Watchkeeper App Download
For sailors, by sailors

Watch bills for the way crews actually stand watch.

Turn your crew list into a fair, legal rotation in minutes. Motoring or sailing. Pleasure cruise or commercial passage. Make changes on the fly, including customizable storm watches and ‘all‑hands’ options. Circadian and traditional watches. Alarms before every change. STCW rest checks. Low battery use. Night/red‑light mode. Man‑overboard position tracking for emergencies. A one‑page printable PDF for the bulkhead. All private. All completely offline, yet completely sharable.

On iPhone. A one‑time purchase — no subscription, no ads. iPad and Apple Watch coming soon.

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Works fully offline No account, no ads STCW rest checks 2 to 10+ crew Red night-vision mode Private by design

Available now

iPhone

On the App Store — a one‑time purchase, no subscription.

Coming soon

iPad
Apple Watch
Android
More languages

Spanish, French, Italian, Tagalog & more.

Build
Build

Fair rotations in minutes.

Pick a proven pattern for crews from 2 to 10, as individuals or as teams. Circadian, Swedish, Navy and US Merchant Marine schedules, traditional four‑on eight‑off. All completely customizable, or build your own from scratch. Every rotation is checked against STCW rest minima, so you know it’s legal before you slip lines.

Stand the watch

Who’s on now. Who’s next.

On‑Watch shows the current hand and the next, in boat time, with a haptic nudge at every change. Watch alarms are Time‑Sensitive, so they break through Focus and Do Not Disturb when it matters.

Stand the watch
Heavy weather
Heavy weather

One tap when it blows.

Heavy‑weather mode shortens the watches the moment it turns nasty and eases back to normal when the front passes — the log stays honest throughout. Night mode goes fully red to protect your night vision on deck.

On the water

Mark it. Steer back.

Drop a man‑overboard reference with one touch from the ‘On Watch’ screen, and follow the bearing and range back to it. Set the ship’s clock from your longitude by GPS, and keep a running position log — all on‑device, no signal needed. Saved positions are only for use as a backup aid, and never as your primary rescue or navigation device.

On the water

Private by design

No account. No servers. No trackers. No ads. Your schedules, vessel, and crew are yours. We have no way to see them.

Share a watch bill with your shipmates. Call a storm watch. Update everyone’s schedule while at sea. Share data phone‑to‑phone with QR codes, AirDrop, or by text message and email. It goes straight to your shipmate. We’re never in the middle, and we never know who you send it to.

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Now on iPhone.

Download it today and set your first watch bill in minutes.