CruiseLink

Stay in touch with your family or friends onboard — without everyone buying the ship's internet.

CruiseLink passes messages between your group's phones using Bluetooth when you're near each other, the ship's own Wi-Fi when you're on it (no internet package needed), and the internet when anyone has a connection. You don't choose; it uses whatever works.

• Chat with your group
• Ping: one tap for "Where are you?", "Come to me", "Dinner soon"
• Meet: suggest a place and time, and see who's coming
• Check-ins: ask everyone to say they're OK
• Cabin numbers and the day's plan, shared with the group
• See who's nearby and when you last heard from each person
• Delivered and Seen, so you know a message arrived

No account, email or password. Create a group, share the invite link or QR code, and you're in.

Private by design: messages are end-to-end encrypted. Other passengers' phones can help carry your messages, but they can't read them — and yours can't read theirs.

How well it works depends on the ship: phones need to be within Bluetooth range of each other or of another CruiseLink phone, or on a Wi-Fi network that lets phones reach each other. CruiseLink tells you plainly which routes are working.

Recent changes:
Notifications now work on Android. Until this build CruiseLink could not wake your phone when a message arrived while the app was closed. Now it can.

And when a group's key changes, the new key now travels over the internet as well as phone to phone — so someone you haven't been near stays in the group instead of quietly dropping out.