Anchor!
Easy to use, accurate and reliable. I’ve used it for three seasons now and found it to be very good
Anchor! drag alarm
simple drag alarm for sailors
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Description
Be alerted if your anchor drags with a simple yet full of features app : Easy to use - Late set - Remote mode - Dark mode support - Arc or circle Perimeter - Watch app - Find my boat
EASY SET UP:
Press the main button (anchor down) to set anchor position,
Touch the alarm circle on map to adjust alarm radius and you're ready.
EASY STOP:
Press the main button (anchor up) disables all alarms.
EASY TO SET ANCHOR POSITION:
Main button to set anchor at your current position,
Choose a position on the map: relocate anchor with drag and drop.
EASY TO ADJUST ALARM DISTANCE:
Either set a value in settings,
Or adjust it directly by touching the alarm circle.
ALL INCLUSIVE: No add, no subscription, no in app purchase add on.
ARC OR CIRCLE PERIMETER
4 ALARMS METHODS:
Attention catching visual alarm with a blinking black/white screen (foreground only),
Accoustic with ringtone choice (iPads needs to be unmuted in the Control Center),
Remote,
Mail.
REMOTE MODE: check your position and get alerted on a second device.
FIND YOUR BOAT: dinghy option in remote mode
FIND MY BOAT: Crowded anchorage? The remote features a dinghy mode that will shows directions to your boat.
WORKS OFFLINE! You still see your boat position relative to the anchor, the anchor position and the alarm circle. Once offline the map is replaced by a graphic.
WATCH COMPANION APP : anchor, snooze and stop alarms from watch.
Watch notifications are less intrusive and will silence the phone notifications. We thus recommend to opt-out watch notifications.
ENHANCED TRACK RECORDING:
The boat track is recorded and a time-colored path is displayed on map. You can identify at first glance whether your anchor position is drifting or not.
TRACK MANAGEMENT:
Enable, disable and reset the track. Export it in CSV or GPX format.
Vertical map scale in feet or meters.
User interface compatible with dark mode for night use.
Compatible with flic and flic V2 buttons, no hub required. flic buttons are splash proof smart buttons and you may use them as a remote to set, snooze and stop alarms.
Strictly respects your privacy: we do not collect any of your personal information, ever.
Compatible with external GPS for best accuracy (required for iPad with no gps) : tested on gns2000 , Dual xgps, Bad Elf and Garlmin glo.
Compatible with Flic buttons.
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legal notice:
When the alarm is on, this app will use GPS in the background to be able to alert you. Continued use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life: don't forget your charger on board.
The remote mode uses an external server that could be shut down without notice by its provider or run slow . The remote mode needs data connexion and 2 apple or android devices
Use of the remote mode comes is subject to the agreement to this supplementary copyright notice:
In addition to the applicable standard EULA, permission is not granted to use Anchor! to track someone without his dedicated and recent consent.
Provided maps are not nautical charts.
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EASY SET UP:
Press the main button (anchor down) to set anchor position,
Touch the alarm circle on map to adjust alarm radius and you're ready.
EASY STOP:
Press the main button (anchor up) disables all alarms.
EASY TO SET ANCHOR POSITION:
Main button to set anchor at your current position,
Choose a position on the map: relocate anchor with drag and drop.
EASY TO ADJUST ALARM DISTANCE:
Either set a value in settings,
Or adjust it directly by touching the alarm circle.
ALL INCLUSIVE: No add, no subscription, no in app purchase add on.
ARC OR CIRCLE PERIMETER
4 ALARMS METHODS:
Attention catching visual alarm with a blinking black/white screen (foreground only),
Accoustic with ringtone choice (iPads needs to be unmuted in the Control Center),
Remote,
Mail.
REMOTE MODE: check your position and get alerted on a second device.
FIND YOUR BOAT: dinghy option in remote mode
FIND MY BOAT: Crowded anchorage? The remote features a dinghy mode that will shows directions to your boat.
WORKS OFFLINE! You still see your boat position relative to the anchor, the anchor position and the alarm circle. Once offline the map is replaced by a graphic.
WATCH COMPANION APP : anchor, snooze and stop alarms from watch.
Watch notifications are less intrusive and will silence the phone notifications. We thus recommend to opt-out watch notifications.
