is required for online rankings. A HARBOR IN 3D Play in a colorful port scene with a cargo ship, container stacks, tugboats and animated water. Designed for landscape play on iPhone and iPad. The game opens in your device language when supported: English, Turkish, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian or French. Your crane. Your cargo. Your next best score.

Screenshots

Sail Sim4 screens
Skymar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Skymar at 15.0 against Sail Sim's 18.0. 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 · 5 level
Sail Sim versus Skymar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSail SimSkymar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYang LiuSKYMAR LOGISTICS

In-app purchases

None

Sail Sim

No in-app purchases

None

Skymar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sail Sim free?
Sail Sim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skymar free?
Skymar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sail Sim or Skymar have ads?
Neither Sail Sim nor Skymar shows ads.

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