Boat Manager
John Tattersfield Travel iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Boat Manager is a free Travel app for iPhone and iPad by John Tattersfield. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 18, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 37 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 18
- 2026 · v1.8.0
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About Boat Manager
Know what your boat really costs, and keep every detail of every boat you run — logbook, maintenance, safety, documents and crew — in one place, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Built by a USCG-credentialed Master Mariner and ex-Royal Navy officer, over several thousand miles underway. EXPENSES & WHAT THE BOAT COSTS • Every cost an expense of its own: fuel, berths, labour, parts, insurance, subscriptions • What the boat costs over the last 12 months and what's coming: fixed, semi-fixed and discretionary, with capital kept apart • Every figure opens the expenses behind it; tap a year for its spending by category • Recurring bills set up once, then recorded or skipped when due • Refunds and insurance payouts netted against the cost they repay • What you've spent at each marina and with each vendor • Export to PDF or CSV for your taxes or your bookkeeper COMPREHENSIVE LOGBOOK • Captain's daily log, fuel log, pump-out log and optional generator log • Apple Weather conditions and NOAA tides recorded with each entry • GPS position and waypoints on an embedded map • Sea service summaries for USCG CG-719S SAFETY • The USCG Vessel Safety Check and a federal Required Equipment list, ready to run • Each run files a report, a task for every failure, and a PDF on the boat's papers • Tag gear with the requirement it satisfies and see when it was last checked MAINTENANCE & PLANNING • Planned jobs by date or engine hours: log, reschedule or skip, with a reminder that follows • An Outlook of what falls due month by month, budgets included • Projects: gather a refit or yard visit into one job with dates, budget and progress • A library of planned-maintenance tasks and intervals, and checklists you build • Maintenance Dashboard for the equipment you care about EQUIPMENT, TOOLS & SPARES • Every piece of equipment on every boat, with its full service history • Manufacturer, part number, serial number and cost • Link spares to the equipment they fit • Warranty and calibration dates, with reminders • Paint, glue and epoxy tracked from when they're opened DOCUMENTS & EXPIRY DATES • Registration, insurance, certificates, manuals, receipts, photos and videos • Attach files to boats, logs, equipment, spares, tools, crew, waypoints or notes • Expiry dates for documents, equipment and spares, with a reminder ahead and one-tap renewal FLOAT PLANS • USCG-inspired float plans, sent by Messages or Mail in one tap • One-tap arrival message with your position, which drafts the log entry • Emergency message with your position CREW & VENDORS • Crew lists created from, or kept in step with, Apple Contacts • See every log entry each crew member was aboard for • Yards, mechanics and marinas listed by business, with what you've paid them NAVIGATION & THE HELM • Import waypoints by GPX or CSV; see where you've been on a calendar and a map • The Helm: position, tides, weather, engine hours, fuel and what is due • To-do list, shopping list and notes ANALYSIS & REPORTS • Days underway, speeds, distances, fuel and tankage, charted • Data Health reads your logs for what cannot be right and proposes the fix • PDF reports for boats, logs, maintenance, equipment, spares and tools APPLE ECOSYSTEM • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac, with full offline use • Apple Reminders, Calendar, Contacts and Weather throughout • Dark Mode for night watches • CSV import and export of everything, with blank templates for your own spreadsheets Everything is free for the first 30 days. After that it is $0.99 per month or $9.99 per year, billed through your Apple Account and cancellable at any time. Note: the emergency and float-plan features are aids, not a substitute for a VHF/DSC radio, an EPIRB, or leaving a float plan with someone ashore. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://boatmanager.app/privacy Support & Feedback: [email protected] | https://boatmanager.app/help
What’s new
Version 1.8.0 · Updated October 18, 2026
Every cost is now an expense: see what the boat really costs, plan maintenance as jobs with their reminders, and delete with confidence. EXPENSES Every cost is now an expense of its own: fuel, berths, labour, parts, insurance, subscriptions. Each has a category, who you paid, where, a note and its receipts, and can be marked reimbursable. The costs on your logs and tasks are moved over once. Update every device to 1.8 so they agree. A refund or insurance payout nets against the cost it repays. Sort and filter the list by category, vendor, place, date or what's still to review. WHAT THE BOAT COSTS The Expenses tab opens on cost of ownership: fixed, semi-fixed and discretionary, with capital kept apart, over the last 12 months and what's coming. Every figure opens its expenses; tap a year for them by category, and ⓘ for the terms. Analysis includes your fuel. RECURRING COSTS A monthly slip, insurance, a subscription: set it up once and it comes round when due, to record or skip. RECEIPTS Share a receipt or invoice to Boat Manager and it opens the app, files the document and makes the expense. A paperclip marks every expense with a receipt, and a document lists the expenses it backs up. VENDORS Maintenance Contacts are now Vendors, listed by business with their people beneath. Add one from any picker. Share a contact card from Contacts into Boat Manager as crew or a vendor. A vendor opens its expenses, and the list counts them. SPEND HERE A waypoint shows what you've spent there, per night stayed, with berths and fuel paid to the place. Mark a complimentary night on the log; Safe Harbor counts it. PLANNED JOBS Scheduled maintenance is a planned job of its own, not a placeholder log. Plan a Job from Planning, a library job or a checklist; a job due on engine hours is planned at a reading and shows the hours left. Log It Today, run its checklist, Reschedule or Skip it, and its reminder follows. A missed day shows as overdue. Data Health turns old scheduled logs and maintenance reminders into planned jobs. REMINDERS Everything Boat Manager reminds you of is kept here and synced to Apple Reminders: an expiry with its record, a job as a planned job, anything else as a to-do. An orange mark shows what's in Apple Reminders. Remind Me on an expiry alerts a month, two weeks or a week ahead and follows the date; Renewed moves it on. A reminder deleted in Reminders can be made again. ONCE OPENED Paint, glue, epoxy: say how long a spare lasts once opened. Its use-by counts as its expiry, in the list and its reminder. SEARCH, SORT AND FILTER Every main list now has all three, side by side. SPREADSHEETS CSV Import has a blank template for each table, for records kept in spreadsheets, and expenses now export and import. NEARBY Your own waypoints come first, with a slider for how far to look. Yacht clubs are found, and fuel searches skip what isn't a fuel dock. SAFER DELETING Every delete asks first and says what goes with it. Delete All deletes only what the list shows, and says how many. Deleting a log takes its tasks with it and puts the spares they used back in stock. Deleting a boat takes everything that is its, never your last boat. TIME ZONES A log keeps its day when you change time zone. Each log records the ship's zone, and Settings can show it beside the date. iCLOUD SYNC The sync status shows a download under way and how far it has got, and the last download, upload and any problem, in words. FIXES • A vendor with a company and no person's name saves • The currency you chose at first launch is kept • Delete My Account removes everything • A shared receipt's log no longer shows in the Maintenance Log • The insured value is on the boat's Insurance • The calculator icon shows in dark mode • Show Helm on start matches the first-launch options around it • On Mac, CSV Export has a Save dialog and CSV Import's choices show when picked Fair winds. Questions and suggestions are always welcome — they shape each release.
App privacy
The developer, John Tattersfield, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Precise Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info
- Contacts: Contacts
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality
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