ENHANCED TRACK RECORDING:
The boat track is recorded and a time-colored path is displayed on map. You can identify at first glance whether your anchor position is drifting or not.
TRACK MANAGEMENT:
Enable, disable and reset the track. Export it in CSV or GPX format.
Vertical map scale in feet or meters.
User interface compatible with dark mode for night use.
Compatible with flic and flic V2 buttons, no hub required. flic buttons are splash proof smart buttons and you may use them as a remote to set, snooze and stop alarms.
Strictly respects your privacy: we do not collect any of your personal information, ever.
Compatible with external GPS for best accuracy (required for iPad with no gps) : tested on gns2000 , Dual xgps, Bad Elf and Garlmin glo.
Compatible with Flic buttons.
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legal notice:
When the alarm is on, this app will use GPS in the background to be able to alert you. Continued use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life: don't forget your charger on board.
The remote mode uses an external server that could be shut down without notice by its provider or run slow . The remote mode needs data connexion and 2 apple or android devices
Use of the remote mode comes is subject to the agreement to this supplementary copyright notice:
In addition to the applicable standard EULA, permission is not granted to use Anchor! to track someone without his dedicated and recent consent.
Provided maps are not nautical charts.
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User Rating
4.77 out of 5
64 ratings in United Kingdom
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Great app for remote
Took me awhile to figure how to set up remote monitoring, but once I did it is such a blast
Useful App when anchoring.
I’ve been using this app for three years now on almost a daily basis as I cruise the world. It’s easy to use when you have internet but placing the anchor may not be accurate without. The only faults I’ve found are the alarm doesn’t always go off if the boat moves outside the circle or arc and you don’t get a track if there’s no Internet. In all a useful tool!
Brilliant app and brilliant support
I have been using this app for a number of years with great pleasure. Previously my wife was the anchor alarm, being a very light sleeper. Since using the app she has been delighted to be able to sleep soundly. The remote monitoring feature is invaluable. In short, you get a mirror image of the active apple device on the boat on the second device you take ashore. This shows when last it connected to the boat, so you can be sure the image is up to date and you will get an alarm if the boat drags. I was very upset recently when I was unable to get a connection between my two devices. I contacted the developer and Antoine provided an immediate and comprehensive investigation to track the fault. Eventually this was traced to a content blocker set up as a default on my iphone - easily fixed once identified, but a lot of ingenuity and persistence needed to get to that conclusion. My thanks for a great app and superb support.
Hate it
Wow - it’s got a tutorial!! Managed to get to 2/10 - how do you get to 3/10??? Not intuitive.
Great but!
This app has changed my life, knowing that I have an anchor watch on when asleep. The occasional false positive, due to gps variations, it well worth it. But I cannot make the email notification work, as soon as the alarm goes off the email option is switched off and I have not managed to send a single email - not much good when I am in the restaurant
Easy to use
This is a very easy to use app. No false alarms and consistent performance. Highly recommended.
Helpful and reliable
Incredibly reliable and helpful to avoid issues when mooring on a sailboat I deeply recommend and could not sleep well without this app
Problems with remote mode - fixed!
Updating my previous review (below) as remote is working fine again. With this feature working the app is just about perfect. I have used this app for 3 years and raved about it. But recently it seems remote mode will not work. I have tried multiple device combinations without any luck. The developer support page google sheet is also “not accepting further responses” so no way to contact the developer. So great app, but beware of potential issues with support…
Great little App..
Does what it does very well. Doesn’t try to be too clever. Sleep is definitely better with ‘Anchor’ turned on! Liking the notification to Apple Watch. The scary panic inducing alarms are reduced to the vibration on your wrist. Perfect. Otherwise it would be good to have some more alarms, of moderate urgency! Perhaps have them rated?!
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App Info
- Category
- Navigation
- Publisher
- Pomacanthus
- Languages
- English, French
- Recent version
- 6.20 (3 years ago )
- Released on
- Jul 1, 2013 (11 years ago )
- Also available in
- France, United States, Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway, Brazil, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Turkey, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Finland, Austria, Greece, Argentina, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Singapore, Romania, South Africa, Israel, Ireland, Hungary, Czechia, Azerbaijan, India, Vietnam, Belarus, Chile, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Pakistan, Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, South Korea
- Last updated
- 2 weeks ago