moodSailor

Name: moodSailor
Author: Société Française d'Infonuagique

By: Société Française d'Infonuagique App

Nautical navigation, offline

Overview

Apple Apps Store

Version:

1.2.5

Last updated: 2026-07-31

Ranking

#1,892,028 ▼ 20,788

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Your waypoints. On the horizon. Weather, currents and tides on every GPS point. Interactive tide tool, hourly popover. 24 EU languages, free.

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

COG, SOG, max and average speed
Distance travelled, current GPS position, magnetic heading
Compass dial: fixed or rotating mode
Head-up course-over-ground compass; large, legible gauges on tablets
Reorderable metric cards: keep what matters on top
TVMDC calculator 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, Portugal
Offline tile caching: pick an area, layers and zoom range - with size estimates
One-tap Map/Satellite view switch
Adjustable overlay opacity
Download tiles, weather, marine data and marks together
Three rotation modes: north up, COG-aligned, compass-aligned
Follow mode with position marker and heading line

WEATHER, CURRENTS AND TIDES

Wind, ocean currents, waves and swell from Open-Meteo
Wave and swell height, direction and period
Choose which weather fields appear in the forecast sheet
Animated particles or normalised arrows (NOAA wind barbs)
Smooth heatmap with colour scale
Time slider through the forecast; hourly popover with mini graphs
Tide curve integrated in the sea-level row
Weather and marine data cached separately; purge anytime
Every recorded GPS point carries its weather, currents, waves, swell and tide

GPS TRACES

Recording interval: 1, 2 or 5 seconds
Background mode: keeps running with screen locked, persistent notification
Live trace coloured by speed (blue to red, threshold configurable)
Resilient to GPS dropouts; banner alert
Native iOS location manager for reliable background recording
Editor: name, duration, distance, mini-map, altitude graph, weather, currents, tide
Six denoising rules
Import via "Open With" from Files, Mail, Nextcloud
Export to GPX, GeoJSON, CSV or KML

POINTS OF INTEREST

Create, edit and delete POIs with custom colours
Nautical marks: buoy, lighthouse, beacon, cardinal
POIs on the map with type-specific icons
Tap a mark or waypoint for a detail page: position, light rhythm, cardinal quadrant and topmark, live bearing
OpenSeaMap nautical marks: download as POIs, search by signal code

AR POI FINDER

Live camera with augmented-reality POI markers
Compass ribbon with cardinal labels and 5° ticks
Logarithmic distance scaling; configurable distance and marker size
Immersive full-screen mode; drag to reorder layers
OpenSeaMap nautical marks and saved POIs visible in AR view
Camera detects the real horizon line; marks and vessels lock to it even when heeling
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 (CPA / TCPA)
Vessels rendered as kites under way and circles when stopped
AR vessels at real angular size; AIS-confirmed lock to the boat outline
Status icons on vessel symbol and badge
Predicted AR positions from last course/speed; stale fixes dashed; off-screen chevrons

KNOWLEDGE

Built-in reference: glossary, beacons, 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, speaker or torch; point camera at a blinking light to decode live

SETTINGS