DragAlarm (Anchor guard) vs Anchor Watcher Usage & Stats

Keep calm. With DragAlarm you can relax in your boat, on the beach, at the bar or wherever you want. This app stands watch and notifies you if the anchor is improperly secured and your boat is dragging. Activate DragAlarm when you're letting go the chain or once you’re anchored. Just following a few steps the app calculates the swinging radius or otherwise you can enter it manually. Once it has been configured, you will see the map with the location of the anchor on the screen, the swinging circle and the ship with her tracking. Remember that you should let go the chain at least 3 times the depth to ensure a good anchorage. - No internet connection required. (Except for the alert via email). - It is recommended to use the app with the iPhone / iPad plugged in. - Setting the map type: map, hybrid or satellite. - Setting the GPS accuracy to save battery power. - Changing measurement units: meters, feet or fathoms. - Alert via email with information regarding dragging distance, position, time, GPS error and battery level. - Ability to respond to the alert on your Apple Watch. WARNING A continued use of the GPS in the background can dramatically decrease the battery life. DragAlarm makes use of the GPS antenna. Take into account that not all iOS devices have this inbuilt antenna and therefore this app may not work properly. All iPhones do have the antenna. Only the 3G Cellular iPad with data connection has GPS antenna. Drag Alarm is an app developed by Marinus. Marinus, improving the maritime sector. Marinus Apps www.marinusapps.com

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Anchor Watcher

Anchor Watcher is a useful application that will help you monitoring your position, see the drifting track and check the weather condition while you are enjoying your time sailing. Easy to use, you need just to choose your monitor distance and Anchor Watcher will fire an alarm when your position will be out of the range, you can have the application in background, Anchor Watcher will send you a notification, so you won’t miss it. The weather data are collected from buoys and ships around the world and can gives you very useful information about: • Wind speed and direction • Wave height, period and direction • Temperature of the air and water • Pressure • Tide • Visibility Anchor Watcher doesn't need an Internet connection in order to monitor your location, however you need it to fetch maps and the buoys and ships info, after that you fetched them you will be able to continue to use them offline. We do our best to optimize the use of the location services too keep low the battery consumption, however you have to be aware that: "Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life."