Top 10 Android Sailing Apps
Hot on the heels of our recent iOS top 10 sailing apps article, we have created our top 10 Android sailing apps. Again, there are some phenomenal ones that are so worth downloading. Take a look at these…
Ship Finder
Ship Finder provides near real time “virtual radar” AIS maps. It’s easy to use and is an amazing app for anyone interested in shipping, cruising and sailing in ports and locations across the world. It’s also great if you simply want to know what boats are out there or want to see where your friends and family are.
Features include:
Live moving ships
Ship route trails
Search by vessel name
Ship information such as – Vessel Name, Port of Registration, Destination, ETA
Technical information such as – MMSI, IMO, Callsign , Heading, Length, Width, Draft
Ship Finder works by picking up AIS ship feeds used by all passenger vessels, vessels over 300 tons and increasingly smaller pleasure craft. This technology is actually faster than radar and is used directly by vessels for navigation.
GPS Essentials
Turn your phone into a fully-featured GPS receiver! The most complete GPS tool on market: Navigate, manage waypoints, tracks, build your own dashboard from 37 widgets. Shows navigation values such as: Accuracy, Altitude, Speed, Battery, Bearing, Climb, Course, Date, Declination, Distance, ETA, Latitude, Longitude, Max Speed, Min Speed, Actual Speed, True Speed, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonset, Moonrise, Moon Phase, Target, Time, TTG, Turn.
Marine Weather by Bluefin
Great for boating, fishing, and sailing! Don’t leave shore with out it! Marine Weather is a free, ad-supported app providing users access to marine forecasts, live buoy data, tides, radar, & sea surface temperatures.
– Marine Forecasts
– Live Buoy Data
– Tide Tables
– Radar
– Sea Surface Temperatures
Great for boating, fishing, sailing, and surfing!
Includes all US coastal regions inshore and offshore, Great Lakes, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
Information provided by:
– NOAA’s National Weather Service
– Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (RU COOL)
SailDroid
Sailing App containing
a set of nautical applications:
– Compass
– Speedometer in knots
– Position
– Distance measurement/Log in Nautical Miles
All in large, high contrast characters
Yachts and Tall Ships
Tall ships, super yachts, catamarans, sailboats, cruise boats and events.
Detailed information for 700+ detailed sailing vessels, all major ports around the world, events and schedules, famous buildings, points of interests and more..
Istanbul Shop & Miles Boat Show 2010
Rolex Middle Sea Race
Euronaval 2010
The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show
Hanseboot 51st International Boat Show
Racing Rules of Sailing LITE
Educational materials to learn the rules of regatta. 55 tests about the Rules of Course with answers and explanations by Ezio Fonda, Umpire and National Judge of Italian Sailing Federation. This application is write for Android with display resolution bigger than 240×360 – Version Lite 9 tests.
You-Tack! Pro
YOU-TACK! Pro is the first Android app to offer the official ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing with: Illustrations, Rules, Rules Comments, 3D Animated Quizzes (with a Scoreboard to review your answers), all the Racing Signals with detailed descriptions, and both the Official ISAF Definition of Terms (with Illustrations), and a list of Other Sailing Terms.
It’s easy to use, with cross-links between the Rules and Definitions, and an easy to use Search tool. Test your knowledge with various animated Quizzes, keep track the Rules you want to quickly reference by listing them in your Favorites folder -then you can quickly brush up before the next race, when it’s over on the club porch, or in “The Room”.
Features include:
RULES:
• THE RULES are The Official International Sailing Association Federation, current to January 2010, as printed in The ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing 2009 – 2012 – RRS.
• RULES COMMENTS are noted below each rule.
• ILLUSTRATIONS with rules are displayed to help clarify the meaning.
• A SEARCH tool helps you quickly find a specific rule or related rule term.
• HYPERLINKS connect Rules and Definitions.
• A FAVORITES section – where you can keep a list of specific Rules for quick reference.
Windfinder
Wind, waves & weather for kite & windsurfers, surfers, sailors paragliders
Wind, waves & weather worldwide for kitesurfers, windsurfers, surfers, sailors and paragliders
* forecasts for 15000+ spots
* observations from 4000+ weather stations
* configurable favorites, measuring units
„Windfinder“ is free, with ads. „Windfinder Pro“ is not free, without ads and with Superforecast (hourly time steps)
NauticEd
Build your NauticEd online sailing resumé with Android. Everytime you go sailing, just log your outing with this NauticEd app and watch your sailing certification Rank and Levels grow.
SAILMONSTER
SAILMONSTER.COM – Sailmonster is a sailing community designed to promote the art of sailing. They provide a venue to share sailing activities and meet other sailors who share the same passion for the wind.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
6 Comments
Daria Blackwell
Hey Joanne,
Thanks for this list. Great recos. Consider adding Navionics charts. They are expanding to cover most of the world.
John
Great information
Thank You
Just purchased a smart phone and when I understand it a little more; plan to down load at least two of the sites
yacht insurance
Great list I have been looking for some apps for my phone but all the info I found where iphone and ipad apps I knew there would be some good ones for Android users.
Vladimir
Check out this one http://www.sailingtactician.com
Larry Walker
Worth adding to the list is MXMARINER. Excellent chartplotting app.
Chris Payne
We have just released a free droid app that provides NOAA buoys weather data, mainly for the US but works wherever the buoys are.
You can check it out at http://play.google.com/store/search?q=USWinds&c=apps
Feel free to get back to us with any enhancements you might like…
Cheers
Chris