Automatic tracking
The app records your trip in the background — even when the app is closed. You decide how often a waypoint is written.
Built by sailors
Digital Logbook for Sailors
The Logbook App keeps your ship's log automatically — with GPS tracking, NMEA data, weather and PDF export. For leisure sailors, charter skippers and professionals.
4.7285 ratings
App Store & Google Play iOS & Android
App Store & Google Play iOS & Android
Features
What the Logbook App does for sailors
From the automatic track to the printed logbook — all in one app.
NMEA connection
Wind, depth, speed through water and position come straight from your onboard electronics and land in the logbook automatically.
PDF export
At the end of the trip you export a clean mileage record as PDF — including track, overview map and fuel levels.
Live tracking
A randomly generated link lets family and friends follow where you are, for as long as you like.
For sailors from sailors
Why the Logbook App convinces on board
You have an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet and enjoy sailing? Perfect combination! Then you should take a deeper look into the Logbook App.
Logbook gives you the full functionality of an electronic logbook on your smartphone. No matter whether pleasure boater or professional skipper, the Logbook App records your cruises and crossings reliably, easily and fast. As sailors we know that the time between sail trim and the next maneuver can be very short — which makes it all the more important that you do not have to bother with writing logbook records.
Optimised for fast use, the app offers a configurable maneuver menu: two taps and the gybe is in the logbook. All additional data such as position or weather comes automatically, because you want to sail and not write a logbook. And if you would like to change or add something afterwards — no problem. Every single parameter can be adjusted in the carefully designed menus.
The future of logbook writing
Writing a paper logbook, as you probably learned it for your licence, is a thing of the past. Today your iPhone or Android phone does that job for you. And it gets better: at the same time the Logbook App gives you a chart plotter in your pocket. Your whole trip is recorded and you can follow the distance covered on the map. You would also like to let your loved ones know where you are? No problem — with the built-in sharing function you send your position home directly from the logbook.
Not only for skippers
You are just a passenger on a charter boat and would like to keep your own logbook? Why not? Simply let the Logbook App run in the background and record the full cruise. You can use your phone or tablet as usual while the track is logged as on a chart plotter. You can export this track and use it with other programs like Google Earth. Even years later you will enjoy your recorded trips: we give you access to the real raw data in common formats that you can still use in many years.
More than a logbook
As a charter skipper you know the problem: either you bring your own logbook on board, or you use the one from your charter operator — and then you cannot take your records home. With the Logbook App you can create as many logbooks as you like, name them, record crew and boat and document the sailing area.
100 % reliable
The intention behind the Logbook App comes from my own expectations. Only a reliably recorded trip is fun — and I feel exactly the same as you do. That is why I test the whole app and every new function thoroughly. I am a sailor too, and at the end of a trip I want a complete, reliable logbook.
Hint: tag your photos
You can merge photos from another camera (e.g. a DSLR) with the GPX export from the Logbook App. Each photo then gets assigned to the closest position of your GPX track — a nice example of what you can do with the raw data the app hands you.
Try it for free — right on board
Download Logbook from the App Store or Google Play. New users can try every function without restrictions.
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Sailors' questions about the Logbook App
Is the Logbook App only for sailors or also for motorboaters?
Both. The app is built for sailors and motorboaters alike — whether yacht, charter boat or your own boat. Engine and sailing hours are recorded separately.
Which data is entered into the logbook automatically?
Position, course, speed, weather, air pressure, wind, cloud cover, temperatures and wave height. With an NMEA connection also wind, depth and speed through water.
Can I print or export my logbook?
Yes. You can export the logbook as PDF, CSV, GPX, KML or a complete SQLite database — including extra fields such as boat name, crew and flag.
Reviews
What crews say about Logbook
Voices from sailors and motorboaters in the app stores.
Individual store ratings
- App Store4.7/5(263)
- Google Play4.8/5(22)
„Die App ist quasi selbsterklärend und die Basisfunktionen sind einfach mit 3 Klicks zu bedienen. Trotzdem gibt es sehr viele Funktionen, die keine Wünsche offen lassen.“
„Die letzten 23 Jahre habe ich mein Logbuch immer auf Papier geführt. Aus meiner Sicht ist das mit dieser App nicht mehr notwendig.“
„Ich probiere die App aktuell noch aus, bin aber begeistert von dem Funktionsumfang und dem tollen Support.“