AnchorSafe – Anchor Alarm

Your Ultimate Anchoring Companion: AnchorSafe
AnchorSafe offers the ultimate anchor alarm app for sailors to transform your anchoring experience while staying connected with others. AnchorSafe is the only app that lets you monitor your anchor remotely from shore free from hassle with drift alerts, boat proximity alarms, boat traffic alarms, NMEA integration and streaming, AIS vessel tracking and extensive notifications.

- Anchor Alarms for Peace of Mind: Sleep soundly knowing you'll be alerted instantly to any drag or drift.
- Custom Anchor Alarm Zones, manual anchor set at any location or relative to current location.
- The Ultimate Remote Anchor Alarm & Monitoring: Your virtual presence on the boat. Receive crucial alerts/notifications anywhere.
- Information Widgets for boat, anchor, nearby boat, anchoring console overlayed/pinned on screen.
- New: Capability to use a spare phone as a fixed boat device; connect to your NMEA network
- Geofence alarms
- Stream NMEA and AIS data from your onboard device or remote device to any other device
- Remote Anchor Monitoring of your boat: either yourself or your on-watch Duty friends with remote anchor reset, settings sync instantly
- Real-time Drift Lines: Visually confirm your anchor's hold with clear, on-map drift lines.
- Proximity Alerts: Stay safe and avoid surprises with instant notifications if nearby vessels get too close.
- Smart Heading & Swing Detection Alerts: Benefit from intelligent, learning-based insights into your boat's movement.
- Bay Watch, boat traffic alerts: Effortlessly monitor boats entering or leaving your chosen anchorage.
- Explore anchorage ratings and reviews, share your own discoveries to help fellow sailors.
- Anchorage History: Keep a detailed record of your anchoring spots, including conditions, for future reference.
- Distance measurement tool.
- Enhance collective safety! Assign an "on-duty" sailor for your boat or even be "on-duty" for several other boats. On-Duty sailors can watch over your boat remotely.
- Integrated Weather: Access real-time weather updates directly within the app for informed decision-making.
- Local wind estimation: micro AI model analyzes the boat's shifting position relative to the original anchor.
- Explore anchorage ratings and reviews, share your own discoveries to help fellow sailors.
- Private chats: Engage with the sailing community through direct messaging, public anchorage-based chats, social sharing or calling directly from the app.
- Bay Chats: Join and monitor crucial discussions and local insights from any location.
- Captain’s Logbook: AnchorSafe’s Captain’s Logbook transforms every voyage into detailed, living record, with PDF exports
- NMEA WIFI Gateway Integration: Access your boat’s instrumentation network including AIS data.
- AIS Integration: AnchorSafe AIS Integration, giving sailors a powerful new layer of situational awareness
- Powerful Notification System & Event Logs: Stay informed with a robust notification system
- Distress Notifications: allow you to broadcast emergency messages to nearby vessels.
- Low Battery & Connectivity Warnings: Never be caught off guard.
- Geospatial Search: See all boats, sailors, ratings, and anchor history around you with powerful, geographically relevant search.
- Effortless Discovery: Advanced search functionality to quickly find sailors, boats, and the perfect anchorages.
- Service boats such as waste pump-out, supermarket, etc. utility vessels are included.
- Ease of Use: Navigate intuitively! See all these objects directly on the map and simply click to view details, interact, or chat
- Cross platform subscriptions
- Under development: AnchorSafe permanent boat hardware companion for geofence alarms

AnchorSafe—sail smarter, sleep sounder.

Recent changes:
What's new
👉 Use a spare phone as a fixed boat device
👉 Geofence alarms
👉 Stream NMEA and AIS data from your onboard device
👉 Up to 75% less mobile data usage
👉 Faster remote control: settings sync instantly

Recently added
👉 Hide your location (all tiers); inactive boats are hidden
👉 On-screen NMEA instrument data
👉 Subscriptions work across iOS and Android
👉 Overlays: boat, anchor, nearby, set anchor
👉 Anchor: relative distance/angle, remote reset
👉 Lifetime subscription