SAILORSIM
Pablo Kessler Saiz Navigation iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
SAILORSIM is a free Navigation app for iPhone and iPad by Pablo Kessler Saiz. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 20 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v2.1
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About SAILORSIM
Take the helm and sail or motor across the Mediterranean, from the Costa Dorada to the Balearic Islands. SailorSim is a boating simulator with a 3D view and a nautical chart. Hoist the sails, trim your course to the wind, manoeuvre under engine inside the harbour and moor alongside the pontoon. Or set off on a long passage from Salou to Mallorca or from Palma to Menorca, with day and night passing over the sea. MISSIONS - Leaving port: cast off and reach open water without touching anything. - Sailing: learn to beat, reach and run with shifting winds. - Salou regatta: find the start line, win the position and round the marks ahead of your rivals. - Guided sailing: follow the route waypoint by waypoint. - Docking: enter the harbour and moor with precision. - Salou coves: cruise the coast among beaches, shoals and buoys. - Entering Maó harbour: head up one of the longest natural harbours in the Mediterranean to the visitor pontoon. - Passages: Salou–Palma, Salou–Mahón and Palma–Mahón. THE SEA AND THE BOAT - Wind with changing direction and strength, plus an apparent wind indicator. - Sails and engine, with fuel consumption: if you run dry, use the reserve can, carry on under sail or call for help. Refuel when you reach port. - Buoyage: lateral marks, isolated danger marks, beach buoys and lighthouses flashing at night. - Marine traffic: container ships, ferries, yachts and other craft moving around the area. - Coastline with relief and shallow water: watch out for rocks and shoals, you can run aground. RADIO AND RESCUE - VHF radio with voice messages. - SOS button: send a MAYDAY, get the acknowledgement and wait for the rescue boat, which tows you to the nearest port so you can carry on sailing. CONTROLS - 3D view with smooth zoom and free camera: tap a ship or an object to focus on it, double tap to return to your boat. - Nautical chart showing the mission route. - Route pilot: "Follow route", and "Back to route" if you have strayed. - Time acceleration for long passages. - Restart the mission at any time. - Save and resume passages. FOR MAC, IPAD AND IPHONE Layout adapted to every screen, with all controls available on iPhone too. Includes a full in-app manual in Spanish and English. Charts based on OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence). SailorSim is a simulation game. It is not intended for real navigation and does not replace official nautical charts, onboard equipment or skipper training.
What’s new
Version 2.1 · Updated October 21, 2026
VERSION 2.1 · FIX - Fixed on iPhone Plus and Pro Max: the controls appeared at iPad size, covering the top bar and getting cut off at the bottom. They now display correctly. VERSION 2.0: a big free update OPTIMISED FOR IPHONE DUO - Open in landscape: full iPad-style view, with the sails on one side and engine and helm on the other. - Open in portrait: split-screen helm station. - Closed: controls rearranged so nothing is covered or cut off. NEW i HELP BUTTON - Yellow button in the top bar: explains every icon and control, and reminds you that you can change the wind and sea state at any time. - Manual expanded with the chapter "Heavy weather and damage". IMPROVED GRAPHICS - Salou coast with real relief: sandy beaches, cliffs and the coves of Cap de Salou, in comic style. - Renewed Salou harbour: Club Nàutic, breakwater, huts, palm trees, and moored sailboats, motorboats and yachts. - More detailed sailboat: white hull with stripes, bathing platform with ladder, steel pulpit and pushpit, sprayhood and mainsail cover. - Mahón harbour entrance: layered rock, La Mola Fortress, the Lazaretto, the Illa del Rei hospital and Sant Felip castle. MORE REALISTIC SAILING - Sea state: calm, slight, moderate, rough or very rough. Take the waves on the bow quarter: head-on you slam, beam-on a breaking sea can knock you down, and from the quarter the boat broaches. - Gusts and knockdowns: with too much sail up, the boat lays over. Ease the sheets to bring her up, and reef in time. - Breaking waves, rare capsizes and dismasting: secure the rigging, watch the propeller, and call PAN-PAN or MAYDAY. - Throttle with an S (full ahead) position and a clear "click" into neutral. - Visible anchoring, with chain and trip buoy, and swinging when the wind shifts. - Precise contact with quays, pontoons and moored boats: hull scrapes count. - Tap the bollard to cast off; in Mahón the boat lies neatly alongside the pontoon. - "Salou and its coves" starts under engine off Platja de Llevant. Also: change language without restarting the game, a more visible mooring button and many small improvements. Free, no ads, no sign-up.
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.