Anchor Alarm Pro
Plapp Navigation iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Anchor Alarm Pro is a free Navigation app for iPhone and iPad by Plapp. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 16, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 8 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 16
- 2026 · v1.13.0
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About Anchor Alarm Pro
Anchor Alarm Pro turns your iPhone into a dependable anchor watch. Drop your anchor, set a safe radius, and the app sounds a loud, escalating alarm the instant your boat drags outside the zone, so you can actually sleep at anchor. KEEPS YOU SAFE OVERNIGHT • Loud alarm that overrides the silent switch and rings even when the phone is asleep • Soft pre-alert first, then a full alarm if you don't respond • Smart drag detection that ignores normal swinging and won't false-alarm when you motor up to retrieve the anchor FLEXIBLE ANCHOR ZONES • Simple circular safe zone around the anchor • Sector zones for swing on a single tide line • Bow/stern corridor for Mediterranean and stern-to mooring: point your bow and set how far the boat may move ACCURATE POSITION, YOUR WAY • Built-in iPhone GPS • External Bluetooth GPS receiver for better accuracy • NMEA 0183 over TCP/UDP from your chartplotter, or Signal K from your boat network • Auto-selects the most accurate connected source WATCH FROM YOUR PHONE OR FROM SHORE • Share a short code to link a second device, no account, no login • One phone stays on the boat; another monitors remotely and gets the same drag alarm via push notification, even backgrounded • Live boat position, track history, and battery status of the boat's device BUILT FOR REAL CRUISING • Live map with your track, swing circle, and OpenSeaMap-style detail • Battery-conscious: eases off GPS while holding, sharpens up near the edge or while dragging • Scrub back through your night's track to see exactly where you sat Anchor Alarm Pro is made by sailors, for sailors. Set it once and trust it.
What’s new
Version 1.13.0 · Updated October 16, 2026
Feet as well as metres: pick Units in Settings, and every distance, radius and slider follows, in whole feet. Fewer false alarms: when the phone loses the sky and falls back to a rough Wi-Fi or cell position hundreds of metres out, the watch no longer reads it as a drag. If no usable GPS fix comes for 10 minutes, you get a soft GPS warning instead. On iPad, drawing the safe zone on the map works again, with a finger or Apple Pencil, and the set-up sheet and the landscape layout fit the screen. And when the volume is low, the app offers Override silent & Focus again, so the drag alarm is heard.
App privacy
The developer, Plapp, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
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
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: Device ID
Used for: App Functionality
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