Anchor Alarm - SailGrib AA

SailGrib

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About this app

Anchor Alarm by SailGrib, is a modern full featured anchor alarm app.

- Start the app before your anchor, the app will record and draw your track on a map.
- Leave your phone on the chart table.
- Moore without worrying about the application.
- Return to the application.On the track, locate the point corresponding to the boat's position at the time of anchoring. You should be able to detect it relatively easily on the map thanks to the reverse movement after anchoring.
- Center the map on the anchor point using the target sign in the middle of the screen.
- Press the blue "Anchor" button to fix the anchor position.
- Adjust the radius of the wetting area by moving the green dot to the edge of the zone.
- Fix the wetting area by pressing the "Anchor" button again, it turns green. The alarm is activated.

NEW: Use your Navionics boating charts within the app!

With the Premium option:
- Define a hexagonal and editable wetting zone on the screen.
- Send a mail when an alarm is raised.
- View SailGrib WR maps.
- Import the GPX trace of SailGrib WR if you forgot to start the application before wetting.

The app runs in the background and uses the latest Android techniques to reduce power consumption while maximizing position accuracy.

Note that the accuracy of your position depends on your phone and your location. As of march 2021, we consider that most phones have an accuracy between 2 and 10 meters while at sea.

Ratings and reviews

Great UI, can't prevent lock screen from disabling it. While the map can be dragged to center it on the anchor, the distance/bearing display from boat to anchor it hard to read and only appears when zoomed way in (fill most of screen with boat-to-anchor line). Great integration with Navionics. Bugaboo with all anchor alarms in Android is their inability to defeat the lock screen when monitoring so the alarm quits monitoring as soon as the lock screen turns on.

App kinda works if you are on board. SMS functionality is poor. You receive a cryptic message in poor English without proper GPS coordiantes. Tried sending them e-mails from within the app and also from the computer (using the address they provide, also on their website), but only received Undeliverable messages back. Better go with something more professional.

My review was initially 3 stars because the app doesn't interface with gps info sent via wifi from my AIS (like navionics does). But after the way the developer replied to my review while ignoring the email I sent, I can only give it what it deserves... I found an app called Sail Expert, it interfaces with my external GPS and has a brilliant anchor alarm function, as well as all other NMEA instrument data like depth and wind, sent wirelessly.

What's new

Update Android Billing library to version 6