moodSailor

moodSailor is a nautical navigation app for sailors, boaters, kayakers and anyone who spends time on the water. It works offline, runs on your phone, and respects your privacy. NAVIGATION - Man overboard: MOB button on every screen, alarm, bearing and drift area - COG, SOG, max and average speed - Distance travelled, current GPS position, magnetic heading - Compass: fixed or rotating mode - Head-up course-over-ground compass - Reorderable metric cards - Custom cockpit panels: your cards, your sizes - Regatta mode: course marks, start sequence with flags and countdown, over-early alert - Signal K and NMEA instruments on the cockpit: heading, depth, wind - TVMDC calculator, units converter and IALA region card MAP - OpenStreetMap base layer with OpenSeaMap nautical chart overlay - Official charts where a hydrographic office publishes one free: Norway, US, Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain - Offline tiles: pick area, layers and zoom - One-tap Map/Satellite view switch - Adjustable overlay opacity - Download tiles, weather, marine data and marks - Three rotation modes: north up, COG-aligned, compass-aligned - Follow mode with position marker and heading line - Route tool: draw, measure, save multi-leg routes - Route deviation watch: alarm when your heading leaves the course, even with the screen off - Anchor watch: circle or polygon around the drop point, alarm if the boat drags, all night - Navigational warnings: French AVURNAV, Canada, Croatia and relayed authorities; alert when one is nearby WEATHER, CURRENTS AND TIDES - Wind, ocean currents, waves and swell from Open-Meteo - Wave and swell height, direction and period - Choose the forecast sheet's weather fields - Animated particles or wind-barb arrows - Smooth heatmap with colour scale - Forecast time slider; hourly popover - Tide curve integrated in the sea-level row - Every recorded GPS point carries its weather, currents, waves and tide GPS TRACES - Recording interval: 1, 2 or 5 seconds - Background mode: keeps running with screen locked - Live trace coloured by speed - Resilient to GPS dropouts - Battery guard (Android); native location manager (iOS) - Editor: mini-map, altitude graph, weather, currents, tide - Six denoising rules - Import via "Open With" from Files, Mail - Export to GPX, GeoJSON, CSV or KML POINTS OF INTEREST - Create, edit and delete POIs - Nautical marks: the full IALA set, incl. wreck and preferred channel - POIs on the map with type-specific icons - Mark detail pages: light rhythm, cardinal topmark - Lit marks flash their real light rhythm on the map and in the camera view - OpenSeaMap nautical marks: download as POIs, search by signal code - Export points, seamarks or your position as GPX, KML, CSV or GeoJSON AR POI FINDER - Live camera with augmented-reality POI markers - Compass ribbon with cardinal labels - Configurable distance range and marker size - Immersive full-screen mode - OpenSeaMap nautical marks and saved POIs visible in AR view - Camera detects the real horizon line - Camera matches vessels to AIS targets - Night light ID: matches flash rhythm against charted lights AIS VESSEL TRACKING (optional) - Live nearby vessel positions on the map and in AR POI Finder - Course and speed indicators; collision awareness - Vessels rendered as kites under way and circles when stopped - AR vessels at real angular size - Status icons on vessel symbol - Predicted AR positions from last course/speed KNOWLEDGE - Built-in reference: glossary, ship lights, day marks, wind, magnetism, currents, tides - Search, sources, illustrations - Interactive tide tool: pick a point on the map - Morse & ICS signal flags: text->code/flag SETTINGS - 25 languages - Units: distance, speed, altitude, temperature, coordinates - Themes: light, system, dark - Weather model selector - Offline regions list with size and delete PRIVACY - No account, no ads, no tracking - Your data stays on your device - Train the fleet: opt-in sightings sharpen recognition