Free to join. Pay for the watch you need.
Free
- Anchor Watch alarm w/ friend notification
- Up to 10 friends
- Receive notifications and messages from friends
- Trip planner — 20 route lookups a day
- Works everywhere: web, macOS, Windows, Android
Dockside
- Everything in Free, plus your own boat:
- Up to 2 monitored devices
- App and email alerts, and an alarm reaches one friend of your choice
- Know if it moves without you — Away Mode
- Unlimited friends and groups; join your Dock
- Share the boat with 1 co-owner
- Vessel Status Site — a public page for where the boat is
- Check the batteries, shore power & cabin from anywhere — 5 minute update interval
- 2 years of history and 10 saved voyages
- Trip planner — 50 route lookups a day
Weekender
- Everything in Dockside, plus:
- 150 SMS or WhatsApp alerts a month, plus email
- One extra alert destination — 2 in total, anyone you choose
- Share the boat with up to 5 crew members
- Works with the rest of your gear: Home Assistant, MQTT, IFTTT, the API
- Near-live readings — about every 30 seconds
- 3 years of history and 50 saved voyages, yours to export
- Trip planner — 100 route lookups a day
- up to 15 devices
Voyager
- Everything in Weekender, plus:
- Automated voice phone call for the alarms that must not be missed
- 200 SMS or WhatsApp alerts a month, plus email
- Two-way text alerts — reply to acknowledge, right from the message
- Two extra alert destinations — 3 in total, and one may be a voice call
- 5 years of history and 1000 saved voyages, yours to export
- Trip planner — 200 route lookups a day
- Share with up to 10 crew members
- 25 devices
💡 Plans are per vessel.
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| Feature | Free | Dockside | Weekender | Voyager |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor alarm (in-app + cloud watch) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bilge & flood alarms (delivery) | Immediate | Immediate | Immediate | Immediate |
| Away push alerts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Away Mode (Aboard / Away / Anchor) | Aboard & Anchor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS escalation on drag & vessel moved | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own boat (beyond the demo) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated voice call for critical alarms | — | — | — | ✓ |
| SMS or WhatsApp alerts a month | — | — | 150 | 200 |
| Alert destinations | Account email | 1 — your own email | 2 | 3 — one may be a voice call |
| SMS & WhatsApp alerts | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-way text alerts (reply to acknowledge) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Friends | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Groups | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Join your Dock | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alarm sharing with friends | ✓ | ✓ (one friend) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Location sharing with friends | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| How fresh the routine readings are | Auto · 15 min | Auto · 5 min | Auto · 30 sec | Auto · 30 sec |
| History retention | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years + export | 5 years + export |
| Integrations (Home Assistant, MQTT, IFTTT, API) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vessel Status Site — public location page | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Saved voyages (tracks & passages) | 1 | 10 | 50 + export | 1000 + export |
| Trip planner — route lookups a day | 20 | 50 | 100 | 200 |
| On city water: valve + automatic flood shutoff (local + cloud) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| On city water: valve control (open, programming, live flow) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vehicle sharing (crew, with roles) | — | 1 co-owner | 5 crew members | 10 crew members |
| Monitored devices | — | 2 | 15 | 25 |
| Cloud managed router or hub | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud settings sync across your devices | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works everywhere: web, macOS, Windows, Android | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Questions
Do I need a plan to be someone's dock neighbor?
No. Joining costs nothing, with or without a boat and with or without a single sensor. A plan is something a boat has, not something a person needs — so the neighbor who watches your boat while you're inland never pays to do it.
Is the app really free?
Yes. Free costs nothing and does real work: leave your phone aboard as the anchor alarm and, if the boat drifts, a friend's phone alarms ashore (the phone-only alarm is still landing — see the starred rows) — plus friends, groups, your home marina and the trip planner. Paid plans add Away (Aboard and Anchor are on every plan), the city-water valve that shuts itself off, and remember more. Alarms are never behind the paywall.
What's Voyager?
The top plan, for people who go far: connections to the rest of your gear, every passage kept as something to look back on and export, and the widest reach when an alarm matters. A few of its features are still being built — those are the starred rows above, and they're included the day they ship. Free during beta like every other plan. See what's coming on the roadmap.
What does "per boat" mean?
Each boat has its own plan. Everyone you share it with inherits that boat's features when they view it — no extra cost per person.
How does the free trial work?
Every boat gets one month of Dockside on us — start it anytime from the plan badge in the app's Settings › Vessel (one trial per boat). No commitment: it drops back to Free if you don't continue.
Can I get a plan free by running a station?
Yes. Boats that choose your DockNeighbor Station as their Home Station earn you credits, and credits earn you a free plan. See the DockNeighbor Network.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Manage or cancel your plan anytime from the web account portal. Your boat keeps working on Free.
Start free, upgrade when you're away
Set it up on your network for free, then add a hosted plan the day you want eyes on the boat from anywhere.