Yachting Magazine: "probably the best dollar you've ever spent"
For more than a decade Anchor Watch has set the standard when it comes to guarding your boat and with over 40,000 users you know your boat is in safe hands.
"Anchor Watch" uses the GPS on your smartphone to monitor your boat's position. If the boat moves outside its limits, the program will alert you immediately. Not only on your device but on any device using your iCloud id.
No more sleepless nights, worrying whether your boat is dragging or not. Sleep sound knowing that a quick glance will assure you that all is ok. When you are onshore for dinner or a drink, you will receive an alert the moment your boat leaves the designated area. You can even track it in real-time.
The third generation of Anchor Watch has been rebuild from the ground up to provide the best user experience. It features sea maps navigation and nautical maps. It conserves bandwidth and still uses sophisticated GPS filtering, which avoids false alerts. You can also run it twice as long on the same battery.
Anchor Watch is meant to keep your boat safe, download now.
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The new version appears to have lost several useful aspects of the version it has replaced:
The vessel sometimes ‘disappears’
No breadcrumbs are left as the vessel moves - this was quite useful.
The display shows Lat & Long but the box at top left just shows 2 rows of red dashes... what should be displayed here??
No distance and bearing to anchor is shown.
The ability to use range and bearing to adjust relative position of anchor appears to have disappeared. Dragging the anchor to a guessed position is not as useful.
Does the App now send message to another phone? This feature seems to have been lost?!!
Whilst accepting that developments are necessary, the new version seems a step backwards. Very disappointing.
Used for years
Consistent performance and used many, many times for a reassuring watch at night at anchor. For those who set the ring at 10m remember that GPS wanders. A realistic ring is 100m because you swing the length of the scope anyway.
A great app that works. Thank you.
Rubbish
Frozen
Hopeless
It does not work
Does not SMS using carrier provider
The app is hard configured to only send SMS via Messagebird account and con not be configured to utilise mobile phone providers SMS.
Godsend! Straightforward and reliable.
This is the fourth anchor watch app I have downloaded and it really works! Unlike the others, frankly. The add on features are valuable too - calling out to another phone if the boat moves outside the circle you yourself define. Or changes heading. Strongly recommended.
Ianqv
Cant work out how to use it! It would appear you need to download maps. But it does not say how or where from or how much! Not much use really!
Crashes
Just updated app now crashes on startup tried reinstalling no joy os 8.41
Very poor app
I downloaded this app as a friend told me it was good, I have only had it for about an hour the general settings screen is frozen I can't access the help, support or add maps. Not a good start.
The principle looks ok but the GPS trace is all over the place so a bigger drag factor must be used. Not impressed by this app.
It works!
Anchor Watch is worth it's weight in gold. It very probably saved me from dragging onto leeward moored boats......... and all the embarassment that would have involved! It really does what it supposed to do. Just remember to set the "run in background" setting to on.
