Seabook Maritime vs Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seabook Maritime
This app provides essential maritime information for seafarers and shore-based professionals. It serves as an offline reference for ship stability, navigation, regulations, and marine engineering, aiding in safer seas and cleaner waters.
- COLREG regulations
- GMDSS information
- Marine engineering details
- Navigation at sea
- Ship stability calculations
- Shipboard safety guidelines
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Seabook serves as a key information source for seafarers and shore-based employees to promote safer seas and cleaner waters. This easy-to-use, accessible-offline mobile app serves as a reference tool for key elements of Ship stability, Navigation, COLREG and Marine engineering, and is designed for seafarers, cadets, maritime students and master mariners alike. Seabook contains details on; 1) COLREG (International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea) 2) GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System) 3) International Code of Signals 4) Marine Engineering 5) Marine Meteorology 6) Shipboard Safety 7) Health at Sea 8) Life Saving Appliances 9) Shipmanagement and Business 10) Navigation at Sea 11) Ship Stability 12) Country Flags 13) Ropework 14) Knots 15) more and more enriched contents ...
Master
Learn maritime navigation rules with an interactive system designed for effective retention. This app breaks down complex regulations into manageable sections with visual aids and mnemonics. It revisits incorrect answers and provides instant graphical feedback, making the learning process intuitive and efficient.
- Interactive learning system
- Step-by-step rule guidance
- Mnemonics and memory aids
- Interactive visuals
- Graphical feedback on answers
- Practice section with progress tracking
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Master-Nav is a progressive COLREGS learning system developed by a Master Mariner. The COLREGS are notoriously difficult to learn and retain — Master-Nav makes it significantly easier through an interactive system built around how your brain actually works. Instead of guessing through random question banks, Master-Nav guides you step by step through every rule from start to finish. Wrong answers are revisited until the rules stick — properly. Complex regulations are broken down into learnable chunks — bite-sized sections supported by mnemonics, memory aids and interactive visuals designed around how the brain actually retains information. Every incorrect answer is shown graphically alongside the correct one — immediately clear, no confusion. And with a single tap, the relevant COLREGS rule is accessible from any question at any time. Master-Nav covers COLREGS Parts A to D — General, Steering & Sailing, Lights & Shapes and Sound & Light Signals — plus Annex IV Distress Signals. Over 1000 questions in multiple formats, with a dedicated Practice Section that tracks right, wrong and unanswered so you always know where to focus. COLREGS — the easy way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Seabook Maritime at Free against Master's $1.99. Seabook Maritime also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Master's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 16 months) and review sentiment (97% vs 79%). On 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
Seabook Maritime is free to download; Master costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Master holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 94 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Seabook Maritime's written reviews are positive against 97% of Master's.
Seabook Maritime ships an update every 16 months, Master fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seabook Maritime | Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (19 ratings) | 4.7 (94 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 96.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 94 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #119 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ozgur GUNES | Peterjohn Chisholm |
Customer experience
Seabook Maritime
Master
In-app purchases
Seabook Maritime
No in-app purchases
Master
No in-app purchases







