What's new in this release

The headline of this release is Real-Time Remote — live boat sharing with

the people who care where you are — plus a faster, smaller app and important

stability fixes.

The new Remote tab

AnchorQueen has a new top tab: 📡 Remote (tab #5, right after SafeAnchor).

Everything about sharing your boat live now lives in one place, with its own

violet "LIVE" look so you always know when something on screen is real-time.

Live Beacon — free on every plan. Broadcast your position and see nearby

boats on the open radar. No subscription needed.

Private channels. Create a password-protected channel and invite up to

two watchers — your partner ashore, the marina, a friend — with a simple

invite code. They see your live position, heading, and anchor status.

Flotilla. Cruise as a fleet: up to 10 vessels on Pro, 100 on Max, all on

one chart, with a shared fleet board — roster, itinerary, and invite code.

Watch-only second device. Leave an iPad broadcasting on the boat and

follow it from your iPhone on the same account.

Full guide: Remote — live boat sharing and flotillas.

Drift alerts that reach the shore

When a boat you watch starts dragging its anchor, you get a push

notification the moment it happens — even with the phone locked, even miles

away. One alert per event, not a storm. The alarm no longer sounds only in the

cockpit; it reaches the people off the boat too.

See push-ashore drift alerts.

Real-Time Remote subscription

Remote's paid features are available two ways: bundled with Pro and

Max, or as the standalone Real-Time Remote yearly subscription in the

Store — full remote watching without a full plan. The free Live

Beacon stays free either way.

The chart now suggests its own downloads

A new Charts button (map icon) lives in the chart's right-edge column.

It watches where you are looking and where your boat is, and pulses when

something needs attention — tap it for a short list: the region for the area

on screen, the region for your GPS position when that differs, the free

worldwide base map on a fresh install, plus a renewal notice when the

covering chart's subscription has expired and an update notice when a

newer edition is out. The renewal notice carries an inline Renew button

— re-subscribing is one tap from the chart. Everything else lands you in

the Store. The old one-time "download a chart" banner

is gone; chart discovery now stays with you after the first download. See

Chart downloads for this area.

An expired chart, by the way, stays on screen — it keeps rendering

while route planning and starting navigation over it politely refuse with

the same renew prompt. See

When a chart subscription expires.

One panel to rule them all

Every floating legend panel on the chart — harbours, buoys, lights, wrecks,

AIS, marine life, dive sites, captain's marks, and friends — now shares the

same card: one header style with the panel's icon, a live count badge,

and consistent minimize (–) / close (✕) buttons. Drag the header to move

a panel (it can no longer be lost off-screen), and use the new corner grip

to resize it — the list grows to fill the space. Your layout is remembered

per panel, separately for portrait and landscape. See

Discover.

A calmer, safer route planner

Planning and editing routes got a full pass:

A clean chart while you work. Starting a new route or editing a saved

one hides every other route until you finish — or dims them to faint

context lines if you prefer (chart layers → Dim Routes While Editing).

Thin-water warnings while you place points. Planning legs turn amber

when the water is shallower than your draft plus safety margin and red

when it's shallower than your draft — before the route is even planned.

And the check is tide-aware: each leg is judged at the time you'll

actually be there, using the predicted tide for your departure time and

planned speed.

A real waypoint list. The route's Details sheet lists every waypoint —

drag to reorder, rename, delete, or insert a point on any leg.

Smarter editing. Opening a route frames it on screen; tap between two

handles to insert a point; a live depth readout follows your finger

while dragging; and the edit capsule now has undo / redo — with Cancel

restoring the route exactly as you found it.

Return passages and copies. Long-press a saved route for Reverse

Direction and Duplicate.

Routes name themselves — "Departure → Destination" from the nearest

named places to the endpoints.

Full guide: Chart — planning a route.

Faster first open, smaller app

The chart's country borders, place names, and maritime-zone boundaries now

load from a compact binary format instead of very large text files. The app

download is significantly smaller, and the first chart render after install

no longer pauses to parse them.

Stability fixes

Fixed the most common crash in the previous version (weather alerts view).

Fixed a rare freeze that could end with iOS closing the app after

backgrounding it during an active chart pan.

Multiple Remote-session correctness fixes (channel membership, alert

ordering, notification cleanup).

Also improved

Store subscription names and descriptions refreshed (Pro / Max).

The manual gained this page and a full Remote guide; tab

numbering across the manual reflects the new tab.